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In Japan, with the possible exception of certain industries -- such as video games -- programming historically hasn't been seen as a professional practice in its own right, but something done in the course of other engineering work. I think this is where embedded software development is headed. The real low-level stuff will be done by HWEs; everything above that will have an easy peasy Node wrapper that you can assign Fullstack Academy grads to develop for.
The downvotes are probably because it's phrased like a race-essentialist statement, a type of statement that many people are very wary of (rightly, imo!). As you point out, there's a good chance it wasn't intended that way.
You can find an example here

https://twitter.com/BitMEXdotcom/status/997099326714335234

The first post is from an official exchange. The rest isn’t. Take careful note of the usernames and like counts
> But the most important use case for VPNs for startups is to get developers access to cloud deployment environments, and developers use MacOS, which made it hard to recommend.

What’s that?

> … developers use MacOS …

Not all developers! I’ll believe that many developers use macOS. It’s even possible that most developers conducting certain kinds of development use macOS. But not all developers do. I don’t. Noöne on my last team did (we were Linux-only). Several folks on my current team don’t.
Fake ICOs are a great way to teach people about financial scams, including the one's run by the existing central banking system:

https://medium.com/@stevedekorte/fiatcoin-pre-sale-announcem...
The blacklisting code is in every device, even those sold legitimately. That is, the device “phones home.” Some users may not be okay with that.

In my experience, the kind of person who buys an SDR is (a) unlikely to appreciate a $400 device that phones home on boot, and (b) likely to reverse engineer the blacklisting code simply for the fun of it.
I'm curious how much firsthand knowledge you have of these systems.

1) The electrical shock is not truly painful. It's startling and highly unpleasant, but it's not painful, for short bursts. I can't speak for all systems, but for the ones I tested (albeit holding the collar in my hand, not on my neck), it was no worse than typical electric fencing, which is widely used.

2) These systems have the benefit of not affecting other animals, and dogs and other animals cannot get stuck in them. We had an electric fence around a duck nesting ground growing up, and I'll never forget the morning we found a whimpering fox that had somehow gotten tangled in the wires. I guess it had jumped at the shock and pulled a wire off the fence? I don't know. But it had the electrified wire wrapped around a back paw. At least it was a pulsing fence (rather than constant current); so the fox didn't appear to have a bad burn, though I'm sure being stuck in it for hours was terrible (and truly painful).

2b) They also do not impede the traffic or cut off travel corridors of other wildlife, which can be a real problem in some areas.

3) Ordinary fences are (often) less effective. Given enough time and a large amount of fence that cannot be thoroughly checked & repaired regularly, dogs will find a way to escape. They'll dig under, they'll jump over, they'll climb, they'll chew holes in, etc. We had a super smart lab who figured out how to climb a chain link fence. Depending on the risks of escape, this can be highly dangerous.

4) The risk of shock is typically very low. When these systems are installed, they are typically buried along natural boundaries, and when they aren't, you put temporary flags in the ground to show the dog where the boundary is. So the dog very quickly learns the boundary, learns what the beep means, and rarely gets a shock after the first couple of days.

Overall, I don't think these systems are signficantly less humane than other types of fencing – probably more humane if you're comparing them to traditional electric fencing.

That said, these fences aren't perfect either. I have another friend who installed one to keep his husky from leaving his ~3 acre yard, because the dog was breaking into a neighbor's chicken coop. It worked for a while, but eventually that husky realized she could just get a running start, jump over the boundary, take the brief shock, and then be free. The drive to get those chickens was just too compelling. Of course, the drive to return home was not quite as strong. So she'd sit at the edge of boundary, whining to be let back into the yard.

A traditional fence might have been more effective in that case, though I think that husky would have found a way out. She was relentless and clever. They had to get rid of her eventually, when their neighbor threatened to put out bowls of antifreeze – now that's disgusting! (To be fair, this was in rural Alabama ~15 years go, and that neighbor depended on the chickens/eggs for food. Still disgusting, but the frustration is understandable if a dog is literally taking food out of your kid's mouth.)
In general, I think people over-emphasize eureka moments under-estimate the ongoing slow shift of view, in which good debates can be a strong contributor. This goes not just for changing perspectives, but for solidifying them as well. When I look back a decade, I see myself holding many views that are now entirely different, and many that have only been strengthened (and many that I have stopped caring about one way or another), but diminishingly few eureka moments. It's the aggregate of accumulated experience that had produced those changes, much of which was reading and participating in debates that seemed to go nowhere in the moment.
I made something similar that runs in real time in 30 lines of code.
Nah, it's simpler than that. People have some bizarre views about the Midwest, as evidenced by the FUD-laden reply to my post above:

- "What about crime!?" (Most of the region is quite safe. The MSA is about middle of the pack on crime. Yes, there are some bad neighborhoods. And there's a ~0% chance anybody reading this on HN would ever live in one of those neighborhoods.)

