skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As somebody doing the startup dance this is really what I find, far and away, to be the greatest challenge. People love to go on and on about cheap labor China, increasing automation, government welfare, regulations, Wall St., blah blah blah, etc etc. These are just headwinds for an entrepreneur. I can figure out a way around them, navigate them, and in certain situations even leverage them to my advantage. But a poorly educated and poorly motivated labor force is a structural deformation. It's like not having any fuel for my boat; no matter the environmental challenges and the weather, without fuel I'm not going anywhere.

And it's not just a matter of poor education, it's workers who reject the entire idea of education, of expertise, of innovation in itself. It's hard to put a finger on it but so many men and seem to think "knowledge is overrated" or that you can't believe experts. These people are not just unserious about their own educational project they seem to think education itself is the problem. And then you check up on Hacker News and you find a bunch of comments railing against universities and calling for the creation of more basic trade schools.

Like I said it's easy to blame immigration and inequality and almost certainly those have contributed to a slack labor market that explains the collapse among, say, those Americans with just a high-school degree. But then I wonder why do we have so many Americans with just a high-school degree in the first place? It seems like outside of a few major cities a large segment of the population has rejected education and a certain idea of human excellence. I mean seriously -- bring back coal jobs? More plumbers? That's the plan?

And what's frustrating is that the labor market isn't really slack at all. In the cities you can find the highly educated, highly innovative knowledge workers needed to get a venture off the ground... but these "super-knowledge workers" require enormous salaries because everything in the cities is so expensive and they've got huge student loan debts right off the bat.

Anyways the problem is so large and amorphous that I hesitate to even approach it. It's not clear that a country as large and decentralized as the US can address such distributed, systemic market failures. But I definitely don't think we need to punish universities or focus our efforts on producing more plumbers.
They just raised about $1 billion a couple of weeks ago, which they said they didn't strictly need for the Model 3 but would be nice to have. They're not shy about taking advantage of their valuation.
Thank you!

I'm absolutely also going to get in touch with HR and also get a proper tax accountant.
So I'm still confused - was it the lack of blood that made you feel drugged? Or did you actually drink something?

Glad you're ok. What a strange occurrence.
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You are right in some ways Nusbio and an Arduino with a UART, in term of features may not be that different.

With an Arduino specially Chinese Arduino compatible CH340 or with .NET languages you may be limited to 115200 bauds (about 11Kbyte/S) and you need to write and maintain a firmware. As a plus you get PWM and ADC.
Nusbio1 can do between 15 and 28 Kbytes/S in SPI and there is no firmware. But there is no PWM. ADC or DAC are available as SPI extensions.

it is not a black and white answer.

But with the knowledge I acquired creating Nusbio 1 hardware and software, I am now working on Nusbio 2.

Nusbio v2 coming sometime this year will address some of these issues, IO default state as input, increase in speed transfer (I2C:Up to 128 Kbyte/S, SPI:Up to 2.4 Mbyte/S), 10 bit ADC, PWM.
But unfortunately will be more expensive.

see https://twitter.com/MadeInTheUSB/status/848013033335029761
Looks like multireddits don't work on the mobile version, so if you're on a phone request the desktop version somehow.
I've been using Python (among others) at work close to 3 years now. I get these challenges and problems, however, I don't find the solutions here "pythonic". I guess it depends upon the job criteria, but the code here [1], for example, is not a great demonstration of _Python_ language skills. It is a good demonstration that the person knows Mathematics, but if someone is interviewing for a Python dev, it's not what they should be looking for.

[1] https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/donnemartin/interactive-...
Perhaps what is best for someone isn't what is best for the field as a whole. The field itself may be fine even if the individuals in seem to be struggling from a high level.

For example in sports, if people weren't struggling to get into the NFL, it would probably be much less fun to watch (for those who watch it now) because the skill level would be much lower.

Could this be the same in academia? We have a very competitive funnel that only lets the best into the top spots? If that is the case the field isn't struggling, the people are. The solution wouldn't be to make things less competitive, it would be to have alternatives for people who don't make it into one of the coveted positions.

This is something I think a lot of specialized fields are struggling with. Over time (looking at century timescales) people have become increasingly specialized due to the nature of the economy. Specialization makes switching expensive. I think this is something we will have to grapple with as specialization continues.
Merge in what way? They are already on the same die.

