skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with what you're encouraging people to do, and I admire people who do the right thing, even when there's a cost.

However, I believe that you're calling on engineers to act as professionals without the professional standing that empowers workers to act like a professional. For instance, consider this:

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibili...

(d) A lawyer shall not practice with or in the form of a professional corporation or association authorized to practice law for a profit, if: (3) a nonlawyer has the right to direct or control the professional judgment of a lawyer.

In general, this means that 1) lawyers don't report to non-lawyers, and 2) non-lawyers can be imprisoned for practicing law without a license. That gives lawyers both a professional obligation and a professional power to meet that obligation.

Now, I have misgivings about the kind of cartel-building we often see in the ABA, AMA, and so forth. But the truth is, engineers, in the way you're using the term (unlicensed software engineers) don't have any particular standing as professionals. There are benefits to this, in that we can be considered mere employees if our employers do something dastardly and we went along with it - there are limits to what a mere employee can go along with under the defense of following orders, but there's no malpractice. But the flip side is that we aren't empowered to hold the line the way licensed professionals are.

That makes your willingness to stand up all the more impressive and commendable, but I can't really agree that software "engineers" have the kind of power you're describing, and it's built into the system that way (I put "engineers" that in quotes because in the context of this discussion, licensed PE holders do have more power, but not in the world of software).
Same, I'm a big fan. The only issue I have is that 1) the power bricks aren't cheap, small, and powerful enough and 2) charging things through my MBP doesn't work well because the wattage (60) isn't high enough. The external hard drive won't work if my phone is plugged in as well.

GaN chargers are pretty cool. I found the Hyper Juice to be a shit product though. Still waiting for Anker to release some high watt chargers.
Some friends and I just happened to watch Trading Places (1983, Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd) last night, and it deals directly with this question, and got us talking about it.

I work with a guy who did some time, but I'm not sure what for. Probably drug-related, if I had to guess, but I've never asked. He's a model employee, as long as you include a snarky wit in your model. And I feel perfectly comfortable around him.

There are people around who DO creep me out, but that's not even slightly correlated, in my little sample, with the people who've been to prison.
Sorry, I'll drop the philosophy discussion because I don't find it interesting (don't mean this as an attack to you in any way though)

On the first discussion: I think it's interesting that you keep using "unbiased" when you maybe should be using "objective". I'll take a shot and say that you want to reinforce the negative connotation the word "bias" carries so you can further demerit the humanities. And this is really ironic because this only reveals your own biases.

See, it doesn't matter that you don't like how imprecise we humans are. We are all we directly experience during our lives. Everything you see and feel comes tinged with human subjectiveness. There is us and there is the rest. Hell, if I think, therefore I am, the first, and so far the only thing I can say for sure that exists is me. So we are arguably the single most important thing we should study.

Now, if you are able to create mathematical and computational models that describe we humans, then great, humanities became as pointless as Plato's theory of atoms. I mean, social sciences often use math tools. But we're doing the best we can with what we have, and it's not because it's easier to predict a chemical reaction than a social trend that one becomes more important.

Again, your argument on objectivity holds no water. The importance of a field isn't related to how easy it is to find absolute answers.
What further comes to my mind: If the authors have to choose between flexibility and specificity, then it may lack in modelling abstractions in a way that I can define it in multiple ways oft different specificity
SARs are warnings, flags. They do not indicate a crime has been committed. And the Dept of Justice does not issue SARs.
There’s a small group of people (financial analysts, mostly) who use APL derived languages, are hugely productive and make tons of money, and have no interest in changing the language they use. Not every tool is for every purpose and not every language should try to appeal to all users.
I generally don't care if the current airlines survive. If their business model can't handle an emergency then we should let them fail. They can enter bankruptcy and someone or someones will come in, swoop up the assets, and start new airlines. It is not written in the stars that American Airlines, United, Delta, and Southwest get to be THE premier airlines for the United States.

Let them find their own way. Maybe next time the airlines won't use 96% of their cash flow on share buybacks.

I would also entertain the idea of loaning the airlines money at student loan interest rates. We can even defer payments until the pandemic is over, accruing interesting in the interim of course.

Or liquidate shares and sell them to the public treasury if they need the cash so badly.

Anything, legitimately anything, other than a bailout.
> San Fran and New York are very expensive.

