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Folksprak is another one like Interlingua, except based on the Germanic languages. One of the nice things about being an English speaker is you can pick up both pretty easily.

Another interesting one is Uròpi which tries to go back to the Indo-European roots of all European languages. It's not as immediately readable as Interlingua or Esperanto but not too bad either: http://uropi.free.fr/comparaisons.html
The title already says "road map to clean energy" - how much clearer does it need to get?

Besides ignition is a well understood scientific word and nuclear fusion isn't useful for weapons.
Getting down-voted so much here I can't even maintain a discussion. My post rate limit is too low.

Yes I do see the environment it `could` create. That's the problem with a world without fascism/authoritarianism, people will always be subject to potential emotional trauma.

The only way to stop it is to assert your subjective view of reality on the world.
That sounds fine in theory and if implemented well it would work, but I'm not sure how well it would work in reality. I just refer to my small business tax return every year to get an idea of how many forms would need to be filled out to just send email. How would that work for offices that send non PHI emails? Would it go through that system too, or would it have to key on recipient email addresses? How hard would it be to shut down and create a new email for each employee that left, etc. Would you have to have a special email server just for PHI and another for regular? How many times would employees accidentally send PHI over a non-secured channel on accident?

Also, physicians themselves rarely send emails, they have office assistants do it. They are busy providing care. How would that work? The office assistant position doesn't have any direct regulation (that I know of) so you'd either have to have the physicians send out emails (ya right), have an assistant use the physician's account (oh no), or add a bunch of regulation to office assistants (to the tune of doctors and nurses) which would make them more expensive and make office visits more expensive (etc).

It sounds good as a technologist, but if you look for unintended consequences (costs), I'll bet there are a bunch I didn't even think of.

Also, organizations are highly motivated to get this right because the fines have teeth. Up to $50K per incident capped at $1.5 million per annum.

https://www.truevault.com/blog/what-is-the-penalty-for-a-hip...
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There's this [0] standard that nobody implements, AFAIK the security risks could be mitigated by asking for confirmation from the user.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/tcp-udp-sockets/
No, it's probably going to take a very fundamental reorganization of the economy. I can't see labour continuing along the path of increasing irrelevancy and the concentration of wealth continuing to increase as it has without something breaking
> Saying it's worth "5 story points" might suffice as a rough representation of that 3-7 hour chunk.

> If it ends up taking 20 hours, oh well - good to know for next time!

The idea behind points in this situation is to start equating that 5 points = 20 hours (for this type of problem, for this team). If you think of it in terms of "this story is about the same complexity as this other one". Whether you call that 5 or 15 or 50 points is largely irrelevant, so long as all 5 point stories are roughly equivalent and a 10 point story is about double the work of that.

The rest of the uncertainty around complexity and people is supposed to wash out in the averages of the team: for example the fact that one person may typically do 12 points a week while another does 30 does not really matter for figuring out the overall velocity (team points per week), assuming the team does dozens of points per week total.

Now that said, I've never successfully used points. Sometimes it was due to endless discussions trying to equate hours to points (mostly from management and others outside the dev team), poor estimates, radically different estimates or skill levels, and probably several other reasons I'm unaware of.

Now my team does t-shirt sizes for long term things, and hours for the stuff in sprint (basically as it's started), but it's still often way off.

Does anyone have successful (long term) experience using points? What did you do to make it work? Does it actually have material advantages over other methods?
Did you even see my reply? I don't "think" or speculate. I've seen it. 2 of them still take me out to lunch when I'm in town because I've changed their life with a simple suggestion which they took upon themselves to research further. It's all about a person's state of mind. If you want to be a slave to the systemic misinformation that's out there - sure, go ahead. If you want to explore alternative options that take away a physician's job security, all the power to you.
> An iron maiden and a wheelchair sit on different places in the good - evil spectrum.

No they don't. They are both just objects, people are the reason the iron maiden has the connotation it dose. The iron maiden could have been a single art piece in a modern art gallery somewhere meant to symbolize the pain of heartbreak. Wheelchairs could have been devices used to intentionally cripple children by preventing them from using their legs.

We need to stop living in this fantasy land where people aren't responsible for their actions. I'm comfortable making the assertion that it is an absolute fact that guns, the internet, and all technology are neutral until applied/activated by a thinking being (AI would count as a thinking being, IMHO). What if no human had ever died from a gunshot? What if we only used them to kill cows for consumption, would guns still be inherently evil (bare with me if your vegan)? Is it not humans who first choose to point guns at eachother?

