skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a similar note, I run a popular (and probably the best) personal finance website on the internet.

I use data and math to find the most optimal ways to eat, buy health insurance, etc... And everything is free.

I make trivial amounts of money by donations.

I've seen my competitors are significantly worse quality, downright Dave Ramsey Snowball effect tier bad advice. But they sell advertising space for snake oil, they sell yet another budgeting spreadsheet, books, courses, and more.

Their marketing is pretty interesting "I'm a bad girl that likes fashion, so I invest and save." Or something to give them personality. They claim to make 30k+/yr. But they don't get the traffic and I'm sure they haven't been on BBC.

I'm happy with the thank you emails I get, my day job pays well.

It's just another example of lower quality, but charging money making bigger profits.
The scariest thing for Google might be that generally people aren't cheering for them anymore, and many are following them closely to catch them as soon as possible.

Compare that to 10 years ago when I and others would cut them 9 yards of slack.
Gotcha, all excellent points.
True, but easily solved by adding salt to the cup. At -20c salt is completely ineffective, but the cup will melt long before reaching 0c.
Really CEO of UBER? Then pay them more than the 30% you give them
For software engineering companies is more like it
Bosch for example has a modular system where you can mix and match technologies. They have a 6 kW gas burner available in it [1] which can be matched up with a nice induction top [2].

[1] https://www.bosch-home.co.uk/product-list/PRA326B70E
[2] https://www.bosch-home.co.uk/product-list/PXY675DE3E
What makes you think he's poor? What do you think his net worth is?
This is the approach I am taking (bought inverter, will test it out next weekend). I don't think you can really run this off the battery (it will be on the order of 1000 watts): instead you need to have the car turned on and will be essentially running it off the inverter. So it's essentially an inefficient gas-powered generator that you already have on-hand and you need to make sure you have some gas in the tank.
You all probably already knew this, but I recently discovered "airplane mode" does wonders for battery life. Then again, I'm from a generation old enough to feel no qualms about wandering about with no device whatsoever, so YMMV.
In apartments, there is a mutual understanding of common elements and that people are living in a shared space. There is also a mediation process through the building management and the board.

In the burbs, is is a wild west with no mediation/arbitration process. There is a huge sense of entitlement on both sides - "this is my property and I can do what I want" vs. "you are encroaching on my property/rights and I will complain/behave passive aggressively about everything".

Everything you mentioned are issues in suburbs as well - often more so:

- Neighbors dog in the backyard barking all damn day.

- Neighbor throwing BBQ/party in the yard w/ music, and loud laughing/talking late into the night.

- Kids yelling/laughing/screaming.

- Teenagers revving cars up and down the streets

- Lawnmower at 6 in the morning

Trust me, I've lived in both. Apartments have a process to handle unacceptable behavior and disputes. Suburbs are way worse - if you are looking for more private space, you need to go rural where houses sit on large lots.
A lot of issues would be solved with a basic social contract to all citizens: healthcare plus a small living stipend. Do that and people can Gig away. Too much is hard to change when healthcare is so attached to full-time/regular employment, and when it is hard to move between jobs/etc. for fear of loss of income.
Nothing you'd want to burn.

Best advice is during hurricane season keep freezer and refrigerator stock to a minimum to keep your losses low. Stock up on non-perishables, but not overstock.

If you absolutely must have cold stuff while the power is out, either get a generator or look into 12V gear.
I know there has been recent activity in developing a ternary CPU. https://hackaday.com/2016/12/16/building-the-first-ternary-m...
Everything is JSON these days, unfortunately.
From the article: " there are no known cases of an adult successfully acquiring it (Brady, 1970; Ward and Burns, 1999; Levitin and Rogers, 2005). "

Edit: Oh, sorry, that was for perfect pitch. You asked for relative pitch, which was I guess a joke?

Or maybe it was a question of can someone learn to accurately identify musical intervals who does not have perfect pitch?
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Indeed. 'Disruption' often translates to inserting an expensive middleman into an existing relationship. E.g. passengers used to order taxis directly and takeaways would deliver food themselves. There are certainly improvements for some of the parties involved (Uber is a lot easier to use than local taxi companies used to be), but that doesn't mean there's magically a lot more money available to pay both the existing and new members of the model.
Since you can pass types to compile-time functions, yes that is correct. Take the example [from the 0.6.0 documentation](https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.6.0/#comptime) for example: At compile time the compiler has to figure out whether to type the `max` function using `u32` or `f64`. Since you can make the boolean condition arbitrarily complex the _type_ of max function called is undecidable in general.

