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> It's their car that you've contracted to take you from Point A to Point B. It would never occur to me to ask permission before making (or taking) a phone call.

It wouldn’t have to me, either. But I was curious and so asked, and in between the useless answers I got that repeating point of feedback.

Note that I didn’t stop taking calls. But I did think “how would I behave if I were in a friend’s car?” I figured I’d at least give a heads up that a call was coming in. So I tried that one thing and it worked.
> Don't perpetuate the myth that intermittency of renewables is a dealbreaker.

I was trying really hard NOT to do this. How can I better rephrase it?

I tried mentioning that we should continue to support battery research. I tried using qualifiers like "yet" and "currently". I tried very hard to stress that the issue is with CURRENT technology. Every time I try to talk about this problem it seems to either be dismissed or pushed off as "we'll get there". Which I do believe we'll get there, but it is an unknown time frame and we need to act 2 decades ago.

How can I better rephrase my message? Because I don't think my message and yours are at odds.
Teenagers Define Themselves Mostly in Terms of Their Traits; Adults More in Ter
Is there a way to view your passenger rating over time?
Acceptable behavior won't need to be hidden and attention-seekers will love everything they do being known. If the behavior really is wrong, then don't do it. If it's not wrong but your society's standards for judging people are wrong, then work to change the society, like what gay people did. Privacy for non-bad behavior is a temporary measure to allow people to practice it until everyone decides that it's not bad. But it also entrenches the societal view that it's bad! In case of behavior that really is bad, then lack of privacy is a good thing because it discourages it and protects other people from the consequences. For example, criminal and credit records.

The particular problem the author mentioned was marriage. It's a kind of fraud to fool someone into marrying you by not revealing things that they wouldn't accept about your history no matter how unreasonable their judgement is. You're taking advantage of their ignorance to gain more for yourself at their expense. A potential spouse has every right to dig into any aspect of your past that they want because committing to the wrong partner could ruin their life. It's only a good thing for them to be fully informed.
You already have to trust MS implicitly if you're using Excel though. And imagine how many .xlsx files are flowing through OneDrive already, filled with passwords, PII, SSNs, etc.
Interesting. I've recently gotten in to Paul Stamets and he certainly seems to be involved in a lot of research. He's also literally written the book (multiples, really) on mushroom cultivation. He started his career legally studying psychedelics through a DEA license at his university, but has since contributed to quite a bit of original research according to his own claims. He has said for example that he (in part or in whole, I can't recall) developed the method the DEA still uses for positively identifying psilocybin. It doesn't seem accurate to call him a crank. Indeed when I heard him discuss the "stoned ape theory" he said it makes sense to him, but that it is not provable in his opinion. Doesn't sound like a crank to me.
I'm not sure I understand you.

If I search for "restaurants", I want search results that ARE restaurants, not search results which have the word "restaurants" in them.

What do you want to have happen?
I agree. My perception is that tools like awk are best used for one-off tasks, whereas anything part of a greater pipeline should be written in a more readable/maintainable language.

I was just pushing back against the sentiment that awk is undesirable because of attitutes that its users may have, which I don't think you were expressing :)
> but don't try to pretend that there are not large amounts of people that for whatever reason don't.

Oh, I know precisely the reason: there's no viable alternative in place.

It might surprise you to learn that other countries were in that same situation and aren't anymore. When there's something more efficient, reliable, and cheaper to use, people tend to prefer that.

But of course, you'd first have to step outside of the US to see what a viable alternative even looks like. Judging by your first and last sentence, I'm willing to bet you haven't.
Yeah, I have a general sympathy for this, but that part specifically gives me a real "I didn't think the face-eating leopards I voted for would eat my face!" vibe. Maybe that woman was upset because she could tell we were in for, you know, all this backwards stuff that's happening re: reproductive rights now. Or any number of other things. They are the face-eating leopards after all. If one is a member of a demographic whose faces they're promising to eat, not just someone whose face might incidentally end up in their mouths, it's understandable one may be upset when they take power.
Maybe a pre-middle class was created by Henry Ford. He wanted to create a car that his workers could afford. Also, maybe Sears with their Homes Catalog. It seems like the teens and twenties included some steps up Maslows hierarchy for some masses.
The recent CPU-level vulnerabilities have exploits that can run in the browser. See https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-cpus-impacted-by-new-zom... for pointers to video evidence. They're not zero-day attacks once they're made public, just the same as Meltdown and Spectre. Go download the PoC code, switch calc.exe to something useful, and phish away.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20028108 from earlier this week shows that just loading a page can lead to network information disclosure or other compromise / attack vectors. It's not a zero-day, it's a feature.
That is such a fascinating document. Back in late 2002 or early 2003 I did an implementation of the algorithm in that document in C (because I didn't understand Lisp) with the help of a more senior programmer at my company.

