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For general news, I find NPR.org [1] to be pretty good. I can tell they make an effort to avoid bias and sensationalism. It’s not perfect, but I have yet to find another online source that I prefer.

I also listen to my local station (WUNC) and if you’re in a decently populated area of the U.S., your local NPR affiliate is also likely high quality (plus it’s easy to listen online if you’re not into terrestrial radio.)

[1]: https://npr.org
Not the OP, but I keep 1-2 months of normal spending in a checking account, and any excess income beyond that goes into investing in index funds. In the rare case that I need to have a lot of cash available for a big upcoming purchase, I'll either just keep that in my checking account too or in a money market account to generate a bit more interest. I do technically have a savings account, but I can't think of a good reason to use it.

EDIT: maybe if my savings account paid meaningful interest I'd use it more, but most retail banks these days don't.
China is probably realizing that their free cut of others IP is about to run out. If they cant steal out IP, and we can't exploit their labor, both countries will have to get better. I'm thinking this will boost both countries at the same time by growing the respective lagging economy (innovation or manufacturing)
Yet when I press you on your concrete example of diversity of skill, you immediately move on to a different example without responding to what I said.
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This is easy: you call Will on the phone. You should have the personal contact information of anybody who is a single point of failure.
That's a good point, today it has 0 imports:

https://go-search.org/search?q=supervisord

I guess we can say that while it'd be a useful metric, clearly not in all cases :)
if you're a spy using it to hide your identity from websites when you visit, it would be good for your VPN to have a mix of normal activity and spy activity. If you run your own, it's going to have a weird pattern of traffic that might stand out to a website with decent analytics.
That specific issue is a misfeature of whatever frontend framework they're using, and is present on many other sites as well.
> There were far, far more inputs to that than just "taxes are bad".

Very true, and excessive taxation was one of the major factors.

> And as a contractor, you're part of that problem.

Not myself, but it's a reasonable accusation about the company I work for. Even if that were true, we offer a product that the government could never engineer. The product is good, the government needs it, so they take money from their citizens to buy it. My points still stand unfortunately.
With index changes,Americans send billions to China(whether they know it or not)
I think lost jobs are used as a big talking point because it resonates with the average person.

One of the primary arguments given by certain political figures as to why we need tariffs is that it will protect American jobs. So by showing that it costs more jobs than it protects, that can help the average person realize that tariffs do not protect jobs, at least not in all cases.
Because scale matters. Things that are acceptable when they're difficult and expensive become unacceptable when the cost drops towards zero.

When you can do things broadly and cheaply, you tend to do so just because you can. This is analogous to "data mining" in "big data", aka one major issue with modern science -- when you look at everything trying to identify basic patterns, you'll have a heck of a lot of false positives.
“[Driver’s] hands were not detected on the steering wheel for the final six seconds prior to the crash. Tesla has said that Huang received warnings to put his hands on the wheel, but according to the NTSB, these warnings came more than 15 minutes before the crash.”

This kind of stuff is why I’ve lost all faith in Tesla’s public statements. What they said here was, for all intents and purposes, a flat out lie.

Clearly something went wrong here, but they lept to blaming everyone else instead of working to find the flaw.
The better moneyed campaign wins over 90% of the time. There is no doubt.
I thought "innovates much more slowly" was clear enough.
Are you serious? It's just a way to refresh without using a dedicated refresh button.
I've also bought and worked through the book. It's excellent.

My conclusion was that Idris is an academic language (lack of libraries), followed by realizing that the parts of Idris that I like, are almost all covered by Haskell extensions.

For me, Idris is a great peek into what Haskell should/could be, if extensions were better documented and the synergy between them, explained to mere mortals.
But isn't the implication that half of all adults in the world have MORE than $2300 actually more incredibly awesome?
The first thing I tried was pull to refresh on the linked page, but it does not appear to be implemented there.
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You are more likely to just need a fence with barbed wire and not active security guards. Theft of panels from utility scale solar installations is unlikely to impact cost much at all. Vegetation growth is a modest issue. Fortunately, the panels shade much of the ground, which reduces vegetation growth under the panels. Yes, you may need to mow every now and then, but the panels absorb most of the sun, which means the grass under them doesn't grow as much. As far as trees and bushes go, most solar installation are placed in open areas that either naturally don't have trees or have already been cleared of trees. People are mostly installing on converted empty lots or old agricultural land. Plus, if you cut down trees, you can always "offset" by planting new trees elsewhere. Ongoing maintenance on the panels is pretty low. Assuming you install in a place that receives rain every now and then, you may not even need to clean the panels of dust. Mother nature can sometimes clean the dust off on its own.
>Is there some kind of magic that makes engineers better when you take them out of India?

