skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why fintechs have to have strong legal & compliance teams, especially when you reach a certain size.

This reminds me of their debacle where they launched a checking product with a high interest rate and promising it was backed by the federal government...without ever asking the government if that was true.
It's very late stage capitalism for a company named robinhood to actually be stealing from the (relatively) poor to enrich themselves! You love to see it.
Since the main thread about Kernel Release is old now I'm asking here: Is the PREMPT_RT patch fully merged into the mainline yet, I heard it was supposed to happen sometime in 2020, may be 5.10 has it merged already?
Avoiding this was one of the brilliant parts of The Good Place: after the first episode, I thought I knew where the rest of the season was going to go. I was completely wrong, and they fulfilled that arc in the first three episodes. I think the showrunner consciously avoided the sitcom trap of always maintaining the status quo which was satisfying because the situation kept constantly evolving. Which is important, because one of the themes of the entire show is that people can change.
For Google, a huge percentage of the value in having an ethical AI division comes from having a credible and independent collection of experts who oversee the company's efforts. The minute that team ceases to be viewed as independent and credible, their value to Google is vastly diminished.

What Google wants to say to the world is "hey, you should totally trust us, we have the best ethical AI people in the field looking over our shoulder!" But now Google can't say that, because the world knows that their experts aren't completely free to exercise judgement or state their opinions. That may only be true to a limited extent, but the damage to Google is larger: mostly because we don't know how limited it is.

Insofar as your employer feels free to add marketing fluff to your presentations, that's because your value to the company is not predicated on your being an independent voice who provides a check on management.
Yep. I would rather have them give me that 3% to invest myself. Investing $2k annually for 40 years could yield me $250k-$350k at retirement age. But I guess I'm just a dumb peasant who can't take care of myself.
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I've definitely seen ,,'' reading German literature (e.g. Kafka) and <<>> reading French literature. You're right about internet though, that is indeed interesting.
I wish I had more upvotes to give for this comment.

It gave me multiple upsights about how to clean up my approach thinking about the issues here:

+ framing an analogy using technology governance functions - whose functions and values can be clearly quantified and measured by many independently - with a ethical (moral) functions - whose values and results are much more nebulous

+ drawing a parallel between hackers - whom many technologists 'understand'- and value activists - whom many technologists don't 'understand

+ pointing out the now-self-evident axioms that i) activists, like hackers, hold you to 'their' standard, not yours and ii) will fight you 'their' way when you fail to meet those standards

+ the point about academia and corporate leaders needing to act as deans and dealing with navigating conflict resolution in a new 'tribe' they don't understand. Not forgetting they currently deal with multiple other tribes - investors, media, government etc.

I would like to add a couple of small points:

+ Personal risk to executives is the change in the mix with highest impact. This becomes more important as this risk is transferred up the corporate ladder.

So, leaders examining issues, from this 'new' perspective, in a balanced nuanced way while still considering profits, politics, strategy, foresight, ability to manage change ( et al, ad nauseam ) increasingly becomes a key career soft skill. Especially if decisions are delivered in communication styles that are still clearly understood by all relevant other tribes they deal with in situations like this.

+. I would like to suggest that some folks are missing PART of the point (not all of it, just an important small nuance)
No single party gets to frame this debate. Ethics is now inside the corp. fence so it has to be heard.

Just consider that every side of the debate has their perspective and the other side is "crazy" from this viewpoint. E.g a key tool for academics with leadership is demanding the removal of leaders with a "or we go " chaser - this is normal in that world and it would be crazy not to use the tool as part of a "normal" negotiation. But it is not normal in the corporate world.

Point being everyone's normal is some version of some other person's crazy.

Well, these folks are from another 'tribe". The way things are done in their world is different'. Corp is the one behaving in a way that "does not make sense" from their perspective.

Just considering that the view from someone else's vantage point could be different would go a long way here.
I trade in multiple platforms and I put in limit orders (RH doesn’t even allow market afaik). To be fair, I am probably not your typical trader since I’ve been a fintech developer in the past as well as have been involved in analyzing many SEC cases for/against major financial institutions. I will say this: it’s extremely hard to prove execution quality on options trading let alone doing it in 2020 when the market was so volatile.
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Not a market order which majority of people on Robinhood are using market orders since they are the default. Most don't even know what a limit order is I'm guessing.
Sure thing. If it was ready to go, might make for a great "Show HN:", though.
This philosophy is disingenuous. To say it's "not about price" is side-stepping a major issue with the freedom of free software.

If I sell you my software with a "free as in freedom" license, you're now free to give it away yourself.

So "free as in freedom" does also mean "free as in it costs you nothing" for everyone except the first customer.

