skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I certainly didn't mean to imply that I am advocating that everyone should put their "family-first" any more than I am advocating everyone start playing music with my buddies or studying philosophy.

To answer your question, if you're looking for a cool business so you can do what you want that is great and if you're looking for "meaning" that might be something else. There is no way that I would presume to tell anyone else what they should find meaning in. If a family is not what you find meaningful, then you're a person and that's your entirely legit decision.

So:

A) the question is what projects I personally find most rewarding (not what projects I think other people would find rewarding),

B) the echo chamber response is resoundingly "my tech side project that I make little money on" (good for those folks, I sincerely am sure they love their families too, even if they feel like it's better to serve them through employment... heck, playing music with my buddies is very similar),

C) the OP's favorite part of being a developer is "when you solve the problem and make their life easier, even if it was easy to solve. I'd love to find something where every day was like that!" and I don't feel like something along the lines of "perhaps directly caring for the humans around you" is a crazy, out of context, hippy dippy answer.

I hope that doesn't sound like either a "defense of familism" or wear you out... it's just my own lived experience and I am sharing it because it's been helpful to me. I don't expect you to agree.
> From the point of view of economists, a UBI is not feasible.

Sigh. From the point of view of an economist, not economists generally. Most are open-minded about it, but want to see more evidence and experimentation.

It'd be nice for Wharton to list an author of this article, if merely for the purpose of knowing their qualifications. Why do I get the impression it's some undergrad in journalism who just walked down the hall to the only economist they know?
Survey on SaaS vs. IaaS vs. On-Premise and GDPR
And if I don't want to improve public transport, because I think it's worthless? Why should I allow you to make my preferred transport worse, just because you think yours is better?

If you think it's better, go for it, make it so good people want it, and maybe I'll go for it. But do so without making things worse for anyone else.

I know what you are thinking "but my way is so obviously so much better, that of course we should give it priority". Except I disagree, I think public transit is horrible.

And I'm saying this because I tried it, using it exclusively in a city with probably the worlds best public transit. It was horrible, I would never trade my car for that. And I would never live in a city that required me to.
Cracking the crypto war
I think it's a natural reaction to dislike questions that are asked without much attention to detail, contain spelling mistakes (often in the headline), don't use code formatting or otherwise make it more difficult to understand.

Note that these problems may not make answering the question impossible. If, for example, the headline/question is "How do I do this???", then you can still answer, provided the body is more specific.

But such a meaningless title makes it harder to spot the question in lists when you're searching, or willing to answer questions.

That's bad for the usefulness of SO, and moderators and other users who have spent a lot of time on the site may notice such problems far more than you do when first visiting it.
2008-2010 I wanted to do nothing. 2010-12 I wanted to hide in a closet. 12-16 I wanted to die.

On medication I don't want to die. It's not great but it's a damn sight better than the decade preceding it.

Went off medication for the summer and fall after 9 months. Failed 4 of 5 classes.

Doing the meditation and breathing and shit too. Turns out that in order to make positive changes in your life you have to be willing to make positive changes in your life. Which I'm not currently.

Like I said: c'est la vie.
The title on this seems pretty misleading.

This is really a guide on how to use the escapeshellarg when you should use escapeshellcmd (or the opposite). Of course, the API of system() is pretty awful, so there is an issue here in the form of "wow, PHP makes this really easy to mess up," but there's no actual exploit in either function mentioned. Just exploits in code people write using them. I guess the LANG one is arguably an actual exploit though, though that gets into arguing semantics.

Edit: there's also an example that is missing quotes around an argument. Again, something very easy to mess up, but that's what you get when you have a function that is basically like typing a line into the shell.
Good. I’m all for better and more eco-friendly forms of transport, but after seeing a number of scooters thrown into the street haphazardly, this could not make me happier. People don’t seem to respect property that isn’t theirs.
>>TL;DR what stops a landlord and local shopkeeper increasing prices until the UBI is drained?

Rent control for the first, competition (or a high enough UBI that they can travel far enough) for the second.
We Were Involved with a Scam ICO, Here’s What Happened
>I can't speak to how long you have to be clean to pass a test

Several days at least. Weekend smokers are out.
They where evaluated 4 years ago at $455 Million. Raised $35 million on this evaluation.

https://outline.com/EzRTkg
Here's the way I look at it. Once your 401k or other retirement savings are on track to give you a comfortable retirement, that's like an option -- you are effectively guaranteed a minimum lifestyle. Within this bucket, you should certainly be balancing the expected value and risk "by the book" (diversifying, etc.).

How do you increase the value of an option? Increase the volatility. Continuing to minimize risk is not going to meaningfully change your lifestyle. Your call option already protects you on the downside, so you should try to blow it out on the upside, and take a risk.

