skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a fully-coherent, logical system for deciding which lives to care about, and how much? I'd be interested to hear.

'Animals' is not a natural kind. There's no logical reason to care about all animals just because they are animals.

I care about dogs, pigs, other people, etc. not because they're 'animals', but because I think they are plausibly conscious (to varying degrees) and they can experience joy and suffering. Insects, not so much.

I'm unwilling to care any nonzero amount about insects. Here is why.

There are something like a billion billion insects in the world. Given their short lifetimes, it means dozens of billions of billions are born and die each year. Wild insect lives are mostly short and brutal. If you care at all about an insect's life, that tiny amount multiplied by dozens of billion billions means your moral concern for insects should pretty much swamp out any other concern.

You'd have to select how much you care about each insect life with suspicious precision for the sum total to be significantly different from zero, but less than how much you care about human and dog lives.

So to be coherent, you have to either not care at all about insects, or your first priority in life should be to help insects. I, uh, choose not to care.

(Some people seriously care though. See: http://reducing-suffering.org/the-importance-of-insect-suffe...)
If you look at the complexity of a fuel cell vehicle, you can easily see why car manufacturers like this technology :). Toyota, who did create the Mirai, recently launched an electric car program. Hydrogen is more complex to handle than lpg, which as the name says, is liquid at 5-10 atmospheres, while hydrogen is a gas and stored at 300 atmospheres pressure, the filling stations have to compress it to 700 atmospheres to fill the tank in reasonable time. This compression is a big factor in the energy overhead of hydrogen.
Open source code now carries a moral maintenance obligation? Do we say the same thing about any large company that uses openssl or any other open source libs that people use or depend on? That doesn't seem fair or reasonable.
Not a particularly informative article.

China already has the most PEV's on the road

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

And this article projects lithium battery manufacturing capacity in 2020 with China having 62% of world capacity vs 22% for the US (with virtually all of that being Tesla's Gigafactory)

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/china-leading-charge-lithium...
I don't know about legal challenges, but they basically created an anonymous area broadcast. There's a lot of complications that come along with that.
You're ignoring th fact that anyone could have been in that back seat, and having non owners or children there is statistically more likely. Blaming the driver for not fully understanding the safety features of the car is just a red herring which makes you come off as confused at best, disingenuous at worst. It's entirely plausible for the driver to become incapacitated in a crash while the passengers in the back are usefully conscious and still able to move.

There's a reason why all emergency actuation mechanisms are painted bright red and super visible in all forms of transport from cars to airplanes to buildings. That reason is you cannot reasonably expect all passengers to be intimate with the safety measures, nor can you even expect well versed passengers to be thinking clearly in an amergency situation.

Tesla can certainly expect to get their asses handed to them by various federal regulators across the globe for hiding the 'get me out of the burning death trap' lever behind a god dammed speaker grill.
> About 90 percent of Jared’s 2003 class at Harvard also graduated with honors

Harvard honors is a system where all students, being above average, can maintain that above average feeling.
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Thanks Chris for sharing.
I can assure you that the loneliness is because of the clown city planners who think humans enjoy living in boxes.

People will organically cluster to optimize proximity to others + get personal space when they need it.

Hopefully we will reject the clown-car of urban design and return to our organic roots.

It is costing people their livelihoods, their soul, their spirit.

All because someone who dresses like a penguin has a broken model of the world.
What on earth are you buying regularly? Several 4 year old iPhones?
> only unicorn Kabbage

Uhhh Let me introduce you to a little company called Internet Security Systems. $1.3B+ acquisition by IBM.
This is great for anything that needs high iops when doing sync writes. Ceph journal, fsync system calls, database systems and so on.
This is impressive. There is now a way for Morgan Freeman and James Earl Jones to be able to narrate movies forever.
You can use MobX from the very beginning. There just needs to be a better, "complete" guide / docs on how to structure apps with it.
46 - also still coding. I could not agree more! :)

Also, knowing why the points in your list are significant and advantageous.
Well, the disincentive to make it a C-Corp goes down. But your taxes will still be higher that way: 15% + individual taxes vs just individual taxes.

I certainly agree that the double taxation issue is a problem and it would be even better if both situations were taxed the same way but I'm not sure what this has to do with tax evasion.
Pretty good case to be made that you'd have a LOT more range anxiety in a hydrogen car.

Take the Toyota Mirai, for example. 312 mile range, slightly less than the best Tesla. So right off the bat, not at all clear you're better off from a total range perspective. Filling stations are 4 minutes for hydrogen. Tesla has shown battery swap in about 90 seconds. But it turns out that's not really necessary, as Supercharging can be done fast enough, ultimately in about 10 minutes.

