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I'm very open to the possibility that you are just sealioning and throwing around accusations of being "toxic" while in fact being very toxic and generally not open to discussion yourself.

Professional engineers are generally not liable unless they have substantially neglected the standard of practice, so no, a company using tracking data would not result in personal liability for that engineer (unless they, say, got hacked due to personal negligence on his part).

No professional engineer would ever agree to personal liability for all actions of a company. Only the things they themselves have signed off on. You will never be able to sue an engineer because a company used your personal data for tracking. Period. The professional engineer doesn't have to sign off that the visitor's lounge is hypoallergenic.

Furthermore, who exactly do you imagine regulates this professional engineer system? Who makes sure that everybody on the internet is appropriately licensed before "a spam bot calls you"? Where exactly does that responsibility lay in this system? Does a phone company have to make sure that a client for each phone number they assign is engaging a professional engineer before placing a call? What if it's Google and everything is just SIP calls from various IPs? Does Google have to make sure that everyone assigned an IP has signoff from a professional engineer? What if I just pick up a phone and dial a person? Who has the liability if I then voice an unsolicited commercial solicitation? What happens if I send a packet that wasn't approved by the professional engineer that Google had sign off on my computer system?

You've outlined a system that is hilariously unsustainable and ill-thought-out, where nobody is allowed to do anything without a Professional Nanny literally watching over their shoulder as they place a phone call or send packets over the internet. But you also think that Professional Nannies will definitely agree to personal liabilities for whatever their clients do.

As if the Professional Nannies wouldn't be just as effective here as Credit Rating agencies were in 2007. Sure, nervously watch the phone all you want - if you don't sign off on it, we'll find someone who will. And yes, you'll be personally liable too, since individuals lack the negotiating power that firms (like Credit Rating agencies) do.

Here's a maxim for you: the broader the need for these professional engineers, the less authority and independence they will have. Professional Engineers actually only work because they only have to sign off on complete negligence - life or death stuff, their buildings falling down. If they have to sign off that the visitor's lounge is hypoallergenic the system falls apart.

But I understand your religion here, the Free Market will undoubtedly provide. Nothing bad can ever happen under a Free Market, because people would just buy from someone else. We just need to make sure that everybody has personal liability and the NAP will guarantee that no problems ever exist.

I certainly don't think I was wrong to pin you as a Libertarian right from the first comment. Regardless of whether you claim to deny the label.
I don't assume they all are, I just think there is a large portion of paid shills that stir things up and give people talking points.

Is this an unreasonable assumption considering the topic here?
I think the person in question is stating that the person they're responding to _shouldn't have to remind themselves of those things_
Charting the course of Bitcoin, 11 years and counting
Maybe China goes through what the young US went through?

200 years ago the US was a notorious thief of tech. The UK had strong export protections on skilled workers and important machinery, especially in the spinning industry.

Alexander Hamilton helped steal many trade secrets and helped many skilled US artisans migrate to the US, that was his government's policy, including paying for artisans' travels, suggesting to hand out bounties to people smuggling artisans out of the UK, and so on.

The US' strong copyright laws and international enforcement came later.
> That means this whole business is a race to the bottom.

Seems like that's why they started limiting hackney carriages and regulating rates in London in 1662.

Also the horse had to be less than 14 hands high!

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol5/pp351-...
We cant reach it in a year because it is more than 4 light years away.
Assume that inherent skill is evenly distributed, Assume that the environment to foster that skill is not. Why would we not make college affordable if we can produce high quality college graduates. The US isn't a closed system, we make a lot of money in the knowledge economy, a fight we're slowly losing to China and India.
Doing some napkin estimating: 1000 users loading a page each per minute is 16.67 page renders per second (or 60 ms per page assuming one cpu thread). If they're reloading every 10s that's 10 ms per page. At that rate even a compiled language may not keep up with the db being the bottleneck.

That said, if any of the page renderings can be shared between users, such as using a framework that can do page fragment caching then you can approach that level especially if you can cache entire responses using nginx.
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Hello HNers,

For past 10 years, I have tried to self learn programming language and web dev, but I could not succeed in learning any langauage. I had tried to abandon this career path, but I always find some inspiration, and coming back to the same path to learn language. Currently I am learning Python for web dev. I need a mentor who can guide me through.

Please help.
Absolutely appalling.
Now even Microsoft is releasing the next generation of document creation tools as cloud only. Does anyone still think that we will do the thin clients to powerful personal computers transition for mobile too? I really wanted it to happen but I'm losing faith.
>Stocks? Remember dividends? Not so much these days.