We can't let personal responsibility die. We just can't... Otherwise all tech may as well be evil. You don't think there is an evil way to use a heart bypass machine? I bet I can find one. Give me any piece of tech and I can find a way to use it for evil, and a way to use it for good.

Even nuclear bombs could be used to save the planet from an out of control asteroid without doing anything evil. Or you could blow up a city of people. Where dose the difference lie? With the person whose fingers on the button.
Free speech has no requirement that privately owned companies must promote your speech to a mass audience.
Oh. Then we apparently have licorice liqueur.
Who cares if you're in a fish tank being filmed if the video is never viewed and the tank is in a sealed room?

Where the fish tank is placed and where that video is going is important. Details matter and trying to dismiss technology with these taglines do those details a disservice. I'm an engineer myself, I am very aware of the dangers and watch closely. Right now, for my personal calculus, the benefit outweighs the risk.
The one time I worked with outsourced people from India or Pakistan (I don’t actually know which country the people were hired out of, could be somewhere else) was a disaster, but what do you expect when you get the absolute lowest bid you can?

I know other people have had great success stories, but you get what you pay for. Even if the cost-of-living is much lower that doesn’t mean that you can buy the bottom of the barrel people and expect it to be worth it.
The obvious solution would be to ask the user for permission before opening the socket.
I don't know if this is still the case but the Eastern Bloc developers I have met years ago were all super strong in math and other science fundamentals. Very impressive.
Perhaps the scales could be built into the bed somehow?
> Edit: Looks like we have overloaded it right now. Maybe it showed that info when the whole application was working.

It doesn't appear to.
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Keep your expenses extremely low. That applies to any non-VC context generally.

People borrow money from friends & family, credit cards, or from their assets such as a home.

People lean on savings or take a tax hit and pull capital out of a 401k.

Smaller angel investors are a common avenue (someone that might put in $15k or $50k). They have very little in common with bigger VC investors, they're more like taking an investment from a friend or family member in terms of the actual relationship of dealing with them and their expectations.

Ideally, the absolute best way to non-VC fund, is by securing sales immediately. That is, to not start a business until you have your first customer. Now, that works for some things and not for others obviously, some businesses do not lend themselves easily to that manner of self-funding out of the gate.

If you're talking about a business that's already growing well but needs serious non-VC financing, that's very challenging. If you can demonstrate consistent growth over time and the ability to generate a profit, there are some options for debt financing with specialty financial firms. Traditional bank loans usually won't cut in that situation, that's usually a path if you're operating a franchise chain or convenience store, very traditional predictable businesses (ideally with some assets the bank can take if it all goes south).

The best book I've ever read detailing the struggle of self-financing a very successful company, is Shoe Dog by Phil Knight, in founding & building Nike. They were doubling sales every year for the first dozen years and nobody wanted to fund that growth, they were constantly on the edge of bankruptcy. They had no serious assets, no cash pile, no meaningful profit - all that growth was going right back into larger orders in a repeating cycle; so banks absolutely hated them and were aggressively reluctant to provide sales financing. It's fascinating to read what Knight had to go through to enable Nike to survive, how many times it almost went bankrupt despite meteoric growth.
Fair points - I don't believe that Apple / Samsung are necessarily going to build out their own EMR systems. Rather I think the bottom up approach they are taking by creating an enormous amount of personal health data -- heart rate and exercise activity now with a growing ecosystem of third party devices -- that is up to FHIR specs is a step in the right direction.

Your second point really resonates with me. I have spent the last few months working within a large healthcare organization and it is extremely difficult to make necessary changes. There is a lot of distrust of our team to the point of hostility. Very frustrating
In the case of STATEMATE, the designs could be executed directly and there was also tooling to generate compile-able code (Ada/C). Pretty impressive!

cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Logix
> What does "particularly" anti-competitive mean?

The fact that they have instigated litigation in what is, for them, a relatively fringe sector.
Actually, it's quite possible for tech to get kicked out.

Facebook and Google are financially viable because keeping mass profiles and leveraging them for profit is legal at the moment. There's no intrinsic reason it should be.

Uber is regularly kicked out of places, usually with justification. Its business model is to spent huge amounts of money undercutting the taxi industry until it is destroyed and no one has an option left. Then they hike the prices. This ignores the fact that municipalities can just take Uber's drivers under regulated rates and make Uber irrelevant again.

Amazon's AWS is funding the rest of the company in their march to destroy all competition. It's the same model as Uber, but more viable, since you can't just legislate logistics into existence. All it would take is an antitrust action that breaks up Amazon in any way that separates AWS from the rest, or a law that voids Amazon's preferential treatment from carriers, including themselves, making shipping a common carrier.
Microservices encompasses quite a lot, including designing where your module/service boundaries lie. The same ideas exist in many different places (DDD).
Never underestimate the power of FOMO.
As it stands I think "soft skills" is one of those buzzwords like "critical thinking." Everybody thinks its good, but it hasn't been established as a scientifically-valid / measurable concept.

