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I come from Ruby, where debuggers are useful but also not often used.

I find that I tend to write more and smaller unit tests than people who reach for debuggers. I debug logic errors by using println or writing more tests.

And yes, Rust is still very susceptible to logic errors.
I'm amazed that Corvair engines are being put into airplanes. Wow, the Corvair went out of production in the 1960s!

I'm a little happy about this-- longevity of use, the same materials being re-used for decades. I'm just surprised.
I mostly use printf. A debugger is only good for telling you where it seg faulted and the stack trace.

The reason is because I write a custom printf to print exactly what I need to know. Debuggers just bury you in irrelevant output.
“This pattern of pronoun use suggests people with depression are more focused on themselves, and less connected with others.“

I believe this is more of a symptom of excessive isolating behavior (an arguable cause of depression) than it is a predisposition towards selfishness.
Because pensions tend to be things negotiated (usually with unions) in return for generally lower than prevailing wages, immediate pay cuts, or cuts in wage growth. Ultimately, it's exchanging $1.00 for $1.00 interest-bearing IOUs (that rise with inflation) - which is why business offers them. If they actually funded the IOUs, there would be no current benefit at all in deferring worker compensation.

Under a government that allows pension debt to be discharged by bankruptcy, pensions are made to be ducked out on.
agree completely, although that's kind of the point. the problem is that the tech elite are going for most bang for the buck (ie. looking out for no 1) instead of trying to solve the mess that they, in part, created
as an automotive mechanic by trade, these little suckers have always had a place in my heart. Bless the fleet teams that keep them running!
the LLV is powered by one of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Duke_engine

technically its a pontiac engine, but its powered a ton of stuff including the 92 Chevy Lumina. parts for this engine are almost free, and you wont find a cheaper fleet vehicle other than maybe Crown Victoria.

Mileage...people are complaining about 10mpg but forget to mention this is a V4 and geared at the mission to haul 1 ton of cargo. coming from the shop floor of our diesel engine repair building, 10mpg for a 4 cylinder iron block mail truck is good. freight trucks are often lucky to see 6.

Your lumina engine however is geared much more respectably and will see 18-22 city/highway.
That's not a traditional form of re-distribution. In legal terms, I guess it's a gray area.

The article is now on the blockchain. It is not published (re-distributed) anywhere in particular. It's also encoded and not in the actual form of an article.
According to https://trends.builtwith.com/framework/Google-Web-Toolkit ~43K sites use it.
Nice Kyle!

congrats and good luck!
I think those "prams" have a battery assist, although they're presumably limited to walking pace.

In Copenhagen, the postmen ride electric cargo bicycles [1], but mostly on the cycle paths. As with most bicycles, they just lock the rear wheel to the frame[2] if it's left for a while.

[1] https://www.dreamstime.com/editorial-photo-postnord-copenhag...

[2] https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/54206/how-to-lo...
I’ve noticed this on HN has well. In response to the perceived “it’s all your fault” Republican message, a lot of HN has swung to the opposite side with “none of this is your fault!”.

Spent all your money on junk? Victim of advertisers.

Lost your money in investments? Victim of big banks.

Spent your money on booze? Victim of genetics.
Right. Probably evolutionary instinct to protect human infants. And marketers try and exploit this all the time. Perhaps most successfully in Japan.
1.5 to 3 years doesn’t seem to be too far off the mark.

https://insights.dice.com/2016/07/08/how-long-do-tech-pros-s...
The weapons lobby has nothing to do with it. The widely talked about claims that Thorium is not usable for weapons is false.

Uranium would most likely be picked for an industrial scale nuclear weapons program for a couple reasons but thorium does not eliminate these problems.

Furthermore many of the benefits people talk about when talking about Thorium is really about the reactor. Many of the same benefits could also be achieved with Uranium.

Thorium really shines for some specific reactor types.

Whats holding reactors back in general is regulation in all parts of the supply chain, from research to operational licenses, and a wide popular anti-nuclear feeling.
Another vote for Azlo. I have three accounts there, my main business account, which has a decent balance, and two low-balance side accounts.

I abandoned Chase because I got tired of the absurd fees, and the know-nothing perfectly-coiffed straight-out-of-college twits they have working there.

Azlo has zero fees and they're very responsive. Have been mostly happy.

One downside is that you can't hand-write a paper check. You have to use the online bill pay system to mail a check. That hasn't been a major problem. I went a year without touching my Chase checks.

The other problem is that they are a day or two slow when receiving funds via check or ACH. Their hold times are longer. That's a bigger problem. They say they're working on it.
> Although, it's very possibly a legacy of planned obsolescence (the good cost-saving kind) where the engine would last 200k so the rest of the car was only made to last 200k as well.

