skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Security researchers act in a very ethical manner.

Product engineers are, in average, the most unethical of the bunch: the ones that will release broken software and charge the customer as if it was finished, the ones that will wait for the customer to find bugs before fixing them, the ones that will market their software as safe and fill their page with words like "secure, safe" and security related imagery like lock icons without actually backing it up with good practices... etc.
> there’s still roads, but you need to stash your vehicle on your property.

Yep, just took a little Google Maps trip around Layfette, just another US town where people park on the street because we have more cars than we can handle or our garage is full of Chrsitmas decorations.
Forty years ago, countries like the USA decided that it was good to stop investing in the country and giving increasing tax breaks to corporations because that would be enough to create progress. Now even economists finally realize that these companies have done nothing to grow the economy and that all the money given to them was diverted to increased dividends and buy-backs, CEO compensation, and investments abroad. The problems with infrastructure are not isolated, it is just an aspect of the malaise that it the ideology that more money should be given to the already rich. Now the country doesn't have the fiscal basis to invest anymore and the people are getting the results of this irresponsible behavior.
> but he decided to actively harm the U.S. intelligence community and they will never allow a pardon

This notion of 'harm' is bandied about all the time. If anything, he improved their capabilities, since now they are bolstered against insider threats going forward.
Wikipedia says Douglas Crockford specified and popularized JSON.
The general principle is that we haven't figured out yet how to deal with monopolist markets (in other words, situations where there is no market). Competitive markets lead to high efficiency but there are many situations, often public projects, where there's no competition.
>That first point could be a case for a code of ethics, not against one.

It is most loudly a case for a union.

But if you don't like that word, how about an AMA-like or state bar like association to which you pay dues, are subject to ethical review, and where sanction impacts your right to work? Doctors and lawyers self-regulate in this way to our great collective benefit.
I really like the inclusion of hexfloats (beware of C++ iostream bugs, though), because they're wayyyyy easier to parse correctly than decimal floats (way faster, too). As an added bonus they're reasonably easy to read for developers, too, since they're just scientific notation in hex.
What sources there could be? I remember that in the 1980s the indigineous Sami-population was whining about "pollution" of Porsanger fjord. Fish had diseases and crabs were dead. Upon investigation it was found out that cruiseships dump their toilets into the sea upon entering Honningsvåg, because the docking & dumping fees were too stiff. Nothing wrong with fishing nowadays.
I understood that Silk Road was a case of parallel construction, the Feds had a way to directly break the veil of TOR but didn't want to let on.
Linux: back in 2006 Windows crapped out so hard, I lost some stuff that have been downloading for week and I remembered there's another OS called Linux and went to the local Linux user forum.

Tech work: dating programmers and hanging out at hackerspaces and open source conferences. Still have moments of doubt whether I'm the real thing or just a groupie.
It's not realistic in any scenario, that's just naive. Two main points to consider:

1. Most developed countries allow for some freedom of expression which rules out banning advertising outright.

2. Advertising is generally effective in the sense that it increases sales to some extent.

So as soon as just one player in a market starts advertising (which can't be prevented), everyone else has to do it too just to keep up.
It doesn't at all of course, but it clearly makes the quality of plagiarised work worse, if you perhaps look into it more you'll see these sites and how they operate. The author has mentioned this before publicly and specifically noted it was due to HN exposure.

Absolutely hilariously how people found my original comment so offensive as to gray it out, was simply repeating something anyone can find in 3 seconds on Google.
So a high-end home-cinema setup (heh) that you can rent for those who don't have the space or can't afford the hardware?
It’s easy to secure popular support when criticizing policies is a punishable offense!
So women need a wheelchair but not men? Doesn't seem like sex/gender is a good criteria here. Socioeconomic background would be far more applicable.
> At worst you would owe a penalty.

Not if they claim the violation was intentional. Which, whether or not they can prove that, means they can arrest you, and deplete the money you'd have used for your defense as bail. And they do so enjoy that trick where "intentional" generally applies to whether you intentionally did a thing that was against the law, even if you didn't know that it was against the law.

Let's also not so easily dismiss as unproblematic a conclusion that you owe five times more money than you actually have in back taxes plus penalties and interest, which someone wouldn't have who filed the same tax return as you but didn't raise the ire of anyone in power.

> Due to the complexity of the tax code, there is a very high bar for criminality.

If only all of the complex laws actually worked that way.
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Absolute engineering freedom is also the freedom to create technologies that oppress others.

Engineering oppression through biometrics, addiction, intruding privacy, etc.
I was hesitant to write about this in my comment, but yes, this is actually a higher-weight motivator for me.

Whenever I buy something new I feel like I am making myself complicit to everything that went into making it, and I know it ain't pretty, so why do it when I don't have to.