To be clear, I LOVE free software. I just also think it's more honest to say it's free in every sense of the word. This debate about "free as in free beer" versus "free as in freedom" is pedantic.

Pragmatically speaking, I can't give you full freedom to modify and distribute my software without immediately reducing the market value of that software to zero. They go hand in hand.

(Does that mean there are no business models for free software? Of course not. There are many proven ones, such as paid hosting of it, paid support and maintenance, paid customizations, etc. But the code itself is free in every sense of the word once you've granted that license to the first buyer.)
That is a great comparison.

This was the source cannel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJy8VU1mV08

Note that the image is a contentious summary (people talking about the camera's focus and aperture, and the many comments on the Index's screen shot) https://old.reddit.com/r/virtualreality/comments/j15plf/12_h...
> Stripe indeed received it, but failed to actually payout to our account

That's astonishing. Did they ever explain what link in the chain failed?
Not yet, but they're getting there... Sad times.
How we think about trauma is vital to how we move on from it
I have watched a lot of products come and go. It's been quite a while since I saw a product and realized that it would not be silly to pivot my career to take advantage of the opportunity. VR is one of those things.
I’ve often wondered why no commercial satellite provider provides any kind of RF platform. I believe you could tell which power plants and factories are active and at what level from the amount of RF emissions. It seems like you could get lots of valuable information without even decoding any of the signals. Does anyone know why this service has never been offered?
I agree that it could be viewed as firing language, but only if we had no context.

However, we have context. We know that an ultimatum including a resignation threat was given.

Accepting that resignation and making the termination of their employment relationship immediate with some extra "Yeah, this is for the best" language doesn't mean that she was fired.

If you only want to consider the limited context of ignoring that she submitted a resignation ultimatum, aren't you just cherry picking?
I think this is just a practical consideration. Execution fees are typically less than a few cents per share and are often fractional. It's impractical to offer up dozens of single cent refunds for current and previous customers.
The U.S. spent $3.8T on health care last year
That is a wholly different argument from “they won’t fit”.

I absolutely agree that a larger vehicle is more convenient for people with 3 or more kids. But that isn’t the argument people have been making in this thread. The assertions it that you can’t fit 3 car seats in these cars, an assertion which is provably false.
Your desire to make money and this philosophy are orthogonal. They can co-exist, never interacting with each other. Go, be free, make money.
Microsoft has shown it at X Developer Days 2020.
Using a Video Game to Understand the Origin of Emotions
> When you hear "Ride of the Valkyries" being played in apocalypse now, you don't hear the voice of the director suggesting "now you should feel this particular way, because I said so". You just enjoy the craft.

This is a great counter-argument to your theory, since that song (like all choices in that movie) was explicitly chosen to manipulate — to make you feel specific ways about the U.S. military and the Vietnamese villagers, to induce tension, etc.

The intent hasn't changed, you have. You'll discover this when re-experiencing old favorites and discovering that they've lost the magic because you've developed the tools to see behind the curtain.
WordPerss Contact Form 7 plugin with 5M installs has a critical vulnerability
Excerpt from Jeff Dean's email:

> Timnit co-authored a paper with four fellow Googlers as well as some external collaborators that needed to go through our review process (as is the case with all externally submitted papers). We’ve approved dozens of papers that Timnit and/or the other Googlers have authored and then published, but as you know, papers often require changes during the internal review process (or are even deemed unsuitable for submission). Unfortunately, this particular paper was only shared with a day’s notice before its deadline — we require two weeks for this sort of review — and then instead of awaiting reviewer feedback, it was approved for submission and submitted.

> A cross functional team then reviewed the paper as part of our regular process and the authors were informed that it didn’t meet our bar for publication and were given feedback about why. It ignored too much relevant research — for example, it talked about the environmental impact of large models, but disregarded subsequent research showing much greater efficiencies. Similarly, it raised concerns about bias in language models, but didn’t take into account recent research to mitigate these issues. We acknowledge that the authors were extremely disappointed with the decision that Megan and I ultimately made, especially as they’d already submitted the paper.

I'm curious: why is ignoring too much relevant research not a good reason to demand retraction? Isn't this one of the most common embarrassing mistakes that inexperienced researchers tend to make? I can fully understand if Google does not want to associate itself with work that might be viewed by the wider research community as shoddy.
Faraday cages are imperfect and designing a high quality cage does take work but GP is absolutely incorrect in that they are a "myth," or that they would be ineffective without precision engineering.

700MHz is a 42cm wave. A hole 1/10th of the wavelength is about an inch and a half. Not exactly tight tolerances.

Perfection generally isn't necessary - mitigation is usually sufficient. Reducing the interference signal by some percentage (likely a very, very high percentage) goes a long way.