Thus the phrase "Soft skills" gives a veneer of objectivity to something to personal dynamics that are incredibly subjective and unscientific. The term is potentially a weapon for the politically-savvy to punish those who oppose them with an unfalsifiable attack.
It depends on what one's career goals are. From what I understand (I'm not Indian, but I've worked with many over the years), for a sizable portion of the workforce, the goal isn't to be senior programmer but rather management.

The way you get to management is by having people report to you and then get a new job higher up on the ladder at another company (it is my understanding that promotions from within the company are difficult compared to hiring outsiders).

One puts in time in grade, switching projects frequently to build up the resume. Unfortunately, this makes institutional knowledge at the client companies not something that is preserved easily.

(anecdote: when I was laid off to be replaced by someone from India, the 12 years of how the system works was transferred in 4 weeks of 4h a day meetings, 5 days a week (that was painful)... keeping in touch with my old coworkers, the person who replaced me left 6 months later and explained everything about how my job worked and what they learned in just a few days... who left six months later and only did one day of information transfer)

So, switch companies, go from developer to sr. developer in a year (2x 6 month projects) to team lead (with 5 people reporting - another year or so) to architect (with 3 team leads reporting - another year or so)... and you've got a manager.

If someone is on the track "I want to be a manager", switching projects frequently and never actually diving too deeply into the project is probably the best approach.

The technical people are harder to find. They're not switching jobs quickly and so they're unlikely to get hired into the project that the client sees. Maybe they're tapped as a "work on this 25%" but I know how that goes... it means one week out of the month you're catching up on everything for that project and trying to fend off context switches before you're not thinking about it for another month.

For the technical people, many of them are able to find a visa and move to the US for some extended period of time. This contributes to a brain drain in India. Also the indentured servitude aspect of the H1B visa means that there is less mobility and again, its harder to meet these people in random places. They do exist - and I've worked with a number of them... but I've worked with far more people who are in a position for six months to a year and then moving on to another contract at another contracting company.
I've been interested in Modelica for some time and didn't know if someone could answer a few questions. I'm interested in building what I call nodal models, but basically these are things like multiphysics models similar to circuits. Essentially, this is the bond graph methodology, but I don't think the bond graph notation is strictly necessary, so really it's just hooking things like electrical circuit models with thermal or mechanical components. Anyway, my questions are:

1. Does anyone know the history of these software tools? From what I've been able to gather, before Modelica people used ACSL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Continuous_Simulation...), but currently products like Simulink or Amesim are more common.

2. I thought that the modern packages moved from traditional integrators like Runge-Kutta methods to QSS methods. In the applied math world/ODE/PDE world, I've never seen anyone use a QSS method. Are QSS methods general and how do they compare practically to more traditional explicit time integrators?

Anyway I'm glad to see Modelica get posted and thanks in advance for answering the questions above.
>And it's not healthy to use it as your main source of nutrition.

This is especially important. Twitter has desensitized its users to the point where thousands of people bullying someone into committing suicide doesn't upset anybody. All that recently happened, and it was a wake-up call for me; looking around, nobody actually cared that someone had died, they had all moved on to whatever short-lived meme had taken over.

Leaving Twitter and going to HN, google News, and RSS has definitely been challenging (albeit pretty interesting). It's a lot harder to actually get myself to read articles instead of just headlines, and I've been realizing how short my attention span is because of Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit. I wish more people would leave and start using actual news sources again instead of just reading headlines.
Cities have the advantage of building the roads and being able to lay whatever they’d like under them.
The whole thing, including ousting the CEO recently, sounds like Airbus sales antics to win the deal.

Threatening Emirates with dropping the A380 program is a killer pressure point. Can you imagine it? It would leave Emirates with a dead fleet of elephants in their hands (brandwise). They would go from exclusive long haul kings, with hundreds of youtube videos of their wonderful first class to looking like a junk yard plane carrier.

This would also kill most A380 airport expansion plans. Right now airports around the globe are pushing or planning to push for expansions to welcome such an exclusive aircraft. Once Airbus announces it's over, no more airports will support the A380 and Emirates loses a hell lot of future money besides the obvious branding issues.

