skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Did you know you cannot choose where to take these tests?

Welcome to the Canadian Healthcare system. It's free, but not without issue, even ignoring the long wait times and inability to get a doctor in most places in the country.

Did you know I'm not allowed to go get my blood tested privately, even if I pay for it? That I require a requisition from a doctor (which I don't have, so I have to go to a walk-in clinic and take up the time of a doctor who could care less what they are signing)? And that the results then get shared back with said doctor, who's discretion it is what data he shares with me? It's bizarre.

I often see Americans pointing to Canada's system as a shining example. I mean, sure, we don't have crushing medical debt, which is AWESOME. But our healthcare system has so many problems itself...
I tried going through that process, and they rejected one of my projects (with no followup or explanation, and without replying to my questions). That's the story I told in the OP Twitter thread. That's when I realized the process was broken.
It did not use to be standard industry practice.

Now even every bodyshop and IT Contracting outfit has language in their agreements that claim ownership.

It is a claim that they own the information contained in one’s brain
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This reminds me of the story of the young intern that went around a few years ago. They sheepishly admitted to their boss at the end of their summer internship that they had just googled all the Excel things that were required, that they hadn't actually known any of it.

"But your generation KNOWS to look for help, and knows where to find it! That's where you were doing it right," was the boss's response. And that's heartening.
Exactly. It's just one way of doing things, and I definitely admit that some very good things have come from much more complex systems.

However, bug control is absolutely vital with these systems, and you definitely need some kind of quality-assurance system, or you will be hatin' life.
As others have said, this is nowhere near the standard outside of the US. Personally, I consider this "industry standard" pretty gross and touching on some very uncomfortable topics like wage slavery. Your employer should not own your ideas and it should not matter where you got them.

A no-compete clause is the much more reasonable solution a company can use to protect itself from flagrant violations of trust.
I am working my way through this one as well.
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The Chaos Of English Pronunciation by Gerard Nolst Trenité:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edPxKqiptw
So the sellers in this case don't even get a cut of the $119/yr Prime fees?

If that's the case why would the sellers even offer Prime shipping? Why not offer free 2-day shipping to everyone, including those who aren't Prime members as well?
Zigbee is used all the time in smart lights, plugs, doorbells, temperature sensors and the such. It's a very popular standard.
A strong part of the protestors are young farmers. Set on taking over their parents farm and continuing the family business. And they probably want the same for their kids as well. It's really puzzling they take this stance, especially since the majority is also anti EU, which is also against their best interest, because most of their revenue is from export, which would suffer havily when a Nexit would ever occur.

Source (Dutch): https://www.trouw.nl/binnenland/vooral-jonge-boeren-worden-s...
I thought of the cells working as a raid system, Perhaps the flow of energy also stores and retrieves data to "refresh" the brain cells..
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The crossword is precisely the thing I want! Foiled again!
I don't see the problem. Fully decentralized platforms like Bitcoin are too inconvenient to use. Not everyone wants to download the full blockchain and you still have to find someone to exchange your dollars to BTC. So what happens is that most people sign up on an exchange which is effectively a federated system which merely communicates with other exchanges over the common Bitcoin protocol.
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> It will depend on you and the value you find in that information we provide.

First, I understand that Scope is a startup and working a lot of this out so please take my response as constructive feedback.

I suspect that you're missing my point. If you're selling this product to me then you need to sell me on how it's going to make my life as project manager, CTO, or engineer better. Saying that it's data for decision making is a start. But my perception on our conversation is that every time I've tried to pin down a concrete answer on "What decisions does this help me make?" you've responded along the lines of "This is the data and this is how it's created." That's not telling me what immediate actionable steps this data will allow me to make and to make better. Subsequently, how those actionable steps will lead to more productivity and better quality.

Hopefully that gets across what I was attempting to understand.

Best of luck to you and Scope!
Hope you're able to change those habits, friend.
>(e.g., "father" went in a different direction from the other "-ather" words, like "lather" and "rather").

In my dialect (north eastern corner of the West Country) all three sound the same except for the initial.

Otherwise I agree with everything you said.
Uh, are you asking for examples of flooding?

Consider this: Delta Works and the rest of ocean polders are built to withstand something like 5m above mean sea level. Katrina caused a storm surge 8.5m above mean sea level.

Granted, North Sea isn't quite like Gulf of Mexico (yet) But there is absolutely a chance that a storm comes next year that would breach it
Just googling "下去 continue" brought up https://www.linguee.com/chinese-english/translation/%E4%B8%8... . Googling "chinese english dictionary common usage" brought up someone with the same complaint as you: http://laowaichinese.net/the-future-for-chinese-english-dict...
> even in transit

There isn't the concept of international transit in the US. You have to "fully" enter the country as there aren't separate international terminals with passport checking and whatnot.

