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I'm not in this space but I would Ask your current customers and prospective customers what you can what you can do to improve. Test and learn. Add feedback mechanisms and other ways to capture input. Good luck
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The previous crash was a drunk driver, at night. Tesla has hit a milestone, they are almost as good as impaired drivers!
Strangely enough, most people I've worked with, seem fairly content to do as you described.

I've heard it justified as 'earning a living', 'for the mortgage', 'for my family' and so on.
I just love hacker news. One of the last bastions of people who think on the internet. This comment is succinct, dead on the money, and absolutely terrifying. My hat is off to you, I had never managed to formulate the risk so concisely. :-) Keep on doing this, and you help keep us all honest.
Are you in that 61%, and that is why you assumed I was talking about an Islamic suicide bomber?
The government doesn't decide what you can remember, your customers do.
> Meanwhile they apparently don’t care that they’re dumping poison into the air.

And what would you regard as signs of "caring"? If they quit their job? In a region with no other jobs, you want them to voluntarily quit to show that they "care"? If not that, what?

The rest of your post is fine. This one sentence, though, is pretty judgmental.
Ignore #5 or think of it a supplemental revenue stream. Revenue from banner ads seems to be on the decline. Ab blockers and what not. My gut says that it's not a good way to fund your job board for the long haul.
Houses aren't even that "bespoke" - most homes come from a stock set of designs that builders bought 20-30 years ago and have simply been churning out the same house... There are so many places in America that claim to have different house designs and yet they're identical or mirror images of one another. Maybe one's got a different trim package or a different set of cabinets or countertops... but otherwise indistinguishable from one another.

Stick-and-frame is still the most prevalent way to build homes for numerous other reasons though, like ease of available materials, roads being non-ideal for transporting large, heavy edifices, and the general perception of prefabricated homes being... not so great... due to seeing prefabbed mobile homes and the lack of quality that's incredibly common in that industry, amongst numerous other reasons.

What has seemed to really change things recently are "SIPs" - Structural Insulated Panels - essentially prefabbed wall segments that you can then jinga together to make a home. They've become wildly popular in some parts of the country as they are easy to transport on the back of an 18-wheeler, easy to install with or without a construction crane, and take care of multiple construction steps at once, greatly reducing build times. They can often be more energy efficient too, as they have fewer seams and the insulation is applied more evenly (often an expanding foam is used instead of fiberglass, which also boosts the R value by quite a bit).
Aren't local tech companies offices paying taxes that should take care of that? Unless you mean that tech companies should build private roads and infrastructure which sounds very bad... The way you get money from private parties and use it to build public infrastructure is through taxes :)
Why do companies do this? Why don't they save a lot more money?
Is it rooted in Protestantism or just generalized zeitgeist for our planet? Even in the Soviet Union you had to work to eat, as I recall.

I think it's shit - down with private property and all that. There is going to be a point in the next hundred years where we won't be able to justify millions of jobs, and none of my representatives seem to have any sort of plan in mind for when that happens.
The engineering and construction requirements are costly and burdensome, but I don't think that explains the insane costs.

I think most of the market burden stems from the regulatory delay and uncertainty. That delay and uncertainty makes it impossible to quickly build plants, regardless of how stringent the engineering specifications. And if you can't quickly build one plant, you can't quickly build ten of them, and you lose the expertise and proficiency needed to build them cost-effectively.

I remember reading an article about the South Korean nuclear industry. At their peak they could build a nuclear power plant quickly, on time, and on budget. Presumably these plants adhered to Western standards. Repetition built project management proficiency and a skilled, specialized workforce.

Ultimately I don't blame the regulatory agencies, per se. I blame the mandate they've been given by a very fearful population. Industry doesn't know what will pass regulatory muster because the regulators are winging it because the public makes safety demands completely divorced from concrete science and engineering.

My takeaway is that if you're going to regulate, you better be darned sure what, why, and how you're going to regulate. If you (i.e. Joe Public, Senator Smith) can't answer those questions, then regulation will prove disastrous. If you can answer those questions well than the true regulatory burden will quickly become apparent and industry will adjust accordingly or exit, without all the confusion, bickering, and wasted resources.

It's like with GMOs: people against GMOs (or proposing strong oversight) can't articulate well why, how, or precisely which aspects of the industry they want to regulate. Which makes it easy for me to vote against propositions purporting to regulate the industry. A poorly articulated solution is no solution at all, and a poorly articulated problem is strong evidence there may not be any problem.
Starvation is not equivalent to death, it means that plants are not growing as fast nor as well as they would with higher levels of CO2.

