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I'm not saying you need to corner them at the next PTO meeting and hand them a revolutionary screed. But when subjects like these come up, the proper response is "The republicrat party supports these policies and has for decades, where the demicans have blocked every measure that's ever made it to the floor" AND NOT "LOL our political system is paralyzed so there's nothing we can do, amirite?"

Partisan issues[1] are not structural problems with the system, they're policy problems with one party. And in my experience people who try to make that argument (and variants, like "both sides do it") are just making excuses to treat the cognitive dissonance of cheering for the bad guys.

[1] Obvious disclaimer is obvious: not all issues are partisan. There are legitimate complaints to be made about any system of government. Some problems certainly can be structural. This one is not.
And people still rob and murder. But some reason we insist on laws against it.
> The only places that call it lox are places that have considerable Jewish populations, even in the US.

The first time I heard the word was from my GF's (and future ex-wife's) mom; whose sister was married to a Jewish man. Sadly, due to a then recent bad taste experience with a pickled herring in wine sauce--I never sampled any until years and years after that. Oy vey; a lot of wasted years there!
The title 'Software Engineer' is an over used term imo that describes any developer out there.

That title should be reserved for those that have the same credentials as an ME, EE, etc. Someone who is a CS degree holder or a self taught comp dev have in no way the same training as someone with a CE degree.

Engineers are able to take their PE exam in either CE or SE. https://ncees.org/engineering/pe/
Who is Aetna, BCBS and why should I trust them?
Yes, that is the most commonly used to describe an “undocumented” access credential, regardless of why. This has been used for credentials that were added and forgotten, credentials that were added to permit unauthorized access later, and credentials that were added to permit authorized repairs more readily. These credentials were included in an “undocumented” (or “unpublished” might be more precise) manner and can be used to bypass security, so “backdoor” is correct.

This of course says nothing about whether its inclusion was due to intent, incompetence, and/or malice. (If the private key includes “Comment: hack the planet” then yeah it’s malice :)
I would say make training videos or do comparisons of products like reusable drinking bottles etc.

Educating people on what they can do is probably the single most effective way to leverage. YouTube and other video platforms are becoming the dominate way to consume content. So figure how to educate on those platforms.
Thanks for sharing this. From my first payments in crypto I immediately felt something huge had shifted in the world, exactly what you're talking about here. I hope you and yours are safe and secure.
Learning Scalable and Precise Representation of Program Semantics
I can certainly see how government agencies might be slow to update their position when new research comes out.

> I'd look at the World Health Organization's IARC report in a different way. A researcher leaked to Monsanto confidential internal drafts of a UN organization's internal deliberations. Think about the implications of that. Whoever leaked that did so precisely in an effort to undermine the final report. Do you think they were otherwise an impartial and objective researcher? Probably not. Yet somehow they made their way onto an IARC panel which makes all effort to control for conflicts of interests, both perceived and real.

Implying Monsanto had infiltrated the IARC and other agencies is quite literally a conspiracy theory, and I think in general unlikely. And in this case specifically, wrong. The draft wasn't leaked to Monsanto; it was obtained during legal proceedings.

> That sort of influence is exactly how you have things such as the EPA saying glyphosate is perfectly safe at the same time that other countries, such as France, find it necessary to phase out and ultimately completely ban the product.

French politicians banned glyphosate based on the IARC's report. That's not a separate data point.
It's not pronounced from the throat like the German "ch" but otherwise it's as close as it gets.
This hardly qualifies as a source, it's just a page of "Myth vs. Reality" bullet points with no data backing it up, nor any references to sources. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners is going to have more than a little conflict on interest here. Maybe what they're saying is true, but I'd need actual data if I wanted to believe them.

What they're saying breaches some of the most widely understood patterns of markets: that deliberate interference with markets through regulation drives up prices. Sometimes there are justifiable reasons for doing so, like making sure products are safe. If you mandate that all cars need airbags, prices are going to go up because now every car has the cost of a few airbags on top of whatever it cost previously. This claim that regulating the insurance market somehow keeps prices low goes into the same bucket of dubious claims like San Francisco progressives claiming that constructing new housing actually drives prices up and other claims of that sort.
presumably the process of creating protein powder from peas removes most of the iron, along with other nutrients.
> In effect you've just shifted the blame.

No. If the bug was in the software (say the bug was numeric underflow leading to crashing) it would be software. In this case the software engineers would have been told "here is your current AoA" and adjust the plane correctly in response. The hardware engineers/designers then provided them with unvalidated data, and I assume no details on the error rate (presumably because that would get the whole system flagged by the FAA as being nonsense)

> Degrees aren't free either. Most developers aren't working in aerospace and won't need the rigour.