I'm not arguing for or against undecidability in type systems, the page aims to be present the information neutrally.
I am baffled by the down votes, what is objectionable about this comment?
IMO having a hippocratic oath for software engineers is entirely pointless. There are plenty of people who would say the words with no intention of living up to them - not everyone is going to share your values.

I can't say for sure, but I have a feeling that the hippocratic oath is not what's stopping an unethical doctor from behaving unethically. Instead, it's the risk of lawsuits and loss of their license to practice medicine that keeps them in line.

I just don't think software could match the very real consequences to unethical behaviour that doctors face. We don't have a concept of a "licensed software engineer", and even if we did, there's nothing stopping an unethical engineer from working on their own. Doctors can be blackballed from hospitals, clinical trials, etc. Are we going to blackball software engineers from touching computers?

The above being said, I do believe that software engineers should try to be ethical. However, I do not think there's any mechanism that could be implemented that could force this behaviour, and any attempt to do so is simply a way for its promoters to say "look how good I am", and less so an honest attempt at making the world a better place.
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Thanks for this. I'm in the UK too. One of the things I was thinking of doing is buying a flat that needs work then selling it on or converting to buy to let mortgage. Ive heard getting three under your belt like this is a good time go full time on it. My problem is I'm in a full time job and I've got a one year old. I'd really like to use property as a way to become self employed and get out of corporate world.

What does your software business do (if you dont mind telling me!)

Also what's your profit margin on say a bathroom or a kitchen?
Lightroom on the 2017 iPad Pro vs a 2017 iMac.
The other thing the gig economy does is entirely (for better or worse) expose people to the supply/demand realities of the business. For example, if you are a full-time employed programmer at Uber, you get paid the same every week, regardless of how many people request rides. In fact, if you put in more hours as a full-time programmer, you generally might not even get paid any extra for them. If you are a driver, you are paid per ride and dependent on the parameters of the ride. (time, distance, min fare, etc.)

It's entirely possible to break down the different pros/cons of each type of employment and repackage them. It's really just about whether that should happen and what should/shouldn't be included. Flexibility and the option to choose when they will work is pretty core to these types of jobs. What would be traded away to make that happen?
I recently saw an intriguing software engineer job posting for a company in Montreal & Ottawa that deploys satellites for testing/surveying for methane leakage. I was tempted.
Verbatim doesn't work consistently: often it helps a bit, often it gets ignored it seems.
Uh how? Middle Eastern refugees went the other way to Europe, not to China.
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because you wrote Futurama and referred to it so many times in this reply, when I skimmed the thread I read the word in this post and the one above it as Futurama. it took me like 3 re-reads to realize the original did NOT say Futurama.
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What are you basing that on? Is living with elderly parents and your children poverty?
That sounds the same to me. Of course there are worse places than the US. You aren’t Saudi Arabia, Russia or China, Belarus or even Turkey. But you aren’t even in the top ten in regards to freedom, democracy, equality, social mobility, health, etc. I’d much rather live in any of the Nordic countries, Germany, the Netherlands, France, ...
Indeed. The only reason I discovered it was because of the muscle memory from using it with a browser!
It's a good theory, etymologically. But do check your favorite dictionary about the actual definition of the word.
My thoughts exactly. A site dedicated to a craft that is then filled with hundreds of poorly rushed articles rather than a few good quality ones without being invasive is contributing to the shitshow. I wish that there was an alternative index that valued quality rather than gamification of the crawlers.
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This is a dumb argument. The proposal was to add a new kind undefined behavior that breaks a bunch of existing code, and this is spun as not helping?!
Ethics and law are not orthogonal. Look at definition from Wikipedia: "Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior"."

Ethics forms basis on which law is built.

And, given that, it is not simpler to make ethical decision, it is harder. The decision should be worth being basis for a law, how's that simpler than following law?

Even if you take definition of ethical decision from Wikipedia: "An ethical decision is one that engenders trust, and thus indicates responsibility, fairness and caring to an individual." These words can bear negative connotations - if I beat people, I should be trusted that I will beat people, I should beat people fairly and I should care to beat an individual thoroughly.