But there's another thing: unless you install a hydrogen station in your home, you'll always be on the look-out for a hydrogen station (which are incredibly rare). In an electric car, you leave your house with a full charge (or nearly full) just about every day. And the Supercharger network is big enough to easily go cross-country. Same can definitely not be said for hydrogen.

This ability to leave home with a full charge every day is why electric cars (with Supercharging capability) can actually have LESS range anxiety than gasoline, diesel, or hydrogen vehicles, especially as more high power chargers are installed.

As it stands now, you'll have FAR less range anxiety in a Model S (or model 3 when it comes out) than a hydrogen car, and this will only get better as more stations are installed. And even for the same number of stations, a Model S/3/X will do better than hydrogen simply because you leave home with an (almost) fully charged battery.

(additionally, workplace chargers aren't uncommon, and even some other destinations include chargers... With the high capacity and high charge rate enabled by large-battery electric vehicles, "range anxiety" is basically a thing of the past.)
I use OmniFocus and make tasks for article/papers/books I want to read. Put them into an appropriate project, and get to them when I have time available or I'm working on that project. I imagine the same workflow would work well with any other task manager. This helps to keep it from being a pile of papers with no priority or context around them.
What exactly is VISVA and how does it work?
That's actually great, because most drives these days are the much lower endurance MLC, rather than SLC. So we get much higher density AND higher endurance, for less money (assuming SLC is still pricey, I haven't looked recently).
Neither will insulate you from a deception which you wish to perpetuate upon yourself, and identifying the latter is a trick that con artists specialize in.
1. I agree, your math is better explanation of the point.

2. In very high income categories, many activities can be classified as "legitimate expenses" since deals hinge on reputation, entertaining, etc.
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The acquirer certainly is betting that on average, they do.

Definitely a lot of employees do sorta check out while their stock options vest, but not all. From what I've seen, maybe 50% of the employees in an acquisition aren't going to be worth it. But the 50% that do continue to work hard and assimilate well into the acquirer's culture tend to add a lot of value - many of the best coworkers I knew in my last job were there through an acquisition. I could easily believe that they're adding > $2M value amongst the 50% who continue working hard.
It's probably better to turn it into charcoal first otherwise gasses like methane will eventually seep out. If you use these gases to fuel the carbonisation, then it will be CO2 neutral.
How does any computer not have a BIOS????
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... then it might be more like 4 or 8x as much, since you'll be operating at a lower scale and thus likely to have a less efficient electrolysis unit. Additionally, your electricity tariff will likely be much higher than the rate of a centralized electrolysis station.
> Why would I go to amazon.com to sign up for dropbox?

Because you, like a few hundred other million people, were already on amazon.com and it was recommended to you.
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Or free-lance.
Just checked this out. Took a bit of getting used to direction wise if you're accustomed to Go...but this is freaking awesome!
A consultancy organized along the lines of the Plausible Labs Cooperative. https://plausible.coop/about
Eh? 40?!

Most of my developer colleagues are over 40. No one thinks less of them for it.

On the contrary, an experienced developer is someone who has at least a good fifteen years under their belt. That usually mean "over 40". That experience manifests in ways such as not reinventing the wheel (a favorite, unintentional pass-time for the young and inexperienced).
> Saying "I don't know" when asked "How long will it take" or "When will it be done"

~5 years experience speaking: How do you do this?

I have a very good boss and he knows things, objectively, like "estimates are very squishy," and "developers suck at estimating time" etc. But he still demands time estimates to give clients.

Our clients are often agencies, and they get it as well.

I do estimates like "10-40 hours, depending on XYZ (things I don't know)" sometimes and it doesn't really raise any eyebrows. That may as well say "I don't know."

Are you better than this? Do you just outright refuse or do you have some way you handle it?
Apple Writer was the best! Fond memories of it.
Not only moral, but mostly legal.

Warranties are not included. So it's a bit lame to blame "a popular third party library".

The OP was trying to say a company of Atlassians size should dedicate the resources to vet (and fix) those libraries if they use them for these purposes.
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I have a Macbook and this incredibly tiny Nonda USB-C $10 adapter:
https://www.amazon.com/nonda-Adapter-Smallest-Aluminum-Indic...

It is much smaller than the Apple dongle and allows you to carry just the Macbook charger and a standard Micro USB cable to charge older cellphones and the kindle.

I did have one die on me after about a year of abuse and immediately repurchased it. Hopefully it will last long enough for me to upgrade my phone/kindle/smart-card-reader. Anker batteries also support USB C and happily charge the Macbook, they also make nice braided cables.