Dropping a wire cage around a device broadcasting in the 700MHz band is going to very significantly reduce the signal.
The US Federal Government Needs a VP of Engineering, Not a CTO
practical for whom ?
> The best route still appears to be paying for whatever paid services Mozilla comes out with (VPN, Pocket, ...?)

Maybe. There still doesn't seem to be any guarantee that money raised this way would go toward Firefox development. With zero pricing signals it's very hard to express the "you have one job" frustration that many of us are feeling about Mozilla these days.
Journalists will learn influencing isn’t easy
People were not shot for leaving their homes without masks.

People were shot (innocent bystanders, in one case) during brawls that ensued after being confronted for not wearing masks.

I don't know if anyone died from those altercations in 1918, but at least one similar event unfolded in 2020 where a 73 year old man was shot and killed by police;

https://www.cp24.com/news/fatal-police-involved-shooting-sta...
I actually buy more books now that I have a Kindle. It happened like this: I know that the Kindle is a doorway into reading all the novels and non-fiction books I ever wanted, because they can be freely downloaded from LibGen. At the same time, the Kindle is an absolutely terrible format for reading poetry: often poetry relies on elaborate typesetting that EPUB/MOBI doesn’t support, some editions of poetry tightly connect the poems and the paper and binding used, etc. As I reflected on this, I was inspired to set about building a huge home library of modern poets’ collected works; basically any name connected with the 20th-century canon, I have bought it or am planning to buy it. I probably would have never thought to do this if it weren’t for the Kindle!
It seems to be a bit strange to complain about how widespread the use is of a newly coined term.

I assume that much of this "outrage" is some kind of a "culture war" thing. Instead of focusing on important stuff people get all distracted with "old man angry at minor change" and bike shed things like this ad infinitum.

> yes, that’s exactly the issue

What? it's not needed with "Americans" so there's no need. In some languages gender neutral terms can be legitimately used as a shortcut for using both after each other or similar.
Another way to do it is to bubble the air through water. As a kid, we did an experiment where a cigarette was "smoked" by attaching a tube to the cigarette filter, the tube exited at the bottom of a flask filled with water, and a pump would suck the air from the top of the flask.

"We built a bong and discovered that bong water is really nasty."
I've had a similar experience.

I asked a fairly simple question last fall - why Apple Pay showed up in Stripe Checkout for new subscriptions, but not when doing an update.

First answer: "Ask Apple!" (No.)

Second answer: "Apple Pay can't be used for recurring charges." (No.)

Third answer: "We don't support that yet on updates." (Apparently correct, but ugh.)
Questions to ask in product management interview
Supportive.
Looks great, is there a way to shorten those MACROs, a little too verbose/lengthy for readability, it's probably just me.
You know that Robinhood users declare themselves investors, right?
I'm currently using Netlify for my personal website and it works flawlessly. The only thing that would make me go to Cloudflare is the 500 builds per month, no mentions of build time. While Netlify is limited to 300 minutes of build time per month, in free tier.
It has it's uses though. For example I used to work at a startup where this super finicky NodeJS script was written by a junior dev that ended up being the main deployment script for client build-outs on one of their products. Fast forward a few years, the old CEO contacts me because he still has a few clients using the platform and has no way of running the script. He pays me to try to get it to run on his machine -- I get it working on Ubuntu but will not run on his Mac because the Mac is no longer supported by whatever weird packages the junior dev was using. Long story short, Docker to the rescue -- now he has a baked-in image that will run that script forever.
Utilise the awesome powers of hindsight and backseat driving?
The GP illustration of jumping it being pushed is quite apt. Your comment suggests that if someone threatened to jump under certain circumstances but was instead pushed you would be ok with that.

This isn't just a framing. She was fired. Now you may say "she was asking for it" but that doesn't change the fact that she was fired.
I went to the peak of Mauna Kea at night once and it was probably the most beautiful sight I’ve ever seen. I don’t think turning off lights in cities is particularly high priority though. I do know that once there was a power cut in LA I think, so people saw the Milky Way above... sone people called the police because they didn’t know what the strange lights in the sky were. That is quite sad.
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This has been tried before: https://academic.oup.com/comjnl/article-abstract/45/1/12/338...
Ok?

At the end of the day, I prefer free software, because it's not user hostile.
You can assign an image to each panel by double-clicking the panel and uploading the image. It does the masking through svg. You can then save off the SVG by going to preview mode and saving. Sorry that wasn't intuitive. TBH I was trying to prioritize a minimal, efficient, and effective workflow over first-time intuition. Another person suggested I make an instructional video, which is probably a good idea. I'll try to do that this evening when I'm free.
AFAIK, lead-free soldering is never enforced in space applications. An exemption is granted because of its extremely high reliability requirements.
In English you usually use quotes. The linked Wikipedia section has some examples in English, alongside the Russian/Hungarian/Finnish examples:

> “You don't seem to be anything special,” said Korkala almost sadly, “but there's no help to it.”