You can also view your experience and skills (and the minimum salary it allows you to command in the market) as the same thing. After a certain point, try for something that will meaningfully change your lifestyle. Worst case, you can fall back to that floor salary.
I use my initial on SE to conceal my gender, and I am usually assumed to be male in third-person references.
> Gerald W. Johnson, a journalist who covered The New Deal during the 30’s for the Baltimore Sun, wrote that what angry poor people want is never usually money (or else they would have revolted a long time ago), but hope for a better future for either them or their children.

Improving upward mobility out of poverty is a big part of the motivation for replacing means-tested aid with UBI, so while that's probably true, using it as an argument against UBI ignores what it is replacing; it's not money replacing not-money, it's money with conditions that actively fight moving up with money with terms which complement moving up.

> UBI is not a long term solution

Yes, it is. It's not a complete solution, but it is a long-term one.
I’m planning on it. Thanks for all your awesome interaction on this thread.
https://github.com/hack4impact/flask-base is an incredible boilerplate for Flask, I use it for every projects !
Lots of basic web stuff included, user management, redis queue for asynchronous tasks etc..
I believe it's on the order of weeks. I don't buy that someone who smoked two weeks ago is liable to get high on the job. If someone drinks on the weekend, should we automatically worry they're liable to operate machinery drunk?
Co2 is not pollution. It has issues obviously, but it's not pollution.

People are so focused on Co2 these days, they've completely forgotten about actual pollution. Forgetting is understandable in developed countries because we've all but eliminated it, so what's there to think about?

But go visit some non-developed countries, or maybe read the news, and you'll suddenly realize what a huge problem actual pollution is.
Think of equity like buying a call option for pennies and having them explode to dollars or tens of dollars per contract. It may (and likely will) expire worthless, or the leverage from it is so great that you exit with a great return. As the post alluded to, starting a startup has gone from extremely rare to rare. And the number of startups that succeed in a significant way are less than that.
Vehicles on sidewalks are a menace. Do it in the street, hipsters!
My dad was an auto mechanic (before he bought a small business), my mom hasn't worked since I was born, except for their business. Their friend group going back 25+ years were all pretty similar. All of their friends are now small business owners / self employed. And actually to date, I think they've been largely successful (I can't think of anyone who's gone bankrupt or had to close their business down involuntarily).

A few things I've observed:
• My parents aren't intellectual, but they aren't stupid. They read a fair bit. My dad can be pretty dismissive towards academics, but is very pro-learning.
• They're pretty conservative - both socially, but more importantly, financially. This seems to be pretty entrenched in their group.

This thread is pretty instructive, in that you've got highly paid techies saying "$60k isn't much money vs what I can make." I think the stereotype in tradespeople not being seen from a position of high status is that there's a very real ceiling on how much you can make (in the same way that there is working for the government).

But there's also got to be something said for the fact that the people making the big jumps in life (at least from a perception point of view) have all gone to college. My parents might have started their careers blue collar - and my Grandparents were all blue collar throughout their careers, but every single grandchild on both sides of the family to date, has gone or is studying at University.
Nope, it's easy to say that there are more successful Jews because they are smarter but the reason is cultural. IQ does have some value in getting ahead in life, for instance, you cannot have a 50 IQ and expect to be a leader in anything but after a certain point IQ, maybe average IQ, if you fight enough for what you want you will get it. And if you fight for a position of power you will get it.

In Jewish families, sons and daughters are expected to do their best in society. Additionally, they are pushed to do their best in society. That's not always the case in every family.

Also, culturally Jews are expected to fight their way through any obstacle. I suspect part of that is the fact that they've been discriminated for so long that they expect to fight for everything they get. I've seen it over and over where people of Jewish families will not give up until they get their way. While not everybody in that cultural sector has that type of determination a huge percentage does, therefore, if you fight hard enough you're bound to get what you want. High average IQ is important but not the primary reason for success.
Given lab on a chips, and public spaces, sequencing would be done trivially anywhere there are sensors.

And given that people shed skin cells and hair regularly, that can be called abandoned property.

Being in a location at a certain place and time could be trivial to determine, no matter how careful you are.

I have a bad feeling this precedent won't be upturned.
I guess he didn't want his house to burn down
Ruby 2.6 added option to raise exception in Kernel#system – BigBinary Blog
The updates are not the problem. Apple handcuffing you into staying with their preferred version (even if you hate the new UI, even if it slows down your device) is the problem here.
Python is hot, right? I'm doing Python for the last 10 years and even landed one patch in smtplib. Data science is booming and I have 25 years into ETL.

