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There is also the accompanying book called Wilding, by Isabella Tree. Rewilding is the technique that Knepp promotes, and arguably got into popular culture.
The customer is paying for it either way. Do you want liability insurance on your critical software project? Sure! But it'll just balloon the already ridiculous costs and a fraction of that money will maybe be spent on educating the engineers and ensuring the system is secure.

On an individual level, expect to see this: "Our records indicate that you have previously committed (a minor, unrelated change) to a software repository that was later exploited, unfortunately we are not able to offer you a position at this time (due to insurance reasons)"
How many Canadians are there in the CCP leadership? China is around 30% of the globes emissions, Canada is 1.5%.

Alarmist statements are not going to do anything to Chinese policy. The only thing that is going to work is having a technically better source of energy to move to.
What you want to say is, you don't believe in science.
I disagree: It might be part of the solution, but simply taxing carbon means that rich folks or companies can pollute. We need green methods put into law to force folks to cut their emissions and pollutants - and punish those who run afoul of the laws, including steep fines, possible business shutdowns, and personal liability/criminal charges for CEOS and other folks running the company, especially if they cover up their polluting.

I'd much rather just deny good that do not meet standards. Again, tariffs just make it so moneyed folks can just pay to avoid stuff.
> Bike accidents jumped 35 percent last year, from 2019

This should be compared to the increase of people biking.
Kill rate isn't that low, and the Long COVID rate is pretty high.
Everything on the one PCB is great, just ask Tesla owners that get stranded with a hardware failure, or need to reboot their screen for a software failure by holding down steering wheel buttons to get their car operable again.

The reason cars have lots of computers is for price - its cheaper to use a power and CAN data bus rather than have individual wires going from a central computer to each device.

For example, a door module can control the locks, windows and mirrors with just a 2 power wires and 2 thin wires for CAN bus.

Contrast this to old cars which had thick bundles of wires to power the mirror, doorlock and window motors from outside the door.
Just curious, why? Are you looking at the theory, saying "I don't like what it implies therefore I wish it were false" or is there more to it?

I don't know what the answer is but I do feel that Jews culturally value intelligence/education and I can see how that leads to it being sought and passed on in marriage and children.
More like the CEO/CFO are only expected to have a churn rate similar to competitors. Above: raise comp. Below: slow down.

Source: I was involved in comp decision meetings in previous jobs. They don't say it explicitly but the expected rates lead the discussion. Blame investors and boards whose goals are never past a year or two. This is the same in startups and in large companies.
When it comes down to it, most software bugs don't matter. Reimburse the customer, wait a few days for a dev to fix something, whatever, it'll get resolved and everyone will be whole again. Contrast this with construction, if there's a "bug" in the building, people can die, or lose housing, or companies can lose large amounts of money. Bug in a billing system? Just try and pay again next week.

In industries where software bugs do have large consequences, well they tend to be heavily regulated industries already: finance, aerospace, government systems, automated cars, elevators, medical devices.
The other types of engineering the author refers to that are subject to certification involve the physical safety of other people.

But still, plenty of software development roles are subject to professional liability, particularly where the work is linked to people’s physical safety. As a contractor or director of a company providing software services, I’ve been required to have professional indemnity and public liability insurance, and part of that involves verification that I’m sufficiently educated and experienced to be competent enough to mitigate the risk.

It doesn’t make sense for there to be industry-wide liability standards, as roles and risks vary so much, and certification comes at a huge cost. It’s absurd that the same standards of liability would apply to an aviation software job vs the part time IT guy at said sub-20-person office whose responsibilities are limited to setting up MS ActiveDirectory and keeping the printers running.

This is a rant about a non-problem.
One red paper clip is up next? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, but the second best time is today. By continuing to oppose low-carbon base load power that is politically unpopular, climate activists are showing the world that they don't really believe there's a crisis.

Put another way, they are saying: "there's just enough of a crisis for us to take things from you, but not enough for us to sacrifice anything ourselves."

Also, with investment in nuclear plants, the cost and time to build one will decrease, but someone needs to put up the money to make that happen.
That's okay, no one will be able to afford software any more afterwards.

I suppose the likes of MS could get away with selling a bug free operating system for only 100k/seat. All the other cheap apps with less than millions of customers will simply vanish.
>A massive reduction in population growth helps more than doing nothing.

I always suggest an author of such proposals to start by reducing themselves from the population.
I lean the other way TBH in such a scenario local, meatspace relationships are going to be all the more important! Not just for loneliness but for basic survival.

Likewise I’m skeptical in such an energy scenario we’d have affordable internet access or supply chains to build and equip people with low power computers.