There's a short stay transit visa if you are just using the US as a connection point, though.
>It's standard industry practice for companies to claim ownership of everything a software engineer comes up with

Well, because it's standard industry practice, I guess you're not allowed to complain about it.

Your whole argument is that it's the norm, while this article advocates for changing the norm.
I can't really tell for the github issues you posted what was done about these two issues.

I don't really feel like reading all that just to figure it out.

Did you resolve both of the issues brought up by OP or not?

(Answering: "The password policy was added to Team Edition back in June, 2018.", isn't the same as answering, "the free tier allows passwords of length >5 characters.")
How does this explain 2 orders of a magnitude difference in allowed nitrogen disposition compared to Germany?
I think you got downvoted because people like Teslas more than they care about African children.
The structural issue is abstraction caused by complicated supply chains. The public interface is what the consumer can easily see about the product like the user experience, branding, and the final purchase price, but it's supported by lots of hidden infrastructure associated the manufacture of every part embedded into the product, along with any services provided supporting the user experience.

Labeling laws are one way to try to make the hidden details of implementation public at the cost of more complex decision-making for consumers. Sometimes large companies can police the supply chain themselves, so that from a consumer perspective, avoiding exploitation becomes part of the brand.

A carbon tax attempts to bundle climate change costs into prices without changing the public API at all. This seems like the most thorough way to make sure every buyer at all levels of the supply chain takes this environmental cost into account in their decision-making, whether they are specifically thinking about it or not.

So it seems the best way to avoid this issue would be for cobalt based on child labor to be unavailable for purchase and a second-best way would be to make sure it's more expensive so that buyers within the supply chain will automatically avoid that dependency.

When we get to the point where consumers need to step in and do the decision-making because nobody else will then this is probably the most inefficient way to do it, but it seems the supply chain won't do it unless they are pushed into it?
Upvoted.

You'll not find many on here with an ounce of historical, social or political understanding.
>why BC is not terminating their contract.

To go where? Socialized healthcare creates monopolies. There are few competitors. You trust your data more to some upstart entity that doesn't yet exist?
OK, let me be more specific since that is what I was inferring.

Yes the software layer is different.
Thank you and the other users for the patience.

I guess in the case of your code, the checks are removed/optimized because the compiler knows the size of the array (since it's static, as in non-dynamically-allocated)?

Probably the out-of-bounds runtime checks will (or should be) enforced when it's about dynamically allocated arrays.
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exactly!
colonial powers only pulled out of africa once they figured out how to continue extracting and exploiting without the overheads of having to also administer their former colonies
This, pretty much. I do have a blog, but 1) it's mildly more annoying to update, 2) I have >30K Twitter followers, I assume maybe 5 people have my RSS feed in a reader somewhere, and 3) I didn't actually expect it to turn out this long, but I was already typing things up into the Twitter boxes, so shrug, and 4) Twitter seems to be the place for this sort of discussion these days; my blog doesn't even have comments.

I'll use my blog for long technical posts though. Those make more sense there.
On the topic of the physical toll taken on workers (and their families) by manual labor jobs, OSHA says "Out of 4,674 worker fatalities in private industry in calendar year 2017, 971 or 20.7% were in construction — that is, one in five worker deaths last year were in construction."

Probably the most physically dangerous part of a programming job is getting there (car crashes etc).

https://www.osha.gov/oshstats/commonstats.html
Name may be modern, but Hinduism refers to Sanatan Dharm that is indigenous to India.

Let's not confuse religion with culture. By the above logic:

An average Pakistani has more in common with Hindu/Sikh Punjabi. A Bangladeshi had more in common with Hindu Bengali. Indonesian Muslims have more in common with Malay. Central Asians with watch other than Arabs, Africans with each other. Yet, there is singular Islam. Same goes for every other religion.
I wasn't introduced to programming through BASIC so I can't speak to your analogy, but I believe you've taken me to say "hiding complexity is wrong." I don't think any point that I've made can be interpreted this way. There's plenty of low hanging fruit for beginner music theorists. "V7 resolves to I" is low hanging fruit, and it has tons of underlying complexity that you don't need to understand as a beginner. It's understood by every educated musician. My point is that if you want to be understood by other musicians you should learn this:

V7 -> I

and not this:

(x+2, x+5, x+7, x+11) -> (x, x+4, x+7, x+12)
You are likely just benchmarking the time it takes to print one million lines to stdout.
A coup that many think was orchestrated by Erdogan so he could clean house.
Just walk south. Don't walk north. Walk south. It's that simple.

