skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your outlook assumes benefits are a net-bad, because health insurance is an evil bloated mess, but I think these are two very separate issues. Yes, obviously ending the scam of US healthcare costs is a great goal, but that really has nothing to do with employment benefits other than it meaning more people are insured. That is an income, not a cause of the corruption in healthcare.

Employment "benefits" extend considerably outside medical cover. Speaking internationally, they often cover minimum wages, parental leave, minimum holiday requirements, pensions, often some form of income protection for long term sickness, and very often a swathe of worker rights that protect an employee from crappy employment practices (YMMV locally).

These are serious things you should not shrug off; things that make your society better. Making them optional "allows" contractors to undercut employees, but this is less a choice in practice and more a wholesale movement to a disposable workforce. Any industry with a low enough skill threshold is pushing existing employees into contractors. Great if you're a business, less if you're a single parent. You have no choice. You save no money. You just lose your benefits.

So by all means push for better healthcare systems but it's a unicorn in this context. I think you're actually —and inadvertently, I'm sure— pushing for modern day slavery under the guise of "free will". That's just where unfettered capitalism goes. I say we protect more people by recognising that they're not the ants their employers see them as. Them having rights protects us all.
Well, good thing Apple maps is getting better. And there's also HERE Maps which is getting better.
I think mobile is the real differentiator for today's freelancer. I you have React Native you will always have plenty of work. Better still if you also have Kotlin and Swift. Everything is mobile now.
First off, this is nonsense: the software was doing exactly what it was meant to (and designed to) do. Hardware engineers chose not to provide multiple sensors to validate AoA, hardware engineers did not provide a human-capable override. MCAS was designed to not be disabled by pilots, because doing so would make the plane a different aircraft according to the FAA.

Anyway I have yet to see a software related “certificate” that isn’t rote-learnable, comically high level, or both.

You also have to ask, what are you certifying?

All of these are fairly trivial to avoid in small programs:

* Use after free
* time of check/time of use
* out of bounds
* numeric overflow

Especially in any kind of test environment where you are being extra careful.

Then there’s the language problem: many engineers have to use multiple languages, some only have to use “safe” languages. Should you require a different cert for each?

You’re also saying “not everyone gets to write software anymore” because the certification won’t be free.

How does open source then work? Clearly people working on the Linux kernel should be certified, so now you’re saying Linux should only accept patches from people who live in countries that can provide the required certs.
> but to ban the police seems extremely dumb

I think this conclusion is due to missing some of the downsides. Could it cut costs and speed investigations? Certainly! But try to imagine some of the creative ways in which a naive implementation could be abused.
the sun follows you in the sky as you move around but it's angle doesn't change throughout the day.
If anything you've just reinforced my point that there needs to be a higher barrier to entry when dealing with software that can critically affect human life.
They do that because of the incompetence of New Jersey. Pretty sure those parkway tolls are run by counties, so it’s probably a patronage mill.

Massachusetts implemented E-ZPass/LPR billing in a couple of months. It’s hard to even tell that tollbooths existed.
Weeding Is Fundamental [Episode]
I don't keep all my git code local, only the projects I am currently working on.
crucial (for me anyway) summary of relevant events of the day

https://twitter.com/IanColdwater/status/1128395135702585347?...
I traded my 6S for an 8. Got the 8 for $399 after trade. That's pretty cheap for a great phone.
How does a software engineer know that something is safe? Do they need to be aerospace engineers as well? Do they need to go over the full schematics of the hardware their software is running on?
If the legislative body could be counted on to do their job, rather than this bizarre notion they have gotten that they are the Spanish Inquisition, then perhaps we could get somewhere.
AI glass boxes: Open sourcing a library to enable intelligibility in ML
Don't worry. They'll just hire private contractors to do it.
Who are “they”? And why should we trust them?
It could certainly complicate their lives, but I doubt we would ever extradite them.
For folks that want to learn more about stellar: https://github.com/0xfe/hacking-stellar
> when in fact they represent the mental model of the system designers.

It sure doesn't feel like that.

Instead it feels rather like a lump of code I'm dealing with now. The needed to add feature X, so they did a brief look for the easiest place to bolt it on. In the code I'm dealing with now that meant y2k stuff was placed in with the tracing code, I presume because the trace headers were used everywhere y2k was needed so they didn't have to add new modules.

In Git case "git reset" has so many features only tangentially related it looks to me the person adding the feature must have followed the same "I need X, I don't want to add or even think about how the CLI is structured so I'll just sneak it in with CLI command Z which looks vaguely similar". And thus we end up with the a similar mess to the code I'm dealing with.