Let’s hope we don’t have to find out!
The ATM robber will also face jail if caught, while the crypto guy is will remain free and may even attain popularity.
On what basis should a developer be held liable for damage caused by software? Certainly a group of 'experts' could identify outright negligence.

But in engineering professions, the standards are well understood, and measurable. Software is not the same at all.

The whole argument appears spurious, and the arguer, sanctimonious.
Black violates pep8 recommendation with long argument list (2019)
"plentiful versus scarce skill requirements"

You think promoting a shitcoin requires more skills than blowing things up without blowing yourself up?
I think you're just frustrated at what you believe is the inability of other people to see a danger you do. I suppose I'm one of those people. I didn't find your comparison to covid disrespectful, it just seemed to undermine your belief that carbon sequestration was the only way to go.
Even in the US computer engineering degrees require licensing and are different than “software engineering”, which is actually a specialty within computer science.
The power loss from an AC compressor with the clutch disengaged is negligible.

Modern AC also use variable displacement compressors which adjust load according to temperature, so once the cabin is cool they use a constant small amount of engine power rather than toggling to full power on and off like older designs.
On one side, this is an incredible medical advancement and opens the door to a lot of other developments, but on the other side if my doctor said I was getting injected with snake venom...
I do think certain lines of thinking are tied to skin color, for white and black people. Not because they are inherent in the color of skin, but because society created the norms for this kind of thinking based on skin color.
That aeems like a mych safe strategy
Just a small comment - the menu doesn’t work on iOS/safari

The tool looks nice, good luck
I don't think that's typical for catastrophies. You also don't include some factor for better healthcare in 2021 than in 1918 either, or some of the other countless factors one could look at that would tilt the number in either direction.

the logic I suppose is that people are interested in the severity of the event as such. To take a crass example, we would probably not adjust a genocide for population either.
I'd agree that the Medicaid expansion was far more effective than Obamacare in improving things, but Obamacare had some positive outcomes too.
As stupid as it is, what you describe IS exactly "baseball cards in the blockchain", because each individual card/nft can only be owned by one person at a time.

The difference with baseball cards (apart from not being physical) is that most nft projects are combinatorial, so they make 10000 different cards, constructed from combinations of a much smaller number of "traits". That way the artist only has to draw say 25 faces, 20 hats, 20 eye glasses etc.

With baseball cards you'd instead make 100 different cards, and then print 1000s of copies of each. You could do that with NFTs, but you don't. The reason for that is probably that you can't sell NFTs in sealed packages where 95% of the cards will be uninteresting. I guess you could, but again you don't.
There's a different thing for that: tabulatures.

Tabulatures come with their own limitations though. They're mostly a far less portable way to express western music. They also lose a lot of meaning. Is a note part of a particular chord or melody line? A lot of this is not visible in tabulatures.
You are overstating requirements gathering and then somehow confusing that for building anything technical. This only exemplifies the incompetence.

Bridge building is only more predictable because it’s more expensive. The same planning problems are still there but are worked out well in advance by people who aren’t so easily confused.
1. Great idea, this will be added in one of the next updates
2. This is planned also will also be added soon
3. How would you expect this to work? Would you want a search? Or an input for pasting HN links?

Thank you!
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When was this exactly? https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_average_gas_price shows the peak to have been 939 Gwei in late 2016, which would be around 0.0027 EUR.

Are you sure you're not talking about a call to a contract rather than the fee to just make a transaction?
How we you know signal, matrix, et al aren't either?
Leave us Millennials out of it. We're broke due to the Boomers' spoilage and policies. We didn't vote to spend trillions on pointless wars because our ego got hurt. We are a product of the cocaine 80s, not the contributor and subsequent logjamming of government, leading to the rise of right-wing fascists and authoritarian governments. We are getting vaccinated. What we lack is political leadership that says no to oil and gas interests. In ww2 we had leaders united against a militant, murderous social order that threatened the American experiment. Today, we have QANON and Jan 6 insurrectionists our political leaders barely move on.
These interviews with Edward Teller [1] offer first hand insight into some of this fascinating history, I quite enjoyed watching them.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRdAp4A5KEA&list=PLVV0r6CmEs...
And with that 15MPG fuel economy you get to give your maintenance savings to the gas station instead while you drive a slow uncomfortable car.
> 'Go on youtube and search' is not evidence.

Yes it is. I even told you what to search for exactly and I've already pasted direct links to some of them in a sibling post.

> I was under the assumption that 'Level 5' robo-taxis were coming in 2020

Be prepared to be disappointed again and again when it comes to cutting edge of tech. You're not waiting for the next Xbox.
No.

