skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically, nationwide, housing is not an investment. The average house in the US appreciates at approximately the rate of inflation, perhaps a bit better. And you always need somewhere to live; unlike stock or a business investment, you can't sell your house without needing to buy or rent another one. Your money should be put elsewhere for investment purposes. There are certainly some hot markets where this isn't true, however.
Fumifugium, or, The inconveniencie of the aer and smoak of London
There's the one we left on Mars.
Well, he was correct about Hydroxychloroquine. But most papers just kept on claiming that it was dangerous. Even after #Lancetgate happened.
So it's better that a hospital not get Beinhoff's hundred million dollars, since you don't like his need for legacy?
“the average FAANG engineer does a shockingly small amount of work that has any impact on revenue”

In stark contrast to the average pre-ipo company engineer who has rarely discussed this “revenue” business and certainly not its even more shy friend, “profit”
Yeah. And to have a good living, it helps to work at big tech. But if youre passionate about software, you are giving something up. sometimes I treat code like art, its my medium that I build things through. But im selling that, and losing out on that art, whilst building massive data collection and manipulation systems
Existing nuclear reactors may have safe track records in terms of their operation, but we still have no long term solution for high-level nuclear waste disposal. At all.

The decommissioned plant outside of San Onofre, for example, is now storing nuclear waste in steel canisters on site. That site is on an earthquake fault line, right next to the pacific ocean [0].

Unless we come up with a complete end-to-end model for safely handling the waste, I don't consider nuclear to be a viable option. As it stands, it's a massive liability to the health of our future environment.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-chapple-san-onof...
People are customizing their lives in ways that were never possible in the past. They're free to consume things they like, the barrier for distributing content to the world has never been lower. It's hard for me to believe that a world of infinite individual variation will lead to equal outcomes - or that it ever should. Thomas Sowell writes about ubiquitous natural variation like geography, culture, etc. and how it all leads to very "unequal" outcomes, but there's nothing inherently evil about it.
Here's a good op-ed from the CEO of Recology explaining the issue:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/It-is-...

This site has some good links:

https://phys.org/news/2020-03-recycling-broken.html

> recent Greenpeace report found that some PET (#1) and HDPE (#2) plastic bottles are the only types of plastic that are truly recyclable in the U.S. today; and yet only 29 percent of PET bottles are collected for recycling, and of this, only 21 percent of the bottles are actually made into recycled materials due to contamination.

>China used to accept plastics #3 through #7, which were mostly burned for fuel. Today #3 – #7 plastics may be collected in the U.S., but they are not actually recycled; they usually end up incinerated, buried in landfills or exported. In fact Greenpeace is asking companies such as Nestle, Walmart, Proctor & Gamble and Unilever that label their products made with #3 -#7 plastics as "recyclable" to stop or it will file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission for mislabeling.

On my street, people put out 2 bins, one for recycling, and one for non recyclable trash. We put all our recycling in one bin, paper, plastic, metal, etc, and everything else in the trash that you don't think is recyclable. And no one is checking which number plastic is placed in the bin. I assume it all goes to landfill.
Would everyone, say, be angry anyway? Probably. Would everyone be angry enough to take to the streets with guns and clubs? Probably not (or at least in much fewer numbers).
Huh that's interesting, since with app subscription purchases, it's the opposite (you get to continue using the free trial until it expires, even if you cancel right after signing up.
Kanye West to start a Y Combinator for the music industry
Probably a company with an above-average amount of moral character amongst its development staff.
I think you're reading into it too much. He specifically said he thinks it is not a bad thing. In your opinion, is it possible to say anything about your culture without being anti-semitic?
Unless the company is legally binding themselves to actually pay you when the time comes (as in, if for any reason they rescind the offer, you’re still paid for, let’s say, a year of salary, and this without you having to sue them), I don’t see any reason why the employee should feel any more obliged, legally or otherwise.
Sometimes they do that on Shark Tank (Mark Cuban especially), making an offer and saying "but you have to decide right now". Giving them just seconds, even when there are still other potential offers on the table.

It's a terrible dark pattern and wish everyone would just dismiss it outright. Kudos for doing so.
It's also super awkward to talk to someone and get a real good understanding of their experience, how they fit, what they've done, what they'd want to do.... and then find out they can't code. And this does happen. It's much nicer for all involved to do that early in the process and write it off as a formality because it's a humiliation to throw that at someone at the last minute. It's an insulting waste of time for any decent candidate, but there are always candidates who can do everything but code and you have to weed those guys out.
Get off the high horse. He didn't explain his original position at all, and frankly it's an ideal that seems very unrealistic. I agree that we should be taxing the ultra-rich a lot more, but "prohibiting donations that have names attached" is legislating morality as much as "don't buy liquor on Sundays".
> Author has yet to set up PVS or Coverity although it was suggested a few days ago on Discord. Again, baloney.