- "How long will it take to sell a house in St. Louis?!" (The housing market is doing fine there.)

- "Do they even have jobs in St. Louis?!" (Median household income in the metro is a pretty healthy $52,340.)

I think I have a pretty good idea what that guy imagines St. Louis -- and Cincinnati and Indianapolis and Milwaukee and Kansas City -- to be like, and I strongly suspect it's got a pretty loose relationship with reality. Unfortunately for cities like St. Louis, marketing is important, and there's probably nothing I could say that would change that guy's mind. There's almost nothing in his comment that makes any real sense, but it is what it is.

From experience, people do not want you to respond to complaints about the high cost of housing on the coasts with evidence that the problem isn't universal.

If you accept that the South and the Midwest are legitimate places to live, then you're forced to really consider it, which is difficult -- moving long distances is hard! It's much easier to conclude that those places aren't real options.
- Famous twitter personality A posts something.
- (Usually) the first reply to their tweet is a bot with the exact same avatar BUT a slightly misspelled name of personality A offering 1000 ethereum in exchange for .10 ETH or what have you.
- There are people gullible enough to send them ETH/any other crypto
- Profit
> TODO: this should use scutil and be slightly more clever. But for now we simply overwrite any _manually set_ DNS servers for all network services. This means we get into trouble if the user doesn't actually want DNS via DHCP when setting this back to "empty". Because macOS is so horrible to deal with here, we'll simply wait for irate users to provide a patch themselves. [1]

So the setup script completely deletes all your manual DNS settings without warning you.

[1] https://git.zx2c4.com/WireGuard/tree/src/tools/wg-quick/darw...
You can see a picture of the "stacked co-rotating rotors" on their partners website: http://www.launchpnt.com/
I've come across this with data security policies at law firms, accountants, and investment banks.

They have to protect sensitive client data. Need to protect against illegitimate leaks of data. And the universal way that they communicate with clients, opposing parties, regulators? Email.

You can't force the SEC to accept your new encrypted cloud solution, nor can you require opposing counsel to use YOUR solution. And communicating with hostile parties is the entire organization's reason for existing.

"Simple and reasonable" IT approaches to problems frequently break down when faced with people whose job it is to deal with other organizations.
> then Rust wins easily because the type system gives you all the information you need straight in front of you

The trait system can actually make following execution a bit harder (just like runtime polymorphism in C++), because you have to find the allocation to know the concrete type of what you're looking at. C is much clearer from this point of view (but more limited for the same reasons).
Just so you're aware, you already get background playback on mobile devices if you pay for YouTube Red.
> I'm pretty sure that, the more we learn about how well advertising works, the less money people will be willing to pay for it. What's happening to billboards and newspapers right now is probably coming to several other industries soon.

I don't see any evidence to support that. Total spending on advertising is increasing every year. Newspaper spending is down, Google & Facebook is way up. Overall it's up.
They should have just extended IPv4 similar to how UTF-8 works.
if you look at the github readme, it is openai gym compatible.
Brian Caplan's recent book, "The Case Against Education," is relevant here. His basic premise is that college is mostly signaling game that represents a net burden on society. (Ie, the time/resources collectively spent jumping through hoops to get degrees could be put to better use.)
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Do you have real examples of that? I hear people say this happens more than it happens; I’ve only seen it maybe twice ever.
Good to know, but that’s only marginally better, as a malicious app developer only needs to come up with a legitimate reason for the entitlement.
> I agree that most education should be learned on the job, but college is a filter to keep the lazy out of jobs that require the dedicated.

This is the heart of the issue, and I'm not sure you realized you stumbled upon it.

First, you acknowledge the only way to "fail out" is to "not care". This itself shows that college doesn't prove capability or learning or anything objective. It only shows that you have to do the right kind of little monkey-dance for your professors, so they'll be satisfied that you're subjugated, and then they'll pass you.

More to the point, college was designed to filter out "challenging" individuals (for several definitions of "challenging", most of which are irrelevant for modern work), not incompetent ones. [And small caveat: today, college mainly exists not really to filter, but just to put the nation's youth in indentured servitude].

Anyone who thinks you're filtering for competence when you look at degrees, look no further than this thread. You're filtering for someone who is mainstream and complacent; you're filtering for someone who won't question, let alone challenge, the groupthink.

Don't you think it's a big waste to require several years of time and several tens of thousands of dollars in debt just to determine whether or not your candidates are "too lazy to finish a degree"?