Mexico is a civilized democracy with public safety problems, you people talking as if it was North Korea...
In the Netherlands, no. But it's a small country with a small coast (relative to other countries), and it's in a part of the continent that has thus far not experienced much in the way of severe storms. That is changing as the weather patterns become more volatile.

But here's a simple scenario. Earthquakes in the Groningen region (caused by natural gas drilling and extraction), have become a new and significant problem. Let's say one or a series of earthquakes happens to coincide with an unusual North Sea storm event - one which includes high winds. You'll have a combination of stresses and forces that may exceed the capabilities of some dikes. And small failures could result in other stresses in other places which could lead to other failures.

If you read about some of the great catastrophes in the modern age, they often involve a chain of small events which result in a scenario that was either not predicted or was deemed too low chance to be concerned with.
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As a couple people mentioned on the twitter thread, it is possible to negotiate this line out of your contract with Google (the one about relating to google's business).

I did so with google, and also with apple.
That's why there's no final answer to "layer: yes or no?". It depends. And as a developer it's your job to guess which decision is more likely to save you time (= money) in the future. There's no way to know the right answer for sure because it depends on further (business) decisions that aren't made yet.
You're lucky you got some form of discussion out of the people you work with. Whenever I try to steer conversation towards "technical accountability" where I ask what I think are legitimate questions concerning application design and architecture, the mood is as if no-one else believes it's of any importance and I am that weird guy putting spokes in the wheels of a great project. My arguments aren't refuted, they're conveniently ignored. People are honestly dumbfounded and prefer to change subject at best, at worst they lash out with what seems to be simplistic thinly-veiled "culture" attacks -- "oh, please, not with that abstraction/encapsulation argument again, we've got work to do"-sort of utterances.
Nooo don't blame people who look like me!

(upvoted).
>not unexpected in today's data-hungry market.

It's worth noting that this sort of data collection shouldn't be simply driven by the market and what it can get away with.

There's a big gap in US law where collecting data like this for certain uses shouldn't be legal, and there should be laws governing whether or not e.g. an insurance company can access and store data from your car in the event of an accident.

US laws have never been updated for privacy in the computer age simply because the people who have kept themselves in power for that long do not choose to do so.

US Citizens assume that there's a legal safety blanket associated with corporations and what they're allowed to do because for non computer related privacy issues, the laws generally agree with common sense. Corporations can't open other people's mail just because it's laying in the car when they tow it from an accident, that's illegal.

People assume the same is the case with the data they enter into their car computers, and it's completely untrue.
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Ah! I totally misunderstood that. Thx
I agree with everything you have said. But the trends in "The Enterprise" are to eschew these ideas in favor of overly complex serverless architectures with poorly specified interfaces where any pluggable developer/resource can perform hit and runs on any component. What I've seen this lead to is the most brittle, bug ridden, low quality software in my career. And the irony is it's led to none of the perceived benefits of serverless architectures but has enhanced all the drawbacks of monolith architectures.

My best guess is to why things have become this way is that middle management in "The Enterprised" reckoned "Agile" as an opportunity to commoditize software development.
> The lawsuit accuses those companies of "knowingly benefiting from and aiding and abetting the cruel and brutal use of young children." It has not been tested in court.

Might as well sue the end users too, if that's a viable theory.
OP your comment comes across as very puritanical.

It’s okay that some people haven’t been coding since they were 8. It’s alright that they choose to have hobbies outside of work that don’t involve coding. It’s also okay that they are getting into CS to make money.

Programming has turned into a very lucrative career. Yes some people might be getting into it for “all the wrong reasons”, but it’s a job. Mercenary or missionary, both have value.

If you’re concerned about your viability in the marketplace, you shouldn’t be. The cream always rises to the top, it’s just a matter of time.
> ethnically cleanse

? Who's talking about ethnic cleansing? We're talking about violence cause as a consequence of the USA's drug policy + CIA interference.

The levels of misconception in this thread are remarkable
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Nor is it an inherent right to operate a business to sell Legos in any given country.

Instead, they operate in countries that allow them to do business there. The people in many of those countries, whether due to "inherent human right" or because they fought for it, have the right to vote and elect representatives to make laws.

So if those people decide that companies can't just ban people from doing business with them without "due process", they can put that into law.

I don't personally buy into the idea that anything is an "inherent human right," it's all social contract from my perspective. Businesses are subject to it as well.
Their argument seems to be that "California law allows us to do it", and "it's protecting us from employees creating competing products".