This is a proven fact and has been amply demonstrated in scientific experiments; it is related to well-understood biological processes in photosynthesis. It is the reason greenhouses deliberately increase CO2 ppm. [1] And yes, the plant kingdom has evolved just a few pathways for photosynthesis that worked well at much higher CO2 levels (10-15x current) when they originated; and these pathways are not magically "evolving" to function with diminishing CO2 levels, they've merely become suboptimal given the atmospheric conditions in the last million years, and would stop working below specific levels.

Your ignorant dismissals are moronic denials of facts and science. Surely you don't pretend that there is no lower limit to the viable amount of CO2 in the air for Earth vegetation to survive?

[1] http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/00-077.htm#s...
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What are the justifications for a bullshit job?
Perhaps being young and single and not having any large financial obligations like a mortgage contributed to my willingness to walk away. If my family depended on the paycheck I brought home with my misery, maybe I'd summon the strength to stick it out.
I agree. I find the CDC suicide statistics very hard to work with.

Here's something from the UK: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

In England we have three main tools.

1) Public Health Fingertips: https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile-group/mental-health/pr...

2) The Office for National Statistics: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

3) The National Confidential Inquiry into suicide and homicide by people with mental illness: http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhs/research/centrefor...
I live in South Africa. We see items such as this more commonly:

https://www.google.com/maps/@-25.833477,28.2391574,3a,75y,75...

https://www.google.com/maps/@-25.8317095,28.2407035,3a,75y,7...

However, it's not consistent. Some end quite abruptly as well, and have a plain sign in the middle without any slowly-rising divider.
And the miners keep dying of black lung and caveins, and their neighbors have their water poisoned by runoff.
It also has similar type safety for native to `byte[]` conversion, ie. `bigEndianToNative!int` takes a `byte[4]`, which you can pass in from a `byte[]` using `data[0..4]`.
I'm not sure you can target oceanic CO2 over CO2 in the atmosphere. Ocean acidification is an equilibrium process driven by the partial pressure of CO2 in the atmosphere increasing.

If you start reversing acidification, the ocean is just going to start pulling in more CO2 from the atmosphere.
I'm not disagreeing with you. Marketing is needed because every one of your competitor is doing marketing. It is an arm race.

But if you removed ALL the marketers from the surface of the planet, people would still have needs and they would find product for those needs without the help of marketers. The end product would not change for a thing.

Let's take one of the most advertised product on the market: cars.
Cars are highly utilitarian and are needed by people. Today every brand maker has to advertise in order to remind people that their model exist.
If you remove all the ads for cars, people would still need cars and they would buy based on what they think is best suited for them, not based on the most flashy ads.
> Once everyone is on the same page that global warming is real, they can't go back on that

I'm not sure that's true, at least in the US. The extent to which "post-truth" has become a meaningful phrase since 2016 is disheartening.

And of course, the cynical would say that it doesn't matter. If carbon-pollution lobbyists can go from "it isn't real" to "it isn't a problem" then they will have achieved their goal. This is true whether or not these technologies are technically or economically feasible.

Getting excited about an imagined giant CO2-fixing industry is the broken windows fallacy on a planetary scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
And you'd think that basic paint striping would be comparably cheap. It's incredible that such a deadly point wouldn't have it.
> there's a reason that places with tip jars preseed them with an initial stash of visible tips

With software donations there's also the initial hump to get over. When you're at a coffee shop and you've just paid $5, it's not much of a stretch to toss another dollar into the jar. You already have your wallet out, and you've already spent money.

When you come across a donation link for some free software you've started using, you don't have any of that.

I even balk at $0.99 for a mobile app, even though I know that a dollar is inconsequential to me (and I believe I can even "return" it within 24 hours if I don't like it!), even though paying for it is only a single confirmation tap beyond what installing a free alternative would be.

It's astounding how much psychology and emotion governs what we do in this space. Very little has to do with logic or rational evaluation.
Yes, for maybe the first 2 years. Then a maxima is reached, but UI designers gotta justify their paycheck, so they keep innovating right off that peak into the next valley
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You guys think too much inside the system as it is today.

Without bullshit jobs there is no concept of "leads". People would just buy the service they need, and supposedly the best most utilitarian product would survive only based on that.
Perhaps, though it seems that if you want to debug hardware, the place to do that is within the hypervisor itself. And if you want out-of-band monitoring, the place to do that is from a supervisor process running on a different box, a la Erlang supervisor trees.