Once my implementation started to work I was really amazed how such a simple algorithm could be so successful.
Except it does seem to have addressed that. Even the dumb test tunnel seems to have been completed for far less than it should've taken, given the constraints you mentioned.

Experts (including those who have studied foreign mass transit in detail) are at a loss to fully explain why the US's tunneling costs are so out of whack compared to other countries. Sometimes, when expert systems seem to have failed, it's a useful exercise to throw everything out (i.e. be "utterly uninformed") and learn from scratch by trying. They may fail anyway, but it's worth a shot.

Sometimes, the naive intern will find a solution because of their own naïveté. (And even then there are lots of practical things that will need to be relearned, at great pain.)
These are the changes made to Chromium. The code for the UI (made with web technologies) is easy to access, but it's under a proprietary license.
That's amazing. Congrats!
That genuinely surprises me. I really would have thought 3 stars means "it was fine". This issue would actually make me think twice about using Uber or Lyft. Is it OK not to rate a driver at all?
OK, clearly these claims of benefits are overstated.

Both the iOS and Mac stores have obvious scam apps, that are ironically easy to find with Apple’s own search when other things are much harder to find. And since their search lacks even simple filters, I can’t start building a list of “never show me This Developer’s Trash again” like I can on Steam for instance.

Recently when Apple sent out a developer survey, I told them to get rid of App Review. Completely. As a process, it fails. It clearly has shoveled a disgusting amount of money over to thieves and scam artists. Meanwhile, I’ve been rejected multiple times for ridiculous reasons that took days to resolve. Even in 2019, I am utterly shocked if Apple manages to process an update in under a DAY.

They can pat themselves on the back if they wish but I think they’ve reinvested none of their 30% back in their stores in years. Their one “investment” was to make the Mac App Store objectively worse.
Doing something about "those people" is a common refrain when justifying poor ideas.

If the system were such that drivers would only leave negative feedback on exceptionally bad encounters, with a specifically described complaint, it could plausibly work as you state.

But as it stands, your "shitty human being" is likely to not be correlated with a poor average rating - imagine a run of the mill douchebag that talks themselves up to everyone they meet, yet is an abusive asshole when it benefits them. Such a person is likely to have a higher passenger rating than a genuinely nice person who is socially awkward.

All systems calcify, become overprescriptive, and get gamed by people with nothing better to do. This setup is ripe for that, and Uber's / Surveillance Valley's general stance towards accountability doubles the worry.
Amazon. As in the shop - I can do one search and get a result, even a 'featured' result, and then change it to something more generic that's an exact match for the _title_, sort in a way that will make me easily see it again, (e.g. by ascending price) and it not show (e.g. first result is more expensive than the product I just saw).

It's infuriating, because presumably I don't always happen to see the unknowingly hidden option.
> Who is paying who again?

It’s a two-sided market. Nobody likes being treated like a commodity.
Indeed. I bet MySQL will have a bigger impact on society over the next 10 years than crypto will. If anyone wants to take this bet, I suggest stakes lower than the ones John McAffee chose -- he may be one set of genitals short by the end of next year.
Why is it right if I have 500 users but wrong if I have 1 million users?
A good writer is hard to find
Very interesting, thank you for sharing! This is has a little twist on what I'd like to see, but I had no idea something like this "graduate market" existed. I'll have to dig into this a little bit more.
Maybe that's how it is at your big organization. I'm sure glad my big organization is different.
I suspect hiring practices and company culture may be selecting for gullability either accidentally or deliberately in many cases (cynically the gullible are easier to motivate cheaply). Like how "being a team player" is used to refer to willingness to work unpaid overtime as opposed to actual ability to cooperate.

If they value "responsiveness to their authority over procedure" then people will send the entire financial records to "the CEO" for fear of getting fired otherwise.
What happens when one of those blocked domains becomes a vendor for your org?
I think the blame needs to be directed at the video streaming companies, not at Google. Can you go to Netflix and just download a .mp4 of their latest show? Nope. That's on them, not Google. If Netflix cared about a cross-browser experience or open standards, the tools are available to them.

With that in mind, they should really hire someone that has access to Usenet or a private Bittorrent tracker. All of Netflix's shows are available for free in 4k there. Google sold them DRM that doesn't actually work. Netflix paid their employees millions of dollars to have meetings and develop code to work with the idea in mind that Google's magic beans would save their content from piracy. It didn't work, though.

