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I agree with the author the decline of the humanities is about a narrative winning out on the other.

But what about what is actually desirable? Is going to the university to learn something that is only indirectly useful as a job skill something fundamental, or is it an historical aberration?

Depending on how you define it, the "humanities" are not going to die. The top comment at the time of writing is how analysis lives on even on YouTube. But is it something that has to be subsidised, or that we have to encourage students to spend precious years and frankly absurd amount of money in?
I basically do this already for crucial video conferences: I call in on my phone as well as laptop and keep the phone audio on standby for the inevitable dropouts
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Mostly from mining and gas extraction. The source is nuclear decay of natural isotopes.

See e.g. https://www.quora.com/What-are-main-sources-of-helium-gas
When we keep animals in zoos and they refuse to breed, we consider this proof that their conditions are poor or even unacceptable. When TFRs plummet across the developed world, young people stop having sex, many consider this good because of overpopulation.

It's not good. Our civilization is quickly becoming inhospitable to humans.
> Diverse teams gather more information which leads to better insight of edge cases, and ultimately to better products.

This is just an assertion currently, and I am not inclined to believe it is true. I would believe it for more "people" and/or culture oriented problems, such as catering, but for the majority of software development problems, diversity in people is nothing compared to diversity of software development experience. Which, ironically if we take as given most developers are white males, we maximise on average by only hiring white males!
The last time I was in the Czech Republic (not Prague) I was staying on a long street where the street numbers seemed completely arbitrary. I passed 954, 37, 238, 952, 950, 77a,... all on my way to find the inn at number 120. Google maps directed me to a location 600m away, near number 124. Is that common in Czechia?
I find it surprising that the fellow that coined the word POSIX, agreed to censoring the POSIX_ME_HARDER variable.

It's also surprising that the first version of bash committed source code suicide via a bug in globbing, which makes it's name seem more poignant, and was why there was a file named "-i" in it's source tree for many years.
> There's no reason why they cannot relatively securely store a private key and the associated certificates.

The big ones have supported this for two decades: https://www.digicert.com/managing-client-certificates.htm

Hardly anywhere uses it.
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Can you post how you did it?
They would have at least some of the same names in them (maybe just street name and city?), so they wouldn't be lost completely.
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Yea no... This PR article is flat out misleading (and I´m being generous here).

1) The article ignores the power of networks which is the main reason SF is the titan that it is. Niall Ferguson and Peter Thiel have written extensively about the topic and SF in particular if you´d like to read a thing or two about it.

2) I recently had a successful exit in the US and have been interviewing dozens of startups a months to invest in here in Stockholm (where I live). And it´s safe to say that the quality of available early-stage startups is sub-par at best in comparison to what SV or the US in general has to offer. Granted this is my subjective opinion but I dare say it isn´t far off the truth considering that I have started and worked on companies in both places.

3) "The environment has led to a re-evaluation of the city's prominence for buzzy tech start-ups. House prices in San Francisco are four times the national average. And the average house price is now $1.3 million"

The dishonesty of not mentioning that Stockholm´s housing cost is rising much faster (relative to income) than SF´s housing market is rather astounding. https://www.hemnet.se/salda/bostader?location_ids%5B%5D=1803...

4) "Europe is where the value-add is possible between funding rounds, you can get sometimes three times the value for European companies over US for the same money," says Söjgren."

Saying "sometimes" (which represent the edge cases) to provide a sense of general well-being is just toxic. Evaluations and capital are about as dry here as the freaking desert. That creates an environment where competition between VC firms is none-existent which in turn makes it incredibly difficult for early stage startups to even make it off the ground due to down pressure on round sizing and equity demands. This is the case especially when you keep in mind the level of employment tax expenditures that exist here compared to the US. Besides, how in hell do you get 3x the value for the same money? By that logic we should all start companies in Estonia or Lativa or India or anyone of 200 places on earth where we get 20x the value for the money. So Sweden in this context is the worst option on the table because there are no networks, the round sizes are small, the costs are huge and the local talent pool as abysmal.

