skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The WSJ has a well-deserved reputation for its financial analysis. People in business and especially in finance will gladly pay for the subscription.

They don't really care if anyone else reads the paper; the expected return on a non-core subscriber isn't worth much more than the cost of acquisition, so there's not much point to changing their business model to chase gadflies.

At the same time, non-core readers are a large source of potential revenue, so they make their stories available through some means (like Apple News) in a manner that allows them access to a large non-core market while protecting their core subscription model.
'Humans as sensors' could be the next tech "big thing". And 'human body as power source for gadgets' will follow.

We are closer to The Matrix with each year passed.
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> As a tech lead / team lead over the last five years in a small East Coast market I've experienced real difficulty finding competent Software Engineers at any level

Amen. I've been in a few US markets (non CA/NY) over the past 20+ years. Finding a decent number of available/skilled software engineers is always a challenge. If they're skilled (beyond competent), they're employed or doing their own thing.

I've recently taken a 6 month contract, and have been amazed at the quality of the team, but... they're really having trouble finding people - people that wouldn't be a net negative on the team (there's both cultural fit as well as skill fit). And yes, they're hiring junior folks from area bootcamps and training them up. Doing real training - reviews, handholding, explaining, testing - is a real investment, and takes a lot of time.

This has been one of the few teams I've worked in where I've been pleasantly surprised at the level of quality of everyone in the company (10 in the group I'm in, around 65 in the company altogether I think).

I'm watching how they interview/hire/expand, and... it's tough. They could easily bring on more people quickly who would be a net negative, and cause more problems (I've seen that many times - I was the net negative problem at least once!)
I would love to see a graphic explaining WSJ's users, their jobs, income, lifestyle. I am assuming mostly fintech people.
You mean you can't download Chrome?
Your link is to a very controversial polemic which IMO sets up a straw man, and then makes its own argument in a (both theoretically and empirically) questionable way, based on the authors’ pet “cognitive load” theory (which I personally think is bunk, but YMMV). It should be read in the context of its critics, and taken with a heap of salt.

To understand the problem with US-style mathematics pedagogy, I would recommend reading http://www.de.ufpe.br/~toom/travel/sweden05/WP-SWEDEN-NEW.pd...

For some advice and materials based on an alternative theoretical framework, let me recommend https://www.map.mathshell.org/trumath.php

* * *

I think Khan Academy should be thought of as a consistently average-quality US-high-school-style lecture, combined with US-style trivial exercises. It is a slow, unimaginative, pedantic curriculum.

But it has the advantages of being free, always available, and self-paced (in the sense that students can keep going through as much of it as they want without needing to wait, and can return to previous sections any time). I’m glad it exists, because it sets a quality floor; live teachers have variable quality, and while many are better than KA lectures, some are certainly worse.
Vice Media agrees to $1.87M settlement over gender pay discrimination
One thing that makes this difficult is there's no one button you can press to give yourself what looks like a fresh-installed browser window or OS.
>These aren't mustache-twirling villains who distribute memos that say "Let's ignore safety issues to get this approved faster". They really believe they're doing what's best for all involved. We'll save everyone time and money, and make it easier for pilots. How is that not a good thing? We have no reason to believe safety will be compromised.

That is an incredibly naive reading of the situation. For starters, there is no such rationale as 'reason to believe,' this is a highly regulated process for good reason, which requires testing and verification.

Sure it could be true, but the far more likely motivation is along the lines of Dieselgate. And yes, it can be proven that managers make bad decisions that incur legal liability.
That makes planes interstellar.

I’m sorry, what?

As in can fly to proxima centuri?
So called "soft" skills will always have value, even on a grand scale, because life is not a technical problem.

You can devise technical solutions to saving the environment—the technical solutions themselves won't secure the permissions you need for their deployment, nor convince the parties involved. You can devise a technical solution to ending world hunger-the technical solution alone won't sufficiently navigate or alter prevailing power structures to ensure it is implemented, nor get you funding. etc. etc.

Technology is fantastic but it's effectively the last step in solving an open problem. Philosophical debates aside, humans have "wills", predilections, beliefs, and a whole host of desires driving their decisions to shape the world in particular ways. Technology gives us the way forward, but it doesn't help us decide what we should value (e.g. safety over efficiency) that remains a human problem.

In fact, the so called "soft" skills are often what's required to solve the hard parts of a given issue—contemplating its potential impacts on varying social groups, being able to consider other perspectives, reflecting on one's own motivations for pursuing a particular problem and particular solution, collaborating with others--these are all fundamental activities that have applications outside the realm of technology. Unfortunately these skills are also quite rare.
Yes. My local cafe has metal spoons for my yoghurt if I'm eating in, but wooden if I'm taking out.