This one I have real issue with, ignores the much scorned buyback or any facet of capital investment.
Your issue trades at a certain eps multiple, you take earned cash, buy shares with it.
Sort of in a vacuum, it's the same business, why should the earnings change? But now you have less shares outstanding, so now your shares are in a more empirical sense worth more. If you want to consider it, the capital return can come from the company buying your shares.
It can be harder with a company like amazon when they had a X00 eps, but it's still all about valuation. Amazon circa 2019 /= Amazon 1997.

>Government bonds? Do do negative interest rates sound? You buy one of these because either you have to or you think others will have to.

Yeah, some truth here. Alternatively, you do it because you think rates might go lower still, and their returns aren't highly correlated to equities. There's also a theory I'm partial to where in the pockets of the world that have a crazy high amount of savings, even past encouraging entities to find better returns, negative interest rates make no bones about making the the cost of savings clear.

>Real estate? Please. Take away price appreciation driven by easy money and few would bother "owning."

In a personal sense, real estate you own is rent you don't have to pay. In an external sense, real estate you own/operate is cash flows you can bring in. The elevated markets admittedly tend not to look so great in cash flow metrics.
There used to be, most of the locations went out of business around 10-15 years ago. Corporate was screwing over their own franchisees and making bad business decisions that saturated the market. On top of that corporate was cooking the books. The result was the company lost 80% of it's value and most franchises couldn't stay open.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/rise-and-fall-of-biggest-k...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krispy_Kreme

>Krispy Kreme also had supermarkets and gas stations carry their donuts, which soon contributed up to half of the chain's sales, creating further market saturation as well as increasing competition to its franchisees. All this expansion devalued Krispy Kreme brand's novelty, by making the once-specialty donuts ubiquitous, particularly as the newer sales outlets required pre-made donuts as opposed to the ones made fresh in factory stores, which alienated brand devotees.

>Besides royalty payments from new stores, the parent company also enjoyed significant profits by requiring franchisees to purchase mix and doughnut-making equipment from the parent's Krispy Kreme Manufacturing and Distribution (KKM&D) division. KKM&D earned $152.7 million in 2003, which made up 31 percent of sales, with a reported operating margin of 20 percent or higher, but these mark-ups were largely at the expense of its franchisees.

>Krispy Kreme has been accused of channel stuffing by franchisees, whose stores reportedly "received twice their regular shipments in the final weeks of a quarter so that headquarters could make its numbers".[9] The company was also dogged by questionable transactions and self-dealing accusations over the buybacks of franchisees, including those operated by company insiders.
nice.
long time ago I had much success importing and filtering multiple gigabytes of CSV data into elasticsearch using CSVfix (if I'm not mistaken) + jq (converting it to json-lines in between, using jq as well)
xsv seems to cover some areas I've used jq.
They squeeze everybody for as much as they’ve got.
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They paid the fines, but and what changed?

Are users any better off now because those companies got fined? Did those companies stop collecting user data? Has online privacy improved because of those fines? Nope!
You seem to assume public sentiment actually becomes existing public policy. That would be great because at least then the democratic will of the people would finally be enacted. But right now all you’ll ever see will be mostly industry-captured and/or anti-public-housing, specifically neoliberal policy designed to commoditize housing even more deeply.
I like OpenBSD. I issue a 'ps -ax' and can see a short list of processes which I understand the purpose of, I feel like I understand more or less how the OS works without being a systems/kernel programmer.

When I do the same with Ubuntu I get a massive list of processes, most of which I don't understand or recognize. I'm back to the Windows feeling that the OS is a transcendent black box, but now with no Microsoft Office, power management, and display (esp multi-monitor) bugs.

I love the idea of Linux but it seems like the less practical option.
Strange that the article doesn’t talk about how Microsoft is rolling out this change worldwide. You’d think they would - a zero-cost intervention that increases productivity 40%? Slam dunk!

So what’s more likely, that MSFT management is publicizing this result but not planning to implement it, or that this lightly-sourced Business Insider piece that talks mostly about a different company is dramatically overstating things to get clicks?
Yeah they’re not left leaning at all, they’re completely corporate and plutocratic. The highest paid state employees are university presidents and college sports coaches.
Link is a little buried in the article: https://myactivity.google.com/
How do you stop someone from forking the project on GitHub, adding in a manifest, and then pushing to a package repository like npm?

Is there a risk of popular projects that are distributed through GitRoyalty having unofficial versions with malicious code on the package repositories, similar to now typo-squatting works?
Whoa, never heard anyone talk about my ancestors before! My great-great grandmother was Passamaquoddy, and absolutely nobody knows who they are.
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Patent system was not meant for 21st century. Many drugs re-patented to profit higher, e.g., Albuterol.