I'm not in the US, so I have no level of influence on the NSA.

However, my Member of Parliament is tech-savvy (ex-developer although I don't know how good he was), he has a monthly surgery where anyone can raise issues with him or they can message him (or at least his office) directly.

And he can (and has previously) raised privacy issues in Parliament and with members of the Privy Council (who have access to national security matters and regularly meet with agencies like the Security Service and GCHQ).

Even if I didn't have this particular MP, it would be part of any MP's duties to report my concerns to Parliament - so there is some level (no matter how small) of accountability.

I have no influence whatsoever with these private companies that gather and sell data on me.
The Metaverse: Abstracted Reality and the Future of Tokenized Life
I wonder what the rest of the construction companies think about all these regulations and what was the impact in costs and supply.
> You think promoting a shitcoin requires more skills than blowing things up without blowing yourself up?

More or less skill is irrelevant.

There are more people who can blow up an ATM (or be trivially trained to) and collect the cash from it than there are who could do similarly for a cryptocurrency scam. (Few, if anyone, make $20mm simply tweeting promotions for other peoples’ coins.)
>The researchers looked at venom from 50 species before they found the black mamba's pain-killing proteins - called mambalgins
The thing I was commenting about was that theorists create new vocabulary to talk about new concepts, which can then be simplified and taught more easily.

The impression that these concepts were inherently simple in the first place is the consequence of the observer standing on the shoulders of popularizers, themselves standing on the shoulders of theorists. To think that we had simple things that were made complicated essentially reverts the timeline.
It's a fairly common term. Ie Labor day, AFL union. But it doesn't have as common of a linguistic relationship it did in prior decades. I bet it's one of those things you'll start seeing everywhere.
Car shaped cars are a welcome respite from everything being a lifted, oblong spheroid now.
Accuracy of Mathematical Functions [pdf]
Not afaik. This was over ten years ago though so I’m somewhat fuzzy on the details. It was just surprising to me that it could cause medical issues without even being directly hit, especially while being in the house.
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If it means there's less temptation to change shit for the sake of change then I'm all for it.
> High minimum wage will just accelerate automation and the disappearance of low-skills jobs.

Isn't this a net positive? Then we can reduce work hours, no?
Who drink at least one energy drink/week is twice as likely to break speed limit
It's more likely to have selected younger sons, who did not inherit, and were more likely to seek a monastic or otherwise religious life.
It is a great idea, but this is not going to work. The difference between construction and software engineering is the number of active users. If damage is made and people sue, your liability is limited by 1-10000 building occupants and visitors. No insurance company will take the risk of paying to 1M-1B active users of software.

And of course there is also a problem of implementation. Even with deadline in 10 years industry will not be able to certify majority of the engineers or develop an engineering process where licensed engineer in USA or EU can take responsibility for the code written by 10 engineers from another country with different standards (they can even be licensed, but those licenses won’t be recognized abroad).
This is a big problem in America as well, especially pronounced in certain subcultures.
SSO Wall of Shame – Vendors treating SSO as a luxury and not a requirement
Whether or not it's fair to blame this minority for the persistence of the disease and its variants is irrelevant to the argument he was making.
Even more incentive to end cash.
No, I think we have just as much of a need for frameworks, so you would have the same React for example, but instead of having JSX that is a combination of html5 elements and react components, you'd have JSX that is a combination of html5 elements, web components and fewer react components. That will allow for richer component libraries that share a lot more code between frameworks. In order to build those component libraries we're going to need frameworks that enable that.

We've experimented with the combination react + stencil to build in this way, but there were just too many problems relating to workarounds to get things to work and performance which just wasn't good enough.
A developer is more of a writer crafting abstract concepts into flow. Build a house is physical an unrelated
> Tesla has done a decent job of mitigating some of the chip shortages since they are so vertically integrated

That and the fact they ten times less vehicles than other manufacturers like VW or Toyota per year.
Banks and financial entities are the ones that have the hardest government regulations, including how they write software. Regulating software engineers would just make the rest of the industry look more like those, I wouldn't call that an improvement. The problem is that we currently don't know how to properly regulate software engineering to get good results. Regulations doesn't even seem to protect against vulnerabilities, so why even bother until we understand better how to regulate it?
Internet2 will come alive any day now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet2
We know mate, you are preaching to the quer. His point is you cannot exactly replicate a bridge either even if you've got an identical one 300 meters away - the river twists and turns, soil conditions differ, foundations may be different, etc.