Maybe before covid. I am not so sure anymore though.

This is anecdotal, but for reference, I am going to save 1k$ a month on rent for my 1 bedroom apartment, when it renews.
lol, I've never had worse customer support than while in Europe. I had no idea how good we had it in the US until living in Europe.

I'm not sure what my threshold is for reporting a company to a bureaucratic institution in hopes for resolution, but I think it would have to be very high.
A (card-)lifetime of annual fees, merchant fees, and potential interest surely goes over $150 quickly.
As a current federal employee in DC, I've been long interested in working for USDS--in fact I've had a USDS jobs tab open in one of my long-lived browser windows since 2019. The one thing that has dissuaded me from applying is the "tours" aspect whereby the position is temporary. I'm not as into the Silicon Valley constant job-hopping thing. I'm more into gaining a depth of knowledge in each project I work on rather than skipping around and not feeling ownership.
Well it is a US-based company. It's also VAT free :)
How is it censorship to make it so more people can see political ads than they were targeted at?
> I've got to think well-paid software folks are going to look at the $20k and scoff. I know I'd be underwater on that deal in less than a year.

It's a reasonable deal. Just removing the need to drive into SF 4-5 days a week is worth 10% of most people's paycheck. You'd only be underwater in terms of the top-line, once you consider expenses and time lost to commuting, you come out way ahead even without the $20k for relocating.
Probably a good idea to add an /s to your comment, just in case the meaning is lost over the Internet.
Larry Niven has a short inconstant moon where the main character looks up at the moon which brightens to 1000 times normal brightness, what that means dawns on him shortly later.
Still, a pretty harsh take on what should be considered hobbyist work.
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...which is not exactly great, considering that English text has about 1 bit of information per character (i.e. byte) and should allow compression down to about 12% of the original.
Maybe a stupid question, but isn't IAM related to almost any API access to AWS as it's used for authorization and authentication through a combination of identities and policies? Or does this outage only affect the meta level being access to IAM itself through its own API?
Translation of historic texts and glyphs is also "a lie" since information (meaning) is lost or distorted during the translation process.

Sometimes that distortion is intentional, sometimes not.

The point being, as long as we're aware of the source of the (image or text) translation we can decide for ourselves whether that source is reputable enough to trust.
> and make people feel like they are 'earning' by using credit

But you are earning by using credit.

When I buy on credit I literally earn cash back. I also get additional consumer protections.

No scare quotes needed!
What would be some good examples of modern bare-metal products?
Many people hold it as something more fundamental than science, which is ultimately what I'm "attacking"
This is why set -u goes at the top of all my scripts ;)
There is a good chance state income tax will become deductible again after the election and it won't be quite such a savings.
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> We register your phone number in our name on your behalf and keep your personal and financial data private and out of the hands of companies who would sell it to others.

Presumably they have the information and will respond to a warrant but won't tell the carrier they're MVNO'ing who you are. This isn't that weird; for "work phones" companies often get a pool of SIMs registered to them which they then pass out to employees, and AT&T or whoever doesn't need to know who's in possession of each one at every moment.
So your logic here is, "they're paid a lot because everyone else pays a lot as well".

That sounds like circular reasoning to me. What's the base reason for employers offering massive salaries?
>Never needed a hot air station - so your claim that it's nothing special is complete delusion of reality.

I think you're going a bit over the top with the rhetoric there. Hot air stations don't cost more than soldering irons. I bought mine new for £35. I'm not saying that everyone in the world can easily afford a hot air station. But it's wrong to characterize it as some kind of exotic, highly expensive piece of equipment just because you didn't happen to own one.

You can also just use a cheap toaster oven (though that makes rework more difficult).
But I believe these are scrutinized pretty heavily. I saw an article Woz wrote and you have to call someone before they are activated - I guess that might be a 6dof thing to identify your habits.
Allowing both seems like the worst solution. Inconsistency is annoying for both beginners and professionals.
I hadn't heard of this carrier before and it made me curious what the rest of their privacy was like, and whether this part of a overall policy. I didn't see explicit mention of opting out of the systems you mentioned. Is that stated anywhere officially, or is it just unofficial?

Their privacy stance overall looks just ok, maybe somewhat above average.