For low power mode I would expect them to remain separate.
Having been on the receiving side of GSoC students, I'd say 90% of them come from poor countries and are looking for the money. I've seen some that weren't students at all and seemed to be working for "consulting" companies already.
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My internet becomes completely unusable for all other purposes when downloading at about 6MB/sec.

I am paying for 50MB/sec.

Can I do anything about this? Are they throttling me?
You live in a place with a competitive market.
There's another aspect you should also mention embedded in the final clause which is often glossed over in judging the merits of education: work quality should be measured in performance of the actor, not in the results of the acted upon.

High quality pedagogy and quality scholarship are not necessarily correlated with who shows up to class or purchases books and journals. It's a separate part of the pipeline with different incentives.
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That would require a lawsuit the author most likely couldn't afford and most lawyers wouldn't touch unless there was a significant payday (or at least a recovery of expenses) involved.

Even if she prevailed, there's no guarantee that the problem would be fixed in a reasonable time frame, or at all.
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Exactly. The reason the US has had a drawn-out War on Terror right now is because it has the potential to hurt us more than anything else. Asymmetric warfare strategies can be very, very effective while using almost no resources.
That's possible now - you can absolutely have a fully remote developer workforce, but there are real human challenges that make outsourcing to another continent a lot harder. From language to cultural differences, these all erode end quality and add costs. If managed properly, it's possible to be very successful, but if management is lacking, results can be desasterous.

Remote on-shore side-steps a lot of these differences, plus time zone is not as much of an issue. If the team speaks the same language well and shares basic norms, as well as has shared company culture understanding, management becomes less of an issue (less management and more autonomy is better in my experience).
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Thanks for the precious information!

I thought about asking here because it's not the first time HN saves my "life" by providing proper perspective on important decisions.
pathological != "in crisis".

And in any case, if your only criticism of a field is a characteristic that is shared by many fields, then you should either assert that your preferred fix is general to all of them, or explain why it's specific to academia. (For instance, it is not enough so say that medicine should be socialized because of imperfect information alone since imperfect information exists in many other industries and we do not socialize them all.)
How happy are retired people?
This sounds an awful lot like Google's 20% time and the "hack days" done by many other companies. Very few guidelines and no consequences for doing something insufficiently useful, but it ends up with a lot of valuable ideas anyway (and granted, some automated foosball tables).
The one place where the University and the Professor are perfectly aligned is the summer salary. Most professors are paid for only 9 months by the University. They need to pay the remaining portion out of their grant. This gives the Professor and the University a mutual incentive to secure one or more grants. The Professor gets paid and the University gets their overhead tax on the grant.
That makes no sense. Companies seek to be viable in the future. If Ford or GM feel that an electric car is on the horizon and that car will eat their (ICE) lunch, they will pivot.

By your logic Tesla would have been locked out of the VC/investment market due to Big Oil. Money flows like water.
The drive isn't / wasn't so much the "GNU" portion dominating as much as it was just for the Linux kernel itself.
Yeah, I don't get it. Scott Adams draws comics lampooning office politics. He's not actually an office worker, just a comedian.
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Personally I hope that crew is joining the "anything but proprietary" group. Sorry, I'm sure you were fishing for a more pro-MS response.
Given the popularity of frivolous media, ain't most people just frivolous consumers?
I don't quite understand the memorandum [1] yet either, but it does say [2]:

the fact that a person may be employed as a computer programmer and may use
information technology skills and knowledge to help an enterprise achieve its
goals in the course of his or her job is not sufficient to establish the position
as a specialty occupation.

So, calling the thesis of the article "absurd and incorrect" is probably too early.

[1]: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/nativedocume...

[2]: page 4, last paragraph.
It's orders of magnitude harder to statically check for at app submission time than Bitcode vs. Native is.
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This is the key requirement for an 'office killer', but also the one all these challengers want to convince themselves they can get away without. I'm certain it would require a tremendous amount of labor.

Really, we need something better than Excel, which can bring Excel jockeys out of the weird ghetto of macros and into a true scripting environment. Google has made a valiant effort in this. But in order to get anyone who matters to even look at it seriously, you're going to need to offer compatibility, first.
A small tip on hiring designers off Dribble et al.:
Be careful of designers that put out a lot of pretty-looking designs of non-existent apps. These are not "real" projects. They don't face the same constraints an actual project does. They're only optimized for good looks. They are fantasies.