Another thing to note is that if the quotation spans multiple paragraphs, you repeat the opening quote at the start of each paragraph (but not the closing one - it only appears at the end of the last paragraph).
Ha, fair enough. But hey, this is a personal side project and I don't mind kicking the tires of a couple upcoming features before they get stabilized. Gotta help out oli-obk on his quest to const all the things.
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Eh, while recognizing the ad hominem has value, so does bringing up the credibility of the people bringing the charges. To choose an example more dear to HN's heart, just because someone is being sued by a notorious patent troll who has lost numerous court cases when the people they're suing don't roll over, doesn't mean that the case is without merit ... but it definitely shifts the Bayesian prior in that direction.
Bitcoin is totally ineffective as a real world currency. By design, the max transaction rate is about 7 per second. Visa says their transaction rate is better than 60000 per second.

Fiat currency is going to be around for while.

The only thing bitcoin is really effective at is speculation and manipulation by unregulated exchanges.
So that means if I need to make money I should not write free software.

The vast majority of people must make a living. So that means free software is only for people with trust funds?

This also implies that there will be almost no usable free software, so freedom is only for nerds. The general public gets proprietary malware that spies on them and locks them in, because that is where all the money is by design. There is no money in giving people freedom.

I am simply pointing out that your nice utopian ideals are helping create a dystopia. That was not intended, but results matter more than intentions.
This is the best Linux joke I've ever heard.
I've also been to genuinely dark places - that's why I said "something".

It's the same, just more intense.
If that were the case there wouldn't be "Tensions in Google's ethical AI group" would there be? Read the article, clearly the team, and many Google employees, were angered by this.

Perhaps we shouldn't just sweep it under the rug. It seems there is very real merit, this was not just a disgruntled employee. The subject matter is directly related to diversity - to remove race is to, again, cover up the systemic race issues we face as a society.
They probably run a mobile app ad network for a freemium game and know which phone numbers pay the most.

Would explain the preparedness for phone emulation and the thought of it too.

Same regarding GPS, this is really prevalent on darknet market tutorials and services, where you get the ID and credit card of someone (large markets for that called fullz) and then find a compromised windows computer near that residential/billing address (there are whole markets for that called rpc, sorted by bandwidth and location) and then run the credit card but from a computer near where the owner lives, to avoid being flagged.

What happened here seems to be a mixture of those concepts, to address bank accounts without getting flagged.
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> I think the ethics violation needs to be somewhat related to the research

I think this covers that:

> This article was probably written to defend MIT president Rafael Reif's decision to mark Epstein's post-conviction donations to MIT as anonymous.
The NASA handbooks are good. I like the one for rework that shows neatly staked wires. There are a couple of subtleties you could miss on this one though:

1) On page three, that exposed end of the lead is a defect if you're NOT going to conformally coat the board. If you don't know what a conformal coating is, it's a defect.

2) On page eleven, flux residue. Sure, for NASA's applications. For most commercial applications, the IPC rule is "excessive flux residue". For prototypes, one-offs, and hobby projects, my rule of thumb is, if you can't measure the difference removing flux makes, leave it there. Incompletely cleaned flux can be more corrosive than undisturbed flux. Also, no-clean flux should be called "never clean" flux. Never clean it with ordinary methods because you will never get it clean.
You could do this with spectrum analyzers intended for the commercial telecom industry, and a horn antenna with waveguide tuned to the right bands. It's not far off from the frequencies used in the standard FCC Part 101 licensed, 11 GHz FDD band plan for point to point high capacity microwave links.

One of the problems would be that detecting such a thing in an omnidirectional way would be problematic and difficult, the horn antenna described above would have the vast majority of its gain when aimed in one particular azimuth and elevation.
I agree with what you say, but I think there are valid points in the beer vs speech part.

I agree with you that it seems impossible to have free as in speech software that isn't also free as in beer, but you can have free as in beer software that's a gateway to vendor lock-in, for example.
Thanks! You are a very good writer indeed.
Seinfeld is an outlier, I think, because the characters are purposefully unsympathetic. You like watching the characters, but you don't like them. You wouldn't want to spend time with them. That means you're never rooting for Jerry to find a satisfying relationship, Kramer to finally succeed in a scheme, Elaine to finally leave the group or George to find fulfillment in anything. Rather than making the reversion to status quo painful, it becomes funny and cathartic. The fun basically becomes watching them be and make each other miserable.