It's not unusual in the UK.
Google suggests that it's electronic logging device, which is used to track transportation regulatory compliance. It likely includes location data.

Top google result - https://eldfacts.com/eld-facts/
Invasive crayfish sabotages its own success, study says
Would you honestly be inconvenienced by the extra 1mm ? You could get the ability to replace your battery or screen on reasonable prices,
Telephone calls are still the default (or only) way to reach people in some circumstances. Making yourself difficult or impossible to reach in an emergency isn't a very realistic option for a lot of people.
Here are some tips for anyone plagued by robocalls.

My cordless phones have a simple "call block" button. It's quite helpful. The set is similar to this set:

https://smile.amazon.com/Panasonic-KXTGF344B-4-Handset-Landl...

My "landline" is actually VoIP through Callcentric. They have good rates, the service is extremely customizable, and they are very reliable. Sometimes I use Callcentric to block numbers before they reach my phone.

I'm not affiliated with Callcentric or Panasonic. I'm just a happy customer.
Brand name recognition + citations.

When potential subscriber sees that everyone links wsj news, but (s)he can't read it, eventually (s)he subscribes.
Robocalling refers to the automated dialing of numbers, not automated speaking over the telephone.
I have hired a good number of "grey hairs" in my time. Usually they're lead engineer IC types. They typically have a couple kids, have great stories about software development in the 80s (one guy was at NeXT with Jobs!), and know everything about your favorite framework but don't think it's world-changing. They usually have a story about how they took 5 years doing something wild and non-software related.

These engineers, in my experience, have the greatest likelihood of being great hires. They require less management, understand getting results, and have a much easier time working with more kinds of people. They write code with an eye for maintenance, and are more likely to stick around for the long haul to maintain that code instead of job hopping for promotions and raises.

Bad managers can be reluctant to hire them or keep them because they can be intimidating to manage. They quite often have more experience than their managers, and are more inclined to challenge their ideas. Inexperienced software engineering managers I've met think they have to know more than than their team or they'll be a threat to their position. There are also the usual "soft concerns" that are very similar to the ones leveled against hiring women, such as being more likely to choose work/life balance.

I was lucky in that I worked with my first grey hair for several years before becoming a manager and taking them on, so we already had a working relationship. Without that, I imagine I would've fallen into the traps above.
It's not common. But a few cafes around me are wooden utensil only. Metal and paper straws I've also seen an uptick in.
I know I read an article claiming that people don’t consume a medley of news publications, but the internet and things like hackernews clearly have changed that. So I think an Apple News subscription really solves this issue. One flat monthly fee, and I can consume all the paywalled stuff on HN.
The problem with that is that it also wastes your time...
Except iron age english looks like this:

cwæð þæt se Ælmihtiga eorðan worhte,
wlitebeorhtne wang, swa wæter bebugeð,
gesette sigehreþig sunnan ond monan
leoman to leohte landbuendum,
ond gefrætwade foldan sceatas
leomum ond leafum, lif eac gesceop
rynna gehwylcum þara ðe cwice hwyrfaþ.---
Swa þa drihtguman dreamum lifdon,
eadiglice, oð ðæt an ongan
fyrene fremman feond on helle;
wæs se grimma gæst Grendel haten,
mære mearcstapa, se þe moras heold,
fen ond fæsten; fifelcynnes eard
wonsæli wer weardode hwile,
siþðan him Scyppend forscrifen hæfde
in Caines cynne--- þone cwealm gewræc
ece Drihten, þæs þe he Abel slog;
ne gefeah he þære fæhðe, ac hehine feor forwræc,
Metod for þy mane mancynne fram.
Þanon untydras ealle on wocon,
eotenas ond ylfe ond orcneas,
swylce gigantas, þa wið Gode wunnon

Which is nothing like phonetic modern english, and thus his point.
Software ECC is already a thing. There's a lot of similar theoretical work on equivalent ideas for computation. Just remember that the idea is never about getting to zero. It's more like getting from one failure in 1e12 hours to one failure in 1e18 hours.
No, I just expect that acceptance of X is correlated with acceptance of Y.

(and really, much of the time, acceptance is the wrong word. Indifference or something like that often fits better)
You're right, I remember this initially, but many discussions about right to repair get hijacked and center around topics like iFixit and their blatantly self-serving anti-Apple campaigns.
https://jollyrogertelephone.com/
Assembly line approaches to surgery are not unique to India. The Russian ophthalmologist Svyatoslav Fyodorov who pioneered the radial keratotomy (correction of myopia by reshaping the cornea) in the 1970's founded an institute - the Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Complex - that performed radial keratotomies in an assembly line manner [0][1]. Operating tables would literally be rotated from one surgeon to another. At the time, surgical correction of myopia in the West was fairly unknown, as opposed to today where ads for Lasik are blasted everywhere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svyatoslav_Fyodorov

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodorov_Eye_Microsurgery_Comp...
> I would argue that the goal of any software should be to help the immediate user. If it is not, then why should the user continue using it?