5) "Investors are now joining the dots with smart money flowing into an increasingly competitive European scene."

If that was the case the Swedish krona would have higher demand which would push the price of SEK higher against USD or EUR. In reality however, money has been escaping Sweden and SEK in general. See the 5 year charts:

https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/SEKEUR/?exchange=FX_IDC

https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/SEKUSD/?exchange=FX_IDC

Sigh...
I think it is fundamentally a question of culture. If you have too much of the same type, you will end up having a single dominant culture. If you have a more diverse team, no single culture might be dominant, which forces your team to develope a team culture on their own.

But this isn’t soley about race, nationality or gender, you have to find a good mix also in terms of personalities, skillsets etc. I always found system theory to be a useful abstraction when thinking about this. System theory asks the question which function a member of the system (the team) will take, given their personality etc. You cannot decide this from top down, it will just happen. Like in a family, where you can visit after 10 years and instantly, without beeing aware of it you put yourself into a certain position.

The question is: which function does a team/family member fulfill for the system?

A systemic view means the answer to this question depends on the constellation of the whole team and not just on individual members.

So my answer would be: make a team where everybody gets to align their personality with the function they will have within that social construct, make everybody a valuable part to the whole and make everybody realize, they are better off as a whole.

A good experienced team is like magic just because everybody precisely knows what their function within it is, and having a different background is part of these functions as well.
I think it's a little bit of everything (stairs, tech, loading/unloading) but the main reason prrrobably was being able to throw bags into the cargo hold without the need for GSE - the airstair could've easily been made taller.
True, this is a very disturbing development.
I have never used Android, but could you tell me how it is more intuitive, or what it is that he wanted to do that he couldn’t on ios?
I am dumb or everyone is missing the point in their comments.

It's not about disillusion or work-life balance. It's about how smart people go into submission of the corporate b.s. so quickly and for so long. You can count on your fingers, if you actually know, a place where you can work and derive from it your own fulfillment and generate a real impact to real human beings.

People get lost along the way, put money first and use politics as a mean to get that. That's the cause of all shitty jobs you may have and all shitty services you have as a consumer. This capitalism overfitting. There is no real mission behind people, except for the cold hard hash or power over other humans.

I invite you to think, even for a minute, about this statement written on Simon Sinek's website: "Imagine a world in which the vast majority of us wake up inspired, feel safe at work and return home fulfilled at the end of the day."

How come this statement is simply reversed nowadays AND people don't make an effort to change it. Holy Moly ...
It is not certain that the 737 AOA ectually needs to be safety critical. You could just ignore the AOA data completely and divert. The pilot should still have sufficient instruments and training to land safely.
Pop music anyone? All in music industry can be fake, including music. All except fans.
From the article:

> These days, the Great Hanoi Rat Massacre is mostly cited as an example of the “Cobra Effect,” an economic theory about how incentives, in a complex system, can lead to perverse, unintended consequences. Sometimes, it’s trotted out as argument against government intervention of any kind—but Vann says that that kind of misses the point.
Maybe, but IMHO in the grand scheme of things priority should be to stop population growth and thus nothing should be done to encourage births.
Hundreds of people died. It should leave a long-term impact on Boeing's safety record. It should take them a long time to recover and regain trust.
It's also interesting that Eastern England, Frisia (coastal Netherlands), Denmark, etc. all surround Doggerland and Eastern England was probably occupied by related Germanic speakers at that time - the Frisian language is still the closest related language to English on the continent.

The Roman description of "The Saxon Shore" may simply because it was already inhabited by Angles and Saxons - the seas being the ancient world's highways.
Take the FB offer if you want it. There is nothing wrong with doing so. The startup you are at should be fairly far along given it is at 400 people, but face it even with FB on your resume you'll become more attractive to other startups later. Take the cash, save some money up.

Given you have only been at the YC company 2 months you stand little to no chance of negotiating a higher wage immediately, so even if they do entertain it I'd say they would make it a future agreement. e.g. you do x, y and z then they will increase you to a new salary etc.

