skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just listed a bunch of upper middle class occupations. Try food service, retail, general construction, factory, or warehouse labor, driving, etc. These are positions that, when they’re hiring at all, will hire any able-bodied person known to be reliable and follow directions. In your city there is probably somewhere day laborers hang out and contractors come by in their pickups to hire anonymous strangers for a day’s work in cash under the table with no collecting or reviewing of resumes. That’s what we mean by not specialized.

The trades (electrical, plumbing, automotive, etc) are good examples of specialized but not college-educated positions.
A handful of comments or the public at large, complete with billions in investor money. You may not have correctly identified the herd.
StatusGator is neat, thanks for linking that. Do you have graphs anywhere to track the number of outages/problems over time? It would be nice to see if there's been an uptick in problems generally, across certain services, etc.
I completely agree, unfortunately the social pressures of most college institutions are pulling many into another direction. I was fortunate enough to have friends who enjoyed nights of stimulating conversation as I do, but many find themselves in a decentralized social space with no clear social hierarchy (like high school), so that becomes the bigger slice of attention and effort. We are social beings, after all.
> PhD study hyper-specializes people

I would strongly disagree. A PhD dissertation itself requires a hyper-specialisation (that's the point), but doesn't mean that a person holding a PhD forever writes about the same topic.
That's correlation, not necessarily causation.
> What if they could be used to exonerate?

As far as I understand the justice system (which, luckily, is not very well), the prosecution is not out to prove your innocence. It goes contrary to all their incentives, both the police and the actual prosecutor. All advice I've ever heard defense lawyers give on this topic points in the same direction: don't count on police or the prosecutor to seek the truth.

I may be wrong, of course. Thankfully, I haven't had the pleasure of finding this out for myself.
I feel like people are meaning, 'Does the job require special training that you need to get prior to starting your career in the field'

Some jobs do (Doctor, Lawyer, Teacher, etc), while other specialized careers you get all the training once you join the career (car salesman, grocers, etc). Yes they are both specialized, but they are different.
> better than assembly, or machine code,

I was studying assembly in the second year. What is the problem? It was really easy because in my early years I was writing 64k demos.

> or learning the basics of transistors, capacitors, signals etc.

It's the simplest part of all computer architecture. I think I can explain what is D flip-flop/transistors in one hour.

> Why does C++ have the "right amount" of abstraction, when it sweeps under the rug a vast body of physics and EE?

C++ has OOP, has a smart and raw pointers, STL(not the best, but better than C). Right now I'm working on a project where I need process more than 50Gb in 10 minutes. Python script uses 110Gb of RAM because there are no pointers. I don't know why the previous developer chose Python for this tool.
Producing sugar cane uses a lot of water and draws a lot of nutrients from the soil.

WWF information on sugar cane production.
https://www.worldwildlife.org/industries/sugarcane
While I did enjoy Fooled by Randomness, it was a needlessly hard to read

The reviews Antifragile and Balck Swan makes me think, they will hard the same problem

While Nassim Taleb is definitely smart and brings up nice idea, those ideas are better presented in shorter articles
They should look into online tools to optimize their website. After waiting 30 seconds for the site to load, I gave up.
Additives and anti-oxidants have got better I think. Pretty much all plastic from the 60s - 80s is prone to hardening and yellowing. In the worst cases the surface can start crumbling. See old computer cases for instance.
I'm reading through the book now and the besides the signalling vs human capital argument the most interesting part is how he breaks down what college students are signalling into 3 parts that companies are interested in.

1. Intelligence - By passing tests
2. Conscientiousness - By doing it for 4+ years
3. Conformity - By not figuring out a way around it

It's an interesting exercise to think of how different careers might value these 3 factors plus human capital differently.
I don't think what's being proposed here is that all other languages will automatically fade away. It's that a language needs a critical mass to actually produce all the cultural artifacts that make speaking it worthwhile. And it's possible that in the modern world the required critical mass is larger, since the expectations are higher.

Literature and music get made even for tiny languages. AAA-video games mostly get made for maybe the top 10 languages; teams from small countries can still make them, but they have to make sure the project has appeal worldwide. Making a Facebook clone with better Icelandic support? Not going to happen.
definitely, and something well discussed in the erlang community over the years. The problem it solves aren't ones that most people realize are there until you've built things and encountered them.
Me: Looks back at the incredibly successful 400 year history of public companies.

