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How much autonomy do you think doctors have? They're not in the operating room inventing new procedures. They are following careful scripts, adapted for the intricacies of one particular human body. There are times where they need to qualitatively improvise, yes, but that's generally only when something has gone horribly wrong.

Also, the Hippocratic Oath is not terribly complicated. It basically says, I will not furtively and maliciously hurt people in an abuse of my authority, and I will try to heal them when they are sick. I don't think it's a lot to ask that software engineers to agree not to create knowingly malicious software. It actually addresses exactly the problem you describe. If everyone has taken this oath, and adheres to it, there is no "someone else" to do that evil work.

Last point, there is a wide variety of software engineering work out there. Some of it may be mindless of the bigger picture of what is actually happening, but for any sufficiently advanced behavior to emerge out of a complex software product, some engineer at some level has to have some idea of the path they are going down to create or allow that behavior. And every engineer has the ultimate autonomy over how and what is created because it is our hands on the code. If you don't understand that, you don't understand the power of the profession.
I'm normally fine with a few high quality paywalled articles, but this is from the organization toying with writing a hit piece doxxing Scott Alexander.

https://www.dontdoxscottalexander.com/

And (admittedly judging only from the title) this seems closer to speculation than the detailed policy analysis and discussion of unintended consequences from various response options that this issue deserves.
Implementing scheduling logic for calendar app with Scheduled Triggers in Hasura
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If you’re in management at an engineering dept/co and make decisions about what is going to be engineered and how that’s going to be deployed you are in engineering yourself and should obviously take the oath yourself.

Not saying I’m in favor of this oath, just that it seems silly to distinguish different roles in the engineering process.
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What is known about adult aquisition of relative pitch? (Asking ... for a friend.)
Looking at the comments, Uber is still hated despite the leadership change. Some people hear "Uber" and immediately assume and project the worst.

I think the article was well written. And I wonder what the comments would look like if this article was by the CEO of Lyft.
In the Czech Republic all major banks support instant transfers AFAIK, but not sure what's the situation for EU transfers, when I send money to Degiro (stock broker) it's not instant.

Also, I almost stopped using cash and just use my phone everywhere.
Caring about ecology is very much human-centric.

Neither the planet nor its biological inhabitants "care" about anything. They just are (as in they exist).

The main driver for protecting the ecosystem is the fact that we - as a species - can't survive (for long) without it.

Granted, there are some who strongly believe that becoming a race of cave dwelling mole people or inhabitants of glorified snow globes in an inhospitable barren wasteland is a desirable prospect somehow. But overall humans prefer blue skies, green meadows, birdsong, trees, and diverse natural landscapes.
Crunch, rip, freeze or decay – how will the Universe end?
Prior to the craft beer "revolution" (think 2000s and earlier) it would've been. I don't think anywhere outside of UK and Ireland did this style of hoppier, bitter and often (though not always) darker coloured beer.

It's worth remembering though that from the '80s[0] onward Lagers would've dominated beer sales in the UK. So while we could buy more bitter beer than available elsewhere, we often didn't.

[0] - I've no source from this, it may have started earlier but at a certain point in the mid-late 20th century we shifted to lager. Often very poor quality ones like Carling, Foster's or Tennents that would not compare favourably to those available in Germany, Belgium or Czech Republic.
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One of my more favorite hobbies is complaining about star wars on the internet. I suppose I could just go and find all of my old forum posts and then create a website around them. lol.
Marmelada (and by the looks of it goiabada) are a very different thing to Marmalade. I have had quince cheese here in the UK which effectively seem to be a form of marmelada.

Both are tasty but I wouldn't consider one to be "better" than the other, any more than I would consider peanut butter to be "better" than dijon mustard.

Marmalade is a form of citrus jam, very sweet, usually very sharp, and containing candied citrus peel. It's generally eaten on toast for breakfast. Quince cheese (in the UK) is generally less sweet, is a quince paste rather than a jam, and is used as an accompaniment to hard cheeses as an alternative to chutney. I believe this is how it is largely eaten in Spain, too, with manchego.

So while both marmelada and goiabada are great (I presume, having not tried goiabada), it's really a different thing to marmalade.
I think the distinction being made there is that, while individuals can request that banks or businesses perform an ACH on our behalf, as in your funds transfer example or to pay a bill without incurring payment card fee overhead, we can't generate and submit our own batches directly to any clearinghouse.

Which is just as well! In that circumstance, there would be nothing structurally to stop anyone who knows your routing and account number from performing ACH debits against your account. That's actually an already extant attack vector - and the reason why I never pay bills via ACH; I don't trust most payment processors to be very secure and fraudulent payment card transactions are easier to claw back - but without the barrier to entry inherent in the attacker having to subvert or convince some third party to act on their behalf, I think it'd be a much more common occurrence.
I tend rock a similar look to Stallman and the sad reality is that people don't look at you favourably either way. I frequently get odd looks by people when out for a walk and I get stopped quite a lot by the police (I am White and live in the UK).