Innovation should be protected with a capped value instead of a period of time.
In my opinion The Guardian is a paid troll farm. It is the media source with the most clickbait headlines and rarely generates good discussion, instead polarises people and leads to slanging matches.
Google has so far only received a 50M euro fine from France, and a tiny one from one of the other countries. Depending who you ask, there are different stories for why Google hasn't suffered larger fines. One story is that the law is toothless and we need something stronger. Another story is that enforcement in complex situations takes time, and we'll see bigger Google fines down the line. And then the final story is that Google is actually complying with the law.
Is it just me or are those ARM instances rather expensive compared to other EC2 options?
America needs elite colleges to reproduce its ruling class. At least the ruling class thinks so.
Do you believe only government pays trolls to comment online? And no industry does this?
There are practical limits to the supply of gold. There is no limit to the supply of crypto currency. That can be created out of thin air by anyone at any time.
Or we could just use Firefox, whose tracking protections have been enhanced a lot. Make it even better by adding a bunch of popular extensions (uBlock Origin, NoScript, Privacy Possum, Cookie Auto Delete, Multi Account Containers, Decentraleyes and a few others).

Another alternative for those who use Apple devices would be Safari, which is also strong on tracking protection. But the lack of good extensions on the latest Safari makes it a poorer proposition compared to Firefox.
“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.” -- Bjarne Stroustrup
I think there's an argument to be made that GDPR had some effects. For example, you can now enable or disable ads personalization on Google at https://adssettings.google.com. I don't think that was there before GDPR. Google also presumably did explicit opt-in for EU users, since otherwise they'd have already faced some pretty massive fines.

It may be that most users consented, but I think the take away from that should be that most users do not consider ads personalization a significant violation of their privacy.
Dude if you are intelligent enough to run a successful small business, then you are adaptable enough to learn the PII storage requirements of GDPR.
Many cities solve this chicken and egg problem by building the necessary density next to the train station. Hong Kong and Japan are the most famous examples, but it works in Singapore and large chunks of Europe as well (although Parisian banlieues may not be the best model of urban planning for other reasons...).
Sure, but this is also an industry, they are a "belief" industry, but it's not poor people, and it's not individuals. It's either really rich people or some kind of corporate body. (or governments obviously) Am I missing a group?
I, for one, would contribute to an ongoing "Project Jengo" type of thing, especially if it targeted the broader patent troll portfolio. I don't even think it would need a bounty system; just create something where people can submit prior art against a list of patents.
Are Facebook and Google State Actors?
I don't understand, did they acquire dollars to back up those issuances, or not?
I agree that there's a bit of hippocracy around the way crypto communities claim that they're trustless until something goes terribly wrong, at which point various key people in those comminutes are trusted to author a hard fork that will undo the damage.

But hippocracy aside, I still think it's a better system than the one you find in fiat currencies. At least in the crypto case the people in the trusted position have something to lose--if they behave badly, people will lose faith in the currency and go elsewhere. It doesn't take much to move your assets between cryptos. If you control enough hashpower (assuming POW) or coin (assuming POS) you could easily lose it all overnight if you support a malicious fork.

In a fiat currency there's way more friction keeping people entrenched. This means that the banks can behave badly and still bet on a majority of their users sticking with their platform.

Besides, Bitcoin just proved the concept. If you don't accept that its fork mechanism has merit as is then I hope you can at least admit that there could be a system that is more effective than our current bureaucratic mess. And whatever that system is, it seems likely that one of the fledgling next-gen cryptos will find a way to make it happen.

I was reading about decred the other day, for instance. Voting on potential forks and then healing the partial schism caused by the vote is baked into their protocol. Apart from the necessary bit about trusting other stakeholders to vote reasonably, I think that in a scenario like that the trust placed directly in the protocol is not insignificant.
> she doesn’t understand why everyone else in the class can’t just listen the first time it’s explained

Hey look, it's me!

Make sure she knows how to study. And doesn't see needing to study as a sure sign of failure, and the act of studying as something adjacent to cheating ("well yeah so-and-so got an A-, but only by studying"). It seems dumb as shit with the distance of [mumble] years but when I finally got around to introspecting re: what exactly went wrong with me starting in 7th or 8th grade—yep, turns out I held those attitudes, even if I might not have phrased it that way at the time.