And as someone who's been blessed to enjoy a successful career (up to this point) without submitting to the subjugation of so-called "higher education", I can say that it's not really a good indicator of laziness.

Laziness is not caring that you zapped 4 years of your existence away at 15% efficiency so that when you apply for a desk job at BigCo, they won't say "Sorry, you're obviously qualified, but if we hire someone without a college degree, it will mess up our H1B sponsorships that were partially justified by requiring Americans with college degrees." It takes a lot more legwork to suss out the places that don't have a giant stake up their butt.

Self-teaching is hard, but very rewarding, and at the pace that software moves, you should be looking for skill in this as a fundamental quality.

It's hard to blame people for going to school these days, with the amount of social pressure around it, but if they seemed to enjoy being herded around too much, and certainly if they consider said herding as a necessary rite of passage before one can entrusted not to drop everything and go to Mexico, it's a big negative in my book.
there is a huge chasm between this working in sim, and irl.
I don't have a Chromecast, so no idea how well this works, but you could probably install VLC and tell NewPipe to "Use external video player" (in the settings) and then have VLC send it over to your Chromecast.

One big problem with this that I can tell you about right away, is that you only get 720p. NewPipe deals with some DRM bullshit to allow playing of higher resolutions, which VLC does not do.
It's hard to overstate how dominant Facebook and Google are in online ads.
One of them has the prerogative of posing judicial proceedings, the other doesn't.
Morality aside... what I'm curious about is, what gives California any jurisdiction over a company registered in another country, and operators residing in other states?
It seems like lending institutions should be taking these statistics into account when rejecting applications. I suspects there are federal regulations in place that prevent this. Maybe the government would rather cover the risk and promote a more educated population than let the education economy stabilize freely.
> If a person claimed that they could detect all of this from a single sip of wine...

Nobody's talking about anything remotely that grandiose. If someone simply says they can tell a red from a white more often than not, that's still an objective claim that can be tested. Just because nobody can know everything every time doesn't mean it's all subjective.

More to the point, if someone says "you can taste differences, and often those differences correlate to a certain "kind" of wine", that's also a testable claim - i.e. something I'd believe if there's evidence for it. Hence I asked if you knew of any. (At this point I'll take the answer as read. ;)
I would call the hiring manager (directly if you have his number or through the switchboard/reception i.e. just ask for him).

When you communicate, be clear that you're a grown-up and are look for constructive feedback.
I agree. My own daughter will be going into the Air Force in a couple of years. She's not one that would do well in the college environment. She fits in best where she is a part of something bigger than herself where there is guidance and discipline (like most kids).

If she goes in at 18 after high school, she can earn a degree in 2.5 years at night in the Air Force. After her first 4 years she can choose to get out, with a degree, zero debt, life and work experience. If she so chooses, she can opt to go to Officer Candidate School (13 weeks in Alabama) and emerge 3 months later effectively doubling her income, all the while not paying for medical, dental, housing. If she marries another officer and they do 20 years to retirement, she will be 39, young enough to start a second career and enjoy her AF retirement, second career retirement, and maybe, if she's blessed, SS. More kids should go military. I did, and I had my college paid for and I pay nothing down for houses, get my closing costs paid, no PMI, get treated a little better because of my veteran status. It's a great gig for kids.
The ASVAB is a vocational (subject) test, not an IQ test. I think it does try to measure general intelligence in some sections, but it’s really focused on “can you do this type of job.” When I took it over a decade ago there was basically a “clerking” section which I flunked.
> “now available for testing”

Aka it’s alpha software, use at your own risk. Thus, yours seems like an unreasonable criticism.

Definitely good to know though.
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I see a common thread in many of these comments.

It's a recognition that college just happens to be where bright and ambitious young people tend to go after high school. And yes, there's value in the education itself -- but one of the big and lasting benefits is the network of other bright and ambitious young people you meet and form friendships with. I know that was true of my own college experience.

So here's a thought.

Back before the Internet, it was hard for people with similar interests or goals to connect with each other and organize themselves, and so they used this "going to college" experience to help them meet other similarly bright and ambitious people.

But now that we have the Internet, could it be possible to crowdsource that kind of experience without needing to buy into the institutional college experience?

Like, "Let's get together 50 to 100 other like-minded people, all move into the same area, and meet regularly at the library or the coffee shop or whatnot and help each other improve our skills."
A purveyor of Object-Oriented Breakfast Food Cookers telling us that the market for toasters is drying up? Perish the thought!
> I really want my doctor to actually have an MD

How do you feel about the fact that doctors from foreign countries need to requalify in the US with a whole ‘nother MD program here? Even if they’re from a country with as-or-more stringent requirements, and decades of experience?

