skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what your engineering experience is, but I'm pretty certain that >80% of engineers are not in a position to refuse to work and quit their job without a severe impact on their career. And the same goes for managers and directors, all the way up to the top. Fail to explore a new technology your competitor is already working on? You've just damaged your company and all your employees. The only way to deal with these kinds of issues is regulation. Classic tragedy of the commons.
> So management bears no blame for requiring illegal work be done, on pain of termination? Said another way, engineers now need to be technical and legal experts in the business domain?

This is a red herring. The oath is not needed merely for illegal work. In fact, the more common use cases will likely be legal. It's a common sentiment, but: Don't conflate ethics with legal.

> Most software engineers are not like doctors. We have little autonomy over what is created. Our responsibility is primarily the how. And with devops sometimes the actual deployment and maintenance itself.

This is not a dichotomy - there can be a spectrum. You can restrict it to those who do know what the product is used for, or at least have good guesses for them.

And while not everyone is this way, I wouldn't really want to work in a job for long if I'm not told what the code I'm writing is for. It's not even an ethical concern for me - it just makes for a boring job. Ideally I want people to tell me the problem they are solving and give me some leeway in crafting a solution. Don't come to me with a solution and ask me to implement it.
The nytimes republished Jimmy Lai’s editorial today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/opinion/hong-kong-china-n...

“Do My Tweets Really Threaten China’s National Security?“
Writers of open source software are winding up to one day spin in their graves reading the comments of the authoritarians demanding software licensing in here.
You are right, I was mistaken, sorry for the misinformation! They went though the NIOSH modified testing protocol, not the official approval process.

They have been tested for respirator filter efficiency only and were found to exceed 99% filter efficiency:
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/respirators/testing/results/...

But they are explicitly not NIOSH approved and as mentioned have an ear loop design whereas seemingly all approved masks go around the head. Wish I could edit/remove the original posting.
Sweet little reference sheet; thanks for sharing!
War is unlikely because of mutual destruction guaranteed by Nuclear weapons.

What's most likely is information erosion, brain washing, espionage and political upheaval caused by CCP actors. Be careful what you write on the internet. You'll see the full wrath of CCP cancel culture like you've never seen before in the year 2050. Also, keep an eye on whichever country you belong to and how its government is not influenced by CCP. It might be a little too late for Australia [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/world/australia/politicia...
My three year olds can trivially turn the burners up, or pull the pans down.
USPTO used to have a limitation on Computer Science degree as a qualifier. It had to be from an approved Computer Science program. There were only a handful of approved programs; most were not sufficient to qualify. Have they changed the rules?
While ethics are very far from universal, there are things that are universally accepted, i.e. that impaling everyone on Earth is bad.

God is not the only possible foundation of ethics, and not the most sound at that.
nMigen is pretty cool and capable. I can only recommend these Youtube series, where nMigen is used to build a full 6800 CPU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85ZCTuekjGA&list=PLEeZWGE3Pw...
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that reductio ad absurdum is a fallacy. It isn't. It's a logical argument.
We don't need a Hippocratic oath for engineers, we need it for management. It shouldn't be up to the individual engineer to guide the organization towards better morals, it should be upper management.
Simply put, people have stopped buying stuff they don't need. They've changed their spending patterns and found that they have extra cash to pay their bills, invest, etc.

Gee, if only they'd have been encouraged to do that earlier.
Thanks for the reply! Did you bring family with you -- and if so, how do they like it?

Do you feel you've gotten to "neighbor acceptance" level of integration? Or do you seek to achieve that?
>json

I hope you aren't using floats for cents!
It's too late for any of that now.
Or maybe it's a power differential thing. Say what you want but pretty happy with the US on Korea, Japan and Germany.
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Here's an interesting site if you have an interest in monarchism.

http://madmonarchist.blogspot.com/2011/11/enemy-of-monarchy-...
also why when i buy ice cream i go for the one on the bottom of the shelf. it's the place with the most stable temperature- as the top area can fluctuate in temperature with people opening and closing the door.

was told that by an ice cream seller.
My credit cards had been on auto-pay some small amount for a few months. I'm lazy and never logged in and paid the balances. But I had the cash in the bank. So when the crisis hit I paid them off because of the unknowable future.
I’m not seeing where Parity discriminates against certain users, groups, or fields of endeavor. Clause 9 of the open source definition[1] seems a close thing, but the same reasoning for A/GPL applies.

[1] https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
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Circa 98 that would have been Apple, which is interesting but not unbelievable at all.
> You write a tool for let's say recognizing faces. Will it be used for login onto computer? Tracking dissidents? IDing corpses? Who knows.