Very little of this infrastructure has been built yet, which is why we don't see this in production deployments. I'm talking decades out - I'll predict that the software industry will eventually tend towards this architecture because it's more efficient and better fits what we actually do with software now, but until it's a pressing pain point there's little urgency in getting there. Much like how all the folks who predicted in the 80s that CPUs would tend toward RISC were right, but it took 30 years and the ARM/mobile revolution to get there, and most desktops still have a hardware x86 emulation layer on top of RISC microcode.
Really? What's a commonly used regular language ("Regular" in the Formal Languages sense, not in the colloquial English sense.)

Regular Expressions are used to solve problems, but almost no one makes a career of programs written exclusively in Regular Expressions.
Cry me a river. I don't want every little startup compiling my information, and selling it once they fail.
Oh no there's no telling what horrible games I'll end up playing. I guess I'll finally have to hire that hipster to follow me around and cover my eyes and ears when they deem it appropriate.
Point. So I guess the jobs left are the last of the industry.

The irony is that production of coal seems to have increased (see top graph; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining_in_the_United_St... ) since 1970.

Goes to show the power of political narrative vs a reality of automation. But I suppose even for the companies it's a lot easier to blame Washington than tell people you bought a $250,000 machine to replace them.
Gov decided on classes of stuff you need permission to remember, and that's just the beginning, next the blacklists will be explicit (like this proposal).
I'd wager that my iPhone and MacBook (encrypted) are safer against 99% of all adversaries on this planet. Now maybe the NSA and some other high-level players can get around even the newest security features, but I'm pretty sure the crook that steals my phone can't, as well as my local police. What else should I be afraid off? If the NSA want to screw me, they will find ways around my computers. Same for CIA/FBI etc.

To me it appears that a modern iPhone is the most secure phone you can own. Not claiming to like it, but it is better than the one alternative OS you could use.

And other than the big players? Linux on your phone - probably a PITA; Linux on your Laptop/Workstation - fine if you don't need specific programs. But want to develop for iOS? It's mac all the way.
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We recently implemented read and write .woz support into our Apple IIe emulator: https://paleotronic.com/2018/06/05/microm8-now-supports-woz/

We changed our internal reference format from NIB to WOZ so we convert other formats to WOZ upon loading... we <3 WOZ!
I’m a US employee and I’m opposed to it. I’m not what you mean by ‘reigned in’, you mean you want the US government to nationalize companies who don’t want to work on military contracts and force their workers to build weapons?

don’t worry, The DoD will get their AI weapons, image recognition with machine learning is a commodity now, and some other company will end up doing it.
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Whether its a charity/fundraiser/guest-lecture/business-deal, I imagine it still works the same way, regardless of the stated focus or purpose of said thing: Money goes in, Influence comes out (or Favor_B in exchange for Favor_A). I have neither money nor influence, and the favors I can grant are minuscule, so I can't tell you what ratio of Money:Influence works for powerful people, but I can at least say that they are not inversely proportional. The more you give, the higher your surface area becomes to receive something and the more offended you can act if you don't receive something quid pro quo.
How good are Google's new AI ethics principles?
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Yeah? And what would your boss do? Wait for customers to come in?
Not really. The influence:price ratio of academia is very high -- they can be bought very cheaply. It doesn't really take much to fund a study compared to the earnings of a big corporation. Tesla or similar could easily fund anti-fossil fuel studies and categorize them just as miscellaneous marketing expenses.
You realize the argument you’re making (“Smart people are backing this!”) is exactly how Theranos and many other scams go on as long as they do right?

All I did was bring up some concerns. I did not state any facts, merely point out details that need to be addressed.

Chill out.
A sign of caring would be not supporting politicians who want to subsidize their industry so that it can continue to poison the world long after it stops being economically viable.
“[A] lot of these jobs he talks about are what I call "zero-sum jobs" - it sucks that they have to exist, but if any individual firm stopped having them, that firm would be behind.”

This part of it all, in particular, reminds so much of “Meditations on Moloch”[1] . If anyone hasn’t read through this, I highly recommend it. It’s an inspiring look into how human society gets trapped into these games where no one wins, but to stop playing is much worse.

1: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
And do you know what can happen when a person's own morals or ethics come in to conflict with their responsibility to shareholders?

They can quit. They can speak out. They can organize. They can petition for change. They could join the more ethical competition (if one exists), or start their own.

This is especially easy to do for employees of a company like Google, with excellent job prospects and often enough "fuck you money" to do whatever they want without serious financial hardship.

They are not hopelessly chained to the corporate profit machine. They can revolt -- that is, if their morals are important enough to them. Otherwise they can stay on and try not to rock the boat, or pretend they don't know or are helpless to act.