My top-level motivation for starting out was just to reduce my monthly/annual expenditures so that I could "downshift".
TFA has a more nuanced position than this. It's central point is that cities/towns/communities expanded by adding large amounts of infrastructure without any possible means to pay for its maintainance in the future. They did so because they gained short term revenue from the expansion, but failed to have any model whatsoever of how the infrastructure would be maintained.
I wrote 200 articles during lockdown, what did you do?
Cannabis prison is for pacifist freedom-loving hippies.

Opioid addiction¹ is made by pharma industry.

¹ the scale of the social problem
I feel like people forget that leading up to the Iraq war, France and Germany were aligned with Russia and very much against US interests. They were a frenemy at best.

I'm not saying it's right - we were in the wrong on Iraq and that was obvious before it started. But just like the US has had a HARD turn towards fascism, there's nothing stopping that from occurring to our allies as well. I'd argue it's dereliction of duty if you aren't spying on your allies, they're spying on us.

What you DO with the information gathered, in my opinion, is what determines whether you're violating your ally's trust.
1. However, the SW engineer is the one who actually executes the decisions, and they can refuse (and for example in cases when the decisions are illegal, they are actually required to refuse), and in extreme cases even quit the job. Ethical judgment of this of course depends on situation, for example whether they can handle the loss of income, however, at least in my country, there are lots of free job openings in IT, and switching jobs is very easy.
I think one of the most noticeable examples of this is the original Star Wars trilogy versus the prequels. With the original trilogy, people were constantly telling George Lucas that an idea was dumb, or that he should tweak or change something, remove characters, etc. Marcia Lucas, his now ex-wife, won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing in the 70s, and edited the original Star Wars trilogies.

However, twenty years later when the legendary Lucas walked out on set with the script for Episode 1, he was met with raucous applause, after all this was THE George Lucas, he could do no wrong. Not having anyone to point out that your ideas aren’t good is what gets us the Star Wars prequels and their ponderous, meandering political plot lines and lameness.
Change to retirement accounts could reduce their availability, industry warns
There is also rampant corruption (at least for cities in CA).

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-corruption-scan...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Edito...

https://www.kqed.org/news/11839531/report-corrupt-sf-officia...

https://la.curbed.com/2020/6/18/21279345/los-angeles-corrupt...
I absolutely have concerns with the operation of the federal justice system. As Leesig rightly pointed out, the role of a modern federal prosecutor is to terrify the accused and bully them into accepting a plea deal, and that behavior does not effectively serve the interests of justice.

But the radically anti-copyright position expressed here is much less common than you're assuming, and I just can't get on board with it. The solution to exploitative journals gatekeeping access is better journals, not stealing their articles.
But it wasn't just our allies. Snowden revealed details about NSA spying on Syria during their civil war. That is the exact type of thing that our spy agencies should be doing. If you object to that, you object to the entire nature of intelligence gathering. That is a perfectly acceptable stance to have, but it obviously isn't one that is held by the US's or most nation's government and therefore they wouldn't want to tacitly endorse it by issuing a pardon.
See also - object calisthenics by Jeff Bay - https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/luontola/tdd-2009/ext/ObjectCal...
I had the same microwave and I loved it. Unfortunately it caught on fire, and according to Amazon reviews we weren’t the only ones. Luckily my wife was in the kitchen when it happened.

I’m sure whatever model they’re selling now is different, so I’m not trying to scare people off. The point is I now have a microwave without an inverter and I hate it. It might end up going to my photography studio and I’ll get a new one for the home.
Humans are easy to view in a favorable light. Humanity, less so. Humans take individual actions that help themselves. Humanity forms networks of perverse incentives that harm others. If we build a network of perverse incentives, and catastrophe befalls us, an interesting thing happens: no one wants to lose in the time of loss. This is when you get revolutions, invasions, fascism threatening where the imaginary border lines are drawn. It's all merely loss aversion. Change is necessitated by material reality, in which the average person, fearing for their loss of wealth or for their loss of potential future life, are driven to extreme or violent actions. There needs to be one world currency, and it needs to be subject to entropy without human intervention (and something similar with material buildup and 'property'); we will kill ourselves otherwise as that which nourished us in the past is today's poison. Nothing is forever, why is wealth? Loss over time due to entropy as law needs to be more accounted for in our world economy as a whole. There is a level of individual wealth and capital advantage one may gain that literally destabilizes international peace (I'm looking at you global oil): why do we allow it? It's like nations have become lame date-show suitors to international oligarchs, offering missiles as flowers, and it's pathetic, and it's weak.
Speaking of sticking noses in, I propose the following:

For my part, I will faithfully, should my government wish to interfere with your freedom to name your children anything, do my utmost to dissuade them.