It does make me wonder how strong of a privacy stance Purism will take, or will be able to take as a service provider.

Some emphasis added, and some info trimmed (noted with ellipses ...)

https://www.visible.com/legal/privacy/

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I. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
We collect information when you use our service.
This includes information about the calls you make and receive, text messages you send and receive, ___websites you visit, mobile applications you use___, and wireless network and device information, including location, Internet protocol (IP) address and connection speed, mobile telephone number, ___device and advertising identifiers___, browser type, and operating system. Some Visible devices include Verizon-provided system applications that collect information about network and device conditions, which is used to secure and improve our network and services.
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II. USE OF INFORMATION

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* Determine products and services that may interest you and market them to you, including on Visible sites and apps and on others’ sites, services, apps and devices as described in Section V below
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III. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

* Authorized service providers and partners. We share your information with service providers and partners that help us with a variety of things, including development and delivery of our sites, apps and service. ...
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* Aggregated and De-identified Information. We may aggregate or otherwise de-identify information and use it for our own purposes or share it with third parties for their own purposes.
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Your Right to Say “Do Not Sell”

The CCPA gives you the right to say no to the sale of personal information.

We do not sell information that personally identifies you such as your name, telephone number, mailing address or email address.. We allow Verizon Media and third-party advertising companies to collect information about your activity on our website and in our app, for example through cookies and similar technologies, mobile ad identifiers, pixels, web beacons and social network plugins. These ad entities use information they collect to help us provide more relevant Visible advertisements and for other advertising purposes. This activity may be considered a sale under the CCPA. Visit the Digital Advertising Alliance's Consumer Choices page to learn more about how you can limit this type of advertising. App users can opt out by using your device settings to “Limit Ad Tracking” (for iOS devices) or “Opt out of Ads Personalization” (on Android devices)
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> it's enough to file a Pull Request, not needing for it to be accepted

This part never made any sense to me. Such an easy fix to make.
> I'm sure many people in SV would move if they thought they could keep 90% of their TC in another area.

I dunno about Stripe, but a lot of folks at Google (and presumably the other FAANGs in the region) have had that option for a decade or more. I've had friends I met at Google Mountain View move to Ann Arbor, Boulder, Toronto, Tel Aviv, Boston, Seattle, etc, usually to be close to family when they're having kids. You do get CoL-adjusted but 90% of SV salary is pretty typical. Only restrictions are that you have to be a solid performer beforehand, and you have to find a team that's either in that location or that's willing to have you work remotely (many teams are happy to have remote workers, particularly ones who are high performers).

> If Stripe IPOs - they could use that stock they earned for 2 years while working remotely to buy a house almost anywhere besides NY/SF. (Effectively meaning they don't need SF/NY income anymore because they have paid the most expensive part of housing off)

That's the case for most people who have worked for ~5-10 years at a Silicon Valley company. When 2009 hit I had a bunch of coworkers who joked about buying up whole city blocks in Detroit and plopping down a Google office and an intentional-living commune there. A lot of mid-career engineers at a FAANG could buy a house for cash in most parts of the U.S. and then have enough left over to retire, but choose not to because at that point they've put down roots in the Bay Area (and gotten addicted to the weather and culture).
I agree. The reason we stick with OTP, is that OTP behaviors like gen_server handle two system-level concerns that "raw" Erlang code doesn't:

1. OTP behaviors integrate with the OTP supervisor lifecycle management system (i.e. the OTP framework offers the supervisors standardized hooks to start up and shut down your process, guaranteeing that the errors generated during such steps will be in a format the supervisor can use);

2. Processes that implement OTP behaviors will react to `sys` messages; and so can be debugged, hibernated, code-upgraded, etc. on a framework level, "between" the times the process runs developer-defined code, without the developer having to write such handlers into their module.

This is all accomplished by passing control over the receive loop to a framework — `proc_lib` in this case — which in turn passes any messages it doesn't recognize back to your process. It's an inversion-of-control: proc_lib "is" your process; gen_server or whatever is a delegate of proc_lib; and your module is the delegate for gen_server. It's like an OOP class hierarchy in a GUI system, where the base class handles some events, subclasses handle others, and then your module only has to handle the few it's interested in.