In Hg's case someone evidently put a lot of thought into the overall mental model the CLI would create, and came up with something rather neat. Sadly it doesn't always reflect how it operates underneath, so it can confuse people when things go wrong. When the abstraction created by the CLI breaks, you end up having to do what all people do abstractions leak and learn two things: both the abstraction and how it really works underneath. But Hg's CLI is so well designed casual users will never have to deal with it.

In git's case the CLI bears little relationship to anything. Because nothing is where you expect nor does quite what you think it should things go wrong really quickly. That forces users to learn and think in terms of the underlying data structure which creates a lot of pain up front, but in the end you are always better off understanding things in terms of how they work underneath.

The interesting thing is git is _so_ bad the official git doco has a really good section devoted to describing what is happening underneath, which makes learning it fairly straight forward. Hg doco doesn't do that. While there are some descriptions of how it works underneath it's interwoven in with the description of the CLI, so you can't just read one smallish section and get the big picture. Worse, you can never be sure whether they are describing the model presented by CLI, or what actually happens to be bits and bytes. This makes the jump to real understanding how Hg works harder than git. It's weird how things turn out. I guess which is better depends on the situation.

In any case, please don't dignify git's CLI by claiming it conforms to someone's mental model. To paraphrase Linus, if it does, that someone must have been a demented ferret.
Having been an Uber /Lyft driver I can't even fathom what it would mean for a driver to be an employee with expenses paid. Is the driver driving a gas guzzling F250 entitled to a higher reimbursement for cost of driving than me driving a Honda insight?
Is there reason to believe them now? Honest question, I don’t follow the field much too close.

Also, is it too little too late? Where will TSMC be in 2021?
Whoa this seems like a pretty well established and (dare I say) popular project! 13,742 stars as of this writing: https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet
Worked for Swift. :)
Interesting, I just went through Heathrow, both inbound (US to UK connection to Glasgow, then UK to US connection back). At the in-bound border control, there was a passport scan and photo, then at the gate, that photo was displayed and a second photo was taken. In my case it also was flagged and delayed my boarding while the gate agent manually told the system “he’s ok”. The agent repeatedly had me move around so the system could retake the gate photo, trying to get the gate photo to register as a match to the border control photo. Or, so I believed. Based on your comment, this was all pure theater?
I'm baffled by the way both you (who I gather to be an atheist) and many religious people talk about believing in God as though it's something one would just choose to do, especially when it's because of how believing benefits them. It seems incredibly insincere. If X is true, Y would be wonderful, so I believe X. That's not faith, that's optimism. That doesn't work for me. X is true or it's not. Find that out, and then enjoy whatever consequences come out of that.

I believe in God, but it's because of things I've felt that seem as real to me as having seen something. Other than the fact that I can't so easily just show that to another person, the scientific method applies. Faith is then whether or not I choose to trust that and nurture that feeling and build on it or not. It's not just blind hope because it would be nice if it were true. It seems as silly to me as someone who, instead of saying "I see no evidence for God therefore I will proceed as though one doesn't exist", presumes that if there's a supreme being, they've obviously outsmarted it and spotted all the holes in their plan, thus disproving it's existence.
I re-phrased it yet again. I did assume that they counted unauthorized internal access as a leak as well. Their PR cleverly draws focus away from whether Google should have that data in the first place. That, somehow, if a multinational corporation knows everything about me, my privacy is not compromised, so long as a dreaded unauthorized employee doesn't get the data.

Unauthorized by Google, not by the person being spied upon...
Elkai – Python 3 travelling salesman (approximate) solver library
You think the EU will roll over for Boeing?
States with more people and costs usually have more coverage requirements.

You don’t want insurance to be like banking where banks domicile in “friendly” places like Delaware and South Dakota. Health insurance is awful enough.

Republicans want this so that high cost, low benefit plans can be hocked to less sophisticated people. The more right wing folks also like shared responsibility pools where the members are the insurers, and the organizers take overhead. Obamacare put most of these out of business.
You missed the final step: people die. No individual or group of individuals is ever tried for a crime because corporate personhood.
Can you clarify which of the following you mean: "It is biased to point out bias in the writing accompanying this chart?" Or "It is biased to point out the facts regarding the realities of nuclear cleanup" or "It is biased to point out that other rather significant forms of energy generation were left out of this comparison without any justification?"

For the record, I am biased against centralized power grids. I'd rather see decentralized power grids and as a strategy for those I think RTG piles are a safe and well-understood technology for backstopping other forms of small scale renewable power.

