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>I think it would be helpful to see what jobs I could get by furthering my CS fundamentals, and not just "Senior Software Engineer".

This is going to difficult, because getting a job other than Software Engineer (or something related in management or sales) often requires credentials.

However if you'd like to get a higher paying software engineering job at a company like Google, CS fundamentals can definitely help you get through the interviews.

>Should I really slog through ye olde CS curriculum in hopes that one day I'll be able to apply some of it? Can you recommend another approach?

Yes to the first, no to the second. CS fundamentals build on each other. It's difficult to understand algorithmic analysis if you don't understand calculus (at a basic level), and it's difficult to understand automata if you aren't familiar with set notation from discrete math etc...

Learning on your own, it's tempting to avoid the boring stuff and focus on what's fun or seems useful to you right now. The problem is you don't really know what's going to be useful later on.

You already know how to code, so If you are really interested in the learning the fundamentals, first I'd make sure you have a basic grasp of high school math through calc I. Then I'd go through a good discrete math textbook (I'd recommend one that's CS focused). After that I'd work through a data structures and algorithms textbook, then a programming language concepts textbook, a computer architecture/organization textbook, and finally a theory of computation/automata book.

You'd have a decent grasp of the fundamentals by then. After that if you want to go further, I'd go through books on networks, operating systems, compilers, and functional programming.
I don't think you're thinking out far enough... Zuck has already shown his cards with political aspirations... so - in ~10 years... yeah - I am imagining a much more dystopian take on FB
Cause people have to sell to eat in our culture of step on the next guy to have a life.

And it encourages and even facilitates shady shit.
> That is not a feature or consequence of capitalism. Fraud exists in any economic system, and the punishments for fraud are independent of the economic system itself.

This is a pretty lousy comeback to my argument. A better comeback might have been, "Why would economic penalties for fraud be effective if you're arguing that economic self-interest doesn't have a strong effect on the actions of humans?"

> For instance, in the following article [1] (top relevant, second overall google search result for 'why buy an electric car'):

The question is not, "Can humans rationalize decisions?" The question is, "On balance, is 'economic self-interest' a good model for predicting human behavior at any given scale?" No one here is arguing that humans can't rationalize.
> To give an idea on the profit for Carbage Can, we’ll keep it simple:

> To manufacture, $2.50.

> Amazon FBA fee 6.90.

> And we’ll throw in 1.00 for Marketing PPC.

> That’s 10.40 per unit.

> I sell for 16.95.

Interesting that the Amazon cut is 40% of the retail price, while the manufacturing cost is less than 15%.
That's a wonderful idea, well worth exploring! Surely having that experience would teach people some empathy, some sympathy, and some compassion for their fellow human beings.

My general experience is that deliberately inflicting pain and misery on people in an effort to teach them is an excellent instructional approach. Mostly it tends to teach those people that you are an ass, rather than whatever the intended lesson happens to be, but I'm sure that's incidental.
A Toxic Tide Is Killing Florida Wildlife
> I read that the odds of a plane crash is 1 in 1.2 million,

That's a very misleading figure. In 2017 there were zero (read: 0) accident deaths on a commercial passenger jet. That a Turkish cargo jet smashed into a village in Kyrgyzstan doesn't affect me in the slightest.

Flying on a jet in the USA had a zero accident death record for over a decade. In this millenium, not counting 9/11, American Airlines Flight 587 in November 12, 2001 and Comair Flight 5191 on August 27, 2006 were the only deaths involving a jet. Three more involving turboprops. That's it. In 2019 February we will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the last one. No matter what happens to the plane they land them. It's quite amazing how bad shape some of them are but yet land in one piece.
OK, so I just saw Tom Cruise and James Corden jump out of a plane. Before I saw Will Smith do it. It looks like so much fun, but its so scary.

I wonder if the visualization aspect of jumping out of a plan would also help my nerves. Maybe set a date and then watch YT videos for a few minutes a day on tandem jumping.
> Shouldn't that industry have to pay?