You should be mad at Netflix. Netflix should be mad at Google. But everyone just carries on like everything is great. It's weird.
Brazil’s university students to Bolsonaro: Don’t cut the education budget
How to Read in the Age of the Smartphone
There are two ways to save money on manufacturing: outsourcing to cheaper foreign workers, or automation.

Until recently outsourcing was the cheaper of those two options. That leads people to blame outsourcing for job losses. However, if automation had been cheaper at the time, it would have been more prevalent and probably would have taken the blame instead of outsourcing.

At some point automation will be cheaper than manufacturing in Asia, and then Asian factory jobs will disappear as the American jobs have.
Imagine for a moment you live in a capitalist society.

If the land around you is cheap, that's a red flag about the value of that land. If you have information others don't that makes the land much more valuable to you (anything from minerals, to perfect growing conditions for some valuable plant, to just being a good spot to build a wildlife sanctuary), then you're in luck.

But if it's good land but otherwise cheap it's because the smart money already left. This spot is too far away from infrastructure, the area is hostile to certain people/industries, or there is high risk because there is one large employer/industry in the area and the economy will collapse like a house of cards if that industry has a downturn.

This is one of the ways I think capitalism fails us. Economies of scale push us to have two or three large providers of product X, globally, but from a town's perspective they would be more resilient if they had numerous 'large' employers in different enough industries that they only all suffer in a recession, but not so different that people can't retrain.
Presuming you are from Plaid - can you tell me what your position is on what I think I'm seeing - OpenBanking APIs opened up to non-accredited organisations using yourselves as a gateway - and whether that's in keeping with your accreditation?

I.E. The APIs available in the UK are designed to open data up to competition, but only within the limits of those orgs that are FCA accredited for PSD2 Roles of various sorts. Are you allowed to let others piggyback on those?
Seems like you should just hit all the IDs to be safe. Or put your own personalized message in the ID parameter.

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Yes, indeed. It doesn't talk about turning STAB TRIM back on, though, nor does it talk about turning STAB TRIM on with etrim inputs already applied — that's what I was calling your homegrown protocol.

My point is that it's easy to armchair quarterback the pilots whether they followed the checklist or went off checklist to do something better or worse. The problem started long before they got in the cockpit, though, and had been made evident once before at the cost of 189 lives. To continue to focus on pilots' actions at this point is missing the elephant for the flea.
A switch to PHP/Laravel would net you more candidates.

Offering remote would help.
"Once setup, search will work the same way forever" - I don't know a single programmer who believes this about any software.
>When the light is on, you have no assurance that the tires are properly inflated

I mean, you could always, you know, check. With a tire pressure gauge. Like on every car ever that didn't have this TP thingy. Honestly, you don't even need to do that - if the tire is low enough to be a safety risk, it will be visibly flat.

Would you down-rate an Uber just for not having this sensor at all?
The human body absolutely needs fats... most highly available sources of protein tend to come with 0.5 to 4g of fat per 1g of protein. If you need 80-120g of protein a day, you should probably be getting 40-80g of fats per day.

Generally speaking most dietary fat for pre-agricultural man would come from fish, meat or fatty fruits and tree nuts. All of which are/were prevalent and common. As to the sourcing, my own opinion is that the more refined the source, the less natural it is... which means that most seed oil sources are anything but natural to take in any significant quantity.

I tend to stick to lard, butter, evoo, avocado oil, and occasional walnut oil for cooking or salad use.
Why wasn't the last one named Facadez?
> the idea of implementing so much as a binary heap

In my experience knowing how to implement such things isn't very useful in daily practical programming. Knowing that they exist, what problems they solve, the pros and cons that is incredibly useful day to day. Especially if you can recognize when you've accidentally strayed into implementing one of them under the guise of solving a business problem. You can then apply known patterns or have the foresight to say "Yo this is a solved problem, let's find a library"
In gist:

1. Use a reading list

2. Choose your setting

3. Use the dictionary to look up unfamiliar/ambiguous words

4. Talk about it

5. Follow journalists

6. Read less, be picky
"Falsehoods programmers believe considered harmful"
> Of course, the long term dream would be to generate type definitions from the SQL files, but I assume that would require a heck of a lot of magic (e.g. "actually run a query, figure out what the schema of the result table is, and create a snapshot of that"). I haven't seen a lot of prior art in terms of "static typing of DB access without a big ol' ORM,"

Regarding GraphQL, a combination of something like Postgraphile[0] and graphql-code-generator[1] or graphqlgen[2] gets you pretty much there without writing a single line of code.

[0] https://www.graphile.org/
[1] https://github.com/dotansimha/graphql-code-generator
[2] https://oss.prisma.io/graphqlgen/
A Court’s Dangerous Antitrust Overreach
It depends what you're looking for. If it's an error message, you probably want that exact string, not results that are errors but don't include the string.