I think this is the answer. If a critical component of the car only lasts X miles, then building any other piece to last more than X miles is pure waste. As counterintuitive (and annoying) as it might seem, having all the parts of the car fail around the same time actually indicates that it was engineered perfectly.
It's not just people. I work in a building from the 80s and we are currently replacing all the cast iron sanitary lines that are basically crumbling. They cut costs by buying Chinese cast iron and we are paying the price now. The plumbers I've talked to say this will be a major issue in the coming decade as all "the chickens come to roost".
Most logic errors can definitely be caught by the compiler if you're taking the approach of encoding your logic into your type system. I've done this with real codebases (in Python as well, actually, using Mypy) and it's been very effective.
i'm interested in this. do you have any other studies?
Is that like when I hear a British person speak and I just want to smother them in hugs and squeeze their cheeks saying "YOU'RE SO ADORABLE!"?

EDIT: Joking about self control aside, I don't think I'll stop smiling for a long while afterwards if I ever visit England.
Well, even when using it with Dragon, Talon only uses the speech recognition part. So you get Dragon’s recognition accuracy but don’t need to worry about most of the bugs.

The builtin engine is a much nicer experience than Dragon (very fast startup, no config), but simply isn’t as good at recognizing English, and there’s also a weird behavior in it I haven’t worked around yet that makes it harder to mix English with commands (it greedily prioritizes commands sometimes). The accuracy is quite good for American accents at least. I found it to be consistently more accurate than wav2letter (haven’t tried ++) and DeepSpeech with some simple test audio.
I’m happy to provide consulting if you’re happy to actually pay me for my time. Otherwise I’ve got hobbies. I’ve had one job total where the company asked me questions and they stopped the instant I mentioned cash after 7 hours of chatting. I asked because it was actually taking measurable time to answer things. It’s up to them if they want to trade 60 hours of someone relearning a thing instead of an hour of me contracting. Not sour grapes actual numbers from a thing an employee mentioned at a party they did (gdpr) that I had 3 simple solutions to in minutes.
One of the simplest and most effective things I did recently was to split my bank account into two checking accounts, and one savings account. I carry two debit cards with me that are visually distinct. One is for day to day purchases, and the other is meant for bills and the occasional unusual expense, like maybe tools for a surprise home repair.

Each time I get paid (every two weeks) I have my employer deposit the sum into the bills account, and I've set up a recurring transfer on the same day into the spending account. I essentially pay myself a portion of my paycheck. I allow myself to swipe my spending card for just about anything: gas, eating out, games, clothing, etc. But if I decide to use my bills card, that's a conscious choice. I know, right there in the moment, that I'm breaking my own rule.

It's kinda shocking how effective this was. Once I had enough of a mental barrier to make me aware of my spending habits, I suddenly felt like I was in control. Once I had a significant buffer built up in bills, and could start reliably skimming the extra into savings, all the financial stress also started to melt away. "It's okay. I've got a bit of a buffer if stuff goes wrong. I can do this."
Right hand drive is a safety feature for roadside mailbox delivery. Eliminating that does not seem like a good idea at all.
The opposite is the case. High rent is a localized problem (mostly found in relatively dense cities) and UBI would go a lot farther in a low-cost-of-living area where rents are low as well. So, people who have no use for living in the city (not hyper-productive or anything) would gradually opt to spread out and rents would fall.
> Most people can't afford everything they optimally need while minimising their risk, and so have to manage this by optimising as much as they are able within their paycheck.

Not being able to afford basic necessities-in the most wealthy nation in the world-indicates something being broken.
Yes, I mean I can't imagine a university disconnecting all students from all sites and services on the internet, just because one student is using Napster, for example.

Blocking all students from using just Napster is much less controversial, given that a majority of files shared on Naptser were copyright infringing.
Speaking from experience, almost all FAANG positions I've seen require a degree for ML/AI, and even require a degree for less research-oriented positions like a Data Analyst/Scientist.

Non-FAANGs may be less picky but the competition in the field is too great at the moment (due to MOOCs/Bootcamps increasing supply), and even with an excellent portfolio it may be impossible to stand out. (in my case, despite my data science "fame" most recruiters tossed my resume out immediately during my job hunt a year ago; the only interviews I got were by going above the recruiters. And that was for data science, not even ML/AI)

Even after working as a Data Scientist for over a year, I've received practically no recruiter spam.
I have used Dgraph on a couple of projects and enjoyed it. It seems a little more natural to me to think about all of the relationships between my data. It also can be queried using a GraphQL(ish) request.

But, it hasn't been around for long and doesn't have any options for hosting, and the JS client library is pretty basic - so you need to do a lot to have something a little more abstracted like Mongoose.

I enjoyed learning something new and will use it again - but unless I need queries that traverse many relationships, I'll probably use Postgres.
> Even public schools are funded by property taxes (at least in California..)...which to me is a speculation.

Local K-12 education is funded by property taxes, but I don't think this applies to the CSUs and UCs.