"most" != all, literally my point. Also at what level does it kick in: OS developers? If they're using a licensed OS like QNX should all the QNX engineers need to be certified for avionics? How about linux?

> I'm not talking about OSS

So you're saying OSS shouldn't be used in commercial industry?

If you work on linux: that's used in medical hardware, so it seems like all contributors should have your new Certificate in Not Killing People.

But also, at what distance from killing people does this license cease being relevant? You worked on (say) a firewall product on some device, it fails to prevent some attack and the medical device kills someone.

Or the radio stack?

etc
Governor ‘not allowed’ to disclose which two Florida counties hacked by Russians
You're right, you just can't get a job as a programmer. You also can't contribute to many major OSS projects.
I've tried half a dozen brands. The best you can do is dilute it. There are some brands I like ("Aloha" for instance) but they mostly defeat the plant protein by diluting it sufficiently with carbs.
I'm not denying that problems exist. But I'm also not going to resort to pessimistic doomsaying about them, either. Most of the problems you mention are already being solved.

If anyone's living in a delusional parallel reality, it's you and your apocalyptic rantings.
This is exactly why I only buy belkin routers. I can't even connect to it.
Anytime you're interacting with the database, you'll need to use database keys. Anytime you're interacting at the API interface level, you'll need URLs. Anything in the middle is then going to be a gray area, especially when you have multiple people working on this implementation together.
> It stands to reason that more advanced SQL developers will leverage more advanced SQL features,

I'm one of those advanced SQL developers, and an ORM has never gotten in my way. Don't blame the tool for the users lack of experience.
"peas" and "pea protein" are not the same thing, though.
Bummer. The value of a used Model S (they are becoming attractive) has just dropped a few notches in my eyes.
Plate recognition has a fallthrough rate, and mailing out toll bills followed by processing incoming checks is a costly PITA that a transponder enabled vehicle mostly eliminates.
I think the idea behind opposition to facial recognition is it makes law enforcement too efficient.

Facial recognition is a threat to administrative bloat because it improves the efficiency of the police and would actually reduce all those crises that are leading to higher salaries for administrators tasked with solving those oh so lucrative problems that are created by gaps in law enforcement.
It's just words. Actions speak louder than words. Their actions fly in the face of all the nice sounding things they say, and report after report fly in the face of all of Boeing's denials and claims of safety.

Boeing has gone into liability defensive mode at the expense of the lives of passengers, the safety of air travel, and America's credibility in aerospace engineering.

Boeing is either going to face a major reckoning that they may not survive or maybe we'll have more deaths from accidents due to their negligent behavior.

I'm basing all this on the many reports about what is going on around the 737 MAX aircraft published in the WSJ and the New York Times. It hasn't been pretty.

I don't think that plane should ever fly again as engineered. It seems to require software to address problems with the large engine and the plane's form that other jets do not have. If a software patch can make the aircraft safe, then a bug can make it unsafe. Does the FAA validate all the aircraft software patches Boeing issues?
Sorry about that. I was much more sure about the "net" part than the "hack" part, but then the wiki kind of seemed to confirm my guess about why the original "Hack" was called as such: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Hack

But rereading it now, it just seems like someone looked up the word "hack" after the fact, and your explanation makes more sense.
Ha! Thanks for making me laugh out loud.
The original comment was saying a certificate for software engineering, and my response was in that context - what qualities of an individual engineer should be measured.
Nope, tesla will not allow you to order parts, or even look at a service manual as a mere owner. Its crazy that people on HN of all places defend their customer-antagonistic practices.
> Even given lunar materials etc, if we are incapable of altering our current industrial trajectory from the top down (lack of political will), what on earth makes one think we could direct any space activities from the top down?

I don't think the lack of a dictator--especially the sort of dictator you would support--is one of our problems!
I'm sure that loneliness is depressing, unhealthy, debilitating, etc, etc, etc. For many people. Maybe even for most people.

But I'm happiest when I'm doing something that's interesting and challenging. And when I'm focused, other people are mainly a distraction.

So for me, a few friends are enough. Plus chatting online. Sharing what I know, and asking for help.
Split green peas are a big element of survival in my dirtbag mountaineer diet along with oats, eggs and peanut butter.They kick ass.
Ok, we changed to that. Thanks!

Submitted title was "Backdoor Found in Cisco Routers CVE-2019-1804".
John Carmack on QuakeWorld latency and business model (1996)
Why do the simulators cost $15 million?
Yep. My "salary" is really just my hourly rate times the number of hours in the year if I work 40-hour weeks. I can get 50% more pay if I work 60-hour weeks.
This actually exists in Rio.

Yellow cab drivers agitated for banning Uber and instead the city government made them a ride hailing app where they can choose how much to discount over full price.