You: Notes a small amount of manipulation by CEOs and says public ownership is doomed.

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Yes, distributed drug dealing networks have no problems with the law, and competition is never an issue.
I would say that your explanation is simplistic, but really it's no explanation at all (and has little to do with the article, so I'm not even sure what it is that you're responding to except your own interpretation of the title). What does it mean that art is "an asset class like any other"? First, no asset is like any other when its particulars are the subject under discussion. Food isn't like transportation, and neither of them is like art. Second, what does "that's really how it works" explain? It's like saying money is just money. The question is what power structure and dynamics it creates. It's not that "the rich" are "offensive", but they do create a certain dynamics, which is important to understand. And so what if "that's how it works"? Does that mean that the dynamics must never change? It's changing constantly, both in the small (e.g. the particular tax tactics that artworks are used for, discussed in the article) and in the large (the relative power of the rich vs. that of the rest of society). Highlighting the power structure in society (both in the small and in the large) is neither an expression of offense (at least not in the sense of taking offense you seem to allude to) nor an immutable law of nature. It is both an interesting subject of study as well as a subject for change.
It seems lots of drivers consider that making a shitty 660$/month is better than making nothing.
I meant searching hacker news: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=google&sort=byPopularity&prefi...
Your analysis is all perfectly correct if you presuppose that "art" is purely epiphenomenal. But if you start from the perspective that "art" is something in and of itself, with its own set of values that economics only tangentially interacts with, then you would view the ways in which economics reduces art to "mere" exchange value as positively immoral, if that's the right word.

To adapt a Father John Misty line: Maybe art is just an economy based on resource scarcity but I fail to see what that's got to do with you and me.
In my opinion it was, and I tried to get that far at which point they invested in doing it correctly just in time, such that they legally charged us correctly before state law required them to and thus our claims could no longer be tried in court. I might be tempted to fight them on it, but then I might give up when I get sent a letter from a lawyer referencing the contract with my wife's signature. Few people I think would then hire their own lawyer to fight the legality of a contract you did sign. It's all about getting people to just pay to make it go away without them trying very hard. And if someone wants to take it to court, okay we'll do it correctly. Same as plea deals: most people don't exercise their right to a jury because they choose between their constitutional right + exaggerated threats and just accepting a plea deal.
Thank you for answering my question.
I use windows 7, I refuse to use windows 10 because of the clear privacy issues in it. So I would’ve liked if it worked on windows 7.
C++ was a much simpler language back in the Turbo C++ days (early 1990s). If I recall, there were no namespaces, exceptions, or templates (and no STL). It was much easier to get started with back then.
...and we're back online at 18:33 UTC.

from AWS:

> The root cause of this issue was network reconvergence following the loss of power at a network facility. Connectivity to instances and services within the Region was not impacted by the event. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.
Are you sure you aren't pining for a non-existent past? Or is it due to changes in recruiting practices (e.g. using mostly contract "talent partners")
I thought of Wing Commander III as the game demonstrating that video could be integrated into a game and it didn't have to be cheesy. The cast was top notch and for what it was, I really enjoyed the story (and even read the novelization). I can't think of many titles outside of pure RPG's that drew me into the characters and their interactions in quite the same way.
Your argument is based on anecdotal evidence.

Do your research.
I've been poking at something similar lately, and if you're mostly running on VMs, I would suggest taking a look at the virtio interfaces. they are high performance, asynch, and relatively easy to implement.
W:ET was great. Real teamwork emerged in multiplayer, which is hard to find. Is anyone still running servers?

edit: yes!

https://www.gametracker.com/search/et/3000/?

Client download here (Win/Mac/Linux!):

https://www.splashdamage.com/content/download-wolfenstein-en...

Maybe it'll feel dated. But it was really a wonderful online multiplayer game. I thought I was done with gaming as I was bored of single player. This game turned me on to online.
It's the same idea behind bio fuels, some of it is effectively solar energy. The solar energy is used by the plant to take CO2 from the atmosphere and grow. Then this is used to make bio-stuff. If later that bio-stuff releases its carbon into the atmosphere... Well it was already there to begin with, not hidden underground. At worse, and if you don't count the energy used to transform the plant material into plastic/fuel/..., this it's carbon-neutral as no new carbon atoms are released into the atmosphere.