I personally, find the following course of events very interesting:

On 2020/09/14, a Discord user named `Engineer` writes the following:

> We should consider using Coverity as this is an opensource github project - we can test the output v filename.v -o filename.c as input for Coverity - to help us understand issues with the generated C code.

Mind you, that is not a code contributor, and his earlier questions, are about a mysterious undisclosed C compiler, that produces much more stricter error messages than gcc's ones.

Then he makes a short lecture on the topic of `What is static analysis?` again on Discord...

It is a Scooby Doo mystery indeed.

I have nothing against Coverity personally - it may very well help the V code generator, but I hate being forced to use a product in such a way.
Just the fact that in the spring they updated the iPad Pro to an A12 based CPU this spring was odd in itself. If they'd bumped the Pro to an A13 based CPU in the fall, then it would only be 1 generation behind.
Airborne Wind Energy Company Closes Shop, Opens Patents
This seems like a strange argument since someone who is say, running a large conglomerate, benefits much more from society's infrastructure and organization than a layperson. It then seems reasonable for their obligation to be proportionally greater.
Because it’s not developed by Rockstar, I don’t have that fear. If you have played Witcher 3, you will have the idea of the quality of even the side quests.

The gfx style look great, not generic at all to me, the detail is amazing.
Diffuse light has a tendency to increase yield by decreasing the shading effect on lower leaves, so it largely cancels out. It is also fairly easily to saturate photosites in full sun. Heat/water are more limiting in these contexts.

It's really not an issue.
> It sells networking devices, printers

They do not.

> It has its own tv.

The do not

> your fingerprints

Fingerprints never leave the device or stored in iCloud
Yes, exactly! A Tesla-size battery is three days' of electricity use for many people's homes.

So we will be building massive amounts of storage as we shift our car fleet to electric (though personally I hope that we can massively cut down on car use too, due to the amount of PM2.5 pollution even EVs cause. The biggest source of microplastics in CA is tire road wear, not plastic bags or straws, yet the idea of reducing car travel is faaaaaar outside the Overton window even as we try to ban single use plastics.)

I think there's lots of room for demand response, both in terms of pre-cooling houses or pre-charging batters. But I would love to be able to power my house with the 50amps that my car battery could provide. If you're only taking a couple kWh at peak times, it has nearly an effect on battery longevity and could provide great value to both the grid and user if price signals could be used in an automated fashion.

For a model that won't scale to the general population, OhmConnect in CA will pay residences to reduce usage at certain hours, averaging about 6 hours per month for me. During the recent CA high load days, I made about $50 with minimal action on my part (used all the normal lighting, etc. just didn't run the dishwasher or clothes dryer during that period).
Just a head's up, while you can proxy websockets via cloudflare workers, you cannot have them act as the endpoint (https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169466-U...).
>I'm not sure where your particular cutoff bar stands

I'm not sure either! I'm not an ethics expert. I think the Uber example and the Facebook example are real outliers. They're particularly egregious examples of abuse of people's information (letting people zoom in on people's walks of shame at company parties is definitely bad!).
Unless there's actual corruption involved (like giving to a "charity" that actually fuels your personal expenses), how could a deductible gift be used a tax loophole?

I've heard the misconception that one could use a deduction to bump yourself into a lower tax rate on your entire income, and therefore come out ahead, but that's not how U.S. federal income tax rates work.
We used to call those fiefdoms.
>which is on the environment in the form of massive amounts of material that can’t be recycled

Why is that bad? It's not like we're running out of landfill space (at least in the US), and it's not like plastic in a landfill leeches chemicals into the drinking water or something.

> and which do not biodegrade

I don't think anyone was fooled into thinking that plastics were biodegradable.
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How would it be illegal?

Doctors are often required to attest their ethics before doing a job.
How's he going to deal with conflict of interest when he becomes President?
> If you're in dirty workwear and a hi-vis vest, you're pretty much considered bottom of the barrel

Disclaimer: my knowledge of British culture is horribly outdated, and mostly draws from George Mikes' "How to be an alien" and TV shows.

I always thought that truly high society in Britain sometimes wears rags, and the neat clothing was a sign of either working class or "new riches". George Mikes makes fun of this:

> On Sundays on the Continent even the poorest person puts on his best suit, tries to look respectable, and at the same time the life of the country becomes gay and cheerful; in England even the richest peer or motor-manufacturer dresses in some peculiar rags, does not shave, and the country becomes dull and dreary.

But it's not just his opinion; for example in the TV show "Traitors", set in postwar London, a character coming from a high society family derides someone for dressing "too well", signalling lower class/new riches, and because of how he pronounces "opera" (according to her, it's "opera" for the lower classes, and "op'ra" for the higher classes).
Yup, and it’s super nice for json or yaml strings.
> They should be doing a timed release on that. If you stop entering text for N ms, then go for a result.