Fission is just... it's too expensive for what it is. It centralized too much power with states. It's very dangerous when its safety is inevitably bypassed by industry that could never be held accountable for the tens of thousands of years of human no-go zones that it can produce.
I don’t think he did. He got out and had a prior years notice. Then he made a comment about not losing over 20 percent datacenter to amd. Dude definitely seen what was coming
Everything today is about shareholder value. Nobody, but nobody gives a flying frog's fat fucking ass about the end user/customer/employee/etc any more.
The value is a gamble:

by making unsafe aircraft Boeing was able to avoid losing customers, and in fact make many more sales because airline’s pilots didn’t need to be retrained and their equipment didn’t need to be changed. Combined that made the MAX a more cost effective alternative to the airbus.

That’s your shareholder value, as long as your unsafe aircraft don’t end up crashing.

Also it’s mostly nonsense: executive compensation is often tied up in revenue and market performance, and they’ve mostly cashed out on that before the financial damage caused by their “work”.
> (Not like I trust Airbus with the A220, since they've got the same motivation to string the A320 along that Boeing has to string along the 737)

The possible difference being with fly-by-wire it's much more likely they can keep the same(ish) flying behaviour (meaning no new training) whilst making fairly dramatic future changes to the airframe if required.

I also doubt they'd go to anything smaller than the A318 in terms of derivatives...
Fight Club math. It must have been cheaper to keep operating and pushing their narrative.
I like Keybase, I just find the name a little odd to push as a cool IM to normal people. I'm also still waiting to see them release their own email service, maybe something that can cleanly interface with ProtonMail?
From the reference JAMA study: As the clinic day progresses, clinicians may fall behind schedule and experience decision fatigue

I wish the paper tried to differentiate which of these two it was. My guess is that it would have more to do with falling behind schedule than decision fatigue. When you are already behind schedule, you at least subconsciously try to do stuff that minimizes your time. Having a long talk about required screening or arguing about antibiotics may not feel very worthwhile to you when you have 6 patients that have been waiting an hour for you.
Yeah, it's a seriously shitty voting ring. There's nothing natural about it.

I refuse to click NYT links. I know what they're up to, and it's total fucking bullshit.
> It’s become a hot commodity, but is there enough of it to meet demand?

Come on Bloomberg, you know the answer to that question is yes. It doesn't take a decade to ramp up garden pea production, the plants grow readily from seed.
Well, it's a common talking point. Have you looked into it? It's an honest question, who has the onus of responsibility for research? OP or me?
Friendly reminder that our 10th Amendment rights exist specifically to limit federal power, and to give states superceding power over the federal government. The opposite doesn't actually exist.
Maybe Ethiopia can trick a Boeing executive into visiting for vacation.
While you are probably right that its dumb, this would have totally made me go to KFC on weekends when I half heartedly drive around to a destination.
Uh what? H1-B’s are literally the opposite of outsourcing.

Yes there were outsourcing companies that abused the system (harming legitimate companies), but if you think outsourcing companies are going to magically start recruiting top of the barrel engineers you are sorely mistaken.
Vox Admits It Got Section 230 Wrong, Fixes Its Mistake
The renewable subsidies don't cover the cost of a modern nuclear power plant. The 25 billion € per year spent on renewables is just barely enough to construct a single nuclear plant. Other than warm fuzzy feelings that nuclear is superior it wouldn't actually solve the problems Germany is currently facing. Merkel doesn't want to threaten the jobs of coal workers and their communities. Therefore coal plants don't get turned off.
Only in this case. Search rules our entire economy and deserves a special status.
Start with the people whose signatures exist on paper, or however the approval chain works in this context.
Here is one source: https://www.factcheck.org/2017/07/selling-insurance-across-s...

Why should we trust them vs a random HN commenter?
Agreed.

I'm hypothesizing that you might do this, even with keys intended to be used as a back door, by shipping it on devices, you vastly increase the number of potential suspects for any backdoor abuse.

Continuing this train of thought - a hardcoded password is classic example of a backdoor, and just as "public" as including a private key.
Leave the testing until the end? Is that best practice in some places still?
This isn't just in Australia. I see this everywhere, including in the US.
From my understanding, they were also flying different planes, which had redundant backup circuits for the sensors, an optional feature with a price.
Extradition not required. Start threatening their business in these countries. They could try something like "no Boeing aircraft in our airspace" while they refuse to cooperate. Get their local allies on board with a similar ban, and then maybe the Boeing board would hand them over willingly.

That's quite the hypothetical, and I don't advocate it. But they certainly don't have to be limited by extradition.
Crime is historically high in SF. Obvious to anyone that has lived in Sf for a while.

Source 1) https://hoodline.com/2019/04/crime-is-on-the-rise-in-san-fra...

Source 1b) https://www.ppic.org/publication/crime-trends-in-california/

Source 2) home burgled twice so far in 2019
My colleague recently recommended the book "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker. While I was expecting it to tout the benefits of good sleep, I was surprised at the evidence around the inverse: not getting a full night's sleep is alarmingly bad for you.