Yes, and it's called selection bias. A given engineer leaving their country gets no better, but the selection bias that applies to engineers who do leave their country means they are better on average. The good engineers who don't leave for some reason (family or such) are just as good as if they had left, but the average engineer is weighed down by those who don't have the skill to leave.

>And some of the worst developers I've worked with are Americans in America.

I've encountered some horrible American developers as well. The difference, in my experience, is that they tend to cost the same as a good American developer and thus get replaced a lot faster.
Rubbish. Apple sell their phones in all of Europe.
The language is awesome, heavily inspired by EcmaScript4 / ActionScript3.
I use them as exactly this - Bookmarks.
Thanks for the tips!
1) Feature 4 definitely is a must.
2) Feature 5, not sure what would work well.
3) Feature 6, No idea what is Rube golberg style!
4) Feature 7, not sure what you mean but there are LEDs - analog, digital and RGB LEDs
> How would his post history be relevant?

Post history is relevant to assess if the person you're talking to has a very strongly set view on an extremely complex matter. If they do, that suggests that the reasons for the person spending time defending that view might not be motivated by exploration of ideas, but by evangelization of their view.

I think having an estimation of the person's motivation is important because conversations with people motivated by exploration of ideas can make for interesting, insightful and educational conversation, whereas the ones movitated by evangelization tend to be reduced to the same catchy but superficial arguments that they've learned over the years.
Before Trump's tariffs were even a twinkle in his advisors' eyes we (where "we" == some of we domestic OEMs developing new solar power products) were facing a more difficult market due to federal tax credit phase outs. Would have been OK but for the damned tariffs and erratic leadership scared the hell out of the money people who decided the company was better off shelving its solar interactive inverter product line - and we were in the sub 10 cent/kw pricing - in favor of using corporate $$$$ for financial engineering (acquisitions) and distributions to owners.

IMO the root cause of lots of these failures is the absence of consistent, thoughtful policies, and leaders.
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It was resolved in part thanks to World War II which was a massive all-in undertaking for the US (which it never really backed down from, they've maintained a massive standing force ever since then.) That was a huge redirection of capital that created many jobs while simultaneously removing millions from the work force. That is basically a perfect storm for raising wages across the board, and thus decreasing inequality.

Historically wars and unrest seem to be critical for redistribution of wealth once inequality increased to unsustainable levels. I wonder what will happen now in this era of unprecedented peace.
I think you misunderstood my second point. When advertising in magazines, you already knew who your customers were - they were those that were reading the magazine (the publishers all gave out circulation numbers, of which I'm sure many were fudged a bit). Combined with my first point in my original post, you pretty much had an "in" at that point if you at least had a demo/trial version of your software that someone could get. For example, one of the first things I would do when getting a new copy of DBMS or Data Based Advisor magazine would be to head to the back of the magazine to see what kind of new software was being advertised. Yeah, it was the section that looked like the "see if you can draw Tippy the Turtle" ads in other magazines, but people looked at them and they worked.

So, perhaps, what we're seeing in the software industry is a result of the collapse of the media industry and targeted magazines...
He mentions having a girlfriend, maybe they live together?
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It counts as much as you throwing numbers around, regardless how much you apparently hate Windows development.

The numbers I'm "throwing around" are from reputable publicly accessible sites - unless you don't think Stack Overflow is reputable. As far as the trend being away from Windows development - I posted a quote from the CEO of Microsoft in this very thread saying as much.

I don't "hate" Windows development. I would hate being stuck on unpopular, less marketable technologies. My area of expertise is still Windows back end development and ASP.Net MVC and .Net Core with a side of AWS netops, devops, and development.

Visual Studio Team Services is a joy to use for CI/CD.

I'm not disputing that Windows "owns the desktop" but the desktop market for developers is minuscule compared to web and mobile. All the money is going away from the desktop. How much money does the average consumer spend on desktop applications outside of Microsoft and Adobe? How much of B2B software as a service revenue is being spent on desktop applications compared to web applications and mobile? What are most people doing on their tablets if not MS Office and spending time on the web? Even if you're a developer, there is little money to be made creating development tools. My entire development tool chain consists of Fred Software besides the $11 a month a pay JetBrains.

Is it declining? Sure it is, consumers are no longer replacing their computers every two years, likewise with mobile phones and tablets.