Now I've heard people argue that in the end the energy cost to transform the plant into this bio-stuff negates the benefits from growing the material versus digging it out of the earth but I don't know enough about the subject to know who's right and who's wrong.
Yeah, our 6 year old niece plays with our 2 year old's Duplos. Duplos we got for free from a mommy group on Facebook.

Also, I'm pretty sure our toddler would have a breakdown if a Duplo broke.
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> Evolution by random mutation and natural selection (the core concept of the modern synthesis, which underpins all of modern biology) is completely independent of sexual reproduction.

Now all you have to do is prove that a "random mutation" created a new species.

Second, you cite the Ring Species wiki, which links to an article which argues ring species don't exist. The proof is nebulous. https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/there-ar...
Whoever thinks that galleries take too much of a cut could very easily try and market their work themselves. Or better yet, try to disrupt the art world by building an online art gallery that takes let's say just a mere 10%. After all, online sales are on the rise.

But guess what. Even online platforms take a significant cut. Why's that? Because marketing to the rich and well-off has a significant cost that's much higher than running a targeted AdWords campaign. You have to be out there, talk to people, attend art fairs and galas, socialize, then socialize more, network with critics and journalists who are considered influential, negotiate with collectors who will try to rip you off and do it constantly. On top of that, if you're one of the renowned galleries and an artwork for an artist you represent goes on sale at an auction at a low price you pay from your pocket to keep the price high in order not to hurt the reputation of the artist.

So yes, I'm making generalizations but I've also happen to work in the art world and I've seen how things work. Owning and operating a commercial art gallery is all about personal connections and that costs.
That’s an excellent way to put it. Whatever the failings of Skin in the Game, I can’t learn about them if the author just parodies it constantly.

I’d say it’s a dialectic failure, but I doubt the authors of these kinds of pieces intend for them to be instructive instead of - as you put it - cheap comedy.
Gotcha, my bad, did not realize the post was sarcasm.
I grew up on Wing Commander! I had WC1 and got all the add-ons. I guess I'm one of the few who LOVED the branching missions and even played through the game so many times and purposefully lost at certain times to make sure I'd experienced every mission. Heck I even created a branch diagram for all the missions. I was only 15 at the time!

I then played through the game with such "anal" tenacity. I had to have EVERY kill for the killboard that was possible. If my wing man ever got any.... I'd dump out and try again!

Then WC2 came out... holy moley! Yes I had to have it all, and as the article pointed out... I also promptly saved my pennies until I could afford my first sound blaster card and picked up the Voice pack too!

Played and loved and enjoyed EVERY WC game in the series. The sense of wonder that I got... I wonder if kids have anything even close to those experiences today.
Higher education in the US has been seen as a way to improve one's lot in life - to climb the class ladder. That's still true.

But there was a window in the 1970s-1990s in the US where it was MUCH easier to use college and hard work to advance. Tuition was lower and it was easier for poor and middle class kids to get in. Today, tuition has skyrocketed and the middle class is completely filled with kids who hire college consultants and train for standardized tests. Kids outside that elite sphere are at a big disadvantage. That wasn't true in the 70s and 80s, but eventually the upper and upper-middle class figured out how to take advantage of college opportunities and crowded out the working and middle classes.
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And significantly underestimated the returns of accumulated and concentrated capital.
We called them "Unintended features", and they were usually quite popular with users.
Yes, there was a healthy dose of facetiousness in my comment ;-)

That said, there is definitely something to be said for learning a lower-level language fairly early on I think. It's much easier to go from worrying about pointers vs values, manual memory management etc to not having to think about them than it is the other way round.
Because it was the first AWS region, it is known to have the oldest hardware, the most dirty hacks, and the most outages.
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Why is American capitalized and asian isn't?
They eventually pivoted to make UberX their primary offering, but for over a year their _only_ offering, at least here in LA, was black car rides through established, professional car service drivers. I remember thinking of calling an Uber rather than hailing a cab as a luxury / splurge.
If it is inefficient to a degree, that they have a bigger footprint then standard production it is a huge problem. They arent running a study on the possibilities of this kind of plastic production, they used it in production environment. If they are creating more pollution this way despite labeling themself sustainable it kind of is greenwashing.
Thanks for the clarification, I also did not realize the sarcasm.
So people work hard all their life for their wealth (maybe they earned a lot or maybe they were just frugal) and smart people think it is okay for the state to take 100% of it away? And you think that's okay? I just can't get my head around how anyone can think that's moral at all.