The US government says they shouldn't have to pay. I doubt there is enough data to state empirically that storm 'intensity' has increased substantially over the last 50 years relative to the last 1000.

We don't have a system in place to account for every environmental impact made by people. Is everyone that has ever dug a hole in the ground responsible in some small way for soil erosion to contaminate waterways?

Similarly, what about crop irrigation and water rights? Farmers use public waterways to the detriment of estuaries and deltas. This might cause economic and ecological problems down stream. This may cause destruction of property such as an oyster farm.

It's clear at this point that coastal environments are subject to change, and sometimes dramatic change, irrespective of human influence. This should factor into the cost of the property and its insurance.

> By leaving "the market" to contend with increased hurricane resistance alone you have just caused increased expenses for everyone building homes for ignoring fossil fuel externalities (some of which was encouraged by gov't subsisdy). And it's not just homes, it's maybe reworking entire metropolitan areas sewer or housing zones.

The cost of homes is not necessarily rising but being more fairly distributed to those who choose to live in high-insurance areas. The marginal value of the land will decrease, more money can be allocated towards home construction quality versus merely owning the land, and the cost of housing will normalize.

Higher cost to insure will place deflationary pressure on housing prices to normalize total cost of ownership.
This is the new "my kid could draw that".
Submitted your own article to HN?
I had a similar experience. I used to get somewhat anxious about flying because I'd had a bad experience in a Cessna 152 when I was a teenager. I overcame that in my late 20s by playing a lot of MS Flight Simulator, and then actually going out and getting my pilot's license.

My first demo flight in a real plane, the flight instructor told me to do the takeoff. My hand was literally shaking as I advanced the throttle (this was in a Piper Cherokee). I don't think I even got us to full power, but it was enough for us to take off. Then we just buzzed around the Santa Cruz mountains (in the Silicon Valley) and I was pretty hooked after that. I don't even get fazed by big jolts on turbulence any more.
Substituting the caffeine with some alcohol before and during the flight works wonders for me.
> piratism

"Piracy" is the usual word.
> framework that takes 200ms to init

Which framework(s) take 200ms to init?
I’ve struggled with this for years and missed important events as a result.

I went to the doctor and got a small prescription of anxiety medication and it helped me tremendously. I take a small dose once I get in my seat on the plane.

It doesn’t make me drowsy or feel very different but the extreme levels of terror that I felt before don’t affect me now. I still have to be calm and rational as I’m preparing for my flight but the fear is completely manageable now.

I’ve even taken flights without any medication since and feel so much more at peace. I would have never believed that would be possible before medication.

Your mileage may vary but it has given me my ability (and desire!) to travel back.
>Cause people have to sell to eat in our culture of step on the next guy to have a life.

A bit hyperbolic, but also applies to pretty much every culture which has ever existed.
> It is also temporarily disabled under certain conditions:

> [...]

> When your device is not plugged into a charger. This is controlled by Prefs > Advanced > Disable Metal renderer when not connected to power.

Why is the GPU renderer, by default, disabled unless plugged in? I’d assume the GPU renderer uses less power...
This is highly field-dependent. My old field – solid state physics – did reasonably well on reproducibility, not least because of a bunch of committed open-source folks who had been burnt by exactly this (and by licensing their previous code commercially and getting screwed by their publisher, preventing them from reproducing their own work) working on ABINIT (abinit.org), led by Xavier Gonze. There's a culture around sharing pseudopotentials, too, which is good.

SIESTA (icmab.es/siesta) is now open too, I note. That's the team I used to work alongside.
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I think you're misunderstanding the post. It's a satire of similar such blog posts which are calling for the boycott of Israel. It's trying to (humorously) make the case that boycotting Israel makes about as much sense as boycotting New Zealand for their treatment of the native population, or likewise boycotting China over Tibet, etc, etc.
"Microsoft's internal project name for the new OS was OS/2 NT, because Microsoft's intention was for the new OS to succeed OS/2 yet retain the OS/2 API as its primary interface."