I mentioned this in another comment, but I'll say it again:

Irrespective of any legal/ethical concerns, yes, I would like to know! If my boss just came to me and said "build a facial recognition system" I certainly will ask how it is going to be used. Not because I care about ethics, but it's a basic aspect of the job. You can replace "facial recognition" with "CMS" and I'd still ask.

If they tell me the facial recognition is for logging into computers, and then later decide to use it to track dissidents, that is a different concern. But I'll at least ask!

> What if you start as something 100% ethical. But your company pivots to unethical application?

If they pivot after my work is done, I won't feel responsible. If they never used it for the original application and pivoted to this, I may get upset and quit, but my conscience would be clear.
"Why throw a specific company under the bus like that" - probably calling out Apple specifically since they are the (or one of the) richest, most profitable companies in the world that still manufactures most of their products in China. They are a company that claim to have strong ethical values, as the OP mentioned in relation to the BLM movement, but they continue to do business with China, an undemocratic country with horrific human rights history. If any significant company were able to make a stand and remove any reliance on China, it would be Apple.
That's an abusive attempt at a workaround by the Fed to make it mandatory.

Thankfully, it appears my state will continue to offer the same IDs it always has in addition to the "enhanced" ones. I suppose I'll have to start using my passport for domestic flights in 2021.
How does force sterilizing of Uighurs fit into a common destiny?
> It's "utterly foolish protectionism" when the West tries to protect their own, but "all's fair" when Western firms are left with no recourse while their IP is stolen and copied all over China because the CCP wouldn't ever rule in favor of a western company.

You make it sound like the western companies had no choice in the matter. I don't think anybody has ever forced a western company to move its production in China. Actually these western companies are making a lot of money by moving to China. And I think apart from industrial espionage , the rules were clear upfront.
Insightful and entertaining post, dang! This fixes a misconception I've held for awhile, and albeit a rather minor one, it's important to correct.

Good on being proactive with the email, too :)
I'm curious if the GPG signature is properly checked. There is no easy way to validate a GPG signature (ie fail if the file is not signed by X), you have to use a verbose machine mode and look for a specific string. GPG will happily decrypt a non signed file also, so there are many ways to misuse GPG, and many of them are SO top answers ;)
There's clearly an appeal of the Apple brand to people. But I think that the appeal comes much more as a form of "general belonging" rather than as a "fad".

Usually "fashionable" items (be it clothing or others) are quite noticeably different from year to year. To the untrained eye, my 7 year old mbp doesn't look all that different from a brand new 2020 one. If I open it up in public, I'll look like "a guy who uses apple". People won't know that I'm out of style because I rock an "ancient" laptop.

This seems true for iphones, too. The models before the X look somewhat different because of the button, but aside from the cameras being changed, I can't easily tell apart the newer models without a home button.
You are free to do what you claim Gates should be doing. What give you the right to tell him what he should be should be doing with his time and money?
It always makes me sneer when this is brought up. 3 days of some guy trying to create and manage (in very minor ways) and organization (that ultimately did nothing of consequence) consisting of way more people (teenagers) than he ever managed (actually, can you even honestly say a school teacher is adept at managing even 30 people? the frame within which they operate is largely set from above, they will do what they always do as long, as a teacher does what all the other teacher do), then on the 4th day dramatically exclaiming "I created a monster! and you all are part of it, and never even noticed!" isn't really much of an experiment. Then everybody accepts "the results of an experiment", because it supports the existing political narrative and it's such a nice story overall.

This is way, way over-hyped. Every 14 year old Tik-Tok channel owner with large enough community (especially if it ever managed to create new "viral" challenge or any other meme) has more to say about community management, than this guy.

However, even though I dismiss this so called "experiment", I think there are some things that could be pointed out about the German Reich in regards to it. Both are to point out it is really not as surprising that people followed the leader as we usually pretend it is.

First one is about how "normal people were inclined to support horrible things". Well, even though Hitler was extremely charismatic figure, the thing is — it wasn't really him who made people believe something weird, it's actually rather that his politics were quite populistic and he just said what almost everybody in the country was thinking to begin with. Even antisemitism wasn't something Hitler or his party introduced, every other person at the time was antisemitic, and even many higher-up party members attribute their commited antisemitism to reading Henry Ford books and not "Mein Kampf".

Second is actually about the teens. Yes, Hitlerjugend was a political organisation, but if you actually think about it, it was just giving teenagers what they want more than anything in the world: a sense of unity. Most of them don't get it today, and they actually suffer from that. In a sense, participating in an organisation like that is the most beautiful thing that can happen to a teen. We shouldn't forget that it was actually a very nice way for kids to spend their free time (which they have way too much of), with all these hikes and games and traditional boyscout activities. This alone would make it quite a prolific youth-organisation, as it really did these things well. But I actually think sense of unity it gave them is way, way more important, since every other teen struggles (and, in modern society, usually fails) to find something like that.
Some discussion of nuclear targeting criteria (with refs): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24072478
People are downvoting, but it def looks like the truth. As a Russian I've been worried about this involvement since the mercenaries were detained.

