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> Is the level of programmers as standardized as that of blue-collar workers?

Is the level of journalists as standardized as that of blue-collar workers?

It would literally be absurd to say yes.

> I don't think their production methods meet the standards of large industrial production: simple, consistent, standard, Pipeline, repeatable, linear expansion.

You certainly have a litany of buzzwords.
> Which is not necessarily true - for example, many arguments against the theory of evolution question whether it is a falsifiable theory

The “theory of evolution” is a large composite explanatory story wrapped around a large number of testable (mostly thoroughly tested) hypotheses. It's falsifiable by falsifying any of the components, though the replacement is liable to look remarkably similar but for who the falsified piece is addressed, and still likely to be called the “theory of evolution” even though the content is different.
Ah yeah I didn't mention employment which is clearly the biggest barrier at the moment to living outside urban areas, as I assumed the parent comment was suggesting remote working is what will enable moving away from big cities.
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You are probably not eating at the kinds of restaurants that are Tock's mainstay. In San Francisco, that's places like Atelier Crenn and Saison. A no-show at Alinea or Crenn is not the same thing as a no-show at The Publican or Zuni Cafe. They're all great restaurants, but The Publican and Zuni will chug along just fine with no-shows, while Alinea has every single 4-top in the place intricately planned out a week in advance.

Not all the restaurants on Tock are pre-paid, for whatever that's worth to you.
Don't pretty much all overseas car companies build vehicles for the North American market in North America these days? That would make the tariff point moot. My "Japanese" mid-sized truck that's bigger than I really need it to be was built in Mississippi.
Yup, academia is outrageously political.
Kubernetes is not nearly as complex as people make it out to be. There are fundamental concepts you need to understand... but it's quite reasonable once you grok them.
> Most of the bullshit (the stuff really slowing you down) that’s in place isn’t there because the business wants it, but because the developers want it.

Do you have examples of this? It sounds contrary to my experience.
Yeah that has for Dec

Revenue: $341K

Gross profit: $135K

Still not regular profit / earnings / bottom line, which is what people tend to mean by 'made'. To get that from gross profit you have to deduct overhead which is probably quite a lot here.
Reddit is using it as an excuse to remove subreddits that have been a hindrance on landing bigger ad accounts
This is the national emergency that you hear about on the news, right?
It's not helping that politicians give lip service to an existential crisis and then bury it in the bottom half of a huge agenda. At this point I'm pretty sure I'm more worried than they are.
> [2] Effectively mandatory meaning that insurance without a tracker will be like 10x the price.

Or, once a critical mass is reached the insurance industry will lobby for it to be mandatory in all cars, selling it as a safety feature.
The difference between restaurant and theatre is that in the theatre everyone is getting the exact same product at the exact same time (with the only variant being seating location). Restaurants are more personalized. Even high-end restaurants that only offer tasting menus will make adjustments based on individual tastes, preferences, allergies, etc. At least most of the time. Here's a data point:

My wife and I are frequent patrons of high-end restaurants. 99% of the time we have a great meal, but very occasionally we have an experience that is an absolute nightmare. On one occasion we went to a very well known (two Michelin star) restaurant in the Bay Area. They offered both a tasting menu and a la carte options. When we made the reservation (by phone) we told them that 1) we wanted to do the tasting menu but 2) my wife doesn't eat red meat. They said no problem.

Well, it was a problem. When we asked if they would substitute the red meat courses on the tasting menu they refused. We even offered to pay the price of a fish course from the a la carte menu. They still refused. (It was the chef who refused. The rest of the staff were as mortified as we were.) So we walked out, which we have not done before or since.

So I know for a fact from first hand experience that even a high end restaurant will occasionally treat their customers like shit. When that happens, I want to retain my leverage.
We have GPS trackers installed on the install vans at my work. I've seen the real time tracking maps. They track everything about the vehicle. The speed it's driving, every time it stops, every time the engine is turned off or on, you can predict arrival time at destinations based on average speed and traffic conditions taken from online.

These are just some cheap consumer model ones the boss picked up for about $100 each.

The more advanced and expensive ones he showed me, could give you even more detailed real time.information.
Adding to the comments of science politicisation, I also believe that the "popularisation" of science has taken a significant blow to its public perception.