That's like saying "I as the immediate user of Wikipedia want to be able to upload my research paper and have it check if there are any mistakes in my citations. If Wikipedia can't serve that immediate need, why should I continue using it?"

Yet even if Wikipedia isn't good at auto-checking your homework, it's still immensely useful for the vast majority of other users who don't care about auto-checking homework.

You can't build software that satisfies everyone's requirements. It's okay if some users choose not to use your software because it doesn't fulfill their requirements.
> As a tech lead / team lead over the last five years in a small East Coast market I've experienced real difficulty finding competent Software Engineers at any level.

Pay more. Google and Facebook use ridiculous interviews because so many people want to work there. They still hire thousands of people every year. Why? Mostly because they pay mid-level engineers over $200k. Can't afford that? Then we're not talking about "not finding people" anymore, just about not affording them.
> Maybe this is an excessively callous view, but isn't all of this voluntary and self-imposed? Is the expectation for the reader to pity their condition?

I guess that you are down voted because you are supporting a fallacy. Your comment supports the idea that you cannot change the system, and that the system is never at fault but individual people is.

If this people wants to improve their situation there is no individual action that they can take that will make a big impact. Only if they unionize, or make changes in government they can achieve improvements in their lives.

> When you start with nothing, and you want a lot, you end up getting exploited by a system that has major leverage over you.

Yes. This is exactly what I mean. But, the rest of your comment seems to contradict this fact.
Last week tonight released an episode on exact this issue a few days ago -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO0iG_P0P6M

John Oliver should increase the frequency of robocalls to FCC chairs.
I admit it's not as authoritative as I'd like but this is the best source I've found:

> MCAS is a longitudinal stability enhancement. It is not for stall prevention or to make the MAX handle like the NG; it was introduced to counteract the non-linear lift of the LEAP-1B engine nacelles and give a steady increase in stick force as AoA increases. The LEAP engines are both larger and relocated slightly up and forward from the previous NG CFM56-7 engines to accommodate their larger fan diameter. This new location and size of the nacelle cause the vortex flow off the nacelle body to produce lift at high AoA; as the nacelle is ahead of the CofG this lift causes a slight pitch-up effect (ie a reducing stick force) which could lead the pilot to further increase the back pressure on the yoke and send the aircraft closer towards the stall. This non-linear/reducing stick force is not allowable under FAR §25.173 "Static longitudinal stability". MCAS was therefore introduced to give an automatic nose down stabilizer input during steep turns with elevated load factors (high AoA) and during flaps up flight at airspeeds approaching stall.

http://www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm

However, on Boeing's own website they give the 'makes it fly just like the NG' explanation. On balance of probabilities I think that's unlikely to be the engineering justification.

My reasoning being I don't believe that there is any formal requirement for an aircraft to exhibit the same handling behaviours to be counted on the same type rating. For example the 757 and the 767 shared a common type rating. The 757 was a pilots favourite precisely because it was sporty in comparison to the 767.
Are you equating the "injustice" of not being able replace the battery in your iPhone with that of slavery?
You would think the same about pain if you were in chronic, debilitating pain.
No, it doesn't. The word dedicated just means that you're engaged with the problems that the business is trying to solve.

You are always doing things for your own personal reasons. Whether volunteering or not.

It's also true (besides the point about dedication), that certain jobs and certain missions DO require extraordinary hours.

NASA required long hours for their Apollo engineers. It's unlikely they would have achieved what they did if they had engineers that worked 9-5 with an hour for lunch and multiple breaks throughout the day. Was this exploitation? No. Folks knew going in what they were trying to achieve had never been done before.

People do screen contractors for dedication. For whatever job you're hiring for, you want someone dedicated to solving problems, overcoming obstacles, and executing effectively.
If you don’t care about journalism at all, why is paywalling so irritating?
Thanks for checking in, hopefully this gets the visibility it needs. (and sorry it's the eetimes article getting the publicity!)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1249KS8xtIDKb5SxgpeFI6AD-PSC...
Out of curiosity, what sort of business do you run? Is providing VoIP options out of the question?

I said what I said because I've disabled calls for people who are not on my contact list, whom rarely call me anyway, in favor of email and video chat like Hangouts. Most businesses can be contacted via email, and nearly all my correspondence with companies, when I was apply for jobs, was handled over email and Hangouts. It just seems to me like we already have plenty of viable options for ditching the outdated, low fidelity phone system, but maybe that's not for everyone. For individuals, however, I do still think disabling calls is worth a try just to see how much one really needs to be answering them.
> I just can't see any country do anything with 27 planes.