Also, I don't think it's appropriate to refer to this as speculation. Are property taxes in CA driven by high prices? Yes. Is the bottom likely to drop out? Given the "burgeoning population" that you note, probably not. Also, if property values crash, incomes and consumer spending will likely also crater as part of the same event. So if we chose to fund education through income or sales taxes, it would be similarly "speculative".
completely disagree. SV billionaires wield enormous power and influence, through their wealth, positions of power, influential personas, companies etc.

there is a very good argument to be made that elon musk pushed the EV industry forward. similarly, i think tech elite can shape society.

another example: look at the enormous influence warren buffett has had on the asset management industry.

i think SV billionaires could definitely make a dent in things like income inequality, if they focused on it
As my decades of programming experience accumulate, the source of most of my programming bugs shifted. Earlier it was dumb mistakes, memory management errors, seg faults, etc. Now it's logic errors due to design mistakes and failing to understand properly what needed to be done.

A fair bit of the D programming language design is there to head off the detail mistakes people make. A more subtle thing in the language design is to make the designs less prone to error.
A pension is a lot like a loan - a promise to pay someone something with your future earnings. The problem is not that people sometimes fail to repay loans when they go broke, it's that they sometimes manage to weasel out of paying them despite not being broke, and then pocket the money they were supposed to use to pay the debt.
It’s not common (yet), but remote work absolutely exists. Every month the Ask HN: Who’s Hiring thread always has at least a few.
So you are supposed to just give your estate to the government? Fuck that.
linus IS linux
Thanks for the links to AWS videos. These were posted here on HN sometime back. Will definitely bookmark them and come back to them. At the moment(literally)i am still finishing up Udacity PyTorch and hope to continue wit the venerable DL4Coders part1 and part2. As someone else had posted, coming up with useful implementations of popular ArXIV papers seems to be one sure shot way of building up a personal brand on Github.
I see Dodge Promasters replacing some of these in Austin, Texas.
My wife does this too. It's a horrible source of embarrassment because it evokes laughter at highly inappropriate times (such as the delivery of terrible news, such as death of a loved one).

My daughter also does it. When she's in big trouble and mom and I are very mad, she will often laugh at our anger, despite knowing that it will escalate the situation. It took us a little while to realize what was happening, and that she wasn't trying to be a punk.
I thought that since this author's startup is sorta a 'reddit for politics', I'll plug my own startup (currently self-funded) which is a 'chatroulette/duolingo for politics': https://dinnertable.chat/
It seems likely to me that it's an expression of L'appel du Vide, or The Call of the Void. You ever stand at the edge of a tall building or bridge and feel the urge to jump? It's that feeling. One hypothesis is that our brain does this as a way of making itself more aware of the risk. It makes sense then that when we see a small and fragile thing we wish not to damage, it would trigger this mechanism.
Sounds a lot like wage theft to me. If a company tried to do that to employees who left, that's what it would be called.
This appears to be based on an earlier British design
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman_Pat

Edit: With tongue firmly in cheek of course.
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English is pretty casual about borrowing other languages' plural forms, and Latin second declension nominatives -- alumnus/alumni, millenium/millenia -- are probably the most familiar non-English singular/plural pairs to English speakers. To an English speaker, Prii seems like a reasonable plural for Prius (though if it's a Latin word, it looks like a neuter comparative, in which case the plural is "priora"). Similarly, "Lini" looks like the plural of "Linus". It's an interesting philosophical question: given that English speakers are familiar with this Latin pattern, can apply it spontaneously to new words, and perhaps are even unaware that it comes from Latin, has this become a backwater grammatical rule of English? We're willing to say originally French words like apartment and address are English. How about Lini as the plural of Linus?
Afaik, most athletic programs sped more then earn. Earners are an exception, not the norm.
> Not in real terms it doesn't. When was the last time typical moderate risk investments had long-term returns more than 5% above inflation?

The asset allocation for a $100MM+ endowment FBO educational institution typically includes about 10% PE, 5% VC, and 20-25% in alts (hedge funds, derivatives, long/short plays, etc). These aren't even close to "typical moderate risk" investment vehicles.

And the bigger the endowment, the bigger the percent allocation to those types of investments. For example, a super endowment like Harvard probably has closer to 50% of the portfolio in alternative strategies.
On a much smaller scale, I realized that I am probably the only person in my group (of stage/ audiovisual technical folks) who understands everything fully: I'm stopping next year, so I'm documenting how to do everything I do.

You can never have too much documentation - which isn't exactly what this dilemma is about - but still it raises an interesting bit of planning which should always be considered.
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For example, there is a copy of the most core encryption keys, certificates/passwords etc, stored with a 3rd party, who is specialized in dealing with this kind of info in a modern way.

Similar to how a Swiss bank is familiar with storing valuables/currency or executing a will.