So when judging someone's work remember to factor in whether or not it was an actual project meant to go live.
False confessions are in fact pretty common. They're most common with juveniles and the mentally ill, for example, or when people are being interrogated for 12-16 hours straight and just need to leave, or when the police lie to suspects.
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvicti...
https://www.exonerationproject.org/resources/false-confessio...

The motives for such are pretty easy to see in her story. "In 2015, I failed a background check for a new job because, according to the NYPD, I hadn’t paid the ticket 'I' had gotten for walking in a park in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn after hours, at 10pm. Now there was a misdemeanor on my record, and I had 60 days to clear it up if I wanted to keep the job, which meant trekking to lower Manhattan to criminal court. ...I tried to explain the long history of mix-ups, but the judge wouldn’t listen. He told me I’d have to go to trial, which could take months. By that time the job would be long gone. ...The cop told me to go back in and plead guilty, and then I’d pay a fine and the judge would dismiss the charge and let me off with a warning."

She believed the costs to pleading guilty would be lower than fighting the charge.
Uh... the GPU drivers we're talking about in this subthread are precisely "compilers" for the shader architecture (and configuration generators for the texture units and framebuffer layouts, etc...). In fact for architectures other than NVIDIA's the hardware-facing part of the linux driver already is open source.

The only secrets left are the bits responsible for turning OpenGL (or Vulkan now, I guess) calls into programs to run on the GPU.
Along with the other things they sold that don't seem so smart now. Like abandoning the low power x86 Geode processor in 2009. Interestingly, according to this article [1] they sold Adreno for only $65 million, less than IT is making from Apple each year in royalties.

https://www.xda-developers.com/a-look-back-at-amds-history-a...
I appreciate the feedback and you raise good points. However, i'm curious what purpose many of these exams serve...some guesses:

- Because it is actually a good predictor of job success (does anyone think this is the case for anything but a handful of job roles?)

- To be adding a hurdle to target those who really want the job (downside: it also adds a hurdle to top-notch gainfully employed people who dont have time to study for such exams)

- Another is they just need something to reduce an otherwise overqualified pool of already qualified candidates (fair point, but at the risk of losing out candidates from concern one above.)

- Legal risk mitigation -- add a quantitative measure to show a facade of merit and process.

TBH, I have never been on the hiring side at a small firm, so I don't know. But I have seen several things:

1. People recruiting me to Amazon and practically giving me the exam questions (I declined mostly due to location) Same thing at two other firms (perhaps to get referral bonuses?)

2. An H1B process that is by-the-book correct yet entirely against the spirit of the program.

3. Tons of interviews, screenings, etc at big firms just to justify an already-decided inside candidate. This I witnessed firsthand and makes me really upset because of all the candidate time they waste and the false hope they give to people who were never in the running to being with.
I have heard many times that the traditional car companies are heavily outsourced aside from the drivetrain. If I haven't been misinformed there (quite possible either way!) and this is true, then outsourcing that would leave Ford not adding much value themselves.

Even if it would work out for them, Tesla is pushing really hard to be a major battery supplier, so they could end up benefitting either way.
Factories, dealerships, a maintenance network, etc.
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Adafruit just put the chip on a breakout board. There's .net support for it.

A couple of sources:

http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/SoftwareExamples/MPSSE/FTCSP...

https://github.com/zhelnio/MPSSELight
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Continue in the same vein: Musk works for Tesla.
Same experience here. Amusingly, 5ghz works halfway down the block outside the building but dies in my bedroom. It's an older building, and the walls are built like bunkers.

2.4ghz works perfectly, and always has. I think the real answer here is more dual band routers, even in cheapo ISP provided combo boxes.
I'd say the majority of end users are not particularly knowledgeable about Google Play Services and the Store app to make an informed decision on whether to accept or not an update.
Good call, thank you!
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True, to borrow the metaphor there are 10x as well as 1x and -1x managers.

The problem however, is that they all tend to be absurdly compensated whereas logic would support paying only the first group in that manner.
AMD sold their mobile division to Qualcomm; Adreno is just Radeon with the letters rearranged. They may not be able to get involved in mobile.
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That's really expensive for the team in terms of time investment for possibly no payoff. Someone has to make sure that a candidate that gets to that point has a good chance of being hired. That person is "your typical interviewer."
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The penalty for most small crimes is less onerous than the burden of fighting them.
It costs millions of dollars to build a mile of road[1]. Is it possible for damage to vehicles + inconvenience to make that cost worth it, especially considering you're probably talking about many miles of road ($100M+)?

1. http://blog.midwestind.com/cost-of-building-road/