I haven’t used it, but know people who do. It’s kind of up to consumers to figure out how much to pay vs how much to wait.
Nice to know that people are still clinging to a document that can literally mean whatever we want it to when convenient while Americans continue to shuffle and get raped by the corporate class.
I really hope that's listed in chronological order, because otherwise he's throwing serious shade at the Royal Society.

Edit: I checked it out- Matlab has been around since 1984, and Prof Trefethen was made FRS in 2005. Safe.
I've been teaching wilderness survival and outdoors skills for years. I've been thinking of migrating "digital detox" into some type of outdoors settings, environment with a focus on doing nothing. (Plus if your phone doesn't work, you're stuck in the woods anyway...).

I'll be interested in the comments here for some ideas also.
The problem with insurance across state lines is that insurance companies would create a policy in a state with lax regulation and rules and sell that policy everywhere else. It's the same sort of crap that allows credit card companies to set up in South Dakota because that state has lax laws over usury rates.
> Sometimes you just want a subset of columns

There isn't a mature ORM I know of that doesn't support this, as either partial bindings to the mapped object (with empty properties) or whatever k/v primitive is supported by the language.
why is that? you can still interact with the stellar network with just xlm->xlm; you don’t have to pass it through and anchor to pay in some fiat-backed token
> (1) the lightning network has been repeatedly attacked as unworkable trash

[ Disclosure: I work on the lightning specification and one of the implementations ]

I'm sure it has been attacked (because "cryptos, bro"), I'm disappointed that it made you dismiss it.

FWIW, I switched from Linux Kernel development to developing Lightning after almost 20 years: I find it ambitious, high-potential and fascinating, as well as challenging.
Can we say that, without speculation and caching, and just throwing more and more cpu to work, we would have slower single app performance but better parallel execution ?
Looks like they are discontinuing the SE exam.
The claim wasn't about New England English deriving from an older form of the language. The claim is that today's New England English more closely resembles that older form than today's England English.
This isn't a certification problem. It's an engineering ethics problem.

The pass the buck circle jerk is how this design flaw came to exist. Everyone in the engineering organization needs to have the balls to point out systems design errors. Management needs to listen to them and not issue "make it work" marching orders. Regulators need to not delegate their responsibility to the previous.

More than one person could have put their foot down and demanded triple redundancy. That this didn't happen suggests even more safety concerns lurk in all of Boeing's products.
> Would be quite a feat to have all those things in late 80s, don't you think? :-)

The F-35 has them. The Yak-141 didn't. Therefore, it absolutely is an exaggeration to say the F-35 was "lifted wholesale" from the Yak-141. Two of the three F-35 variants don't even have the lift fan!
Other sources: https://www.google.com/search?q=insurance+%22across+state+li...
The iron comparison is slightly misleading since the steak contains ~40% of heme iron vs. none in the pea protein.

Heme iron is more readily absorbed (20% - 30% absorbed) than non heme iron (5% - 12% absorbed).
Spot on. Science needs to be data-driven, accurate and absolutely without politics.

Anything otherwise, and we lose credibility and a good chunk of audience for political reasons.

Don't weaponize Science! Keep it pure, keep it true.
The 10nm chip Intel sold last year was bullshit -- low volume and single SKU because it wasn't anything to write home about.

People also keep trying to defend Intel by saying their 10nm is roughly equivalent to the TSMC 7nm, but that's a pretty BS defense seeing as Intel hasn't shipped a real product with it.

Meanwhile TSMC is already working out the kinks on their 5nm process for next year. No matter how you slice it, Intel has fallen behind.
Isn't that exactly what the distinction between dedicated (=“not shared”) and not-dedicated (=“shared”) normally means?
"truncated sha512" would be a much better way to talk about it.
If you think about it, it seems that the industry here is obsessed with solving all kinds of theoretical AI risks.

We should probably get a resolution on the table banning the use of ED-209s before people get killed.
It's mindboggling that we can have such incredible poverty and food insecurity problems, while having catastrophic obesity rates, and have huge overlaps in the populations supposedly suffering both problems simultaneously.
There is, and there are.
How does a cloud platform run serverless?
People die when the .net program in Tesla crashes
Not sure where you are getting your data from. They are still cheaper and more reliable than taxis pretty much everywhere.
Try it. You might be surprised. I thought I was really lousy at that sort of thing too.

It turns out the back-and-forth has a big impact.