In return, could you please attempt do something about your government's (and your corporations', respectively) current interference with my constitutional freedom from nosey parkers?

"Art. 13 Right to privacy

1 Every person has the right to privacy in their private and family life and in their home, and in relation to their mail and telecommunications.

2 Every person has the right to be protected against the misuse of their personal data."

Deal?
Nice! Do you have a write up of how you put that home theatre together? I haven't realised it until now but the darkness is really what makes it and I'm curious about the costs.
I grew up with parents that used Unix and Linux, and so I probably heard about it at an earlier age than most would think about OSes. And that means hearing stories about punch cards and building basic computers too.

My first computer memories were using a TRS-80, DOS, and then Windows (from 3.11). But for Linux, it would be in that experimental college phase, building computers, getting compiz to work (and RAID, Wine, ...). I wrote about this recently (in the context of gaming as well) [1].

In short, I just like tinkering, hacking, making my computer my own. Linux is just fun for me, and I have been using exclusive that for several years now, having finally moved away from Windows for games (thanks to Steam and Proton especially, as well as more Linux indie games) and photo editing (thanks Darktable! [2]).

Now back to literate programming for my dotfiles with Emacs org-mode :-)

[1] https://boilingsteam.com/my-journey-to-finally-ditching-wind...

[2] https://9bladed.com/post/foss_photography/
Knowledge Transfer in Self Supervised Learning
I'm looking into this a bit more for some basic math.

It looks like QPS is around 1.3M per second? Am I way off? What the bandwidth? I'm getting 1GBps or less which seems pretty low?

If the root can't handle this how does it handle DOS floods even?

Should we just turn some of the root over to some of the bigger players that can actually scale (AWS / GCP / Azure / Netflix etc)? These rates seem so small for this level of complaining about google et al.
What is a 'white-shoe fixer'? I've never heard this term before and it sounds strangely racially charged.
Calisthenics is gymnastic for amateurs. Meaning if you do gymnastics you do calisthenics, you can just copy what they do and skip most crap you see
How much are you paying for your custom enterprise SaaS plan?
> have we stopped to consider whether we need comments at all?

You are literally commenting on HN, so it must depend on the community more than commenting system.
Didn’t he give the information to journalists to make the decision about what needs to be redacted? Can you provide a source for the information that he endangered peoples lives?
A girl broke my heart, I dramatically (I was 22) plugged "Why aren't nerds popular," into Google, found PG's essay (http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html), read the other ones, and decided to become a Lisp Jedi.
Something like 3% of the total land area in California burned this year.
What were the team building events? I'd love to try some with my team but I'm worried if the first one sucks then no one will be onboard for a second try.
Wood is biodegradable. If mixed with plastic however (which this seems to be), it's not.

While it's relatively easy to recycle pure plastics for composite materials it's notoriously difficult.
Well, broadcasting random noise would be illegal, so...
I'm not a Rand fan at all, but if the quote fits...

“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
TIL. I guess that's another indication that Animal Farm's animal models were carefully chosen.
Try Manjaro. I've switched from Ubuntu to Manjaro a few months ago and I don't think I'll ever look back. Latest kernel and Gnome version make a huge difference in performance and stability (that was the main reason I switched, Ubuntu desktop kept breaking for some reason) and Pacman is a dream. I used to just apt update everything, which was nice, but now with snaps you don't know what you get and you sometimes need to download some deb or add a repo. Pacman has everything (when enabling AUT) and I haven't even touched the terminal for it, because the UI is so good.

You should give it a shot :)
> The issue is there are not many males that major in education at the undergraduate college level and so there are not many male applicants to choose from.

This is like the mythical pool of untapped female engineering talent VPs of Diversity and Inclusion imply exists.
I was a month ago diagnosed with bipolar type 2, together with ASS. I experience sleep problems.
Some feelings in this article are familiar. To me, it was the feeling of being excluded for life from people.
Also I am going through work problems. I find myself at a difficult place in life now...
You're right, Walmart isn't doing that. Part of the reason is that Walmart has essentially zero interest in building civic infrastructure. They have to just pass health & safety regulations and then they plan to do absolutely nothing more.

Public buildings and infrastructure, on the other hand, have other considerations in play. Durability, civic pride, long term safety ...

I travel around the US a lot and always marvel at the stuff that was built by/during the WPA. It is incredible - absurdly overbuilt by any current standards, but that very fact is at the heart of why they are still standing, still enjoyed, still viable.

Nobody will be saying that about any Walmart building in 90 years.
It's a movie, made by white people, based on a book written by a white person, which was a re-writing of African American tales he collected on plantations. While at the very core there is a hint of Black culture, I would say that it's viewed through a very, very white lens, to the point that it's more of a statement of white America's views of Black culture than it is a piece of Black culture.