Next up would be next-gen tiny chargers like this (65W):
http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/2/10/14581300/fi...

Unfortunately that specific one has a proprietary connector on one end but probably the next version will be fully standard. One tiny charger, one high quality cable, for all your devices. We're almost there.
Here is what is missing now in the React ecosystem

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

Thats it. A central place with an organised list of guides. Not a blog though. Also must cover things such as redux, mobx and routers, and how it all fits together.
There's an issue with the door so they're getting sued for the door issue. It's not some kind of general indictment of Tesla nor Elon Musk, it's just that lawsuits are alas one of the very few ways that disputes can be resolved in our non-centrally-planned economy.

Does liability law sometimes cause bad collateral damage (like you mentioned here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14187563 with general aviation)? Yes. But that doesn't mean that every lawsuit over a vehicle is inappropriate.

Tesla vehicles are safer than most other vehicles but that isn't an excuse for sub-par design around emergency egress. This story have been "my Tesla crashed and has battery fire but the conveniently-located door override nevertheless let me get out fast" -- I'm disappointed because Tesla could have done better.
'The average salary for a Software Engineer is €41,227 per year.'

Not everybody is American, you know
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Postmark another good provider. Moved everything the them after some php mail scripts failed to send without any notice.
> The life expectancy of the bottom 20% is still 76.1 years. That's not "young".

It's also worth considering that the lowest 20% is much more likely to encounter violent crime, and also more likely to enlist in the military. I'm sure those things play into lower life expectancy as well.
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>You draw the line somewhere, right

Yeah, I just have to worry about higher beings justifying the termination of my primitive nervous system "for science". Perhaps my consciousness is so dim relative to theirs that it would be analogous to me squashing a bug. I hope that their methods are advanced enough that they don't need to.
There is a reason graybeards are valuable. It's not that they're over 50 or 60. It's experience. A full-stack developer with 20 years' worth of experience will not make certain kinds of mistakes.
can you justify the 3-5x difference in annual compensation that younger developer makes

can you justify the 2-3x difference between you and a guy who was been coding for 5-7 years ?
Dunno how, IANAL. But I trust that the US government, or the establishment in general, can make anyone's life miserable if there is a political will.

Also, have the laws been amended to deal with similar offenses in the future?
Why are they force resetting everyone's password if they are bcrypt'ed?
You had an important point: the testimonial looked fake, and that makes people trust the product less.
It's the same for farm animals though, isn't it? Modern broiler chickens, egg-layers, dairy cows and beef cattle, turkeys, etc. are very different from their wild ancestors.

Farmed turkeys can't have sex, they have to be artificially inseminated, I don't know who made them that way if not humans.
Pack order mentality is probably not something humans will ever be able to overcome.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/06/why-it-...

edit: typo
I'm a computer science teacher for a prison on occasion. It's a degree granting institution. My fellow professors do it for money, but I work at a megacorp so I just do it for free.

You'll really hate the prison system when you're through with it, but it's better in my state at least since there aren't any private prisons. I find the way the inmates can't get internet access to be crazy and it makes teaching rather interesting.

It's not personally fulfilling, I'm just happy to help give people a second chance.
> Timpson really are an equal opportunities employer. We consider anyone for our vacancies as long as they are able to do the job. This includes ex-offenders and other marginalised groups. We recruit exclusively on personality and expect all of colleagues to be happy, confident and chatty individuals.

So it was just a really happy coincidence that the owners son (James Timpson) becamse the chief executive officer? ;)
:raises hand:

I'm now 40 years old and recently took a position as Software Development Manager. I manage a small team (currently 2 developers, 1 test engineer, and a product owner, and should be adding 2-4 more devs over the summer). The PO and I still wear our developer hats for a good portion of the day.

The "why?" is simple - I like the challenge. Yes, I can challenge myself with 100% technical tasks, but moving into management was something completely new.

The move into management has been gradual. I followed a standard developer path for years - dev, senior dev, principal dev, architect. Did the architect thing for a few years, then decided I wanted to work on my soft skills, so took over the scrum master role. I have a great boss/mentor, the position worked out well, and I recently took over a full development manager role (basically, same as I was doing, with the addition of personnel management).

How did it work out? Pretty well, I suppose. So far, I'm enjoying the new responsibilities.

Regrets? No, not really. But, I'm also not far enough removed from 100% developer that I couldn't pick up that hat again should the need arise.
Nice. What engine power for 1 or 2 pax?
It's entirely possible I don't know what I'm missing and/or my React usage so far mostly falls in the "toy" scale, but I've not yet felt a need for Redux or another state management system. Our strategy so far involves very little use of component state (nearly all usage is for form fields and showing/hiding modals). Everything else is in the props, and all 'app state' lives in a collection of modules that get DI'd into the components via their props. It seems like it's probably not too far from what Redux is going for at a conceptual level, but so far it's worked well and been easy to work with.