Yes, I fully see you talk about principles. It can be seen that it is easier to make decisions from principles. But, you can misguide yourself about application of these principles.
Agreed. What's an even bigger shame is that places like the US and UK don't have proper centralized and verified citizen databases and national identification documents linked to it.
It's a bit late for that -- the archive snapshot has already been created and stored.
An Independent SAGE discussion document on contact tracing and self-isolation
I wonder what Karl Marx would think of this.
And now they have a 6% stake in arguably the biggest name in home security, ADT
> simple truth: colonisation was wholly unnecessary, and that is what makes it unethical no matter how much good one tries to link to it

1. Unnecessary. Unnecessary for what? Anything? Cause in that case I do not agree. The rise, expansion and collapse of empires is very necessary for the development and testing of human organizational models. The price for change (not necessarily good) is human life. That's the reality of the entire history of the human race, you can't simply wish it otherwise.

2. Unethical. Morals are highly subjective and debatable, but I do want to mention one thing. Magna Carta originated in evil white Europe and the whole world benefits from it's forceful spread.
Yup, totally. Power feature discoverability is not where we shine... :p
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It seems odd that our public discourse has settled on the following set themes:

- Every person deserves a baseline quality of life and benefits

- The person's employer is tasked with the above responsibility

- If a corporation pays their workers less than the above baseline, they are bad. We should shame them, and pass laws to ensure that they pay their workers better

- If a corporation decides not to hire someone at all, and operates with a smaller workforce by tweaking their business model, that is perfectly acceptable and even laudable

Combine all of the above, and you end up with a world where corporations go above-and-beyond to reduce their headcount, and entrepreneurs specifically avoid labor-intensive business models. Firms like DE Shaw are publicly lauded for making lots of money with a tiny elite workforce, while spinoffs like Amazon are publicly shamed for actually employing hundreds of thousands of middle class workers. All this only worsens the situation for those in the lower-middle-class in the long-term, because now they have fewer work opportunities, and less demand for their labor.

Clearly every person deserves a baseline quality of life and benefits. But instead of heaping this responsibility on the subset of corporations that hire low-skill workers, this responsibility really should lie with everyone. Tax billionaires, tax the upper-middle-class, tax profitable corporations, and use the money to strengthen the social safety net for low-skill workers. That would eliminate this entire mess.
It doesn't, but a lot of doors open with sufficient amount of money at your disposal. And it is very easy to get lost in the pursuit, because there is never really enough and someone always has more. I am not excusing it, but I understand the strong pull.

For the record, I agree with you. There are things that I effectively add money with no hope of money return. From a purely monetary perspective, those should have been ended a while ago.
I'm not saying engineers taking an oath helps, its about the executives.. maybe something about the thread structure implies that but I actually only read the comment above.
We demonstrate that PinMe can accurately estimate the user’s location during four activities (walking, traveling on a train, driving, and traveling on a plane).

Wonder if they can track someone who is "lost in remote area without hope of being rescued."

Maybe if the phone is set on Survival Mode?
I want to be clear: I'd love to hear as many Chinese voices as possible criticizing this evil menace. But I also think prudence makes sense. I fully support: Chinese citizens criticizing the regime in private to non-Chinese; Chinese citizens telling the truth about the regime anonymously; or Chinese citizens speaking out but taking serious precautions for their personal and their families' health and safety. I also strongly support anyone who has the courage to visibly and publicly take a stand in a way where they are silenced by the regime, but only insofar as the stunt is recognizable publicly and the person does this with full awareness of the risks.
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Japan is more socialist than US- stricter worker rights, universal healthcare, lots of government funded programs for young kids and their parents (they recently made daycare free upto certain age) and ever increasing taxes (the recent one was 2% hike in October last year).
Most Uber drivers with families qualify for Medi-Cal.

Doesn’t it piss you off that the California taxpayer is basically subsidizing a giant corporation and convenient transport for idiots drinking on weekends?
I'd also like to chime in that both clang and gcc will complain that I didn't explicitly cast it.
I actually do work at the New York Fed and saw this announcement recently myself. I was wondering about that standard and started looking at the website, but it seemed a bit light on information, which made me suspicious. At least I know my instincts may have been on the right track.