Simply putting on a clean shirt, some proper shoes and having a shave does wonders in this regard.

That is the reality of it unfortunately.

EDITED for clarity.
Final result. Dumpster fire.

* Most conspiracy nuts downvoted which is a relief.
* Rehash of encryption. Totalitarianism versus anarchy. Seems to be 90% of the discussion
* Attacks on Bill Gates suitability for interview by people in denial about what it means to be influential in society.
* A few good mini threads about covid testing

(This comment is hidden on the second page so not feeling guilty about whining about discussion)
Sorry that my sarcasm wasn't clear. The idea that people enjoy being marginally attached "gig workers" is absurd.

Talk to an Uber driver. If they aren't scared that you are a spy from corporate, they will tell you what they really think.
> when I looked at the numbers last year hadn’t yet paid for its cost, despite some breathless claims.

Well.. of course? 2 years payoff would seem unbelievably fast for any infrastructure project. It did save $40M last year alone though (the project cost $86M).

> The entire demand for a battery like that for a country like Australia is probably one unit. And it’s no accident that it was installed in south Australia, not one of the more densely settled states.

Err.. no.

There are around 40 proposed or signed projects in Australia larger than that battery.

Here is a signed one being built now with a 400 MWh battery: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/06/26/australia-approves-72...

The Lake Bonney 50MWh battery has been around for nearly 2 years now: https://www.infigenenergy.com/our-assets/firming-assets/

Approved 600MWh project in Geelong: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/04/07/australia-to-host-600...

Another 14 projects here in NSW alone (many of which are pumped hydro or compressed air or other interesting forms of storage): https://reneweconomy.com.au/fourteen-new-big-battery-storage...
So, kids can be cheap if you don't have to worry about working?

How do you feed your children in this scenario where neither parent works? How about medical bills?

I'm not saying a lot of people couldn't spend less on childcare etc, but the ability to do it without working assumes a certain level of financial comfort.

That's not even taking into account the added cost of leaving the workforce for several years. I know several parents who found it difficult to return to their former fields.
Similar story. I was walking through the Physics building at the University of Maryland in the summer of 2004 and a brilliant looking black cube of a computer caught my eye. It was lined up along a wall with a bunch of drab, old computer equipment destined for the trash heap. This was before the era of web-connected phones, so I quickly peeked at the back sticker for some information (model, serial, etc.) and went back to my dorm and looked up what it could be. It was a NeXTcube, which I had never known about. So I hustled back with an empty backpack and managed to cram it in with the zippers barely holding it in and walked back to my dorm. Once I got back and took it apart and was amazed at the quality. I never booted it up, but I kept it for a year or so before selling it on eBay to a person named Chuck (vintagecomputermuseum) for $300. I really should check-in with them and see if they ever got it up and running.
I'm sure there are some cases where the performance difference comes down to skipping more or fewer files, but there's a lot more to it than that. In many cases, skipping files is actually slower! I did some analysis here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/i6pfb2/ugrep_new_ultr...

> It would be nicer if ripgrep always redirected things through less with colours (the way that git does it).

The -p flag should help there.

Disclaimer: I am the author of ripgrep.
Sufficient gas peaker capacity? The solar might be cheaper, but if it got cut you could fire them up.
Best advice I've read on this site: never ruin a perfectly good hobby by making it a job.
> Are there any non-shitty people?

There are people less shitty than RMS, yes.

>By whose standards do we decide who is or isn't shitty? And why would 'being shitty' mean they shouldn't be listened to?

Common societal standards. For instance: passionately defending child predation and objectifying women on one's mailing list for years makes one a shitty person by most people's standards[0]. The many anecdotal accounts of him harassing women, if true, would make him a shitty person[1]. His near legendary disregard for hygiene and personal space makes him a shitty person.

It's about time the free software movement, as a culture, separated itself from the cult of its one true prophet. Defending a good idea shouldn't mean defending a bad person.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287006

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21208344
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Its already a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes%E2%80%93Oxley_Act
No time. Plus, it might not work.
AFAIK there's no other database that they scrapped from. Reading sources like news articles, documents etc. is very different from copying the database that someone else created.

It's like the difference of tapping Yelp's API and create a competing service and looking at Yelp, Google, Squirespace etc. to create a restorant recommendations website.
I think this debate is very interesting and must be carried on among people coming from former African colonies.

It gives us European more perspectives to look at and improves the level of the discussion that, in my opinion, has no particular value or chances of persisting new ideas if it takes place exclusively on social networks in the form of slogans and memes.