We also use TypeScript though, so this more OO-style approach felt more natural. It's not particularly verbose (in the context of interfaces and static types, so YMMV) and it's been extremely easy to work with so far.
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I'm not saying don't do the other things too, but a ~5% saving (maybe more at a more typical gzip TX setting) for no semantic change at all saves some outgoing BBC resource but is more significant for the RX side in CPU, etc.

Anyhow we can agree to disagree but many of my clients over the years have been very happy with 5% resource savings, although 5x is nicer when available... B^>

(And yes I'm fudging CPU and bandwidth, but with a compressor involved and the CPU often being a bottleneck on lower-end devices for example, I think that simplification can be justified.)
The Economist makes it particularly hard. Surprisingly low level of ethics for a publication of such repute.
This is very wise advise to those on a certain "forest" cloud
With a pen/pencil, yes.
Would like a detailed blog post on this! I am just starting out my career and would want to do something like this.
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Thanks for the feedback. We've tried somewhat close to #3, #4 and #5 before to no avail. I often have to be an audience of unsolicited outbursts of co-founders past and ongoing accomplishments. Here is an example, "I did X and it resulted in Y which is very very important and amazing, what have you done?" or "If I hadn't done that for the company we wouldn't be where we are now. You should appreciate that more." along those lines in addition to constant scrutiny on how things needs to be done exactly the way they want it (no other way). We each have things to accomplish week over week and it's all tracked in Jira and visible to both of us so there is no need for me to announce these randomly.

I've have 10 years worth of professional experience at a big shop having people work below and above me but I've never experience someone behave in such a way or control every part of the business in a way it just ins't necessary. Perhaps they no longer need my contribution and want to create such atmosphere so I can walk away?

I'm embarrassed to be complaining about this on the internet rather than going and talking about this to resolve conflicts like and adult like you said but having tried multiple times it just isn't working out. Almost feels like the way author describes his experience here https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/18/co-founder-conflict/

I get your point that focusing on the bigger future is far better than figuring out who gets to keep what. But what if you no longer enjoy each others company and can't deal with the environment? I'm looking to move on but don't want all the time and effort I've put in to go in vain either.

I'm thinking of notifying that I'm stepping down and come to terms regarding equity that we both feel is fair? Perhaps, I can get compensated at an on going basis if not lump sum? What if I'm told no to any equity or comp what are the options that folks have used before?

Sorry for the rant and thanks in advance.
> For more than half a century now, psychologists, linguists, neuroscientists and other experts on human behaviour have been asserting that the human brain works like a computer.

That is the opposite of what I have read from those groups of people.
>Open source code now carries a moral maintenance obligation?

Many have always argued that it has.

>Do we say the same thing about any large company that uses openssl or any other open source libs that people use or depend on?

Many do.

>That doesn't seem fair or reasonable.

Many argue that any company that failing to contribute to the OSS projects they depend upon isn't fair or reasonable.
Belkin have a "replacement" for the Magsafe:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/breaksafe-magnetic-usb-c-p...
From my experience going to meetups and seeing the kind of job postings that get thrown up out here, there's just more of an "enterprise" mindset here. A lot less "hard" tech being pursued. I think it's because there's not a lot of VC money (relative to the west coast and Boston/N.Y) so startups need to be more focused on generating revenue sooner. No long runways out here (for the most part).

This seems to select for business that find cash generating opportunities as opposed to chasing "changing the world."
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You could join the RNLI. You would learn seamanship and paramedic skills. It would be pretty tough in London though, I think you would encounter quite a few dead people in and around the Thames so you should think about how this might affect you. https://rnli.org/what-we-do
well, that's not necessarily fair. Apple has done an incredible amount of work to give devs and content creators an audience in the first place. Their rules are no different from many others. The economics of a "good business" need to take into account the delivery costs. Just because those costs are borne by a 3rd party (apple), does not mean those costs aren't real. Yes, shifting the costs more on apple would change the economics for app developers, but as long as the economics remain great for apple, they keep developing better services, devices, and platforms for devs to use (and, they give some of that away for very cheap or free).
he "was hospitalized for more than 40 days with internal injuries and fractures" so I imagine that he got significantly injured and incapacitated.
Reminds me of the nylon-eating bacteria discovered in the 70s in Japan.

It generates an enzyme that digests nylon (nylonase).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria