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> Maybe more people should go into the trades - and not be funneled into higher education. We desperately need better infrastructure, more housing, tangible things. Not everyone is cut out for college.

This is a common line of argument, but you will find that many tradesmen hope their children will go to college and get office jobs.

The trades are hard on the body. Some trades are hazardous. An injury or medical problem that would be a hassle for someone with an office job can be career-ending for people in the trades.

There aren't a lot of jobs for people in middle age who can't physically work a trade anymore due to age or illness or injury -- it's about as bad as being a laid-off factory worker.

The trades also get hit very hard in recessions as people build fewer things, infrastructure spending gets cut or postponed, etc. That, combined with the serious impact of medical problems and injuries I just mentioned, can make the trades more financially precarious than they seem to be.

I'm not opposed to people going into the trades, but some of the pro-trade-education arguments need a reality check. People need to know about the downsides.
Yes... that’s right. Good luck doing that with procreation in anything but a dictatorship type government.
True, there are some parts which are both safety critical and fundamentally unable
to be made redundant, at least not without drastically compromising the overall design. But that doesn’t justify leaving out redundancy in parts which are able.

In any case, the actual regulations in play here would have required redundancy if the consequences of failure had been properly categorized:

> [I]n normal flight, an activation of MCAS to the maximum assumed authority of 0.6 degrees was classified as only a “major failure,” meaning that it could cause physical distress to people on the plane, but not death.

[..]

> He said virtually all equipment on any commercial airplane, including the various sensors, is reliable enough to meet the “major failure” requirement, which is that the probability of a failure must be less than one in 100,000. Such systems are therefore typically allowed to rely on a single input sensor.

> But when the consequences are assessed to be more severe, with a “hazardous failure” requirement demanding a more stringent probability of one in 10 million, then a system typically must have at least two separate input channels in case one goes wrong.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faile...
Heavens forbid morals should enter into the discussion. All laws are perfectly rational and sensible and none of them have ever been put into place at the behest of major corporations with a lot of money to throw into buying politicians.
The problem is that you are assuming that what these ships are burning is [hydrocarbons] when it’s much more than just that. There are various impurities including sulphur, which lead to extremely dirty emissions such as SO2.

The OP is misinformed with regards to the “6 largest ships” claim and the “CO2” claim — as covered elsewhere in comments on this article.
Our startup has $30k free credits from Google cloud but I would have to be crazy to put our production website on Google and their ban hammer + "charming" customer support.

I am too afraid to use it even for staging.
The world's first genderless AI voice
Taking this back to academic subjects, I wonder if studying philosophy might be some of the best academic training for this side of programming work.
Yeah, maybe it shouldn't be an extra.
It looks like it's just 18 companies, and the profit is not big enough for China to protect them instead of playing by the rules.

CO2 is a much harder case because of the pervasive oil lobby.
Plenty of unethical behaviors can be sold as being in the best interest of the actor.
That assumes perfect knowledge. How many of you have ever stopped to check what an escalator mechanic makes?
that's odd. The one I ordered said it was shipping at the end of march.
KYC for Fintech
A professor's usefulness is their research. Teaching is an added benefit for the public. Universities are not trade schools.
You are assuming that the world is well ordered and that all things will balance like that, but it isn't. People don't see those jobs as options, they aren't even aware of the opportunities, and there is social stigma against being in the trades. Even if you make a nice living in the trades, you will take a hit to your social identity, making you less attractive to others. That's how toxic our culture is right now. People don't value good work anymore, they value branding and image. And we are going to collapse because of it.
Kaplan can talk until he's blue in the face, but why aren't people going into the trades right now if it's such a good idea? If it's explained by the market value of a college degree, what's he going to do about that?

There are some negatives to working in the trades. For one thing, manual labor takes a toll on your body. I've watched tradesmen work at my house and at my workplace. If they're my age, they're broken and hobbling.

How can somebody survive that for long enough to have a decent retirement? How do they survive recessions, which typically affect the construction industry? An economist should be able to show us how to tip the balance. Show us.
Bryan Caplan is an authoritarian piece of garbage.

The purpose of education is not to boost the incomes of students, but to expand human knowledge and spread enlightenment; to combat ignorance. It was employers who decided to base hiring decision on the basis of degrees. It is employers who can still change their requirements. We must protect education and fight for an enlightened, fair, nonviolent, just society.
We already limit many things that people are allowed to do.
Ah, yet another carrier offering Unlimited* data.
Computing the Halstead Software Complexity of Perl Code
Whatever is a car nanny?
Performance has improved considerably. However, there is still a major outstanding bug, due to the rendering of window transparency[1].

Window transparency can be turned off by setting "gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque" to true in about:config. This will cause a minor degradation in appearance of the window frame and tabs, but it will improve performance and extend battery life.

I have had it set for over 6 months and am anticipating the resolution of this outstanding bug.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522
> revolution...organized labor

Precisely. The masses have always been able to, eventually, usurp the few. The thing that's made democratic nations like the U.S. so successful is that they harness the power of the many. A diverse system is much more fault-tolerant than a centralized one. The minds and wills of a free populace, competing but also cooperating, have always been stronger than the minds of a minority which controls a populace. What's best for people has traditionally been aligned with what's effective, in this respect. Empires always fall.

But, yes, AI could change that. We'll see how it plays out.
The MIC is too powerful and influential over both parties.

While I can sometimes like trump for not submitting to anybody - even he bows to MIC
Yes, we are putting our production mysql (mariadb) into k8s. We use a stateful set and the data is stored on persistent volumes. Even if the pod or whole cluster goes down, the data remains. So far, I am finding it more stable than a bare metal setup. Because if the db instance fails, k8s kills it and spins up a new instance using that same persistent data disk. In the meantime, there is a read replica running on a different node that can take some failover.

We also have a job that runs nightly to make a dump of the db and store it in the object store and the persistent disk has a snapshot scheduled for every two hours and in both cases, we are backing up the binary logs, so we can do point in time recovery much like AWS's Aurora offering.

We may eventually switch to a mariadb Galera cluster where there are 3+ master pods that distribute the load and can stay available if one pod dies. But I haven't done the research on stability of that setup yet. A few years ago it wasn't ready yet, but I imagine it is by now.
>We get cheap oil because they will not have a planet to live on.

Yes they will. Hyperbole is unnecessary and harmful when the real projected outcomes are already bad enough.

>If the price were to include a carbon tax, it would likely be at least ten times higher and we would very quickly get rid of our beloved gas guzzlers.

10x is highly unlikely. At 450kg of CO2 per barrel and even $50/ton of CO2 offset costs that’s about $25 additional per barrel, which puts it at a lower cost than the 2007 era peaks.
If you use Roku the main search on the Roku home screen will search for content on all Roku services (installed or not) and sort them by price. It is an amazing little tool. Also Plex works on Roku and will stream pirated content as happily as it streams anything else.
I don't know if there is any place on earth that has freedom of speech by that definition. It pretty much comes down to what types of speech are made illegal in each country.
Is there a study that shows “suicide awareness” increases suicide?
I thought I heard this somewhere. There was a sign on a bus or something, and turns out people thinking about suicide during rush hour made them commit at higher rates.

Anyone have a resource?
Quick note about that link: the product the reviews are about look to be for something different than the clock itself.

I’ve heard of this happening on amazon where listers can change the listing slowly over time so it is eventually for a completely different item; is this an example of that?
>convex bowl

That took me a while to grok. At first glance it seems like an oxymoron
Any more notes about this?
I couldn't find much info about it.
The fact that "AoA disagree" light and logic was an optional feature seems criminal enough to me. A sensor with no failover unless you pay for an option. Who the hell thought this was a good idea or approved it? WTF!

500 people are already dead. Boeing should be brought to the coals. It probably takes longer to go through the checklist than it does for everyone to die.

I promise if the audio recordings are ever released from CVR they will be absolutely damning. Pilots trying to make it through a loss of control checklist as they dive to their doom. A lot of those checklists have 50+ steps. Imagine trying to make it through that while fighting the plane and descending at over 3x "maximum design descent rate".

I'm sure the fucking alarms we're blaring and pilots cursing the system carrying them toward certain death.
And yet, I know many people that are chomping at the bit to migrate away from Oracle and just as many more that have successfully migrated away. Infrastructure cost can be a significant cost of your business depending on what you do.
Recently (thanks to a post on HN) I’ve discovered the Financial Times to be a mature news source that doesn’t generally go in for clickbait.
Like COBOL in the sense of its purported future niche in the industry, not in the sense of syntax and language power.
Slightly off-topic question: I use Windows as my OS of choice. If I want to run my browser in a Linux VM via Virtualbox, would Alpine be a good choice?

Or is there something even better/lighter?
They’ve done a ton of stuff to limit emissions, from flat out banning coal furnaces in some regions (somewhat prematurely) and halting all construction for future coal plants, investing in mass transit much more than any country on the planet, prioritizing nuclear energy, leading the world on solar, mandating all electric scooter car and bus fleets across the entire society. Chinese (yes, people are very outspoken and critical about environment even in censored media) and foreign press coverage on the sheer scope of environmental reform happening in China right now is well documented and prolific.

But it’s a big country, so change like this takes time to see the macro effects. You can see it all playing out on the ground if you go in person, but the air won’t totally clean up until power generation fully transitions - I’d give it a decade to be safe (but ask locals now and they’ll tell you it’s at least gotten better).

Meanwhile our president here in the USA is unraveling the EPA and defunding Dept of Energy, even as we’re #1 polluters of the world. I think we are in no position to talk on this one.

All it takes to find this is a little time and an open mind.
What distinguishes these users from other users? Is it their choices?

It's manifestly legal to put your own software on your own hardware - I mean duh. Google is in hot water for working the levers to control software on other peoples' hardware.
>>> I know one theory Caplan has is that completing college certifies "conformity" and "tolerance for boredom": is spending 4 years and tens or hundreds or thousands of dollars the only way to test for these properties?

Working any entry level office job from age 18-22 would be a pretty good test. I would not have survived it.
That’s all nice but is there any update on battery improvements? I can’t see any for a long time. That’s about the last reason left why I’m still using Chrome on Mac.
Another factor is that what one wants from a neural network is the best-generalizing approximation. What is this best generalizing thing almost seems like a property of the world rather than a mathematical curve but still, to various degrees one would guess a rough approximation might turn out to more generalizing than an absolutely exact approximation (since you talking about approxing a set of data with with curve rather than, say, getting the closest approximation to known-correct equation)
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Yea the interval is actually 20 seconds which is a really long time to a pilot thinking he is in an emergency. If you look at the period of the ups and downs of the Ethiopian flight they roughly correspond to that 20-second interval. Just when he thinks he's fixed it, it strikes again and again, taking a more aggressive nose down attitude each time.
Problem is cities want to super-customise their buses kicking the cost probably 3x
It really depends on the software in question. I work on DBMS. The cost of doing it yourself is potentially much higher than your comment indicates:

* Time-to-market -- Rework due to mistakes when implementing or deploying applications

* Risk -- Fixing problems may take [much] longer than for supported software

* Resources -- Extra personnel to do software support and maintenance. This gets a lot more painful once software is long in the tooth and no longer cool to work on.

None of these have anything to do with OSS in particular. And for many people the costs are outweighed by benefits like understanding the technology stack and not being in thrall to costs they can't control.

In a similar vein I used to fix cars myself. I now take them to the mechanic even though for many problems I could do a better job albeit at a high cost of time, parts, and tools. It's cheaper to focus on work that I'm good at. I still miss car mechanics though.
Speaking of Carpenters & Joiners, the article makes this claim:

> If recognized, Kickstarter would be the first major tech company with union representation in the United States.

But that's not correct. Engineers at Hughes Aircraft, including programmers, were unionized and represented by Local 1553 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. I think Hughes counts as a major tech company. Local 1553 also represents electronics and space engineers at other aerospace companies.

How did a carpenter's union end up representing engineers whose work had nothing to do with wood? Briefly, in the 1940s when Hughes built the Spruce Goose, a huge plane built almost entirely out of wood, they hired a lot of union carpenters. After the Spruce Goose was cancelled, many of those carpenters stayed on doing other work at Hughes, and kept their union. More history of 1553 here [1].

[1] http://www.east1553.com/history.htm
To any Google employees who read HN: please raise this general issue in your internal groups and try to push to change this culture of faceless algorithmic decision making. Companies should not have to rely on getting to the HN front page to have a human being actually look at these issues. You have a voice internally and if you don't use it, in some way you are complicit.
Pay me enough and I will learn how to replace an escalator.
> I want them to stop competing with my service, or to pay the royalties.

Which is basically rent seeking which is what this whole thread is complaining about.

And, incidentally, the whole problem copywrite was invented to solve -- you get a "time limited" monopoly on the distribution of your work.

> But providing competing service which is based on the work of those that bigtech competes with, simply does not seem fair to me.

<bad car analogy warning>

This is like car companies saying you are free to race their cars as long as you never outcompete them on the track...
Dallas seems to be taking some steps. [1]

[1] https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/dallas-deploys-electric...
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10-20 tons per day is commercial scale. The prototype in this article was much smaller - running around 0.3 t/day.
So how do you feel about the content moderation on this site?