All else aside, the Danish Air Force has 30 active fighters, all F-16s. Their fighter force doesn't ever seem to have exceeded 50 planes in service. So the role for 27 F-35s is "everything F-16s are doing now, but newer and better". That doesn't guarantee it's a useful role, but it means that the small order size isn't a new consideration.
The US (as well as other countries) has had a grid mapping system for hundreds of years[0]. It's just way less useful than GPS. The only time I've seen PLSS used over GPS is for legacy reasons.

[0] Public Land Survey System https://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/a_plss.html
I used it but then realized I was logged in to the WSJ and had a subscription

I'm just so used to circumventing paywalls that I forgot I actually pay for that
I don't have the real answer, but I remember back when Google Desktop was a thing, I had a widget that would allow me to send a text to anyone and it had a field for the "from" number.

So my guess is that the protocol they use asks the caller for the "from" number.
> Hates paying for content

> Hates advertising

mfw
The most annoying thing about Stack Overflow for me is the multiple account system for every site on the Stack Exchange network.

I have thousands of points of reputation on Stack Overflow. Why can am I not allowed to edit posts or cast open/close votes on SuperUser or WebApps or AskDifferent?

Many of these sites are esentially the same site and rules and user base, but with slightly different topics. Some questions would fit on any of the sites, and it's down to the random Google search you followed as to which site you end up loading.

I'll essentially never be able to gain the rep needed on the non-SO sites, even the bigger tech ones that have tons of crossover with Stack Overflow.

You can be a 20k rep Stack Overflow account, but land on a Stack Exchange question from Google and it's a complete crapshoot if you'll even be able to upvote the question.
Let's say you're a business. You have a "front desk" number that you want incoming calls to come from, but you have a bunch of other people with their own numbers that make outbound calls. You want those outbound calls to show up as if from your "front desk" number, not from the actual individual numbers they came from.

But spoofing to a number that you don't own? No, I don't know of any legitimate use for that.
For my own understanding, is the issue with robocalling the same with the issues of spam emails or arbitrary DDOS attacks? In the guise that they look "legitimate", but are "malicious" and any attempt to identify the original source is difficult due to multiple proxies masking the origin?
> how the highest skilled individuals only step in for the trickiest part of the surgery, but the simpler tasks like getting to a heart are performed by lesser doctors or nurses.

This is most certainly the case in the US. Most of teaching hospitals have residents do most of the "easy work" such as getting there, have the attending specialist perform the critical part and again have the residents do the rest.
Really interesting article. As always, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

I wonder what would happen if a company known for affordable quality, like Toyota, could make an efficient assembly-line for health care.
I still don't understand how hard it would be for major phone carriers to validate the source and let the calls thru. Wouldn't it be possible just to allow Verizon to TMobile, or ATT to Verizon, since they both have their user info and can validate each other's calls? I mean, I can see their names on my phone, why not just add a little bit more info to make it more legit.
You're saying nothing is new under the sun. Okay sure, but there are measurable demographic and numerical changes in the technology workforce and certainly growing up with technology had led countless currently young tech workers to where they are. That's not to say tech never existed or there were never young hotshot. Millenials, like boomers, are a large workforce and its possible we are describing a bimodal distribution.

There may be plenty of older workers but IMO, the sheer quantity of younger folks, who are told truthfully that tech is a great wage in a bad wage economy, those billion younger people globally and the youth of many successful founders and high performers, those are the main contributors to our perception as young.
I think we’re on the same page. Maybe it boils down to the need for jokes that can be easily ignored by people who want April 1st of next week to be an ordinary Monday. In that sense, I’m all for banishing corporate pranks that aren’t 100% non-obtrusive.
Call center agents are some of the most micromanaged groups on the planet. You waste their time, and you can bet you just caused them a ton of trouble at work.

If your average handle time is too high, you're in trouble. If your sales per hour are too low, you're in trouble. If you spend too much time in wrap, you're in trouble. If you don't collect all the information you need to after a call, you're in trouble. If you're having your best week ever but end up at the bottom of the stacked rankings regardless, you're in trouble.
This appears to be the same article - or at least a substantial portion of it - without a paywall (but with an annoying autoplaying video)

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/the-fcc-has-fined-robocallers-2...
I'm guessing white was not one of the UNacceptable races. Being that it was in Texas I think it's fairly obvious which two races they were referring to, but it's not something I'd like to type out.
I heard that story from a quant friend. However, the way I heard the story, the targeted firm found out about their rival's attempt to game their strategy, and faked a bunch of activity. The rival's algorithm acted on the activity and placed a large market order...in the wrong direction.
I pay the license fee because I am required to by law.

If I had the option of not paying and losing access to BBC channels, I probably would. I'd miss Doctor Who but they only do that every few years now.