> If they cared about racism they'd do a remake that keeps the beautiful art and reframes the context a bit.

The controversy is almost core to the current interpretation of the movie. It's the fact that the characters (slaves or not slaves, but free men, if you follow the book which establishes the setting as antebellum) seem happy, or at least unperturbed, by their relationship with their master and their status in society. If you reflect the truth, that they were unhappy and being held down, that seems more like a new movie than it does a remake.
As all businesses require it the chances that ISPs don't offer a service that includes that feature seems extraordinarily low. Seems like knowingly selling a service that wasn't capable of logging, under a legislative background that requires it, would also likely be unlawful.
That's not going to happen.

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

I'll leave it to someone else to tot up how many laws we're considering here.
I think this is exactly it, the stories we tell ourselves (and each other) about ourselves allow for every kind of justification for any kind of action. It reminds me of studies in confabulation in split-brains:

>> Some of the most famous examples of confabulation come "split-brain" patients, whose left and right brain hemispheres have been surgically disconnected for medical treatment. Neuroscientists have devised clever experiments in which information is provided to the right hemisphere (for instance, pictures of naked people), causing a change in behavior (embarrassed giggling). Split-brain individuals are then asked to explain their behavior verbally, which relies on the left hemisphere. Realizing that their body is laughing, but unaware of the nude images, the left hemisphere will confabulate an excuse for the body's behavior ("I keep laughing because you ask such funny questions, Doc!").[1]

People are driven by one part of their brain to consume and acquire pleasure/status/money and simultaneously convinced by another part of their brain to believe they are good, deserving, and entitled to everything they enjoy. I see this with all sorts of people who are caught doing something they know is wrong and immediately respond with "well, everyone else does even worse..." or "yeah, but I do X, so it evens out...".

[1] https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11513
Because it's inefficient, aka more expensive per person. Internet, canalization, public transport, etc., gets cheaper with higher population density.
I remember after the Northridge earthquake in 94 destroyed a section of Interstate 10 in Los Angeles. The state awarded the repair contract to a company with the stipulation of penalties of 200k/day after a certain amount of time, or a bonus a 200k/day if they finished before scheduled. https://www.planacademy.com/construction-project-acceleratio...
The sound is not canceled. It works only for one frequency, and the reduction is 94% that seams to be a lot but it is only a reduction of 25dB.
So? The IRA/401k failure is a failed experiment that's come nowhere near being a retirement solution for most Americans.

It is clear that it took capital away from main street businesses and puffed up a bubble. In an economy with massive capital inflows, "saving" just doesn't work for Americans.
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It's a-ok for the law makers not to abide by their own laws
This is the epitome of a straw man argument.

The original commenter was suggesting that incarceration for consuming cannabis is irrational, not that citizens shouldn't be responsible at some level for the collective good of their society.

Additionally, the implied causal chain you've laid out is fallacious. Ignoring the vagueness of what "troubled" means exactly here, if it is "troubled-ness" that makes someone prone to both crime and cannabis use, then clearly it is the troubled-ness, not the cannabis use, that causes the criminality. And if the goal is to reduce criminality, as is implied in your post, then whatever causes people to become troubled must be addressed—which, again, isn't cannabis, as it seems being troubled is a prerequisite to using it.

This is akin to the classic example of banning ice cream to reduce the murder rate. Ice cream sales and murder rates increase in a correlated manner—but only because both increase in the summer.

Also, as a final point, the fact that drugs like cannabis are criminalized turns any connection between cannabis and crime into a self-fulfilling prophecy. The real societal cost to the criminalization of cannabis comes via the violence and destruction associated with any criminal marketplace. The last time we saw massive organized violence between criminal organizations over alcohol, for instance, was the last time it was criminalized—i.e. during prohibition.

But yeah, something something libertarians something something cultural decay.
Edward Snowden is an American patriot. He followed his conscience and acted in good faith to defend the constitutional rights of the American people.
That looks like a joke sub.
The Netherlands: 65% of respondents to a 2020 CBS (Central Bureau of Statistics) poll answered they wanted a reduction in the number of migrants coming to the country [1].

Sweden: 58% of respondents to a 2020 Demoskop poll want a reduction in the number of migrants coming to the country [2].

For more results just use your favourite search engine and feed it a question in the relevant language.

[1] https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/2107687974/enquete-65-van-ne...

[2] http://www.dnv.se/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Allm%C3%A4nhete...
Digging a bit more it looks like some of just the public DNS servers are doing WAY more traffic than this. Google was doing 810K qps on 8.8.8.8 alone in 2012 (8 YEARs ago).

Can't they offer to operate some of the root zone then if it's so hard for these other folks to manage it (maybe do something with AWS / Azure etc).