I'm Italian, I ideally descend from the African born emperor Septimius Severus, who was born in Leptis Magna the modern Al-Khums in Lybia.

I've always been fascinated by the strong bond that the early Roman empire had with northern Africa and Middle East, where all the modern western civilizations were born.

They looked at them in respect, when Septimius Severus became emperor the Egyptians were already older to the Romans than Romans are to us today.

Septimium Severus became emperor defeating his opponent, an usurper of the empire, Gaius Pescennius Niger.

Niger in Latin means black, dark, but also evil and ill-omened, the latter being the ones that described him better.

Niger is also the name of the river that gave name to Nigeria, but the meaning is completely different, yet it sounds exactly the same. When I was a kid studying ancient history at school I was always looking for coincidence like this one, I believed they were magic.

Africa at the time of Septimius Severus was a very advanced country, in every aspect of life: they had some of the largest cities in the World, they were good sailors, they had prosperous markets, they had the largest library in the entire World and let's not forget the monumental buildings - still unarrived today.

Romans were great engineers, they built roads, infrastructures such as bridges and aqueducts, but also thermal baths ran by geothermal energy (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquae_Sulis)

But Gaius Pescennius Niger usurped the empire and Septimius Severus had to fight him until Gaius was defeated and then killed.

I'm fascinated by Roman history and I read a lot about it, but I cannot look the other way when I think at it on a human level: they were constantly killing each other no matter how many advancement they brought to society, engineering, politics, rule of the law, they killed each other, a lot!

What I get from this essay is not that there was a good colonialism but that pre colonialism wasn't that good as well.

My father used to read me "Roots: The Saga of an American Family" when I was a little kid and I will never condone what happened and the devastation it caused and that's why I ultimately believe that "debate should always serve the ultimate purpose of helping build ... rather than tearing things apart"
Many non-Americans are kept in the dark regarding America's involvement with modern day genocide - for example, its support of 20 million people being starved to death RIGHT NOW in Yemen.

So, its not necessarily the case that just because everyone believes something, it is true...
Forcing a default case is a big step back towards dynamic typing.
Fine work. Here in London, we've apparently done something to deserve sun.

We'll be having words about that.
Yeah, but the problem is, thats what bacteria and fungi do, and they do it for all plant matter. Then, afterwards, CO2 goes back into the plants, which they deposit in the soil as carbon, either through their roots, or through dying off.

Life on Earth produces CO2, and eats CO2. Without this cycle, it'd the Oxygen Holocaust again. CO2 levels vary over vast time periods naturally, and peat, and its analogs through time, don't really play a big role here.

What anti-peat people do is make you forget one important thing: we can renew peat as fast as we harvest, which means it continually sinks carbon into the bog as the industry goes through harvest cycles. What doesn't happen is an instant CO2 release... most of the CO2 remains locked up in the peat for years or maybe even decades, while the peat bogs themselves renew it faster than it decomposes further in our gardens and containers.

What you really want to bitch about is coal and oil. The peat industry is nothing compared to the amount of CO2 production by those fucks.
ahem Do you remember who Julian Assange is? ahem
If I've learnt anything from reading Hacker News for a few years it's that I would take this as a compliment that the article did a good in covering any aspect we might be curious about and answer any questions we might have had. For example the fact that you did the experiment with an empty and full freezer and with empty boxes vs food pretty much preempts any nit-picks you might get from people in this this thread.
We just went through 4 years of the nu80s again. Which puts us on track for nu90s.

As far as I can remember, "This is capitalism, baby!" didn't play quite so well with the latter crowd.

Then again, free trade and outsourcing did. So maybe Uber's new plan is to complain about the cost of US workers and hire remote drivers in lower CoL nations?
Uber is not a successful for-profit business in the long run as they make no profits; given free money to be able to subsidize what costs there are (and operating on the backs of people who make little themselves) can exist for a long time before failing. In the meantime richly paid executives and well paid employees can milk it for a long time.
Is it very different in Sweden than the Americas?

I'm a Norwegian guy, and I love how tolerant we turned weirdly quickly. Even the anti-abortion Christian™ Party walks in the Pride parade now.

Frankly I think most people here would still think of the random guy in a dress as non-straight, but since "nobody" cares about that here anymore, nobody cares about clothing in a negative way either.
That just sounds like work, you write and get money for it ... like a writer.

On top of that those websites are almost always terrible, full of long article saying nothing.
It isn't about people being ageist. The fact of the matter is that if you look like a bit of a weirdo and you are and older guy people will look down on you and find you suspicious. It doesn't matter if you or I think it is fair or not.
sorry, i’m too busy making content for a hobby
Please rather do the opposite of all of this :( Sure a lot of this "works" if you want to make a quick buck, but at what price?