The level of pressure Putin put on Lukashenko was unbelievable. The ruse was quite transparent: create the Union and put Putin on the throne. L. stood strong and made Putin opt for plan B (constitutional amendments which amounted to a coup).

The measures taken to force Lukashenko's hand were cutting off oil supply (heh, the United States did the same to Japan pre-WWII), stopping imports of Belarusian goods, setting up disadvantageous tax regimes. Ex-ambassador to Belarus Babich was openly insulting Lukashenko, Belarus and after being booted from Minsk was put in charge of anti-Belarusian economic warfare in the Ministry of Economy in Russia.

Gazprom-sponsored candidate (Babariko (sp?)) couldn't make it to the polls, so the decision was made to up the ante.

Let me be clear - I'm not alone - there are many thousands of Lukashenko admirers here in Russia, just yesterday saw a middle-aged man in a mall with a T-shirt and a slogan "he doesn't steal" next to "bat'ka"'s portrait. It would do Russia a lot of good to have Lukashenko in power instead of Putin. Lukashenko's COVID response didn't make much sense, though.
I am curious, what did you use to make significant one-time payments? E.g. house, or car.

Where I'm from (Italy) we still use cheques, and where I live (Hungary) they never used them. This was odd for me.

This resulted in people here buying expensive items by going around with a literal bag of money, or people having to walk into a bank together.

Possibly now it's solved with instant payments and everyone having a mobile banking app, I don't know.
What an asinine suggestion. Of all people a president of microsoft punting responsibility down to the people simply following your orders. This comes across as a scheme to corner out newcomers to AI and make it so only well connected multinationals are able to control this tech.
That's the case in any nation with wealth inequality. Religion doesn't make the rich behave better; it makes the poor better able to bear the inequality.
Honest question. Would it differ if one used floats in json rather than floats in XML?
I'm not convinced that the kids weren't just looking for something to do that wasn't a conventional high school activity. It's a very engaging teaching methodology, but is the ideological content driving the uptake there or is it the novelty?
Seconded. They also censored out the explicit (or even mildly implicit) romantic relationships that late-1990s/early-2000s America considered inappropriate.

Which, as far as I remember, was most of them - multiple non-heterosexual relationships, multiple student-teacher relationships and multiple cousin relationships.
China is determined to run itself to the ground
Well apparently they’re using some schema called ISO 20022, and I saw references further down that this is a complicated beast, to be expected if ISO is involved, but a cursory once over makes it appear to be the type of schema which whether easily or with the forging fires of hell or somewhere in between makes it possible to incorporate other schemas such as ACH.

Thank you for answering my questions, faster payments is something I think we can all get behind.
As other posters have pointed out this doesn't really hold up. I suspect it's more that since the Reagan era the USA has frequently had a self hating government, that is a government run by people that believe government itself is bad. This has led to a lot of intentional neglect and sabotage of infrastructure in the belief that "the market" will magically provide public goods. We have similar issies in the UK
I see. Having your own third level (or) subdomain with file hosting seems to be better than walled-garden. Let me ask the same question => why are there fewer posts about individually motivated essays rather than SEO (or political blogs)?

Making money from blog is not a first priority (making money by selling subscriptions or teaching courses is completely ok for readers, imao as long as the writer is motivated for sharing)
If you can listen to his talk and tell us what part of what he said is wrong then I think you will have a point. Anyone can talk about anything and certainly he can talk about what he and his organizations are working on and what they plan to do about various public health issues.
Chinese citizens should be very vocal against the CCP if they are brave enough. Telling people to be quiet because they are being silenced is a bit backward.
That's not the atheistic point of view.
Looking at the historical record, an implosion of the CCP and infighting seems equally likely.
> Software engineers are accountable to their bosses before their users, no matter how high minded we like to pretend to be.

Software engineers are accountable to themselves before they are accountable to their bosses.
Create your own subreddit.

Submit links to subreddit of the websites you want 'bookmark'.

Done: an online bookmark list.
A bridge is limited to a single purpose, like an appliance. If you insist on veto power over every outcome of what you build, that means you can only ever build sealed appliances for hapless consumers, not unfettered tools that empower clever human beings who will use them in unanticipated ways. Having sworn a Hippocratic oath, are you allowed to work on LLVM, which half of all evil apps probably depend on?