This type of service would need to be modern in the sense the info can be updated over an API etc.

Anyone can create a DR plan and handle these issues, but then it isn't consistent, especially from a partner (VC etc) perspective.
Yeah I have known many depressed people and been depressed myself. It seems much more likely to be a symptom than a singular condition, considering how differently people seem to experience it (some with it channel it into being successful, others can’t even get out of bed) its comorbidities, etc paired with how wildly many semi-successful treatments there are (SSRIs, CBT, diet, supplements, exercising/losing weight)
Can it catch something like accidentally writing "x == y", when you meant to write "x != y"? I feel like this kind of bug can be insidious enough to waste lots of debugging time, yet difficult to catch until you run the code.
I'd actually like to share a cautionary tale for you. I used PaymentEvolution for a few years at my last company. Got lured in with the free deductions calculator while I was still paying employees by cheque, then upgraded to their managed payroll. Ultimately the service didn't scale well - lots of issues, not just UI - and I ended up switching services. It was at that point that I found out that switching payroll providers is incredibly inconvenient. You need to coordinate quite a difficult switchover, usually in the middle of a tax year, with a lot of data to re-enter. I went through this process twice before finally switching to ADP, one of the institutional options, which to my surprise was actually cheaper than the startup options.

Annoyingly, ADP actually does provide pricing that's as low as any payroll startup in Canada (wagepoint, collage, etc), they're just not transparent about their pricing. You can get really good pricing, but you have to negotiate it with them. But after dealing with several buggy startup payroll providers, ADP's service is absolutely flawless, handles every edge case without issue. For my second company, I went straight to ADP.

I'd love it if Gusto would come to Canada (actually have a friend who's an early employee), but it's unfortunately not a priority for them.
Laughter is an expression of fear. I know that sounds silly, but go watch some videos of chimps laughing and pay attention to what's going on while they're doing it.
The frames on these were aluminium alloy - so no rust!
Shouldn't the assets of the pension plan be owned by the individual employees? A PE can't acquire a stock broker and just sell the stocks in people's accounts for profit. Why is a pension different?

FWIW this is exactly how it works in the UK. After employer and employee contributions are made my employer has nothing to do with what it's invested in etc.
Another change, but one much harder to manage is that many of the products people buy today have no value left after 2-4 years and some both have no value after 2-4 years and do things degrading their performance forcing you to again purchase an expensive item that does nothing to build wealth. Vehicles, electronics, home appliances all sit at something like a max of 8-11 years of use and loose 30-50% of their value as soon as purchased. Now that we are making smart everything's I can see the life of home appliances dropping. Some of this is intentional. Some necessity. I have a refrigerator from the 70's that works great, but I know I could reduce my power bill by getting a more modern one, however I am worried that upgrading will land me with something more likely to fail. certainly not something that will run 50 years with no issues.
All of those costs sounds like they scale with the number of donors. Not the number of donations a fixed number of donors make.
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Get professional help before it rubs off on your children. I grew up with anger/sensitivity/delayed development issues due to the non-stop theatrics of a depressed parent.
When interviewing for senior (read: C-suite) positions, I sometimes try to gauge how someone reacts to dumb questions.

This can be OK as long as you preface it with something like, "If you don't mind I'd like to ask something that might like a dumb question..."

If not -- if you're deliberately gaming the candidate (or cloaking your true intent in any way) -- then of course the better candidates are going to smell that right away. At which point walking out the door is not only permissible - but arguably the only response that make any sense.
Ah yes. I was thinking of the overall cost of running the program, not the out-of-pocket cost to the student. In fact, two students within the same major don't necessarily pay the same tuition.
> For startups that want to sell to health systems and similar-sized/larger entities (...), you unfortunately have to focus on the buyer, which is very rarely someone who is "in the trenches."

This is my current experience. The person bankrolling the project delivers lists of requirements, and nearly half of them end up being removed later when someone "in the trenches" either says they don't need/want it or it's too confusing of a feature.

Another part of the problem? "Confusing features" for doctors includes some very standard app features, like back buttons and refresh buttons. This honestly frightens me. We had to remove the back button -- which was requested by the buyer -- because it became a patient safety issue.

At least we don't have to target IE9.
I'm pretty sure this is just a subset of Intrusive Thoughts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusive_thought) which affect all people equally.
Low returns are inevitable for low-risk investments in a ZIRP environment. This is not an argument in favor of pensions.
> Once the designation is established, the returns on your Investment Profits (invested in both the open and closed markets) are tax-free, forever.

So it sounds like you'd be a fan of Trump's tax on university endowments? I was surprised it wasn't mentioned at all in your writeup. https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Tax-on-Endowments-Became...
Target used to hire some remote developers. Last time I checked their careers page, looked like they no longer do. Or if they do it's not advertised as an option.