Unfortunately, I'm much too far removed to influence anything. The Federal Reserve System is massive and distributed into many large silos (Reserve Banks & The Board of Governor's) that prevent power from being too centralized in a single bank, but also make it difficult to work with anyone that's not in your bank. Interestingly, this is by design! Anyways, this work is primarily driven by the Board of Governor's and I'm at FRBNY, so I'll probably be getting most of my information from press releases like this one.
Of course the language can help the programmer to write better code. High level constructs and easily available libraries that are well tested and widely used helps a lot. However, the biggest problem is not the language, it's that the programmer simply writes faulty code.
Which? Trans people aren't a protected class in the US.
I have an IMDb (with a Sundance winner and a documentary about myself as president of the local surf club), was a pretty good Architect with some of the most famous modern buildings (Steinhaus, Resowi, ...) in Austria, and worked in Formula 1 as engineer (cannot talk about that, but Mercedes should thank me a lot for their current run).

https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch?role=nm7259427
I'm not a fan of the article's opening comparison to military hierarchy as an example of an organization that deploys weapons with ethics or discretion. As we've seen in (at least) the US, the military industrial complex determines when and where we fight, often at the expense of thousands of innocent lives.
> You're looking at this as if it was a literal tug-of-war game

The '53 coup was orchestrated by a small group. The '79 revolution was the result of a groundswell of opposition to the Shah.

> You're free to make it as emotional as you want. I gave it as an objective example that destroyed the foundation of your line of argumentation. So call it what you may but you still haven't come up with anything that can stand up to even cursory scrutiny. Personal opinions and interpretations are not that.

This is nonsense. You threw forward some hypothetical sob story that is neither accurate (talk to some Iranians) nor relevant (the post-hoc sadness or non-sadness of an event doesn't change its antecedents).
Depends what you’re looking for, but there are some pretty good boutique shops like notre and gallery aesthete. those cater to pretty particular styles though.
Hippocratic oath for engineers is irrelevant, correct. But management does not take the advice of engineers. As I said, the engineers wanted to do proper engineering, but management wanted to save a buck, so they instructed engineering to fudge a cheap solution.

Its very common.
This is the thing I wish I knew before lifting - most of my wardrobe had to be changed within months, from underwear to winter coat.
That was a good episode, thanks.

Aside: Recently got addicted to podcasts. I really like their transcriptions.
> People don't want stable jobs anymore.

Whoa whoa whoa. Whoa.

That's a heck of a generalisation.
These people don’t want equality, they want confrontation. They feed on comments like yours; ignoring these posts is the best course of action.
I can't point to any evidence, but two things to note:

A) Even on HN the temptation has come up. e.g. some comments in posts about ransomware make a similar argument for transparently damaging and self-serving actions. Three letter agencies with much more power and ability probably had people making the same arguments.

B) The payoff was extremely low compared to the possibilities. Either whomever did this was unaware of the possibilities or not really interested in a major hack. Perhaps the idea was that if this actually works, the damage isn't so big, aside from embarrassing the Linux kernel team, and when the team noticed they'd tighten up.
would you bet against it?
When Uber started they predicted (falsely) that autonomous driving is going to be ready in few short years. For Uber drivers are a minor annoyance.
But definitely don't make us owe back pay!
Allowing a web browser also means allowing phishing and "worse purchasing experience".

Again, if a company wants The Google Experience™, it can use it for 30% of its income. If it does not, it's free to use whatever payment provider it wants.
The question here is whether it is a warning or an error. "Complain" could mean either. Which did you mean?
It may be OK after the smoke clears. Rookies who have never used a real charcoal BBQ don't know when the coals are ready and start cooking too soon. You cook when it seems like it's too late the coals are ash but that's the time to do it.
Another idea I’ve used while on vacation. Get a plastic bottle, fill it maybe 1/4 to 1/2 with water, freeze it, then before leaving turn it upside down. If the ice stays at the bottom of the bottle when you get back you should be all good.
My take from the article is thay if Uber were to currently offer its "driver-partners" benefits like health insurance, they would legally be considered employees, which neither party wants.
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sounds like a stealth argument for rust?
Reminds me of [Bob Stout's Snippets](https://github.com/vonj/snippets.org). I used his collection often back when I were a lad.
As people here point out, using 3rd party dependencies is inevitable, unless you're a tech colossus and can afford to write everything from scratch.

For the most part, these 3rd party dependencies work fine. In my experience it is fairly rare to encounter a show-stopping bug.

I have a simple mitigation for the "potholes" though - try to take the time skim through the code of the library ahead of time and try to figure out what it is doing. That way if you do hit a problem, you can fork and fix. Doing this can also give you a sense of how well-written a library is to begin with.
Regulation helps the large incumbents, who have more capacity to bear the fixed costs.

The capitalist solution to the 2008 financial meltdown would be to let new banks bump the old banks. Despite all the Fintech innovation, the old banks are more entrenched than ever. With Dodd-Frank, Barney Frank gave them one more gift on the way out of office.