Take all "I f-g love science"-like websites that portray research as people spending public money on if chocolate makes you better at sex.
The crux of the article seems to be explaining the difference between a 1.5C rise and a 3.5C rise, so they are making an argument to decrease global warming to get a better yield each year. The best case scenario for them then would be that we don't do anything about global warming and they can go "well, clearly it's the temperatures fault" instead of over-fishing? They are prepping us for projections that may or may not happen, and they hope they do, otherwise they have nowhere to hide the overfishing? And don't you think after a 3.5C increase we would have bigger fish to fry (pun absolutely intentional)?
I don't agree with all of your claims anyways, but all of this seems to miss the key fact point the "foreign language" requirement inherently implies a language to communicate with other humans. Hence why Sign language can meet the foreign language requirement in some schools but not C++.
Yeah, the last time I saw this on HN it was a long story about a failed startup (bought out an investor for $1) that had managed to survive the failure and remain a small company. It is by no means a weekend project that evolved slowly to what it is now.
I think it stems from the fact that fewer and fewer people are having children at all, and this opinion often comes from people who don't have children, don't understand children, or who have children who walk all over them.

Children are not rational creatures, or at least not always, once you get to a certain age. There are only so many ways to deal with them, and in my opinion, as the father of 4 adult children, spanking or similar correction may be called for in a situation where the child has put himself or someone else into danger.

Because there's one thing people who aren't around children don't understand and that's how many times the average child escapes serious injury or even death. I've seen many situations where no one is being negligent, but which serious, even fatal injuries could easily have happened. You might have the most "enlightened" attitude towards discipline in the world, but that can all change when your child rushes out into traffic or does something else equally dangerous.

Of course, in response to the inescapable dangers of life, we are more and more seeing parents who simply don't allow their kids to be exposed to any source of potential danger, and they grow up to be completely helpless and start voting socialist.
Pain starts at the third child. Ideally families should have over nine kids each. Unfortunately, we are a dying society that on average doesn't even reach replacement level of children. If you want to think about a city of the future, it might be worth thinking about whether anybody will be around living in those cities.
I'm not advocating for Erlang over type safety. I personally prefer a type based approach. They are also not incompatible.

That said,

> I have yet to see some convincing proof of that

There is no proof, but I can point you to research.

pdf warnings:
https://jimgray.azurewebsites.net/papers/tandemtr85.7_whydoc...

This paper is fundamental to reliability, and describes two primitives for building reliable systems - transactions, and the "persistent process" (spoilers: it's an actor).

And here's Joe Armstrong's thesis. The first 3 chapters are quite relevant and will point you to further research

http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

> besides that Ericsson router from 20 years ago that ended up being rewritten in C++.

This is missing some important information. Erlang is still used at the control plane/ orchestration layer, for exactly the reasons I've described.

> This still doesn't prove that there are no languages that can do a better job at it than Erlang.

Didn't say otherwise.

> 99.99% of extremely reliable software today runs on non Erlang: C, C++, Java, you name it.

Sure, but who cares about Erlang? The real money's in isolated persistent processes aka actors, and I bet most reliable software is built on those, whether language provided or not. See AWS's cell based architecture, which is just the actor model with discipline attached. Or all of microservice architecture.

> Finally, in my experience, writing supervisors in Erlang is just as painful, and if not harder, than writing resilient code based on exceptions in Java or C++.

That's ok.
You sound like you may understand RDF well enough to answer.

If I have transcribed voice convo data, with date/time, names, location, sentiment and extracted subject matter keywords, would Jena/RDF and/or related tools be appropriate for exploring relationships and trends between data points?

Thank you.
Isn't Fukishima still leaking into the Pacific? And hasn't the world had to redefine "safe" measures and recommendations for pregnant women and children to abstain from ocean fish because of it? Long term effects could be very bad.

I'm actually in favor of more nuclear power in the U.S. mainland. But certain locations are definitely more or less safe than others. I'm also in favor of streamlining a lot of regulation, if those responsible for a human error based disaster (including managers up to the president/ceo of contsruction/management org) potentially being hanged as a result (not shot, not electric, not chemical injection, hanged till dead).
While the “critical period” hypothesis is not proven, language acquisition is an automatic process for almost every human child, given that they are in an environment where they are being spoken to.

Also, recent research suggests that the ability to differentiate sounds of a certain language rapidly narrows after a child leaves the baby stage.

> By 10 to 12 months, however, monolingual babies were no longer detecting sounds in the second language, only in the language they usually heard.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/health/views/11klass.html
Agreed.

You can make other options less bad in this regard though. And do things to reduce the problems.

You assertion on public transport costs is heavily dependent on unstated assumptions though.
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I am part of a team building an RDF database to be used for environmental footprinting and industrial ecology (https://github.com/BONSAMURAIS), and am also slowly becoming part of the Swiss open data scene - I would appreciate a chance to chat with you about your experiences!