This is why I believe the Emirates sale will happen and the wonderful A380 will enjoy a very long, albeit shy, life.
It's difficult to follow the line of argument, but it seems to go like this: accreditation is de facto mandatory and creates an artificial shortage of colleges, keeping tuition high. By getting rid of accreditation new players will enter the education market and competition will reduce prices.

It's at odds with reality. Accreditation has been around since the 1900s, whereas tuition began to rise disproportionately in the mid-1980s. Also, bootcamps are very lightly regulated, and we are seeing that market collapse.

Why not try what works in most European countries: fund colleges adequately and shift the burden of the cost from the individual to society as a whole?
While similar in structure, they have different objectives: Git is for version control of files; blockchain is for maintaining balances.

In addition, the protocol of blockchain is way more complex than the one for Git; you have concepts like proof of work and economic problems like double spend that have to be dealt with.
It looks like a cloud-init wrapper to me. Shell script provisioning, the kind that I would avoid.
Another problem with this: engineers get instructed to for god's sake don't read or discuss patents, for fear of treble damages.
His entire premise is built off the following lie:

“Not all the victims of police misconduct are minorities — witness a blonde Australian woman shot to death by a Minneapolis police officer after she called 911, or an unarmed white man shot to death by a Mesa, Arizona, officer while crawling down a hotel hallway — but a disproportionate share are.”

There is nothing out of proportion. There are only people who are willing to twist statistics to their needs.

No one disagrees with the raw numbers. Relative to the percent of the black population, more blacks are killed by police.

The problem is that we’re comparing the wrong thing, as we can easily see by looking at the statistics by gender. Men are very, very, very disproportionately killed by police when compared to women if we use raw population numbers.

So are police slightly racist and very anti-men or would something else explain why police killings and population rates don’t line up perfectly by race and gender?

It turns out that the general population isn’t equally at risk to be killed by a police officer, but violent criminals are. If you look at statistics of race and gender reported by victims of violent crimes, you’ll see there is a nearly perfect ratio of police killings by race and gender.

The whole “disproportionate” statistics that “prove” police racism is bogus.
> I've never met a good, experienced developer who was a slow typist.

You will.

There is a reason "fast typist" was not a required skill in any software jobs I've ever applied for, and I doubt developer strength has any correlation with typing speed.
Not entirely sure about your inferences from my comment, I didn't say there are not going to be jobs, of course there will be jobs. However, perhaps amidst the Artificial intelligence, jobs will require more creative, social , emotional intelligence. Thats where we need to skill up and point I made above was just to highlight that this re-structuring is not just relevant for todays low valued work but for the entire spectrum of whats a super-skill today and going to be "low valued" few years down the line. Also, I'd argue that in the context of your examples (which are slightly digressing from this thread), medicine and movies , reason why we have more doctors and actors could strongly be attributed to the socio-economic growth of the rising population, a lot more people can/need medical service and go to cinema that what we had 1000 years ago. Technology here solves the problem of efficiency and scale which is just complementing the progression.
The reason many physicians are dismissive of nutrition is because they only get about 20 hours of total education on the subject.
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If anyone from cloudflare is reading, please host your project on something legit. tls13test.cloudflare.com or whatever.
Is this a new thing? When I was a kid, we still had what was called a "family doctor." I'm not sure these really exist anymore. He never hesitated to tell my mom she needed to lose weight or my dad he needed to stop smoking. Maybe the fact that he wasn't a specialist allowed him to be more practical with his advice.
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I’ve had an ongoing conversion with a few other people about using electromagnetic metamaterials for field enhancement and focusing in a plasma channel. We had previously worked on optical metamaterials for chemical sensing, and the idea for plasma enhancement was for considering staging and filtering methods for plasma wakefield accelerators in order to generate enough GeV for free electron lasing. The same idea could be used for proton acceleration for fusion. Possibly a concern is heat generated in the material by an accelerated plasma may be incompatible with passive coloumb-mode filtering. We had considered a target might be something like a disposable cartridge similar to other laser fusion designs. A very clever result in wakefield staging (out of the research labs) involves using a VHS tape for sacrificial optical coupling. The 10PW 1ps laser described in the parent post is not practical and would require similar staging methods.
What about those whose jobs are boring & mundane under management positions? I understand the quote isn't yours, but what makes management so special?
Is there any chance you would be up for talking about where one could go about working in tech on problems like these? Every time I've looked, I usually just find hospitals maintaining poor IT infrastructure and CRM-type systems. I would love to work in this space.

Strangely, I've been able to find startups in the education space, but not in healthcare. I imagine 90% of the problem would be integration into the behemoth that is medical administration, but that's something I also have the skillset for.

Hacker news has a limit on replying to responses with less than a few votes, but my email is in my profile