We were talking about Software sells not hardware sells why are you conflating the two? As a developers selling software, The important metric is the installed based not the replacement rate. And you keep talking about the popularity of Windows desktops, but that doesn't matter as a software developer if no one is buying desktop software - except for MS Office. People are still mostly using thier desktop computers for office productivity and to go to websites.

I have seen countless technologies come and go

So have I, I got my start programming in 65C02 assembly language on an Apple //e. But I've never been one to mourn a technology that was passed its prime. That's the reason I've been moving away from the Microsoft stack toward cloud, web, and eventually mobile.

As far as where the money is for development....

Everyone including Microsoft sees the writing on the wall.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/selling-software-where-have-al...

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/22/mobile-game-revenue-to-pass-...
Nicely narrated the importance of a platform like pictink
Really most of us ignore that for all tech, at any price. It has nothing to do with Shenzen or the chips they produce. For that matter, there are similar moral issues with most clothing you will buy and the effects of a lot of the food you are eating. The cosmetic products you use are almost certainly funding (or have funded) a company that perpetrates animal cruelty.

The world is built with sadistic bricks. I don't think it is active malice that most people ignore them, I think they just cannot exist properly if they think about each and every one. So most people think about a few, if any. Maybe sometimes they eat a biological egg from a chicken that has twice the floor space of a regular chicken. Or they drink some fair trade coffee that was ostensibly not produced with modern slave labour.
> Datomic is an immutable database, written in Clojure.

Ah, that helps (I guess my search was a bit _too_ quick). So Ion is really the only jargon there. I'm not even going to delve deeper as I just don't know the ecosystem at all. I was hesitant to even comment in the first place. Thanks.
> If a company with the weight and power of Google feel something is wrong and isn't doing their damnedest to try to fix it, then it won't change.

Great point. If any company is in position to spend resources and have an effect on society, Google is definitely one of them. And of course it is a great goal.

However they need to spell that out in plain and simple language and not hide it between the lines or say they are doing it because (as the article quotes) it would otherwise "make it difficult for the company to hire and retain workers, posing a long-term risk to its ability to innovate".

If innovation and ability to retain was directly tied to diversity each business unit down the lowest level would eventually figure it out in a few years. There would be no need for diversity chairs, advocates, executive positions. These groups would go out, seek, hire and accordingly compensate people just like they seek, hire and accordingly compensate experts in those fields.
Yeah but you can turn that argument each way, it's just reasoning backwards. It amounts to just doing whatever with the tracking data, waiting for something positive to happen because of it, and then claiming it.

They can do that with random data and it'll work just as well. It's called divination and you don't need to track me for it.
Wouldn't correcting the large trade deficit between China and the US result in a net job increase in the long run?

It would take several years but we can build factories in rural parts of the US(you know, where people voted for Trump) or even in Mexico.
I hadn’t heard of this going on and it is very alarming. Could you point me to some resources to better educate myself on the matter? Thank you.
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Its funny how you comment as if you know 100 % about Asian culture. Does one persons behavior define an entire continents culture for you?

Some people have worked in 16 diff teams in last 10 years and they have friends who have broader experience and they have super close conversation with managers, they don't go to agile rooms and draw something on the white board all the time and come out with no insights or progress after a hour or only have a skilled person come and give a direction in 5 minutes and nullify the whole one hour white board drawing.

I can tell for sure since i have been part of many such teams where we precisely point out any steps in the negative directions and offer tons of suggestions to improvize on the approach and most of the time come up with a way to gently impart some sense into the overseas managers who have no idea how to get what they want.

Your reasoning is so flawed because u didn't know when to use the word never, that doesn't mean your continents reasoning is flawed but i wish in hacker news there is a option to filter out certain people's comment globally forever.
For example, much of the corn goes straight to ethanol plants these days.

Ethanol that causes wear and tear on cars while producing approximately the same energy that was used in fossil fuels to produce the ethanol.

Worse yet are the sugar tariffs. We would be better off if we got rid of the tariff then paid each person involved in growing sugarcane to not work. As https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2017/01/18/if-us-su... says, this policy would be estimated to make the USA approximately $1 billion per year richer.

Government intervention frequently results in perverse incentives that produce nonsensical results.
This will absolutely increase the already high cost of homes. Even f its "eventually" cash flow positive, there are much better things one can do with money than "invest" in solar panels
I once heard from a US based colleague that he said “do X but don’t burn any bridges” to a teammate in China. That apparently once translated means the opposite of its Western meaning! An expensive mistake that was.
If you think anyone has "bulletproof automated source rewriting tools" I've got a bridge to sell you.