You never get to 'copy-paste' anything more conplicated than a shed ir a single-story house
Planting trees is expensive, especially if you are registered as Organic farmer (which means more EU money too). You get more money by keeping them alive. Not planting doesnt work, you will get an inspection and no money. Maybe depends on where you live I guess.
Ask HN: Books about copyright laws for creators
Hey all. Has anyone come across a good book that explains copyright law to a non-lawyer and focuses on creators? I’m looking to expand my knowledge as I get more into creating videos.

Thanks!
What atrocities?
Taken literally, its a referential term - "protected class" means a class protected by something (in usa typically a statute).

If they don't define the term, then surely they mean the american context - if not, who is protecting the class?

> If it said 'murder' or 'jaywalking' we wouldn't pick a country that uses those terms to interpret them in its legal sense, we'd just understand the broad sense of what they are anywhere

The difference is that these terms have widely agreed upon meanings. I know what jaywalking means regardless of country.

If i use the term protected class generically, who is included? Are we including the following groups:

- vetrens of us armed forces

- vetrens of non-usa armed forces

- political beliefs

- sexual orientation

- criminal conviction

If used generically, its impossible to know - some juridsictions say yes, some say no, in different contexts.

If the CoC was just using the term in an abstract way - to represent the abstract idea of a protected class, that would be fine. However they are not. They are using the term concretely. To understand the CoC you have to know the exact list of protected classes (or at least be able to identify if a specific trait creates membership or not).

Although i think this term is needlessly american, ultimately i'd be fine with it if they defined it. Not defining a term used almost exclusively in the usa kind of implies they mean it in its american sense.

> Again, that's not what it is. The legal protection is against discrimination based on your <something> such as race or ethnicity. No matter whether the particular value in your case is held by the majority or a minority of people.

I should of said marginalized instead of minority perhaps. Although it varries depending on context, and region, affirmative action is often not considered to be in violation of these policies. So its more complex than that.
I was talking to a UPS driver the other day about EV's. They are very concerned about how these vehicles will perform in my neck of the woods. About a third of the year it is well below freezing here. As is the ICE UPS trucks have difficulty in the snow. The drivers are concerned that the problems will be compounded by cold batteries and having to charge them constantly given that Tesla's don't do well here at all and have to be charged often.

My concerns about this are entirely selfish of course. If I bought a bed locally it would have been about $3k. The same bed on Amazon was $700 including mattress and frame. I buy locally when it makes sense and what I want is available but sometimes it just doesn't make sense. Amazon only uses UPS here.
I think CSAM & human trafficking is happening on every platform possible, the only reason may be Facebook might be at the top because they are actively working with law enforcement. But saying crimes are happening because of facebook is dishonest.

As far as I know the only social media company that didn't have any political leanings is Facebook. I think that's the only reason it is getting targeted repeatedly in the political circles and in the media. For me every rich tech/social media companies are same including Google, Apple & Facebook. At least Facebook didn't collude with other companies to suppress salaries of their employees. Open up every company and they would be caught doing same thing as Facebook.
Other engineering sectors do have this kind of liability. What do these sectors have as well? Standards. If a house needs to be built, there are _loads_ of safety regulations to follow. Standards to adhere to. Inspections to be had. Only then is someone allowed to move in.

Software? Decisions are often made without either knowledge or a plan. Agile is a thing. Deadlines are shorter than ever. Also: ideally it needs to be for free. Just pick up that package from Github, it should be good enough (maybe it even has Tests, but who cares, really).

The software projects that are heavily regulated? Take forever to plan and complete. Massive budgets. And still usually are not able to manage to be bug free.

Also: software is really, really complex. And: it is easy to attack. Let's be real: other engineering projects are really easy to break as well - some well placed C4 usually does the trick. But it is hard to get C4. Hard to get access. Also, hopefully, there's an ethical barrier to doing it. Software on the other hand? From home. And once there is an angle of attack, it can attack millions of targets at once. And there are no visible victims, at least not right away, so the ethical barrier is lower as well.

Ok I'm rambling. Anyway. This, as is software, is a complex issue. And liability could totally be a thing, but that means an end to ad-financed applications or 2$/user/month services. You get what you pay for (well, sometimes not even then, but you definitely do not get anything for cheap any more). Perfect example: super-cheap IoT devices from China. Well engineered ones doing basically the same thing? 10x, sometimes 100x the price.
Early 2016 was the initial Steam early-access release.

I bought in late 2014, pre-steam. I also have a late 2013 email referencing Factorio - a RimWorld project update giving a nod to "Other interesting games you might want to check out"!

Early 2013 was the initial Indiegogo campaign. While the sprites looked much different then, many of the machines and mechanics appear to have been fundamentally in place even way back then - from robots to cars to inserters to belts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1qOCAM9Syw
Can’t feel pain if you’re dead.