The problem I see with that is

1) They don't have to do everything they're legally allowed to in a contract as long as they aren't breaking the law.

2) It's disingenuous to spin this as somehow protecting employees. They just want people to make use of their process so that they get to arbitrarily decide whether they own something or not. If employees were really interested in exercising their legal rights, they could ignore the IARC and work on it on their own time anyway, and if Google wanted to, they could try suing the employee to get the copyright transferred. In practice, that makes them look bad, so they have the IARC process instead, which makes it easier for them to pressure employees into assigning things to Google, even if it wouldn't stand up in court.
No, it also covers technical improvements that are not patentable: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/arbnerfg/__3.html
Thanks for wording it so much more concisely and clearly! Love your post, sharing it here: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/issues/6320#...
Since I was introduced to it few years ago, I've been watching it every year on New Year's Eve, with friends or alone. "Same as every year...".

To me it is a light-hearted, almost dionysian, meditation on memory, friendship, isolation, loss, and time.

Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18794397

Edit: link to previous thread.
Yes, and if we were talking about releasing fossil water into the atmosphere there might be something to the comparison. But water emissions from a hydrogen car are just moving existing water around and don't compound over time. It's minuscule compared to the hydrologic cycle even over desert regions.
Apple's existing standard (HomeKit) is relatively 'open' - the specification is published, and several open source implementations exist. I've used the Python one to implement automation on the smart-home devices I've built myself. However, you do need to be certified to distribute a product otherwise you get a warning in the app when you add the device.

This seems like a fair compromise to me.
Just yesterday Aqara (Xiaomi) launched their Amazon storefront. All their devices are Zigbee and had mostly only been available from places like Aliexpress. Zigbee is far from a dead standard.
If the test doesn't reflect the job you'll be doing then it's not a good test of whether or not you'll be able to do the job. If you're applying for a role that expects you to know an application then looking in the help is cheating. If using the help is acceptable in the job then it's not.

It's also worth noting that people don't like "proxy tests" for the skills they'll need to use on the job. If the test only tangentially assesses a skill then it's going to be influenced by other skills or flaws and won't give an interviewer a good idea of how good you are at something. This is why people complain about whiteboard exercises in developer hiring. Unless remembering and explaining an algorithm on a board is something you'll actually be doing in the role then it's not a good test - it sort of assesses how good you are at explaining an algorithm, but it really assesses memory, presentation skills, etc. Someone with brilliant whiteboard skills isn't necessarily a good developer, so hiring them on because you were impressed by how well they explained something in front of a board feels wrong, especially to people who aren't good at the tangential stuff.

In the case of the suggested hiring test in the article, it doesn't test someone's job skills. It tests how well they look for help, but it also tests how well someone copes in unfamiliar applications, or with esoteric UIs (in the case of Blender), or if they've actually used the app that's being used as a proxy. None of those things are necessarily a good assessment of whether the person can do the role they're applying for, so the test fails.
"On the other end of the spectrum is controlled abandonment ... And as soon as this gets known, as soon as the shit hits the fan, there won’t be any investments anymore and local economies will collapse"

This seems to be an underappreciated idea. We tend to think of climate disaster as something in the distant future, but capital flight might cause havoc much sooner.
Pointing out that 95% (or more) climate scientists say that climate change is happening is not appeal to authority, but appeal to expertise. The former is a logical fallacy. The latter is not.
I hope security is at the top of their list.

I want a super secure hub that everything connects to. The hub is the only thing that speaks to my router. The hub is super secure & doesn't let devices send data back to their manufacturer. If I buy cheap devices off a flea market like Amazon, I want to sleep safe & know that the hub is preventing that device from messing with any other devices or accessing the internet. The hub can send me notifications and I can send it requests. It would be cool if I could choose to have the main hub database & software based in the cloud or on my local network.

Not sure if this is already possible. If it is, I would love to hear more.
Please name one lie about the partition that I have stated in my comments.
Our two positions are not mutually exclusive. The price of even a top-line gaming rig could drop significantly over the next 10-20 years.
It is only one aspect of a 'defense in depth' strategy.
Are you counting re-education camps and capital punishments? Pretty sure China will surpass most of the rest combined.
Not that I know of. We were just running off the materials En-Roads provided. From what I remember, though, each bloc is given cues as to what industries and population they represent which then plays into their arguments. So it isn't outright said that someone should argue a conservative or liberal angle, but knowing you need to defend your nation's industrial production or vulnerable communities lends itself towards some political talking points on one side or the other.