It used to be that searching literally "restaurants" (i.e. with quotes) would search for an exact match (particularly useful for multi-word searches in those days), but no more. It's taken as a 'hint' or something, I believe, but not an absolute instruction.
Are/ were you religious at the time? Any chance that you and the rest of us actually share an idea of how religious homeschool people are but just have different cut offs for when we start throwing the term "fundamentalist" around?

Anyone who genuinely believes the specifics beyond being a theist who pays lip service to Christianity is starting to head in to nut territory, personally.
Damn, that really does make the rating system almost totally useless.
Is that different anywhere else in the world? Unfortunately, having connections and existing resources has always been far more advantageous to people than talent alone (or any other factor).
I tried something similar with a 40w panel, 9ah 12v lead acid battery and a raspberry pi. Unfortunately the RPI would always drain the battery to empty each night which I think trashed the lifespan of the battery. Now I just use it to charge my phone.
It saddens me that Pi-Hole is pulling a mere $1,700/mo on Patreon.

There must be just way too much friction for a user to say, yeah, charge me $1/mo please.
Another frustrating thing with google search is when it translates (or attempts to translate) queries for you and then fails to show you any results in the language of what you typed in. Even with languages specified in my google account I can't get it to stop without quoting part of search. I've switched to using yandex for a lot of searches just to avoid it.
> Raising kids is bad? I'd call it one of the most altruistic things a man can do

Raising your own children is not even remotely altruistic. It's selfishly following your evolutionary drive to propagate your own genes.
I've had Uber drivers who had cars that were in such poor repair that the ride was physically uncomfortable. Like they had no shocks in the car. To me, it was a minor inconvenience because I was hung over. Someone with a more serious medical problem might have had an even worse time.

I've also had drivers who had absolutely no idea where they were going. To the point where they couldn't even follow the GPS reliably and I had to constantly tell them to get in a different lane or we were going to miss an exit and add significant time on to the trip. This was on the way to the airport, so it was kind of important to get there without a lot of detours. It turned out they didn't even live in my city and had not driven around here at all before.

I do think the 1-5 stars is stupid because people interpret that differently. If it's essentially 5 stars = ok, < 5 stars = "fire this driver", then they should just make it a thumbs up /thumbs down rating.
> Well, this is not about coding.

It may not be the central in your mind, but the way you outline the story makes programming/coding/tech seem like the core theme...

I do like the idea though, especially this commenter's version of it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20045253
The Pro SKU for Windows still exists and does offer more options for Update control.

Even if your OEM won't sell you a Pro edition license, it's also easier than ever to move a Home SKU to a Pro SKU because it's a one-time $99 purchase in the Microsoft Store and an in-place software update.
I think a one star rating is closer to "fire this person immediately" due to grave concerns.
Well, did those groups of rats interbreed or not?
Just had to let you know I'm listening to Mélange and it's freaking great.
That's a great way to literally do nothing ever. You could make the same claim about coal mines, about hydro dams, about skyscrapers, about bridges, about aircraft, about self-driving cars. Life is risky. We design mitigations and hold ourselves to them. That's why we're alive right now.
It is "right" to provide an honest rating. What you seem to be saying is that it is the rider's duty to provide dishonest ratings.
That's a very waterfall way of looking at it. "Business have requirements, we have software, if we just understand the requirements we can build the perfect system". I could hardly disagree less.

Software is deliberate, yes. You need to know what you want to do at a pretty detailed level, but that's not the challenge. The challenge is that this new technology (what software can do) is a gamechanger for most traditional businesses. It creates a lot of new opportunities by enabling ventures you couldn't even imagine before, and every time you build more, you get more opportunities. Software requires you to reevaluate what you were doing previously. That's hard.

Software is also fluid. As you get more software, you see more opportunities. As you get more, you want more. Anything that tries to treat the domain as "static and understandable" is doomed to fail. Development is not the steady march towards the perfect system. Development is the discovery of what you can do with software, and how that changes the business processes that already exist.
PyCM 2.2 released: A general benchmark based comparison of classification models
> Are you prepared to pay your employees a significant premium for the requirement that they engage in fisticuffs with random strangers who may try to tailgate into the building?

I have zero experience with this, but I imagine the policy would be "Don't enter the building if someone is too close behind you."

If you don't feel comfortable asking for space (fine!), turn around, go back to your car, and call building security as necessary.

Is this shortsighted?
I have a bad rating. I live close to the airport and from work. Short trips, cheap rides. The drivers give me bad rating so they know to not pick me up, cancel me, or call me asking my destination.

I complained to Uber several times, they always throw me a $5 or $10 credit, but no solution. They also don't change my rating.