I believe that is called debouncing and it's something any non-junior frontend developer should have in their toolkit.
Sure, but not consciously. People hear that nvidia XX80 is top-of-the-line and then will associate nvidia with higher performance generally.
One could argue that there is probably some correlation between great wealth and good judgement about the effective use of money.

In that regard, perhaps it’s good to have social intervention performed by a mixture of democratic and individualistic entities. Perhaps one will address things that the other might miss.
In the US, I've seen that referred to as "go to hell pants": https://www.gentlemansgazette.com/go-to-hell-pants/
Isn't this looking at the past with rose colored glasses though?

Time before using computers for business was terrible with much less transparency (no Googling prices, etc). Paperwork got lost all of the time. Companies could easily bury things, etc.
Ten Insane Jobs in Tech (Reddit, airtable, headspace)
This is pretty cool. Ten cool positions open from engineering to design. Companies include Airtable, Reddit, YC companies, sewage surveillance, automated ferries, and Headspace.
It was a re-neg situation. I had accepted the offer, then was in talks with the director who recommended me. Unfortunately I can't say much more about that situation due to NDA.

IMHO hiring engineers to hyperoptimize advertisement platforms is a bit wasteful.
All you have to do if you're looking for a "market" solution to this, is price in the externality somewhere. What portion of the externality the consumer and the producer end up being responsible for will ultimately be decided by the price of the product. As for why the externality should be recouped at the industry level, the accounting is just a lot less expensive there.
This is the 3rd JS engine with its replacement. The idea I think is that it would be embedded in for scripting like uses, like many C++ games used Lua or Flash.
You sound like an absolutely awful person to work with.
I feel this way about lots more than Facebook. BigTech is committing atrocities every day, and the developers that work there are generally complicit in that behavior. I think it's fine to say "I'm not proud but the money was life changing" - that can be true, when most people are faced with that proposition would go with the life changing money. But it seems wild to think that Amazon or Facebook or Google employees should be applauded for their work, or should feel proud - lots of it is actively harmful to me as a human.
That's not true unless you mean "free LTS" JDK from Oracle. There are several other projects providing free LTS, TCK-certified builds including: RedHat OpenJDK & Amazon Corretto to name two off the top of my head.
Oh, the old "I gave anonymously, but they still know my name" trick. Larry David had this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAKrb9b4s28
Exploiting someone's need to survive for labor is what the modern labor market is
https://www.levels.fyi/

They will be fine.
The Predictable Hazards of Unpredictability: Why Madman Behavior Doesn’t Work [pdf]
Some time ago I tried to use rt-rrt[1]. It should be quite suited for your setup, or at least more than A* i think. Actually when I get back to your project I will try to implement it inside your framework.

[1] https://github.com/ptsneves/rt-rrt
It always takes more time
I think the reason people suggest anonymity as a morally positive or superior action is because this isn't in trade. You've given it away (as noted above) without having your name in etched letters on a building, without a desire for notoriety and not in trade of previous or in fact continuous poor deeds. Consider for example the controversy around Bezos' donations.

It is very similar in fact to tithing instead of the practice of having your name called out in service in front of everyone so you can later trade on that donation for social standing.
A job at Yale in the 1960s set Susan Eggers on a path in computer science
I'm still pretty young in my career, but I feel like I've figured out my own route around the problem. 3/4 organisations I've worked for have been NGOs, and I felt like I was doing meaningful work in all of them.

The one that wasn't an NGO has been by far the worst one. Worse salary, worse perks, worse problems I've solved, and while I didn't do any work I considered to be unethical, I'd definitely refuse some of the work my colleagues did.

I kinda wish more techies would look at the NGOs as a viable alternative to the corporate world and do some work that's actually meaningful to the society. Granted, the supply of jobs in the tech field isn't big enough for everyone to switch, but the jobs are there if you're willing to search for them.
What is significant here is that the NRC has approved a design, rather than a single plant.

Nuclear plants in the US have been traditionally built like airports, each one bespoke to its site, each one separately assessed for safety. This pushes the plants to be very large, to offset the high up-front costs.

We should build reactors like airplanes instead of airports. You get your airplane design and factory approved, then you can churn out thousands. That's the hope for microreactors.

I learned about these ideas from this podcast episode: https://www.vox.com/2020/2/28/21155995/jessica-lovering-nucl...
Well, the bombs are way more dangerous than power applications. How do we get rid of these bomb cores?

Throw them into the reactors! Someone’s gonna have to do it,

Canada already blends ex weapons plutonium into their CANDU reactors.

http://ccnr.org/mox_griffith_1.html
We handle large amounts of sensitive personal information, and developers are tightly integrated into the product development process. We have successfully lobbied against products with serious spousal abuse cases.