I'm active in the local Python meetups - my last talk was about the new data classes in Python 3.7 (currently beta so I can't possibly be more up to date). Some white hair over my face would hint at my real age if I let them grow for a few days but otherwise I don't look 47. I commute by bicycle (13 milles every day). I spend weekends on hackathons just for the fun. I'm lean and fast both physically and mentally.

But when you are near 50, good luck finding a good position. Age prejudice is a real problem in our industry.
Seems to me like many communities end up being like that.

The extreme is some open source projects, in my experience.
Not that I'm aware of! As you've seen, I see Big-O abused into shorthand for "on the order of" to the effect of "average case is O(nlog(n))"
Across the board tax cuts can certainly lead to inflation. More, if they're large. Or less, depending on the extent to which they're financed by tax increases.
Then what drives inflation, if not for "people have more dollars to spend"?
"How much will everybody get?" (choose) -> "Not enough to cover basic needs"

Leads to

"People are starving." -> "Your version of UBI is dumb."

Excuse me? People currently get $0, which is also less than people need to cover basic needs. If that kind of UBI is dumb, your status quo is dumb.

Your chart only looks at immediate benefits and costs, and then declares UBI dumb if it either requires any increase in spending at all, or it isn't a utopian system. It also seems to assume UBI encourages everyone stop being employed.
> In direct contradiction to the expressive power and beauty of the language itself.

Well Go doesn’t particularly excel in the expressiveness department, so in that sense I guess this new logo is fitting?
Pretty similar to my situation. Esp the "1/3" part. :-)
Can we add "roads worse than 3rd world countries" to the list?
قمة أرسنال واتلتيكو مدريد تنتهي بالتعادل على ملعب الإمارات – كرة القدم newsa
These scooters are amazing. Wish the city would focus on the drug addicts running around defecating on sidewalks and not try to regulate these convenient scooters.
Try the 1927 Solvay Conference on Electrons and Photons:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/87a8ea/1927_group_pho...

Schrödinger, Pauli, Heisenberg, Dirac, de Broglie, Bohr, Planck, Curie, Lorentz, Einstein... the number of Nobel Prizes here is left as an exercise.
We already have case studies of heirs who have led/are leading happy and fulfilling lives without ever having participated as laborers in the economy. So it is proven that the combination of (having money and not having a job) is compatible with happiness.

The misery seems to come not from curbing worst-case outcomes for everyone in society (by UBI), but from the threat of material insufficiency due to structural unemployment (which motivates UBI).

Besides, even if we get strong AI and abundant energy to obsolete the vast majority of jobs, presumably it will take a long time to eliminate the long tail. One may always hope the next great genius/virtuoso will be among one's offspring.
OK reading the Medium post [0] I see that toxic comments were the starting points here, not the rampant practice of closing questions for dubious reasons.

[0] https://medium.com/@Aprilw/suffering-on-stack-overflow-c4641...
Nor does alcohol mix well with heavy machinery, but just because someone may drink alcohol at some point in the future doesn't mean they will before they operate deadly machinery. The same would apply to marijuana. A stable considerate employee wouldn't use either substance while performing their duties, so maybe we should be screening for something like mental stability, aptitude for identifying/avoiding high-risk behavior etc. instead of trying to run a catch-all for potential drug users.
I'm less concerned about bias than you are. For me it's more that your resume is what you used to do, and I'm interested in what you will do.

I also found history the most boring subject in high school. Probably not a coincidence.
Every non-trivial Flask projects aims to become Django.
How would it work in terms of replacing Medicare and covering high-ticket medical procedures?
Check out OpenACC. Kind of an interesting middle option. https://www.openacc.org/
Very short segment durations are effective only when latency is more important than quality.

Each TS segment must start with a key-frame, and the GOP size can't exceed the duration of a segment (e.g. one second). Lowering the segment duration increases the frequency of key-frames, which has the effect of lowering the quality you can achieve at a given bitrate.
How is that different than fingerprints which are taken whenever a person is arrested?
Gattaca!
I agree with this -- sometimes the comments are more interesting and informative than the answer. And why is it ordained that "Comments aren't for extended discussion"?

Only a handful of upvoted comments are shown by default, you have to deliberately expand the list to see more, so why not retain them all? If someone wants to wade through 200 commments and add one of his own, what's the real harm? They could add an option for askers/answerers to "Stop notifications for new comments', if that's the issue.
Especially if it replaces certain existing social programs. Realistically the dishonesty is to be expected from the people and institutions writing these pieces.
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Those are trivial things that any software team should be able to handle. How many security bugs are we talking about? Is iOS riddled with tends of thousands of bugs per-release-brach? No, it isn't.