The evidence suggests that this extends far beyond cognitive and psychological health impacts. For example, the author notes that there is a 24% increase in heart attacks the day after we lose an hour of sleep during daylight savings. This is just the tip of the iceberg, in my opinion.

Given these mental and physical risks, it is insane that we allow physicians to routinely work shifts that endanger themselves and lead to measurable drops in their performance.
Positively pleonasmic! :)
You also have to ask, what are you certifying?

Currently, the avionics software is certified, not the software engineer. The FAA-delegate safety reviewers get special training, but otherwise a bachelor's degree in a related discipline is the standard for an individual contributor's formal education.

There is arduous process in place to help ensure that commercial avionics software is produced to an acceptable level of quality. Problems can still get through, but the process helps weed out a lot of issues that you'd likely see in non-safety-critical software.
Yes!

If you are in a context where your software has significant implications on the state of a physical system, you must be willing to work with the other engineers to make sure you've accommodated all the eventualities you can.

Part of being an Engineer is knowing what you don't know, yet following through and making sure you connect with the people who do in order to ensure all relevant questions are asked and answered.
You could make this argument about anything that is sold to kids, should we have a "you must be this old to ride the capitalism coaster" rule?
Critical, not analytical. The former is an emotional state of mind enabling the beginning of the analytical thought process.
It used to be that websites would optimize their icons by putting them all in a single gif. But this isn't supposed to be necessary anymore.
ACI control traffic is probably IPv6-only. They may be taking advantage of link-local addressing.
I’m not disagreeing with you but, a change like that is going to upend the labor market and put a lot of people out of a job.
The Invention of the ‘Salvator Mundi’
> Hardware engineers chose not to provide multiple sensors to validate AoA.

In effect you've just shifted the blame. Developers working at the lower levels could've pushed back on this harder if they were legally required to. My point is if mechanical and electronic engineers are liable then so should software guys - they need more power to say no.

> You also have to ask, what are you certifying?

An argument could be made that formal verification & ethics would be useful in this context.

> You’re also saying “not everyone gets to write software anymore” because the certification won’t be free.

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

> How does open source then work?

I'm not talking about OSS. I'm talking about people who work with software that can kill people. If the Linux kernel is used as a technology in these machines then the software 'engineer' who made that decision is legally liable. The blame stops with them.
NYtimes is probably the most reputable news source on earth. I incredibly doubt there's a significant number of NYTimes employees here.
There doesn't seem to be any links to that on Wikipedia. The only text I can find is: "After it had to cut its price by 70% to beat the CSeries for United Airlines in 2016, Boeing decided to act when the CSeries was offered to Delta at $10 million below its production cost".

Perhaps the Wikipedia page is being edited by Boeing?
The United States Is Crumbling
> you have to have something to drive transitions like a mouse click, apparently

Could you just position the mouse somewhere, never move it again, and let CSS flicker drive everything? It gives you a natural clock.
Coding Interview: an approach to minimize anxiety and improve chances of success
>It is friendlier to the environment (wind turbine kills a lot of birds, and solar panel take a lot of room from wildlife).

If you think nuclear power plants don't kill millions of animals per year then you must be living in some kind of fantasy land. Where do you think does the coolant for them come from and where does the waste heat get dumped to?
Every 737 has multiple AoA sensors. (Reportedly each computer is only wired to one though).
No. CPU vulns don’t affect Intel’s stock price.
Pea protein is incredibly chalky and earthy. It's a tough one to stomach. The other thing that people don't realize is that peas are incredibly high in iron. So much so that you actually need to watch your intake or you'll get way too much iron. As an example, 1 scoop of pea protein powder, roughly 20-25g of protein, will also provide 40% of your RDA of iron. An 8oz ribeye steak (something people generally think is very high in iron) only has 20% of your RDA of iron with 40g of protein.
No, its absolutely giving the union a bad rep by abusing its support. Keep in mind union officials rarely are physically present for the complaint at hand, so it is nearly always he-said, she-said. Likely the employee put up a fight, claimed a different take on the thing they got caught for, or it simply wasn't provable -- you absolutely can be fired for not doing your job, even if you are a union member!

The protection the union gives is that you aren't fired on the spot without good reason or a fair shake. It forces the company to actually back up their reasons; not just Joe the manager didn't like you, or someone saw you take a 30 second break once.

The fact that the guy was paid by AT&T to go away tells me he was good at playing the game, and good at not getting caught.
Oreo to celebrate moon landing 50th with limited edition cookies
Oh THAT's what you mean? That you don't want Google to have your data? The sentence is talking about the conditions under which employees are fired. Why would Google fire its employees as a result of you not wanting Google to have your data? Heck, the entire article is about access to unauthorized internal documents. How is your point even relevant to the whole topic at all?