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>"Literary and aesthetic merit" has always been code for stuff old white dudes like.

You are confusing one thing for another. Until fairly recently, cultured, well-read people tended to be old white dudes. If history had been different and the upper classes had consisted of (for example) nothing but Pakistani women, then those Pakistani women would love Milton and Shakespeare, and people would say, "Literary and aesthetic merit has always been code for stuff Pakistani women like".

No. No matter how fashionable it is for postmodernists to shriek otherwise, the fact is, there is objectively good literature. Well-read, world-wise people will gravitate to this objectively good literature. Doesn't matter if those people are old white dudes, or middle-aged East African women, or whatever group it is that happens to occupy the upper classes. Shakespeare has genuine structural qualities inherent in it that allows it to stand the test of time. Kafka contains genuine truth that will stand the test of time. There's no evil conspiracy to promote Homer undeservedly. These works stand on their own, and they're stuff well-read, intelligent people like, whoever those people may be.
How many people are you willing to put at risk for death to save your friend?
Assuming you are in the US, they can't require any notice. In most other countries to the best of my knowledge, but your local laws may vary.

A company can certainly ask you to give more notice, but you are under no obligation to do so.
Are you working somewhere abroad where this is a norm? It is extremely unlikely that's a reasonable demand in the US. You can quit on no notice in the US.
Most of the leverage is in the efficiency at exploiting data, and not just in technical terms but also operational economics. This is far more important than the data itself for a fundamental reason that has not been broadly internalized by the industry at large, and which makes it difficult to build a data moat.

Almost any proprietary data model based on proprietary data can be reconstructed with sufficient fidelity from unrelated external data sources to be competitive with that proprietary data model, at the cost of being somewhat more expensive to engineer all things being equal. I've demonstrated this many times in practice. As a corollary, a company with sufficiently efficient end-to-end data infrastructure could, in principle, commoditize all proprietary data model companies. This company does not exist, yet, and it would require some very specialized talent but every necessary ingredient exists.

This is a realizable endgame due to the reality that virtually all data companies, for good and practical reasons, are strongly incentivized to build on infrastructures that are literally orders of magnitude less efficient than is possible in principle. A company that was purpose-built on exceptional end-to-end data infrastructure engineering could capture much of the revenue in these markets in a surprisingly short time by commoditizing the data model and arbitraging efficiency.
EU healthcare is good when you are average joe, poor or just mediocre.

You earn €60k/pa and you pay shitloads of taxes on that income just to live in some shit suburb because you cant afford anything anyway and there is no way to get beyond that income.
Open any unmoderated comments section on any site and you'll find thousands of trolls.

It's strange that you think trolling is some subversive and venerable reaction to censorship, when anonymously commenting on websites is a nearly effortless act that incurs neither a cost nor risk.
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Not really. It’s just a matter of changing times and prices. Pounds and pennies have been a thing for 1200 years. What they buy has changed dramatically.
To take the recent example: Medication so rare the Moscow medical system can't provide it in time?
Now people who would otherwise be stuck writing windows-only systems have the option to use, develop against and deploy Linux based applications. I'd call that a win. More linux apps developed and migrated away from Windows-only, means Linux is a more viable option moving forward. Not all legacy software will be replaced/displaced or outright changed overnight.

The all or nothing approach does everyone a disservice. Also, Linux WMs are not nearly as good as Windows or Mac although some are close.
I think I got a more wide interpretation to the GPs comment.

It's certainly true that many people simply don't have the gumption for insert-any-particular-activity-here. For whatever reason. People try all sorts of activities only to realise they'd prefer doing other things.

I'm fascinated by reading HN and the linked articles. I often read things I don't understand, but over time via resources available online, I've managed to maintain an evolving understanding of software development and the requisite technology.

To put all of this knowledge in to the actual practice of writing software, would not only take many many hours > months > years to achieve basic competency, I'm genuinely not interested in doing that as a job, and think if I did force myself to learn programming I'd never make a particularly good one.

Presumably there is room for mediocre developers, there definitely seems to be room for below-average-skilled people in every industry.

I do agree that the last line probably takes it a bit too far. A not insignificant portion of people who could become okay a software development could do with a lot more help than laptop + search engine.

Maybe a great schooling experience, accessible to all ages, to learn software development would go a long way. If it was a required subject at school I suspect there would be some people would do very poorly in that class, even if they had an amazing teacher.
That sounds interesting. Is it reasonably safe to have hydrogen balloons around at a kid's party? Any major dangers to watch out for besides the obvious proximity to candles?
Yes, but I'm saying that that can work very well for a visual, interactive application.
> For instance being good at talking might be co-related with tunnel vision, not having a bigger perspective, being able to connect things which shouldnt be, naivety, empathy and so on.