For us, RDF seems like the only technology that can easily adapt to the large number of data types that we envision collecting.
Joel Spolsky wrote an excellent article about these kinds of clauses in programmer employment agreements.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...
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This has a lot more to do with the risk pooling of insurance and competition among carriers than it does to do with some desire to mindlessly violate privacy.

To give a simplified example, say a good driver costs an average of $100 per year and a bad driver costs $10,000. If without trackers, you can get 100 customers where 10% end up ultimately being bad, the cost over the year ends up being $100 * 90 + $10,000 * 10 = $109,000 or $1,090 per customer. If trackers let you get down to just 8% bad drivers, your expected costs are $100 * 92 + $10,000 * 8 = $89,200 or $892 each.

That lowered cost means more competitive rates, which in turn drives positive selection (i.e., good drivers will be more likely to sign up for your service in the first place). Those bad drivers you passed on also aren't just going away - they're going to competitors and driving up their costs.
I didn't get much in the way of gifts as a kid. We did a lot to make the experience richer, and I didn't feel that I was missing out. After I moved out of the house, my dad had finally landed in a career, started making more than my mom, and things went a little off the rails -- as an adult, I was receiving hundreds of dollars in gifts for christmas... but I had a job and I could afford the toys I wanted. It was awkward. He felt bad about my childhood... but my mom was frugal and we never felt "poor" so that was never a big issue for me.
Isn't it more about air compression instead of friction ?
It is expected to happen only about 3 times in a century (from article).

In other words, building this system of telescopes won't affect the next elections in any positive way.
If we could treat children the way we treat adults, they wouldn't be children, they'd be adults.

This is the kind of willful obtuseness the poster upthread is talking about.
Yeah. It's O(n^2). Should optimize.
Why does this apply almost uniquely to programmers, and not other professions though?

Aside from a handful of doctors giving up their holidays to work for MSF or similar overseas, nobody expects lawyers to do pro-bono work in their evenings, or teachers to volunteer spare time teaching different age groups, or whatever the analog might be.

Same with training, almost all other jobs give you time for training, but for programming learning new technology is somehow something you should be teaching yourself in your spare time.
Uh, you object that the anthropocene magazine concentrates on climate change?
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The US isn't the only country in the world. There are other more advanced countries out there.
I would put my child in time-out if he left his wife.
These already exist. My old boss ran space command at NORAD at the end of the Cold War. Their problem wasn’t capturing the data but filtering it out when looking for artificial events. Unfortunately this data isn’t being collected and used by the civilian sector which is a crying shame.
The feds wanted to expand the floodplain, but the business-friendly local NRD wanted to shrink it to save on insurance costs: https://www.omaha.com/news/metro/nrd-s-flood-plain-map-might...
Effectively mandatory meaning that insurance without a tracker will be like 10x the price

What IF thanks to trackers insurance prices drop by 10x ? So that without a tracker the price stays the same as of now. Would it be "effectively" mandatory for you ?
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Interpersonal relationships?
I've never heard anyone criticizing the size of the FAA or calls for airplane manufacturers to be deregulated. Do you have examples of this? Or are you just making a general politicized point about deregulation?

On the other hand I've seen many people complain about "regulatory capture" between FAA + Boeing repeatedly. That's even on the Wikipedia for FAA.

> The FAA has been cited as an example of regulatory capture, "in which the airline industry openly dictates to its regulators its governing rules, arranging for not only beneficial regulation, but placing key people to head these regulators."

Which is an entirely different problem than a culture of "pulling up your bootstraps".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administratio...
I don't know - I have read somewhere that only depressed people have realistic views about themselves.
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Well, I guess 30% is many.

It also could be the time you called, or maybe your # is flagged as spam.
I think we teach developers wrong. I recently attended a devops workshop for one of our government agencies, to share knowledge like we do in the public sector, and their setup was quite impressive.

At least it was, until it turned out that they had spent 8 people and two years making their toolchain and business processes work.

Why would you do that? We’re not Netflix, we’re a country of 5 million. It’s at times like that I like to remind myself of how simple the stackoverflow setup was (still is?), but it also makes you wonder what made it happen.

I mean, my municipality could manually deploy and operate hundreds of solutions for a hundred years and still have spent less time than 8 people building and implementing a devops toolchain over a period of two years.

Heh. On the bright side, it seems to work well for them now that they have it. A lot of other people have spent the same resources and failed.
I'm not convinced 3 is the magic number, but I generally agree. I'd much prefer a bit more standardization across accessories and connectors.