A handful of Google employees chose to act and publicly express their objections. This action got results. More employees in companies which act unethically should follow their lead.
You're being downvoted because you tried to make a pedantic point about the particular algorithmic implementation of Facebook's per-post privacy while failing to address the thrust of the post you were replying to (after also failing to address the thrust of the GGGP post due to a different misunderstanding.)

This is especially galling (to everyone, apparently) when the particular algorithmic implementation is irrelevant to the thrust of the post you replied to, and so the "context" you're attempting to provide is not only unnecessary to provide, but is actually distracting from the point. It's reminiscent of a politician attempting to perform an act of rhetorical judo to avoid actually answering a question.

Let me restate, because obviously those people who downvoted you actually want an answer to this question: why would Facebook attempt to portray changing the privacy settings on a post hours/days after it goes out with the wrong privacy settings, as a sensible plan of action to suggest for fixing the problem they created? Everyone's already seen what you posted. Changing the privacy setting isn't a time-machine that'll make them un-see it.

Why didn't Facebook instead suggest, say, making a post reaching out to anyone who your not-so-private-after-all posts may have inadvertently hurt? That's something that actually has a chance of ameliorating the problem.
I should have been clear, I did not mean the annoying ads that bring in cents for clicks. I meant sponsored banners on the side that costs $100-$200/a month for the employer to put up their brand.
The same was true for the Gauls, pre-Roman conquest.

> And shouldn't it be "knows [savait]" rather than connaisait?

No, connaître is the right word. If you took French class, you probably learned that you "savoir" a thing or skill and you "connaître" a person, but that's not the correct dichotomy. Instead, "savoir" is more for knowing concrete, particular facts, while "connaître" is a weaker, vaguer familiarity, almost more like "to know about" or "to know of" rather than "to know". In this usage, Vercingetorix isn't implied to have had these skills themselves but rather to know of them.
From the Shell link:

Gas can help with all three of the UK’s energy objectives – providing affordable, secure and low carbon energy.

Gas is none of those things. It’s not cheap, it’s going to run out, and it isn’t low carbon.
Yeah, I have a shitty memory. Thanks.
He's also under estimating what it means to be a hero. Most of the experiments here are on Cartpole which is a very basic environment (not even MNIST level of complexity). Most papers in RL use Atari, which requires some amount of engineering that this repo does not have.
You are correct, the sentence implies that it is the zero cost abstractions that makes it possible which is not right. The zero cost abstractions part is a nice benefit, but unrelated to ensuring safety.
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Thanks for your feedback. I started talking to recruiters to understand their pain points and how I can make it better for them to source quality candidates. I'm also talking to candidates how this platform can be made better. Their #1 thing was they need updates and feedback on their profile if it was rejected.
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come on man, the title is obviously click bait; you can only begin to build an understanding of a field with a single tutorial, even if it's super in depth
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If he made the default $5, it's quite possible that the average and total would go up further.

When you set your default, you are implicitly saying "this is what I think my software is worth to you". That's an anchoring point. Most people who decide to donate less than the default will probably feel slightly bad for doing so. Some of those people who would just stick with the default at $1 will also stick with the default at $5. Some people will generally always give more than the default, and that "more" might be even more if the default is $5 than if it's $1.

It's probably incredibly rare that someone would click through, see a $5 default (including the possibility to donate less), and say "wow, this person is full of themselves thinking $5 is reasonable; I'm not going to donate at all in protest". So there's little to no downside risk in raising your default by a non-crazy amount. Obviously some defaults are absurd; $1000 would be crazy and probably off-putting. But $1 is certainly a low-ball.
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> . It's regrettable, but Americans as a group have strived to rectify wrongs and steer our country in the right direction. I deeply cherish our American values and think they're what set us apart from the rest of the world.

Ha. Ha ha. Hahahah.

Please, keep drinking that Kool-Aid of American exceptionalism. Apart from the British, which other country has contributed to more invasions in foreign countries for the sake of purely economic interests?

Your position is laughable, and the classic, pathetic opinion of the sort of American who hasn't traveled around the world to see that their system of values is not qualitatively different from that of most other developed Western nations.
> People aren't going to share ...

It's more complicated than just sharing.

It's not about whether you have to let people come and live on your own property. It's about whether your neighbour may subdivide her own property for a profit. Collectively, owners have an incentive to stop her; but individual incentives are mixed.

We can see how the politics of that tension is working out right now. But how can anyone tell how it will play out in the future?