If you can't handle a 5-10 minute question section in which I bring up contemporary criticism about your current employer, in the context of that sensitive information that we handle, then the feeling is mutual.
Why not use that java dependency in scala?
This is fascinating!

What line of business is your company in?
Who is your guild accountable to?
What metrics are you measured by?
This is an extremely unfair evaluation of software engineers. There's no such thing as a company doing ethical work, they all answer to shareholders and generate profit solely to benefit that class of people. Everyone else is the working class, trying to get by and without any ability to actually change the incentive structure of a company. We all work for someone who is screwing someone else, be it the consumer or your fellow coworker. It's all evil, and we are all doing the devil's work.

If you truly want fundamental ethical change, how about empowering the working class, so that we have a platform and the power to speak without reprisals? Then it goes beyond facebook, we can fight back against all types of abuses, ideological ones and the ones in the office. Can you imagine the kind of power we can have if we, in unison, shut down all our development work to fight for societal change? The government and corporations will bow.

Start a tech union, and let's see how far you get. That's a better answer than putting the onus on a single developer whose life is literally dependent on the company's continued employment.

Just don't be surprised that the company will do everything to shut you down, hard. And then you'll realize how ridiculous the evaluation you wrote above is.
It's not hard to figure out that lightning is the the root cause for these fires. Lighting storms occurred only once this summer in California, and fires were noticed immediately the day after.

Unless there were a committed group of arsonists that wanted to use the lightning storm as a cover and worked to set fires on the same day that has a similar signature to lightning.
MachinePix Weekly – The FitSocket with Arthur Petron
This week I sit down with Arthur Petron, the mechanical engineer behind OpenAI’s robotic hands. In a funny twist, Arthur was the creator behind a previous @MachinePix post on prostheses, but I didn’t realize until Richard Whitney (the interviewee behind the OK GO music video) reached out to tell me!
Here ya go: https://www.tomswift.info/homepage/atomicar.html
One company a long time ago had an insane HR department with a question like "If there was a different company with the same salary, environment, culture, work as this one (but wasn't this one), would you want to work there?"

This was at the end of the process, after I'd already interviewed with all the technical folks and all the managers and they all wanted to hire me.

Apparently the desired answer was "no." My actual answer was something like "WTF are you talking about," and I somehow managed to get hired anyway. I later heard that if I'd answered "yes" it would have been difficult to overrule HR and get me hired. LOL
A couple of honest questions coming in. I would very much like to engage in a good faith conversation with you.

> ... unwilling to represent the failings your company has done to society, then I need to hear a justification before moving further in the conversation.

I'm going to replace 'company' with 'organization'.

Do you harbor similar opinions about people who have previously or currently work for a federal government? State government?

You mention 'tech company': do you have such opinions about people who have worked for, for example, IBM?

I look forward to your response, and I promise I'm not trying to trap or bait you in any way. Thanks.
That's a weird way of saying people are really fucking stupid
Can you name some of the companies? Would love to hear some of them considering every company thinks they are “mission-driven”.
Yeah man, this entire comment thread is a trip. Mass downvoting of any comment that doesn't parrot the line that this is a politically-motivated conspiracy theory. I have faith that enough rational individuals can see through the chaff and decide for themselves, and hopefully the truth will eventually emerge.
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The post didn't say "when I see a lot of jewish names on buildings I know I'm in a Jewish neighborhood," it said "when I'm in a neighborhood with a lot of names on the buildings I know I'm in a Jewish neighborhood" (both paraphrases to keep the dogwhistly deli->jewish link clear). The implication that Jewish people are uniquely interested in showing off their money and status through naming rights donations seems pretty blatant to me.
We could've if there was enough political will though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...
I guess the next question is: Why is the construction and operation so expensive? Did the cost of steel and concrete skyrocket? Are new reactors excessively complex? Is there insufficient competition in the industry to keep costs under control? Excessive regulatory compliance costs compared to other forms of power generation? Is it the cost of paying a team lawyers for decades to keep fighting all of the lawsuits?
Have you ever burned ordinary plastic? The smell is horrific, there are some truly nasty poisons being released.

Furthermore, compostable plastics will solve the biggest problem of plastic pollution -- the a-hole that just tosses plastic garbage in the ground because he/she doesn't give a damn. Compostable plastics compost much faster in proper municipal/industrial composting facilities, so it is still important to throw the stuff away in compost bins and to have regular pickup service, but they will compost in the environment too. Thus, there is some defense against the morons that just litter.

In other words, compostable plastics fail better than all the other choices.
That puts the decision on where to put public good will and non-profitable money sinks solely into the machine of government bureaucracy, which I don't think would be very effective.

Currently we incentivize private individual donations, and that lets a lot of things happen quickly and without the requirement of soliciting the permission of a bottlenecked council for anything to happen.