In any case, I'm not sure why anyone should care about saving money for Apple. As a consumer I should look for the best deal for me, not ways to funnel more money into their pockets. They are very capable of taking care of that themselves.
Ah, I was under the impression that RFs choose from a subset of features, not just one feature.

In any case, I agree with the thrust of your original comment that the specifications of the RF algorithm can be relaxed, usually for performance reasons, and still retain strong performance. But this goes back to my original comment that the performance considerations of random forests often aren't highlighted to new learners (whereas introducing ERTs to a beginner would probably shock them - how could you take totally random splits and still get any reasonable performance!)
Super useful community in some ways. Like many others in this thread, I was more or less scared off by super users. I know quite a lot about GLSL, shader programming, and GPU tech, but my experience was similar to what others describe. I answered questions that were 'poorly asked' or 'not constructive' and found that threads were locked pretty quick.

But on the other hand, there's a ton of great stuff, and a lot of users have invested serious time providing extremely helpful answers.

It's a really bizarre place.
This article reads like it's written by an outraged 14-year old. It's point may be true, but I'm just not going to believe s/o who calls people's reservations about the Facebook business model an "exaggerated moral panic".
An employee can get diversification in the sense that they can work for multiple companies. It's not at all unusual for someone in SV to get equity in 5 different companies in their career. E.g. one friend of mine first got equity in General Magic, but didn't really hit it big till Nest, decades later. (He did ultimately hit it quite big though.)

There is even a kind of natural balancing mechanism here, in the sense that the earlier you join a company, the more likely it will die quickly and free you to take another shot. So the riskier the equity you opt for, the more rolls of the dice you'll get.
> Flask has a stigma for not being that good when building larger apps

I've never heard that before. It's been the go-to backend server at the last few companies I've worked for, and it's the first Python web framework I reach for when I need to roll out a new service. I think its explicitness is hugely wonderful for maintenance: given a route, it's straightforward to figure out exactly what code is being called.
The first discarded item could have come from a blood relative, i.e., his kids, or been intermingled with his wife's DNA, which could have yielded an inconclusive match (i.e., similar to the killer but not an exact match). They already knew that someone in the house was related to the killer--for their purposes, they needed an exact match.
We really need to organize "how to write letters in support of nice things" sessions for techies.

It really would not take many of us (maybe fifty or a hundred) writing letters to city hall to drown out the voices of these anti-tech activists.
Ha, suckers.
(just realized my sister is also a sucker :(, and me by association.)
SAVE OUR SOULS
While it sounds difficult to do, I wouldn't underestimate the manufacturers.

> 1. The precision of your resistors is a limiting factor.

Suppose your resistors and measuring equipment were good enough that you needed 5% between neighbouring values. Then you can squeeze in 141 distinct values between 1 Megohm and 1 kilohm. Seems plenty to me.

> 2. Contact resistance and switch bounce becomes a problem -- instead of just making a key show up twice, it could potentially result in a key you didn't press showing up.

They definitely become issues, but they strike me as manageable. For good switches, contact resistance should add perhaps 1 ohm of variation , and above we saw that 50Ohm between the nearest switches is good enough.

Switch bounce means that you can't afford to accidentally average over a bounce, you need to sample fast (say 200 kHz), and then take say the Nth highest of 20 samples. So you get a result 100 microseconds after the first switch went high. (Obviously that algorithm is just a guess, just to show the kind of options engineers have when they come up against the real system).

> 3. Using ADCs doesn't get you away from scanning. ADCs have a sampling rate too -- and unless you pay a lot for your ADCs, ...

Yes you need a good ADC, but that ADC will still be an single IC that does nothing vastly fancy. Such a thing is difficult and expensive to buy retail, but if I was Cherry I might well be able to negotiate a deal that brought it to a fraction of the end price of the keyboard (which I would sell at a premium).
> This will be the downfall of Stack Overflow eventually. The rules for question and answers try to be objective and specific, but they end up being too strict and are making the site less useful over time.

I never really understood what their issue is with broad questions. There are so many question from the early years of SO which became popular healthy Q&A despite being "broad" and they are now too popular to get closed by some trigger happy mod. Some of these questions wouldn't survive a minute if they were asked today. The typical mod on SO shoots a question dead as soon as s/he has the slightest suspicion. I guess the site would be better off with (a lot) less mods.
Could you not give it a try? Others often try to understand the experience of others. It is the basis of empathy.
Your number used to be the estimate, it’s just that things have changed. It’s easy to miss when this sort of thing changes.
A point in moxie's favor is that the e2ee ux in matrix is currently extremely painful. I'm willing to use it on a couple rooms that consist entirely of geeks, but don't want to subject non-geeks to the whole verification process.