“Higher education” is sometimes, in hiring, a dog-whistle for “enculturated to the US because they attended college here.”
Her arguement is basically:
If you are going to suck at school, dont go.
Then she tries to use that to rationalize NOT going to school. How about all the people school has helped?
> Do you want people behind desks thousands of miles away from you manipulating your culture with computer aids?

Did you mean to describe Hollywood or did you just accidentally describe Hollywood?
All of the four controllers shown seem to be great, but it's funny that the joystick is basically just the Wii nunchuck. That's not a dig against Microsoft, I suspect Nintendo just really hit it out of the park with their Wii-mote design and that there isn't much else to improve.

I'm left-handed, and I remember realising that without thinking, I had switched to using my right hand for the analog joystick instead of the left one. This was months after I got a Wii - it was so natural that I hadn't even noticed. I don't recall anyone ever giving Nintendo credit for this, but their nunchuck-controller was pretty much the first mainstream controller for a console that was fully ambidextrous.
Fellow late 20-something mobile turned server turned embedded dev here as well.

It is indeed bullshit.

I'm working on my Master's in CS right now, and my stepdad, a professional web dev who started in the Apple II days, used to ask me "Why do you still want to learn low level code/hardware/ways of doing things? It seems the industry keeps moving towards higher level frameworks/hardware/products."

The answer I've always given him is because someone has to build the world that the easier to understand, higher level pieces live in. There's still a niche for bespoke, highly performant and well architectured low level code, and there's not really a shortage of jobs because it's not what's being taught in undergrad CS programs, at least at my alma mater and others in my area.
College degree and ASVAB results are not similar criteria at all. They serve completely different purposes.

A college degree shows an ability to complete a specific course of discipline. It does not really even indicate aptitude in the discipline. Just the ability to follow through and complete the requirements. I suppose it shows a minimum level of aptitude in that you didn't give up hope and quit.

ASVAB doesn't indicate the ability to follow through with anything. It tries to hint at aptitude in a wide range of disciplines. It purports to provide your relative capabilities and interest in many topics.

That is why the military relies on ASVAB. They don't need to know your level of stick-to-it-ness or discipline. They will beat that into you or drum you out very quickly. They are more interested in where among hundreds of specialties you are most likely to fit.
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Agreed, it's getting absurd. Practically every post from an official cryptocurrency team's Twitter account gets numerous replies from an account designed to look just like the official account.

Typically, they post a poster stating that there is an Ethereum giveaway, and to enter: one simply needs to give a small amount of Ethereum to the wallet address in the poster. This is supposedly to have the wallet address made known to the "staff" and in turn: the user will receive several times more Ethereum back.

It's clearly still roping in people and is highly prevelant. I'm shocked that Twitter's staff hasn't taken much evasive action. These spam/scam accounts keep springing up left, and right with no end in sight.
> At my company an annual raise of less than $25k is seen as an insult.

Did you drop a decimal point? A 5% raise would need a salary of $500,000 to hit $25k.
As I understand it: If they accept money from Californians, they have a leg to stand on. Similar to the EU/GDPR deal.
And ethernet and 802.11 receive every frame, whether it's addressed to the equipment or not.
I think its wrong for the government to the charge for the "cost to execute". It's not equal protection under the law if there's a price on it.
i agree, and i often think things out explicitly that way. i actually take a step further though. some fraction of my expenses are fixed (rent, insurance, food to an extent) which leaves me with some percentage of disposable income, call it 25% for this example. so if i get paid $20/hr, a $20 item that isn't absolutely necessary doesn't cost me one hour of work, but rather four, because three quarters of that money is "already spent". suddenly it doesn't seem like i need the shiny new gadget that badly.
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> Of course in reality, it goes to the Parallel Construction Department

Not the case. US Person Information cannot be queried. You are referring to a practice used against foreign targets to obfuscate methods of surveillance (Reasonable folks can object to this as well of course - my only point is that your portrayal is not accurate).
Upgrading to 64-bit address space would also require a rip and replace of all carrier routers, customer CPEs, and re-writing of software.

We might as well take advantage of a compatibility breaking upgrade to fit in all of the other upgrades.
Sure. They just put him in charge of their school paper over there for no reason where ‘he edited its student magazine, re-focusing it on "thought reorientation," ‘ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale-China_Association#Early_y...

You can also read an article about it on Yales website titled “Yale spurs Maos emergence“.

I wish I were wrong about the direction things are heading in, but I'm not.
That's interesting. I have found that there is excellent demand here for proper embedded skills and I am paid very well (Cambridge, UK).
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Yup, many dog owners I know are shocked to find out that it's legal in most states to kill a dog that's harassing livestock(hasn't yet done physical harm).
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Which would still require everyone to buy new routers.