"Content farms" like this are related to the "tragedy of the commons" problem from Game Theory. Yes, you can do your part to make the internet a worse place by using these methods (invasive tracking, hideous pop ups, sneaky ads, spamming people for 'backlinks'), but you're also helping to destroy people's trust in free content and swamping search engines results with typically "bad" content. You're weakening the foundations of what you're building on: a trust-based internet with easy access to good content.

Rather try focus on craftsmanship[0]. Write content that you enjoy, or work with people who are creating content about things that they are passionate about and enjoy creating. It doesn't have to be a conveyorbelt. You don't need Facebook Pixel.

It'll take a bit longer and it won't make quite as much money, but it'll also survive longer. If you believe in any kind of deity, karma, or other spiritual authority, you'll also be better off in their books.

[0] https://manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org/
They didn't really "join" as much as they went from being victims to being perpetrators, from being countries where Barbary Pirates (Ottoman Empire) would regularly go on slave raids to conquering the attacker's homelands and then expanding like crazy.
Which Star Wars piques your ire?

You seriously probably could.
Trademarks are per industry/category. So going after companies where the similarly is already questionable and further, the industry isn't the same is not needed. The second link is about some coffee shop and the case was lost. Meaning, good example where Apple shouldn't have started the case.

There's also a difference between defending your trademark and going after things were the overlap is vague at best (e.g. the pear thing).
No code, or low-code, are terms straight out of marketing departments by this generation's ignorance of software history.

The earliest form of this trend that I can remember was Macromedia Authorware. Drag-n-drop flowchart style of development with optional coding features.
> According to YouGov, as many as 50% of Dutch people feel proud of their past Empire

That got a big "Oof" from me, considering some of the crap that the Dutch pulled - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_conquest_of_the_Banda_Is...
That's what I was thinking about!
An inverter that runs off the 12V battery in your car is very cheap. Get one, and an extension cord, and you have an emergency power source to cool down your freezer every few days.
I don’t disagree with you. But also, attaching benefits to employment sucks.

EDIT: by benefits, I'm was intending to refer to health insurance
Can’t imagine having to write 100 articles a year for some kind of niche, lets take electric mountain bikes, most of the articles would have to be reviews of some kind and that means first getting your hands on them.

Maybe I’m missing something.
The original title is "How to start a niche content site", which IMHO accurately reflects the contents of the blog post.

I don't see the word "hobby" anywhere on the page.
Yes but this mark is not Apple’s. Defending a trade mark is preventing people from using it to essentially sell products in your name. Thus, if one of the KIRFs that engadget profiles had an Apple logo, it’s on Apple to sue. But there’s no real requirement to go after things that are remotely similar, it’s just a dick move.

What if John Deere sued Merrill Lynch? Both are using ruminants on their logos. Is it a failure to defend for Deere to not sue? Come on.
also the whole neo colonialism aspect, tech bros here think it's so easy, just invade a country for their natural resources, who cares about the people
Reusing code - your own or someone else's - often turns out to be a mistake. Reimplementing functionality also often turns out to be a mistake. Either way people get fooled by 80% solutions. There's no simple answer to this. I can give a simple algorithm - look at how much time you'll spend on each vs. where it's most important for you to spend your time - but you still have to apply that algorithm to your own data set to know which choice is right. And sometimes you'll get a wrong answer, and it'll be annoying (as appears happened in the OP's example). That's why they pay us the big bucks.
Modern ThinkPads are still best-in-breed for that (the T-series, at any rate). They still come with full service manuals and individually available spare parts, which can often be swapped between similar chassis. And the T480 is one of the last remaining holdouts against soldered-everything and razor-thin.
> Any OOP with inheritance does multiple dispatch. Java, C++ vitual functions

This is incorrect. C++ and Java are typical examples of languages that lack multiple dispatch, but are able to emulate it using the visitor pattern, as tsimionescu already mentioned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch#Emulating_mu...
...Ethiopia was conquered by Fascist Italy.
Example #5984 of why I don't like the kernel's convention of masquerading macros as function by making them lowercase. I wasted so much time deciphering weird compile errors or strange behaviour only to finally realize that one of the function calls in the offending code was actually a macro in disguise.

It's especially bad when some kernel macros, such as wait_event, don't even behave like a function would (evaluating the parameter repeatedly).

One more thing Rust got right by suffixing macros with a mandatory !.
> Notion is another great example. It's a business tool diguised in consumer clothings

I would say it's the opposite. Notion is a consumer app that's so customizable that it's started to compete with business tools.

By your logic, Microsoft Word is a "business software" in this context. Also you could say the same about iPhone, that it's a "business tool disguised as a consumer device". They are not. It's the other way around. All these companies target consumer market, but because they have designed them well and are powerful, they can be used in business use cases.