Oh yes, I see this is teh same Guardian writer that was defending Stalin so no surprises really.
The Lego Store near me has bins separated by color. You can buy as many pieces as you need of each size. Kind of like how you buy bulk candy or nuts at Whole Foods.
Why does Bitbucket depend on AWS DC? Why wouldn't I just connect to it over the internet? Or is part of it in your own DC?
I'm curious, if you try https://www.nothingprivate.ml/ from two different instances of Firefox using your script, is it still able to tack you?

FWIW, I use different Firefox "profile" and that site is able to link the two profiles.
I don't know that the X-Wing series really "blew Wing Commander out of the water," though. The two series ran concurrently and were constantly one-upping each other. Wing Commander III (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_III%3A_Heart_of...) came out the same year as TIE Fighter, but sported SVGA graphics, full-motion video segments between sequences and actual name actors playing the various characters. X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter brought multiplayer to that series in 1997, but Wing Commander had gotten there three years earlier with 1994's Armada (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander:_Armada).

(None of which is to say that the X-Wing games weren't innovative and great, of course. Just that Origin gave them spirited and worthy competition.)

Both series were consistent, huge sellers for their respective publishers, so it's not like one drove the other into the ground. If anything, they both fell at the same hurdle, never really making the jump into the 3D-game marketplace that the newly emerging GPUs of the late '90s made possible.
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Sure, I agree with everything you say here.

I was just wanted to point out that the parent was attacking an obsession with credentials, not the value of what you learn in college.

I have no particular proposed alternative to college degrees, and there may not be a good one. Credentials are probably indispensable given the aforementioned cost of evaluating performance.
us-east-1 is the oldest region with the oldest hardware which is probably why it has more issues than others
Why collage and not college? https://www.learnenglish.de/mistakes/collagevscollege.html
Views of how the 'rich' live are vitally important today, when wealth inequality is the central social issue of our time, impacting government, policy, wages, and consumer markets alike. (Piketty).

Class mobility is good, of course - it's been a central tenet of American values, even if it's been smaller than thought. But I'm not sure that mobility between the 0.1% and 0.01% is the key flow - mobility between the middle 50% and top 5% is probably what we should be caring about.
Snopes, SPLC, and their ilk and become less credible institutions, and more an arm of the culture wars every day.
I thought linking to other self posts was against the rules...is it allowed? I was also advised by several people to post early in the week and morning for best traffic. Friday evening seems the worst time to start new and this post will be dead by tomorrow. I've been agonizing over how and when to post for a while now as it's my hail mary and it is just such an all encompassing misery. Facing actually laying my soul bare and fearing the judgement is making me terribly anxious. I am also panicking over edits and fearing missing the mark or just annoying people with the hopelessness Im feeling even though I've tried to temper it.
I was seriously bugged by the regression of Tolwyn in WC3. In Spec Ops, he was a fan of Bluehair, but they retconned him back into not liking Blair (nee Bluehair) in WC3 and he seemed gratuitously cruel towards; I was totally find with the characterization of him being a hard-ass and extremist, but it was out of character for him to not like Blair who was well established as a hero by this point.

But McDowell played it well as written and if you put John Rhys Davies in something, I will like it.
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What is a "coastal elitist?" I've never heard that term. Since I live on the coast and have a few liberal friends, I know what a "coastal liberal" is. But "coastal elitist?" The only people I know who fit that bill are finance guys, and only a few at that.
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Well-said. The more I see from Twitter, the more I try to distance myself from it. I think a combination of today's political environment and the nature of the internet (pseudoanonymity and not being able to interact with humans face-to-face) and Twitter's short, pithy format creates the perfect storm for all kinds of nonsense.

I know a lot of people (typically young, like me) for whom this kind of discourse is normal. Shouting people down is normal. Shunning them if they in any way disagree if normal. Especially online, it's impossible to hold even a slightly different point of view than someone without being considered an immediate mortal enemy.

I've been reading books more, including reading things I disagree with. It's difficult for me, but it's getting easier to look at things calmly and rationally. I'm working through a book now by someone who has a different (but valid!) view than I do, and instead of getting upset, I'm taking notes and trying to faithfully represent their argument, as well as trying to take the arguments apart and evaluate them. I think I'll still end up disagreeing with them at the end, but it's helpful to know the counterarguments to something you support and to be able not only to faithfully represent them, but rationally argue them.