Right... There's another reason why it was originally called OS/2 NT: IBM had hired Microsoft to co-develop OS/2 with them before Windows NT development had begun (as early as 1985). The reason for a resemblence to OS/2 with the name and API compatibility would seem to be so that Microsoft could develop the NT product as "OS/2" which could be charged back to IBM. So, effectively, IBM was unknowingly paying for a chunk of NT development. By the time IBM realized they were getting worked over it was too late, they had already been taken for a ride by Microsoft. They lost in two ways: they lost the the desktop market to Windows which shipped pre-installed on nearly all consumer PC's, and paying for dev work on OS/2 1.3 which really was going into NT product). So IBM took OS/2 development back in-house in 1990 and licked their wounds, but it was too late by then. Except for the embedded market, OS/2 had lost.
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I look up fatality stats for flying versus driving to the airport.

It's somewhat funny- we should be more terrified of cars than of planes!
I have the same fear of the moments preceding. My anxiety goes through the roof when I think about the environment I am in at 35,000 feet. I keep my mind occupied by mentally removing myself from the environment. I fire up my laptop with headphones and work as if I am in the office. This works for a portion of the flight. Sadly, for the remainder, I typically dose myself with something to put me under until someone taps my shoulder to put my seat up for landing (the worst part). FML
First of all my sympathy and thanks for your honesty. There are some very good tips from others here but if numbers mean anything to you (and I really appreciate that they might not in this case) then here are some:

- In the US: In April 18th this year a passenger was killed on a Southwest Airlines 1380. This was the first fatality on major US airlines for 16 years (since American 587). In that period those US airlines carried 10bn passengers on 146m flights without fatality. In that period there were 645,000 road deaths in the US.

- World wide: If you took 2 flights every day statistically it would be about 10,000 years before you were involved in a fatal aircraft accident. You would have ~65% chance of surviving that accident. I note that in the last five years 12 commercial aircraft were totally destroyed with no fatalities or serious injuries.

It might be worth dropping your question into a professional pilots forum, here is one that I believe would respond positively:

https://www.pprune.org/passengers-slf-self-loading-freight-6...

FWIW I have felt fear in an aircraft, and a very good friend of mine was killed on a commercial flight (but not an accident). I still fly (nervously) so it can be done! Anxiousness about flying is far more widespread than most admit to so you are in good company.

Sources: Various including the annual Boeing statsum of aircraft accidents 1959-2016.
In general, yes. And even if it's not, people (read: academics) almost universally don't really care and will send you their paper anyways. The main thing is sometimes getting more well-known professors to reply which is a whole other topic, but most will still be happy to share their paper.

Re: your latter case, yes. I suspect that automating this process will likely lead to worse consequences (sharing papers via email is something that everyone-knows-that-everyone-does kinda thing, even if it may not be "fully legal"—whatever that means), but setting up infrastructure to share your papers (even with approval) is likely to be met with some amount of resistance and probably not-greatly-worded letters from publishers.

To be fair, a good chunk of useful publishers (not all... I'm looking at you, Cell) are moving to allow reviewed articles on authors' websites, but almost all journals allow preprints to be available on open sites (and be submitted for review).
to subsidize corn producers in the mid-west.
We're building a VR simulation of flying specifically for the purpose of overcoming fear of flying. It uses some of the same principles you mention:

-Repeated exposure to a realistic flying experience (in our case, it goes gradually since it's designed for people with a fear)

-Specifically learning about some of the different noises planes make

-Getting exposure to the vibrations, noises, turbulence, etc that you'll encounter on a real flight

And on top of that, we teach various techniques for overcoming the fear, give new logical/rational approaches to reinforce how safe flying is, understanding the underlying anxieties and emotions involved in fear of flying, etc.