There are sites with no content moderation, and they can't seem to get many customers because they are so terrible.
AlgoDaily – One-a-day programming challenges for web developers
Is there a pencil and paper walkthrough?
> Kaplan can talk until he's blue in the face, but why aren't people going into the trades right now if it's such a good idea? If it's explained by the market value of a college degree, what's he going to do about that?

Because the government is subsidizing education. His suggestion is simple: cut/lower the subsidies.
> And we are going to collapse because of it.

It's not that bad.
Never explain low level details to parents. Just tell them what to do. In this case, it's as easy as sending them a link like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....
I would imagine that leaf blowers operate at a much lower density of grass, in an open area where there's nothing for a grass blade to stick on.
Edge spent a lot of time and focus on this but it seems Firefox is not actively pursuing it or marketing it.

Been using Firefox nightly on Android and it's on par with chrome (even faster with ublock running since FF can run extensions on mobile), but the battery drain feels higher than with chrome.
An important thing to note is that in many areas colleges may not be the best way to learn a subject. I personally am ok learning from old blog posts and online documentation for most everything computer related and personally even slightly prefer it to college classes. However, as you mentioned I need a credential so sit through classes to get it and do near the minimum to get a good GPA and pass all the classes. There is simply no need to take challenging classes which may not teach exactly what I am interested in and take the risk of wasting upwards of 1,000 dollars on the class and getting my credential permanently stained with a bad grade if I misjudge the difficulty and fail. It is simply less risky, far less stressful, and typically easier for me to learn by not challenging myself at college wherever possible. Especially with education as cheap (many cases free) and accessible as it is online I find it hard to view anyone not slacking and attempting to learn much at college to be a fool.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19432957

Already made the rounds
Direct link to the study – "Electrophysiological and transcriptomic correlates of neuropathic pain in human dorsal root ganglion neurons": https://academic.oup.com/brain/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/br...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_gaming#Cloud_gaming_serv...)
Legislators cannot deliver what they do not provide.
Other than the last one, those are entitlements requiring the government provide you with things, not rights.
I understand your made up hypothetical example but it has no value.

Wouldn’t it be more worthwhile to deal with reality?

The US is by far the largest consumer of oil and we love large vehicles.

https://qz.com/1344537/by-2020-suvs-could-make-up-50-of-us-c...
I assure you that if the job is paying enough people will drop any social stigma against trades jobs right away. I'll pick a paid off nice house over showing off to my friends. Although I'm sure the new house is much easier to show off than an office job.

I have talked to people working hard physical labor jobs and they make hardly more than I do as a junior/mid level web dev but they are doing back breaking work 6 days a week.
Google launches Stadia video game streaming service
Blog said next week, unless you're running dev or nightly
That one is the best. When I tell people about it they think it is too ridiculous to be true. A guy who thought he was Jesus's brother started a war that killed tens of millions of people.
Yes perhaps that's true. I ask you to consider some c++ to java conversions though. Usually the syntax is almost identical, whereas COBOL is clearly terrible
i wouldn't want people to have to become entertainers online to get money in order to afford to write their OSS project!
I've had the opportunity to drive a Hydrogen fuel cell car and here are a few quick takes:

* The carbon footprint is likely larger than a Tesla but smaller than a comparable gasoline vehicle.

* The cost of fuel is currently several times higher than gasoline (normalized for driving distance) which is why all the major hydrogen carmakers are giving away 3 years of fuel for free. This likely doesn't help the carbon footprint.

* It takes a little longer to refuel than a gasoline car (few minutes) but less time than an electric car.

* Range depends on environmental conditions and driving habits. As it is a hybrid, nonfreeway driving in stop/go traffic appears to be most efficient (this is where you get the 300+ mile range). Otherwise, in the freeway, in the mountains (uphill) and when the A/C or heater is on at full blast, be prepared to lose up to 30% of range.

* There aren't as many fuel stations yet so it is a good habit to check station status online and refuel before the tank gets too empty. Stations in the USA are currently open to the public in California and a few places in the Northeast.

* Some models have little trunk space as quite a bit of volume as been reallocated to the hydrogen tanks.

* Some jurisdictions may require periodic (~yearly) tank inspections.

* The vehicles generally handle like an electric (or hybrid in electric mode) vehicle.
I'm not sure that thorough and precise implies they would seek to leave out things. In fact, one would expect the opposite.