I could get behind a requirement that code be reliable and fit for purpose, though very few of us have any experience with the formal methods that might get us there, and most don't want to work that way.
In 1956, the CPC "encouraged citizens to express openly their opinions of the communist regime" and then "after this brief period of liberalization, ... those who were critical of the regime and its ideology ... were rounded up in waves by the hundred of thousands, publicly criticized, and condemned to prison camps for re-education through labor, or even execution."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
They make their products fail in non obvious ways and the competitors do the same thing. You won't be able to see the flaws when you buy the product.

Recent example, my parents buy "stainless steel" because they think it is more durable but it's purely cosmetic because of the internal parts. They had a stainless steel microwave that stopped working because the door would not stay shut.

I was able to pry open the framing of the door and located the tension spring that was required to keep the door hooked shut, well it had been attached to the flimsiest plastic tab I could imagine.

Everything else about the microwave worked perfectly fine but because this flimsy 2mm thick plastic tab broke, it was now junk.

So i drilled a hole in the plastic frame and reattached the spring to that hole (which was drilled in a way that made it more stable) and fixed the microwave.

There was literally no increase in cost to anchor this critical tension spring in a less fragile way, in fact I would argue it cost them more to design this special failing piece.

The whole industry is just absurd, the whole way we run the economy is absurd. It only makes sense if you have infinite planets to exploit for resources with infinite room for waste.
Exactly when it takes 2+ weeks to hear back about a test it's pretty much pointless as the person is probably either close to recovering or in the hospital.
How about we make the executives and managers take an oath?

Engineers mostly do what they are told, it's too easy to let them carry the moral burden while higher ups can ask whatever they want out of them. It's too easy to shift the blame on developers.
The more abstract the problem the less people care. Police suffocating someone to death > 1,000,000 people being subtly spied on. "I got nothing to hide" after all.
Bummer. Admittedly, it is working off of incomplete and possibly old data. The data requires ISPs to self report.
For many of us with privilege, it has been a long summer.
I'm terribly curious what all these jobs are:

* Computer Operator

* Computer Operations Supervisor

* Tape Librarian

* Data Control Supervisor

From the article text, presumably these do not involve programming? I'm old by HN standards but this predates me by a couple eras. I guess "Tape Librarian" is obvious enough, but what does the day-to-day life of a Computer Operator look like?
War is almost guaranteed at this stage.
The fear is real - A lot of pro-democracy Hong Kong activists in US are harassed and threatened by PRC government agents, many of them Chinese students studying in US.

[1] https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/08/30/hong-kong-activist...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/us/hong-kong-protests-col...
That's completely the wrong comparison and context.

The reason MCAS came about was because management wanted to try to fudge a larger engine into an outdated design created for a different purpose rather than do the engineering and certification necessary for the new requirements and to update the system.

Management wanted to save money. Of course the engineering leadership did not want to fudge something -- they wanted to do proper engineering. But the people in charge just wanted to save money, and the engineering leadership could not do anything otherwise, even they knew that just making the engine larger and compensating did not make sense from an engineering standpoint.

By the time it got to the MCAS, that was far down the line of the decision to not do proper engineering.
That's so 2020!
I'd imagine it's a riff on Swiss Army Knife? It seems deliberate given 'Glasgow'.
"Peat bogs are one of the most important carbon stores, often referred to as carbon sinks. When peat is removed, this quickly releases a large volume of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming."

It does? How does harvesting peat release CO2 into the athmosphere? Didn't get that ... Not that I am advocating the use of peat nor its depletion in its natural environment by industrial harvesting, I don't. I don't like peat. But I really think that a lot of the rethoric and reasoning is dumbed down in these parts of the internet. Isn't peat used to ultimately grow plants, perhaps the most important carbon sink? Do we know 100% that this is a CO2-positive venture?

While not strictly related this reminds me of the strange case of "BioChar" ie burning wood (!) to inoculate in the ground, because of its magical properties. Ugh ... The scientific data on BioChar is practically non-existent, yet its advocates are almost fanatical and furthermore 100% positive that the measures they take are going to be CO2-negative.
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The number of lines in the amdgpu driver sadly does not mean that it would be usable in any way. The amount of red in dmesg is just sad when you're stuck with USB-C DisplayPort graphics.
Do we really think that 5G will bring faster connectivity for cheaper (for the consumer)? That's what I want to know amidst all the hype about the technology by headline writers.

If it's not going to make things faster and cheaper, I'm not eagerly awaiting its arrival like many would have us believe. Isn't that the point of technology?
haha yes, but computer programming was mostly women in the 40s and for a while. i stand by my sarcasm.
I guess it depends. I buy levis which are the some of the cheapest decently quality jeans you can find. I'm not big on raw or selvedge denim so I mean decently trendy and ready to wear jeans. I can find a pair for around 100 or less depending on sales and those pairs can last me about 3-5 years. I think 100$ is a fair price for something that will last me that long. I have squatter's legs so the inner thigh grinds to a pulp on most brands but levi's lasts the longest.