Mind, I have no idea how to do this effectively. Likely we'll be facing the same problem with our eldest at some point, but we're not there yet so I don't have any battle-tested how-to advice.
No way a Lyft merger could be approved in any kind of sane society. It would turn a duopoly into a monopoly.
I think my favorite insight from this post is that the difference between founders and others is the bias to action to go after an idea that seems like a good one, and take it where it may go.
I initially wrote a comment about how the idea of troll farms and misinformation campaigns is very old. Mark Antony and Octavian engaged in such campaigns against one another after Caesar's death. I was essentially thinking that we've dealt with them, just at a smaller scale. Somehow I missed the irony that Octavian literally ended the Roman Republic. I suppose the downfall started with Caesar though.

I really do wonder what can be done about the misinformation problem. It doesn't seem like educating the populace is a very effective solution, because even educated people fall for it.
Why did they stop?
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That could be getting at what confused me about the article. The author mentions the crosstown LRT favourably, and that will link up to the UP commuter/airport line I mentioned, adding another stop.

LRT linking to commuter rail lines, subway lines, and bus stops is something the author didn't really mention, but it certainly seems to be the strategy for that line in Toronto.

The author is against cutting funding for bus routes, which is reasonable. I guess I just don't see how that is also an argument against using LRT for arterial transportation into downtown cores. If the retort to that is "budgets", then we need increased funding for public transportation, not fewer trains.
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I've seen Waymo's cars driving around plenty of times in Arizona. The ones without a human safety driver are so rare I haven't seen one in person yet. If they were actually confident they were close to FSD they would have more cars without human safety drivers.
I very much sympathize with the goals here (I'm deeply concerned about open source sustainability), but this doesn't strike me as a good solution. Not a single company I have worked for would allow a dependency like this in their repo (and I wouldn't blame them). Not only is it legally gray, but somebody has to maintain that subscription. We do buy licenses but only for big/important stuff. Something like this could work for a project of sufficient magnitude, but I don't think it will for smaller stuff.
>mostly benefiting the rich and very poor

Not quite just the very poor: U Chicago gives free full tuition to students from families making under $125k.

But as for the very poor at nearly every other private college, the picture is more bleak: The average private is in the ballpark of $35k. Maximum grants from the feds and state of Illinois total about $16k. That's not enough. However, it is generally plenty for attending any public state school.

The most squeezed bracket financially are families making around $65k a year. They earn too much and so lose a large portion of need based grant eligibility, and have and "estimated family contribution" (EFC) 3 or 4 times higher than families making not too much less. Even state schools are difficult here. My recommendation to such families is to begin by getting an associate's degree for 1/3 the cost for those 2 years, then only pay the higher rate to finish the bachelor's degree in the last 2 years.

It's true families making > $100k a year are expected to contribute the lion's share, absent merit scholarships, but they also tend to be families with assets, including houses with equity they can leverage, to help pay. Yes, it sucks to have to do that, but many thousands of families in the $65k bracket are much worse off without even that option.

To be clear, I'm not really disputing what you said on that topic: I just wanted to add more detail and nuance.

Source: I work in Higher Ed analytics.
I'm in the NYC market. I use Lyft to get around and Uber Eats to order things that could never have a business model delivering to me. To me market capture is just as bad as the original Taxi model, but even Taxis have gotten around to handling this problem. You can switch to the app in the middle of a ride and pay with the code on the back seat tv screen. The convenience factor is only there for food until another competitor enters that arena.

It's a race to the bottom and I suspect after all the hard work is said and done Uber will be the Yahoo of ride share. Tesla may very well swoop in and say "Thanks for blazing the trail"
How well do those tools work with arbitrary CSV files, e.g. containing line breaks or quotes in field data? I wasn't aware that they can actually parse CSV and instead you have to assume things about the content that may not end up being true.
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That’s called “streetrunning”.

If you check out YouTube you can find some freight trains that have to do that from time-to-time.

About a hundred years ago, when Toronto’s streetcar was implemented, they made their gauge slightly narrower than train gauge to prevent “trains” from running along streetcar tracks.

They pay for it to this day as it means new streetcars need to be designed for a gauge that nobody else uses.

Turning radii is also an issue. Possibly by design or not...
I asked how is the Dai pegged to the dollar, and that is the answer.
No mentor is going to be able to help you based on the information you've provided.

> For past 10 years, I have tried to self learn programming language and web dev, but I could not succeed in learning any langauage.

Why haven't you been successful? What do you want a mentor to help you with?

> I had tried to abandon this career path, but I always find some inspiration, and coming back to the same path to learn language. Currently I am learning Python for web dev. I need a mentor who can guide me through.

Why does your inspiration fade? What kind of guidance do you need?