This is a good point. When you really understand something, you know what the limits are. Your mind is full of ifs and buts.

People who are good at talking, especially persuasive talking, tend to be so because they can articulate a clean vision with few wrinkles. Think of any political discussion. In reality there's a tradeoff between higher taxes and higher social services. You end up getting people who essentially argue that it's a no-brainer, one way or the other depending on their flag.
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It matters when one of your goals is to determine what the people around you believe.
It’s older than that, Michael Crichton wrote about and posted source code in an Applesoft Basic magazine in early 80s.
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I agree in principal. But I believe you also have to consider that most of these artists are probably not doing well financially, so, this may provide them with an alternate revenue stream which may in turn help them pursue their craft more.
Compared to the time[0] that they dusted SF with a live bioweapon for 20 years, just to see what would happen, this is pretty minor league.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...
Are you upset that the artists just get a jpeg where some of the artistic choice has already been made (like posing and lighting)? Or do you disagree with portraiture in general as an art form?
Some people are sufficiently talented that a mediocre high school education doesn't hurt them. I think more people have enough talent and latent interest to "go pro" in math or STEM but won't get there without a good teacher taking an interest.

A good teacher is not always necessary, but sometimes it is.
Would that make it only interoperable with itself, and not have the security a correct implementation of SHA1 provides? Is it a security bug (i.e. is there anything worth stealing by breaking their not-quite-SHA1-hash)?
I don’t see how any of those things you listed are “wrong” reasons to go into software development. All of them are true or roughly true, so, if that’s important to someone, then great. Believe me, given a choice between software development and service work or factory work, I would always choose development for the “easy life,” too.

OTOH, you’re right about boot camp grads not being ready to operate independently, but that’s your employer’s fault for hiring too many of them. You’re totally free to leave and go somewhere that doesn’t hire boot camp grads if you don’t like it.
Tuna is not easy to breed, not at all, but can be farmed. I had seen tuna babies born in captivity. The tiny critters are all mouth. Is a long term effort.
> The engine mounting certainly does not make the plane unsafe.

Unless there is something about the magnitude of MCAS necessity that Boeing did not tell us yet.

Boeing's original stance of "stupid pilots should have followed runaway trim procedures" does not seem very consistent with actively removing a two-stage disable feature that already existed (and which, in hindsight, might have saved those lives). How desperate exactly were they to never ever let the pilots catch a glimpse off the real flight characteristics?
The comment I'm responding to contains unstated assumptions promoting the surveillance industry, at a time when many people are realizing they don't want to be part of it. We should be clear that this distinction exists, lest we keep giving a pass to misleading corporate statements in the spirit of Google's "don't be evil" that tricks naive developers into building more surveillance systems.
Because most loyalty points don't convert to US dollars...

They have a USD/EU value equivalent because they need to for legal reasons but most companies will not honor requests to convert your points to dollars, and the fine print in their loyalty program T&C has language to that effect. They will only let you convert those points into their own goods or services.

(Credit card loyalty points are different, but they're also subject to regulation.)
Why do you believe the quality is going backwards? Is there something they are optimizing for the compromise in quality?
Similarly, I find it odd in those "real life crime" TV shows when cops comment on how someone's affect and demeanor "aren't right" following a murder.
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“Start with the big numbers.” I’m being completely serious; it gets lost in the discussion a LOT.
I'm not sure the problem has a technology solution. I would rather prefer policymakers to impose an obligation that any importer of packaged goods must collect an equivalent amount of similar packaging garbage and utilize it at their own cost.

The problem of packaging garbage should be offset to [offshore] producers (who have no skin in the game), rather than citizens (who we know are eager to help the environment).

When China stopped accepting recyclables, the good answer would be to demand Chinese producers to take back an equivalent amount of similar packaging garbage in exchange for allowing them to import goods to Canada.
I always ended up making my own abstractions and even smart pointers at times. I wouldn't say it's 'easier' than pure C, but it was absolutely more productive, anyway.
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Why do you think that this would be more ethical than allowing fishes live in the sea?
You could in theory have an employment contract that requires notice. But it probably wouldn't have much force; such a contract would establish that failing to give notice would be a breach of contract, and you could theoretically be on the hook for making your employer whole for the "harm" you caused, but unless you were given some significant consideration for your side of the contract --- a signing bonus or something, maybe? --- the harm your employer could demonstrate in court would be so minimal that the cost of enforcing the contract would far outweigh the return they'd get from enforcing it.†

In practice: a pretty rare situation, and not a meaningful deterrent to quitting at will.