But we don't teach you how to fly! That would be a very neat addition.

The company is called Fearless. I put up a little Fearless for Flying survey here for anyone interested: https://goo.gl/forms/11dINvQlgSnvOaQE2
There are many logical reasons why various websites are so bloated. Certainly the market realities and web development culture play a role.

That doesn't change the fact that the end result is bullshit, though. The tragedy of the commons is still a tragedy.

I don't have a solution for commercial news organisations. If they can't completely subsidise their web presence through other means, it's pretty much guaranteed that the advertising pressures will turn it into crap.
Based on some unverifiable computer models.

I think I'm just going to start flagging all the science stories that are press releases about someone's unverifiable computer models.
I have no idea what the context of this post is but in every category of the bullet list I'd rather be on the Less Wrong side than the "NNT" side.
was it out of the blue or did you sign up for something at some point?
Scott Aaronson posted about this on his blog

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3880

I like his update - a message to Hacker News commenters:

"On the Hacker News thread, some commenters are lamenting that such a brilliant mind as Ewin’s would spend its time figuring out how to entice consumers to buy even more products that they don’t need. I confess that that’s an angle that hadn’t even occurred to me: I simply thought that it was a beautiful question whether you actually need a quantum computer to sample the rows of a partially-specified low-rank matrix in polylogarithmic time, and if the application to recommendation systems helped to motivate that question, then so much the better. Now, though, I feel compelled to point out that, in addition to the potentially lucrative application to Amazon and Netflix, research on low-rank matrix sampling algorithms might someday find many other, more economically worthless applications as well."
I'm in a similar situation. I now suspect my issue is this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia

I'm not sure that was very well known when I was in school (we're about the same age) but it matches my issues pretty closely including the ADHD
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> When you compare accidents by mile or by hour air travel is still much safer than driving.

Can you provide a citation for the per hour stat?

> It is true that to drive 12,000 miles would take 12,000 hours...

Uh, what? No one drives 1mph. It's just 200 hours at 60mph.

> That said you are also more than 50,000x as likely to die in a car accident.

Based on what stat? The wiki page said that per mile traveled it's 750x times higher. But this still doesn't address the per hour safety. Or the fact that people probably drive 1000x more than they fly or whatever the number is.

It also doesn't address the main point which is that many fatal accidents involve drunk driving, etc. So your individual risk factor might be incredibly different from the average. Unlike with flying where you have almost no control over your own safety and the average is very meaningful.
Nothing wrong with that... happens all the time. Plenty of top-tier HN users submit their own posts. The only problem is when it's falsely upvoted (which I'm not claiming is the case here).
Or just run a WM that doesn't need compositing to be usable. (fvwm for example)
The Amazon FBA fee includes shipping cost which is greater than manufacturing cost for zillions of products.
I have no idea why you're being downvoted for this.
>US security agencies have been clear that Russian intelligence interfered in our election to support Trump.

Why would you blindly trust intelligence agencies that have been very untrustworthy throughout US history?
Most web sites send a lot of data that is not for me, the user; it's for the website, to serve ads or track me or do other things that I either don't care about or would much rather they didn't do. The website had to make a conscious choice to include all that stuff; it's not as though it was already there and would have to be optimized out.

In other words, the problem is the most websites are optimized, but not for their users.
Do you have kids? Kids cause huge amounts of garbage to pile up in cars.
Set road charges in real time to ease traffic
Psht, delaying a story is so 2010.
You can pop a box over serial if that serial connection allows you to execute arbitrary code. Buffer overflows happen in surprising places.
Measured in revenue, it has to be Fortnite: Epic is apparently printing money to the tune of $100MM/month from it. And anecdotally, over the course of just a couple months it certainly seems like every single person under the age of 18 in the United States started playing it.
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Ask HN: How to deal with social anxiety?
Does anyone here struggle with social anxiety? I'm suffering because of it and it significantly limits my life. From the outside I'm quite successful (doing reasonably well in engineering) but I limit myself by avoiding people as much as I can (can only force myself at work) but apart from that I barely have any contact with people (due to my limiting myself). I don't have panic attacks or anything like that and I don't want to go to a therapist but I'd like to reduce my fear when it comes to social life. Any tips, books, courses you can recommend?
Thanks
You don't have to download the typography of a physical book but it still plays a huge role in the readability and enjoyment of it. So I guess the typography of websites is "crap" because it has to be downloaded?