I've used an excellent one. The Refactoring Browser parser engine in Smalltalk. I've used it to eliminate 2500 of 5000 lambdas used in an in-house ORM with zero errors -- all in a single change request. (Programmers were putting business logic into those lambdas.) Like any power tool, it's not stupid proof. However, it gives you the full syntactic descriptive power of the language. So if you can distinguish a code rewrite with 100% confidence according to syntactic rules, then you can automate that rewrite with 100% confidence.

Here's where it can go wrong: If your language is too large and complicated, there the probability you can run into a corner case that will trip you up. Also, it will always be possible for a given codebase to create something which is too hard to distinguish, even at runtime. (You can embed arbitrary code in a Refactoring Browser Rewrite transformation, so you can even make runtime determinations.)

"Bulletproof" isn't "invulnerable." A vest with an AR500 plate will stop certain bullets hitting you in certain places. It won't protect you from being stabbed in the eye or stepping on a landmine. Despite that, it is still a useful tool.
Edit: maybe it should be called a "logic circuit" instead of a "digital circuit".

I will take this advice and discuss with my mentors, Thank you :)
It really isn't all that awesome, because that isn't very much net worth at all. At a minimum, you'd want everyone's net worth to be at least the average value of a car, I'd think.
The guy is a fucking moron, and everyone close to him knows that (and eventually publicly states it after he burns them).

I thought this train wreck would be fun to watch, but now I fear that the people who really need to eat crow will probably be dead when the worst of the impact of this experiment in lunacy is over.
It doesn't even matter. If you start forcing other companies into contracts that say they may not use competitor Xs products, you will have an antitrust case on your ass regardless.

And we have seen the same happen with Apples bookstore. They obviously weren't a monopoly in the past, then or now, but they started drawing up contracts with multiple companies that were meant to be competitors and facilitating collusion between them. That is always an antitrust violation.
The US imposed tariffs on Chinese and Taiwanese solar panels as well in 2014.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/business/energy-environme...

Prior to 1914 and for most of the history of the US the bulk of Federal government revenue was tariffs.
Chrome has never truly blocked autoplay. In some cases it will be blocked, in others it'll just be muted. If you want true autoplay blocking use Firefox.
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So long as Chrome/ium remain open source, it is absolutely impossible for it to become the new IE. Chrome itself has no magic that makes it a better browser than base Chromium if you aren't invested in Google's ecosystem.
Spoken like someone who's never experienced the inanity of the US's criminal justice system.

Many of the laws on the books are there due to lobbying, not logic, reason or need. Some are based on moral outrage to propaganda, some are due to businesses wanting greater leverage of their market and greater control over the entry-barrier. Many laws are totally unconstitutional but remain because someone must be successfully challenged which is hard when the law is meant to target the homeless guy you just don't like sitting on your corner who wouldn't have the means to hire a proper attorney.

I think what the original poster was getting at is that AI enforcement, with a broken legal system is a recipe for abuse and injustice.

The entire idea of selective enforceability is an affront to the concept of justice.

I've had my car searched for drugs by police in Arizona without cause other than they thought I "appeared to be on drugs" due to the fact they made me stand outside in the snow for 10 minutes while questioning me during a bogus traffic stop and I eventually started to shiver. I was driving through AZ on my way from Colorado to California... two places recreational marijuana are perfectly legal (by state standards) yet if they would have found even the smallest amount of weed in my car even if someone else had just dropped it somewhere (they check literally everywhere -- including rifling through my tea bags with their dirty paws), I would have been in jail on felony charges.

Granted I made sure my car was immaculate because I know how insane the people of AZ are when it comes to "criminal justice" and all it cost me was an hour of travel time. But the fact remains that there is no presumed consistency in law and felonies are a big deal and have consequences that reach far beyond some localized legal affair.

I have known people who have picked up felonies because they were doing something innocuous beside being in the wrong place at the wrong time. And when we start talking about AI enforcement, it's a scary concept because a felony means that for instance you could be picked up on federal firearm charges because some program found a slingshot in a picture of your bedroom on Facebook which gave them cause to issue a warrant to raid your house. And then you aren't able to flee the country because you can't just walk down to Mexico like you used to be able to because of the AI surveillance.

Taking the high-horse and saying people should trust in the system and just do their duty as citizens is great and all, but that type of ignorance is also why we have the highest prison population in the world. People who could be benefiting society even if only marginally, who are forced to be strictly welfare cases.

Not to mention, this isn't solving any problem - just opening the door to a bunch of new potential problems, so what's the point, other than lining the pocket of some random government contractor who probably lobbied for the tech in the first place? This is inane.