I believe the cases where you're meaningfully prevented from quitting without giving notice, generally, are cases where you already know clearly that you can't, and why you can't, because you negotiated your contract and know what you'd be giving up to leave. There are key-person agreements that get signed in acquisitions that have that kind of effect.

Employees, though? Not so much. Employers in the US that purport to require notice from rank and file are pretty much generally full of shit.

(Not a lawyer, have just seen a lot of weird employment situations).

† Signing bonus claw-backs are also super common outside of "notice" situations, so it's not like that's an exotic case; if you have a signing or retention bonus, you probably already know you have a contract requiring you to return it if you leave within N months.
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> That argument supposes that high school teachers ended up with that career by looking at all job prospects and picking the one with the best economic prospects.

Not really. I'm supposing that people choose careers based on some combination of "I like this" and "I like how this pays me". Someone who can complete a good undergrad math program can probably make six figures as a software developer after a few years. They'd have to really like teaching, or hate software development, for teaching to provide more total utility.
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ It's pretty bad. We're talking 3-20x slower than Java. FWIW, you can also look at the benchmark shootout game. Erlang/HiPE/BEAM is very cool, but it's just slooooooooow. Now, I'm not trying to say that OpenJDK is "better" than BEAM -- it's a great VM and it's good for lots of stuff -- but comparing performance-related features with Java doesn't make much sense, but it's not really in the same game. Yes, Erlang never has STW pauses, but you'll still get lower latency (and much higher throughput) with OpenJDK and ZGC or Shenandoah, despite the shared heap and occasional (short) STW pauses.
I specified both result and methodology. Yes, a different method gives a different result. Using pr allows rapid verification of numerous manpages as in the zsh manpages example shown, for validation.

I'm aware that generating postscript is possible, and results in fewer pages. But that doesn't readily permit comparisons with simple shell tools.

(The output is decidedly pretty though.)
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If you don't know the local language, it may be difficult to obtain. The local medical system may also use a different medicine for the same purpose, but that doesn't mean one can simply switch between them.
I remember an old shark tank episode where kids would paint for you. Here it is: https://umano.com/
I've used simple TF/IDF with a custom stemmer as a similarity scoring tool against the XDK documentation. It worked pretty well, I'd be curious to know how that'd fare vs. the neural model (i.e. I suspect it'd be better in identifying the rare, high-signal words that were excluded by the author's 400-most-common word limit).

For my side project: As we received emails from developers asking for clarification/help with the APIs, the system would provide relevant documentation URLs so that anyone could pick up an inquiry and brush up on the API (and have a handy link if the the docs could be leveraged in the response).
But it has nothing to do with arranged marriages. I know Indians in the US who have gotten into an arranged marriage, and obviously the local rules apply. OTOH if marital rape in not a crime in some country, it might as well be committed whether or not it was an arranged marriage.
There was one before RTC, called CMVC, which was truly awful, especially using after 2010 felt like an insult to developer productivity.

I forget all the reasons why RTC isn't great, but the main one: if the server goes down, you're screwed. This happened several times, and we basically went to the pub instead of working. Slow to check out. Streams sucked compared to branches (especially when the server admin restricted creation of streams, meaning you simply could not branch at all if I'm remembering), and the capability to stash changes/switch branches to work on different work items if one was blocked was also more cumbersome. Code review was terrible.

A centralised paradigm does simplify things a lot mentally, but the workflow suffers IMO.
I thought "synthetic data" it's something that rarely shows in training image recognition, and is more like randomly generated user data (name, surname, etc.) or data generated from simulations of some processes?
Failing a student should be possible.
Do you really think the authorities that will be shepherding you from the plane crash are going to deny you asthma medicine after the event?
I will suggest that Windows has far fewer problems... and while my next desktop (months away) will likely be Linux, it is definitely not nearly as friendly as either Windows or Mac for most users.

Of course, if you don't manage your own computer and mostly run out of a browser, it doesn't matter nearly as much. It's significantly better today than a decade, or even 2 years ago. About every 2-3 years, I've run Linux as my main OS for anywhere from a month to I think 4 months being the longest. It's not stuck because invariably I hit a sticking point that just gets me to say "fuck it." Running a hackintosh for all its' faults is generally easier than running Linux as a desktop OS, which is a really sad statement.

It's not that Windows doesn't have problems, it's that it has them a lot less frequently. I say this as someone who prefers to develop against Linux (mostly web ui and server backend, etc). I absolutely hate the frustrating windows-isms in Git bash. I find the WSL 1.x isn't sufficient, and the lack of properly performing volume mounts in Docker for Windows very frustrating to say the least.