It's a ridiculous apples-and-hammers comparison thinly veiled as an intelligent critique.
I just loaded up a nytimes[1] article too - and only weighed in at 1.0MB. For a 1000 word article. Subsequent reloads dropped it to ~1000KB. I don't think that's too bad, considering there are images in there as well.

Now of course, I'm running an ad blocker. I assume the remaining MB that you noticed had come from advertising sources. In which case, bloat isn't the issue, ads are.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/us/politics/facebook-poli...
Sure, there will always be legacy Win32 apps. I work with too many VB6 applications to be more optimistic about that.

UWP is closer to being a distinct subsystem than "running atop Win32". Though it isn't an official subsystem, it has some of the hallmarks of one (and that was one of the complaints about Windows 8). They've been successfully blurring the lines between UWP and Win32 since Windows 8, but it's also not entirely accurate to state that UWP "runs atop Win32". (The old .NET Framework does, yes, but I didn't mention the .NET Framework, I mentioned UWP.)

If anything, with increasingly more of the Windows Shell moving to UWP, it may even start to be increasingly the case that it is Win32 running atop UWP.
Thanks for the feedback on the web page - we just mapped your comment to a todo list.

For our roadmap, we'll be adding more and more chips, and improving the design software so we can generate production-grade designs as quickly as we design prototypes today. There's a lot of physics to bring into the design loop, but it's all very feasible.

Love the enclosure co-generation idea. We have done a lot of computational design/fabrication for 3D structures in the past.

I'm with you on the test fixtures! That image doesn't load for me though. I would love to see it.
Probably same IP Address.
Those bond ratings are a measure of short-term solvency (if it heads off another unproductive exchange: the ratings agencies work with a very different of "long term" than GMU does). California does reasonably well (11th nationally) on that axis. We're talking about long-term structural solvency.

I don't understand what California's bond rating has to do with the impact of its unfunded pension obligations.
Most of the issues I find people annoyed with in JS are becoming less of an issue with modern idiomatic JS that is less object oriented, more functional and with ES6 utilities replacing more troublesome legacy idioms. I work on a fairly large app that uses little no classes. Also, I haven't had to use hasOwnProperty in a year! I just use Object.keys()
Yes, I'm sure it's practical to manage thousands of centrifuges without networking.
You need to realise that this nagging voice that is telling you that you are not good enough is not "you". May sound weird or esoteric, but it is possible to distance yourself from it. This voice has been built up by your environment and is just a summation of that outside world. And everyone hears it. The difference is how one reacts to it.

There's a plethora of material available about how to overcome this voice (mindfulness, meditation, self-help etc.). It's a long process, but it is possible to liberate yourself from it.

Personally, what helped me was to keep a journal. And take regular breaks to reflect on what I have written. Over time (talking years), I realised in a kind of "insight" the ever repeating thought patterns I keep writing down. Am I now free of them? No, and sometimes they still frighten me (rightly so, the feeling of not being good enough has a positive, encouraging side) but more often than not I see them as this old grumpy neighbour that you meet every morning who keeps to bore you with the always same complaints. You greet him, listen for a few minutes and then continue with your day.
> It's just protectionism of different sorts.

Sure, but both being protectionism doesn't make them equal or even comparable.

Placing a 5% fee on certain products and banning all imports are both protectionism, but are in no way comparable.