That's not just me. Lots of my friends use it. Nice thing about CDs is you can get them from the library free too (or interlibrary loan).
Street Fighter: Third Strike, How a Parry Saved Street Fighter
Yea I agree with you - if your database only ever has one concurrent user (one app and one person using that app at a time) then it doesn't matter that much how you implement it, either in the DB or in the app. The benefit of doing it in the DB is that multiple apps or people using the same data concurrently can be easier to manage depending on the situation. But if it's a single user app? Whatever you prefer is probably fine.
My family has started using Walmart's grocery pickup service. You select your groceries online, then schedule a pick-up time. You drive up at the agreed upon time, Walmart workers come out and load your car trunk with groceries. You never leave the car.

Walmart's not sitting still.
> It is quiet shocking to see #1 getting posted over and over again.

Yup. If anything, it'd make things substantially worse.

There's a reason all the credit card companies moved to Delaware - they found the most favorable jurisdiction (and work to ensure it stays that way).

Health insurers would love to all move to the most insurer-friendly jurisdiction.
Professional drivers already exist. Look at any taxi, delivery, bus or transit company. That's what Uber would do. Lease a bunch of vehicles and tell people to drive them for 8 hours a day for a flat rate, and they'll have strict hours and no flexibility.
Magic 8 ball is... Inconclusive.

<shakes for more detail>

Boeing will likely have to submit to additional certification internationally, and possibly additional retrofits to bring it into parity with at a minimum the same level of redundancy that Airbus is held to (for the EU at least).

Enough dice were cast that it would be diplomatically/economically inconvenient for the EU to lock out the MAX entirely without seriously inconveniencing every other country that invested in building out their fleets with them.

8 ball is not saying that the EU doesn't have the wherewithal to stone wall Boeing, but... somehow more air traffic is likely to be seen as more satisfying to the palate in the long run than any gains to be had by grandstanding too hard against American Corporate Corruption in the short term.
> Bad shit happens in life and when someone is willing to talk about their pain and how they're healing and what they've learned, I've found that it's best to just shut up and listen. This is not the time for critique.

Maybe between friends this is good advice, but posting something online is fair game for critique.
> What if Disney was a private collector and bought up all the words art, and sealed it away, or charged admission at a single museum.

If they provide all the museum security, fine. But in the real world Disney relies on the US legal system to protect their collection.
> Engineers are able to take their PE exam...

Provided you have a PE credentialed coworker who can vouch for you. That is a chicken and egg problem for most people in an organization with no PEs.
Are there a lot of people working on life-critical software?
Hopefully your spouse will sign you up.
Upranking/Promotions: At search arm of alphabet don't they do reviews by not directly involved employees - eg relevant enough to review your perf - distant enough to avoid some bias. This may have been interview only, and may have been even further limited in scope than across search arm itself.
Your theory is that, in the middle of an election, after there already being an email scandal, the DNC faked another one, and then got Crowdstrike and the United States intelligence community to go along with it? That's more plausible than... what?
Am I naive? Are anti-competitive abuses really that common in YC?
Compare homicides with San Francisco and any major metro of similar size and San Francisco will show it's not that dangerous. It might appear dangerous because the middle class and upper-middle class are not sheltered from everything here but it isn't that dangerous compared to most other cities.

There were 42 homicides in San Francisco (2018).

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/09/bay-area-homicides-20...

There were 184 homicides in Memphis last year (2018), Memphis has roughly 200,000 less people than San Francisco

https://dailymemphian.com/article/2253/Memphis-homicides-up-...

There were 156 homicides in Indianapolis last year (2018), Indianapolis has roughly the same population as San Francisco

https://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/indianapolis/...

There were 200 homicides in Kansas City (2018), Kansas City is roughly 1/2 the population of San Francisco

https://www.kcur.org/post/kansas-city-homicides-2018#stream/...

If you look at St. Louis and Baltimore you'll realize there are places of similar or smaller population with much more crime

There were 186 homicides in St. Louis (2018), St. Louis is roughly 1/3 the population of San Francisco

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime/homicides-in-the-cit...

San Francisco compared to the rest of the United States is relatively safe and the entire Bay Area is actually getting safer including San Francisco (58 homicides in 2016).

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Homicides-fall-acr...
Vast majority of people are not concerned about their data until they see possible repercussions of someone using it.

Judging from what I see, public awareness about privacy (and hence avoidance of Google/Facebook and other services) is rising. Not as much as I would like it to see, but it's slowly rising. Hope it's not only my experience.
I think their general idea is to make 10nm CPUs on very small dies, so that they can get a reasonable acceptance rate. Then push as many ancillary functions as possible onto 14nm silicon.

Bam! A tiny 10nm part surrounded by a bunch of 14nm pieces has a high enough yield that they can get production cranking and start selling "10nm" CPUs.
The R dropping accent in New England is limited to a surprisingly small group of people. Same with New York I believe.

Outside of some parts of Boston we pick up those Rs our friends drop and put them to use.
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