But, if there was a way to do exactly that — to specialize one receive statement, defined in some other function, with your own additional clauses — then we wouldn't need the inversion-of-control framework of OTP! We could just write a regular receive statement that "points to" another receive statement as its "parent" or "fallback" (sort of like a chain of firewall rules, each pointing to the next as "what to check next if this one didn't handle it.") Ideally, the compiled result would be one fused receive statement that has all the clauses from all its parents.

And if you think about it, that's totally possible, even if Erlang itself doesn't offer a fancy chainable receive statement like that... because, in a language like Elixir tht has hygenic macros, you can use macros to generate such "fused receive statements"!

I'm honestly really surprised nobody has yet tried. I realized the possibility of this a couple years back, and have been waiting with baited breath for somebody to attempt it. If it worked out, this "tech" could be used to build a wholly-different-feeling language.
>I think the World Police BS that America engages needs to stop

Not American and I'm annoyed by the US pretty frequently but I'm not really sure why the US having teeth when it comes to clamping down on global money laundering is a bad thing.

The financial sector appears to be the one sector where US authorities actually do a good job to stamp out crime, and I can obviously understand why the US will not tolerate an completely unmonitored shadow economy that could easily be used for sanction avoidance by Iran or any other rogue state.
Indeed. I get a feeling that there's a coordinated campaign to have a negative presence of mind regarding Mozilla?
I dunno, it takes a lot more than a fistfight to get put in prison for violent offense. Sure people can change but only a solid work history or trusted recommendation can give you any real confidence. You may have to fire this person, or they may have to report to an abusive manage for some period of time. Some offenses are difficult to walk away from untainted.
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The seriousness in pictures was a cultural artifact of the time, I think partly because people treated photos like getting portraits?

There's this photo from 1901 which seems really modern: https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/0...

The speculation is that he didn't know about the culture of looking serious.
Sketchup is so much easier to use than blender though. Amazingly easy.
Doesn't the whole article basically suggest that modern science isn't really concerned with truth as much as useful models?
If you feel that you are in a risk pool where covid could be deadly to you, then you should stay home. That is a true statement whether there is a lockdown, or not.
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Saving $20K in 2 months would be an annualized $120K/year. A 10% pay cut might represent a savings of $25K - $50K/yr. Where's the rest of the savings to the company coming from?
As someone who still lives in SF right now, it and NYC are still expensive relative to the rest of the country, even if people are getting better deals on rent at the moment.
Same here. My rent went down by a bit more than $1k when I renewed.
Conversely, someone who was already willing to violently attack another person is probably much more likely to do it again?
The last time this happened I saw errors changing IAM entities but not using them or getting STS tokens, which made sense if it was related to propagating changes.
Travel is so valuable to perspective, too. I know some people on the woke spectrum who would be a lot less miserable if they traveled even to other U.S. states, but the up-front cost is a barrier. Share your miles, make the world a better place!

The U.S. should invest in sending youth abroad (not excluding domestically). The U.S. should also invest in sending entrepreneurs abroad. Thanks for coming to my two-cent talk.
There are probably other reasons people use them, but a few reasons why planter boxes can be the right choice:

(1) If you live in an area with very poor soil conditions, it may take years and lots of hard work to get your soil usable for the things you want to plant. Or you can grab planting soil that meets your requirements upfront and dump it into some planter boxes.

(2) They look nice, and some people are going for that look in their garden.

(3) Not needing to kneel so much, which can be a game changer for people with eg knee problems.
Looks like it is free for hobbyists. https://www.onshape.com/products/free?hsCtaTracking=12ef09fd...
One thing I've had trouble modeling is the apples-to-oranges future value characterization of property in California (and New York, I guess) vs most of the rest of the country.

In CA, property values are sky high to begin with and you have to pay property tax on them, but if you buy in certain areas, you stand a fair chance of your property appreciating by 10% or more per year.

Elsewhere (Smalltown USA), property values are 1/10th what they are in those same areas of CA, but you generally can't expect anywhere near the same appreciation on the property.

So what, do you consider the appreciation as "inflow" (vs "income" because it's taxed differently when you sell) and take it into account when you are doing retirement planning? You definitely could, and maybe discount the appreciation by some pessimism factor to account for some possible future situation where housing values get get in half.

For me it's a lot easier to think about if I just live somewhere where a house in 30 years will (inflation adjusted) cost very roughly what it does today.