In my mind, I'd build...
Two sizes of iPad Pro (12" and 10" roughly)
One iPad (10" and thin enough that an "Air" model is redundant)
One iPad Mini

All would use the same connectors (or, at least adopt them over time, as I'd expect Pro models to see new tech a generation before the iPad & Mini) and accessories (pencil, etc).
Right on, Jasim. :)

BTW I took a look at your CodeGen project, and I'm impressed.
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A mortgage company will not issue a loan for a house on a 100 year flood plain without flood insurance. You can not purchase a house in the US in a 100 year flood plain without knowing you are doing so.
Both models are stupid. Unlimited means unlimited. Other countries have unlimited and uncapped service.
And will it also fall in part on the passengers who demand cheap and cheaper air fares? (Not only to the detriment of their own safety but also to further increasing ecological debts).
I'm not sure what that question gets you, because this won't be the case.

An insurance company would have to drastically shrink, and so would its net profits, to do as you describe. So it quite obviously won't happen. Premiums will remain where they are. The price floor is effectively established.

(I do look forward to the next permutation, "well what if somebody lowers prices," so we can have a good round of explaining what a cartel is.)
Is wanting to connect to your Macbook to charge your phone an obtuse use case?

At the very least apple should have shipped with a USB-C to lightning cable, not USB-A.
I feel like I could pretty easily be fluent in more natural languages if, as with programming languages, "fluency" included being able to look things up in reference manuals, and if my expression of the language was limited to reading and writing, rather than listening and speaking.
This article is full of pseudoscientific speculation. I had anxiety and mild depression working in an office. Remote work has brought me so much peace and I've been doing it for well over a year now.

Apparently a nerve running through my gut that stimulates when I push my bowels too hard is ruining my brain because I don't subject myself to corporate slavery masked as healthy normal socializing.

Who in the world writes this propaganda and why?
Isn't this the purpose of insurance adjustments? When an event occurs that would cost the insurance company money, they change their prior of what you should be paying, no need to try and "pre-crime" with tracking chips.

I would rather we not normalize technology that really has no reason to exist but to allow insurance companies to optimize the last meaningless % of their margins at the cost of a slow erosion of an expectation of privacy. (companies who already have a history of doing questionable things to deny claims and avoid liability, enoughso that I have personal stories on this matter)
OT could claim that they are a service provider that helps consumers discover restaurants they'll like, based on mining their reservation history.
Maybe we should approach the question from the other side.

- We need more fish than can be sustainably caught.

- Most of the ocean is a desert [1] due to the lack of essential elements close to the surface, and only near the shore or in places where current brings nutrients up from the depth there is a significant amount of life.

- Ocean surface acts as a giant solar battery because of termocline.

This means we can create floating platforms that would pump water from seabed to the surface, creating vast new fisheries and at the same time removing carbon from the atmosphere since this essentially is a controlled form of iron fertilization.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_production
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> sell such tracking devices to the state

Private insurance companies buy these, not the state

> to then sell/force them on bad drivers.

They don't need to be forced. Those drivers could be offered the option of installing them with a smaller increase in premium, and not installing them with a much higher increase in premium. Eventually, if their driving habits don't change for the better, they will be priced out of auto insurance, which is what happens today if you continually are at fault in car accidents.
That's 120 Gigaton. That's enormous and would probably have debris flying around for quite a while. I am pretty sure some other people would have noticed that too.
I’d like to remind you that you are arguing about the efficiency of renaming a file.

This argument is so nonsensical it doesn’t bear contemplating.
This past Christmas, the volume of presents was out of control. Next year we plan to do a “Secret Santa”, where you pick someone’s name out of a hat, and get them a present (i.e. everyone gets 1 present).
Point to point is by definition wasteful. Look at how goods are moved around the globe: it's always hub and spoke because that's what works best rather than an infinite number of dedicated routes. Walk on foot, bike, skateboard, take a bird or lime to a hub and you remove a ton of engineering headaches. You could have the hub to hub route be completely isolated from traffic and pedestrians and many of the highly publicized issues with self driving cars would be eliminated with zero engineering required. But lets keep wasting time and effort figuring out how to make an uber you don't have to talk to during your ride instead.
> Are you developing apps on it? That's a pretty niche use-case.

A niche but extremely important use case, isn't it? Without app developers the platform is dead.
It seems like higher-quality CD-R should be able to last many decades, but some were produced using lower quality materials that are not as durable, and have been known to fail in as little as ten years. I haven't found a great reference, but it's discussed a bit at https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/con...

They could be a safe choice if you know exactly the type of media you're recording on. I'd just like to caution people against assuming by default that their old CD-Rs will be stable long-term.