I, frankly, welcome a more transparent/fast/effective/complete option for linux software development in windows. What has come so far has allowed me to push it as an option moving forward that wouldn't otherwise be there.
I don't see the argument line here. Because books have been around for thousands of years we have perfected the creation of books (at least compared to videos)? In terms of raw quantities I suppose most books written in 2018 and most videos produced in 2019 were rubbish
I think "coming out normal" is hard to judge without a comparative version.

I grew up with these games, too, but if you have internally normalized that which is inherently abnormal, it may manifest in subtle ways.
Not really. You don't evacuate airplanes unnecessarily since people get scared, trampled or hurt. So once there is an evacuation you can't treat it like anything else than an actual emergency. At which point no one is expected to have their documents. If it turns out to not be a life treating situation someone will get you your stuff soon enough and otherwise you shouldn't have it anyway.

People don't understand rapidly evolving situations because it is hard to do. They will do whatever they normally do. They will process what is happening in their own frame of reference. Which isn't "smoke inhalation in 30 seconds", but "let's hurry a little bit". I don't necessarily think you should blame people though.
Personality type is kind of like God's OS that he gave you. You don't approach a problem in an Amiga the same way you would approach a problem in Mac OS 9.

I don't know any therapy that is appropriate for this. CBT is for depression and anxiety and I don't have THOSE problems.
> Recycling already is a more effective expenditure than landfill.

There are some materials where there is a net economic benefit to recycling, such as aluminum and to a lesser extent steel and glass.

There are also materials where it’s a net cost (in excess of landfill dumping fees) to recycle the material, such as many plastics. If we are paying in aggregate millions of dollars to recycle this material, it makes sense to ask could those dollars be put to better use.

Also worth noting I don’t pay for garbage and refuse through my local taxes, I have a private service which I pay to pickup my trash. Many towns are moving to this model so that residents who make less trash can pay less.

Military spending is 50% of “discretionary” spending, but about 1/6th of total spending. “Discretionary” means spending appropriated each year, versus spending which is based on existing laws and not the annual budget. I’m sure there’s many ways that money could be better spent as well, but it doesn’t change the fact that we should invest efficiently in environmental protection.
If it was trained on the entire body of scientific knowledge (or you know, as close as possible), would it be able to spit out useful correlations by interpolating?

If trained on massive sets of source code and briefs (or perhaps a set of unit tests), could it spit out functioning code based on a problem statement?

I'm just not well versed enough with ML to know if these things are a possibility or if it will just remix its training data in probabilistically correct, not-guaranteed-to-make sense ways?
That's an interesting perspective: there's no genetic selection pressure for software development.

I've read that people tend to be intimately attracted to people of roughly the same intelligence and socioeconomic background, for whatever definition of intelligence was used.

Having said that, some people do turn out to become engineers fabricators artists and build amazing things. You're probably right though, the majority of the population probably don't have it.
This argument could be made for anything, not just games.
But it’s not “times faster”, it’s a linear function of time..
Using face detection to lock desktop screen automatically when people sneak in
It's interesting to see a trailer like that on YouTube when sexuality is still a taboo and not allowed on YouTube
I think Skype already might be doing something like this. The audio passes through ok when the screen feed freezes due to network congestion
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Former math teacher here and basketball coach. I agree with the article. My training as a teacher emphasized fostering investment from students just as much as it did lesson planning. All of these things are are really important.

But one of the toughest problems in teaching math is that, unlike sports, a student doesn't get a whole lot of feedback on their success and improvement in the short-term, besides grades. And grades have some major cons when it comes to motivation. Also, most of us don't use the exact skills from math class in life outside of class. What we use is the mindset of finding first principles, of abstraction, of modeling, and of problem solving. It's quite difficult to connect these skills to the mentality of kids and adolescents.

This is where extracurriculars come in, in my opinion. They teach the meta-skills of improvement mindset, coachability, and work ethic. I saw first-hand how my players came to class with a different mindset when sports were in season.

I have to say, it sounds like Mr. Urschel benefited from having good sports coaches, while having math teachers that maybe weren't so good at the motivational part. A lot of folks have the opposite mix. So I wouldn't say there's necessarily an underlying thread that generalizes to all of American education.
I just made an order (to Glen Oaks, NY). One concern is that at checkout the picture I uploaded flipped sideways. Maybe consider a crop/rotate option for the picture once you choose picture size?
It can generate billions of memes per second. Who knew the first job to be automated out of existence was going to be internet troll?