In general, don't go to any existing employer with another offer and say I am leaving unless. That is a bad move and makes you look bad and leaves a sour taste with people about you. Instead if you like your current employer and want to stay, go to them and say hey, I feel I am worth more and try and negotiate the increase. If they say no, then explain you understand but feel differently. Tell them it may change whether you can stay at that point because you have X goal, but don't say another offer. If they still don't budge then that tells you what they think of you or the companies health. If instead you do it with the job offer as an ultimatum what happens is they may temporarily give you an increase, but now consider you disloyal and will be putting you and every action you take, or day off you take under a microscope and will replace you in short order. If they instead gave you a raise because you negotiated it without putting them over a barrel with another offer then they won't have that same feeling. Also, sometimes when you approach an employer, as I have suggested, they'll ask if you have other offers already, I wouldn't lie, I'd say yes but I am not here trying to back you into a corner, however I have certain goals I want to achieve and needed to see if my opinion on my value would be validated in the market, as they were I was hoping to stay here but be compensated with T....
> cameras embedded in the screen

Seems like a privacy nightmare. You can’t have a hardware toggle to close the camera nor cover it with a piece of tape.
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I agree with you and I've seen it happening already at the Christmas markets in Hamburg, Germany. I bought a hot drink that came in a ceramic mug (which required a deposit) that I then returned after walking around the rest of the market. I'm sure some people kept them as souvenirs but it seemed like the vast majority were returned.
Let's pretend there is a human somewhere able "to hire the best person for the job every single time".

Presumably the best person for the job would be the one that maximizes the company's profit. Suppose it's easier to hire the female candidate that's better than all male candidates (hard as that might be to imagine for many on this site) if you currently have a woman working on the team. The existing team of eight high-performing men just isn't as appealing as a team of seven high-performing men and one not quite as high-performing woman.
> If people are more educated, they will tend to avoid unnecessary risks

I can assure you that education has nothing to do with it. Educated / better off people will take similiar risk/reward decisions just at different point of utility function.

What is different is that having a little more money gives you some breathing space and allows you to optimize risk/reward over longer term which usually is leading to smarter decisons.

https://brilliant.org/wiki/utility-functions/
Majority vote is a very simple system to reason about. What you’re describing adds a whole bunch more complexity.

For the noise sensor scenario, is the sensor failing or is the ancillary (and single point of failure) noise sensor failing? What happens when you have a false positive like that and a false negative on another sensor?

For the correlation scenario, when you have two systems that disagree, how do you determine which one is failing? Are their precisions and tolerances sufficiently close that you’ll get a warning at a useful point in time?
Welcome to capitalism, little bird.
A curious side note: Norway, often considered one of the most gender-equal countries in the world, has a law from 1978 called "the law of gender equality". The first section of the law states that the law is particularly intended to strengthen the position of women.

The systematic interpretation of this law is that it is legal to moderately discriminate in the favor of women when they apply for a position (school, work) that has a male majority, while it is illegal to discriminate in the favor of men when they apply for a position that has a female majority.

Examples of male-majority situations where this is applied is CEO or board positions in publicly-owned companies or engineering school, while examples of female-majority situations where this cannot be applied is veterinarian or medical school.
And TFR means...
I think to the typical Pole - this is all pretty big stuff and very indicative of living a life that is not available to most people.
Isn’t it also a way to allow your team to get their own team culture instead of beeing steamrolled by the predominant culture?

I know this from film sets: I happend to be in crews, that were so diverse, that the only overlap in the end was that all of us somehow liked film. These were incredibly interesting and motivating crews, with a ton of creative ideas, willingness to go the extra length etc.

The worst crews I saw, were the ones where you had departments that had creepily aligned departments, that defined themselves by drawing a border to other departments. E.g. a light crew consisting completely out of white “dudes” all with the same ideas, jokes and taste, similar age etc. They did good work, but once they outnumbered the rest, the open discourse/exchange of ideas on set suffered.
Seems like a good reason to flag this submission.
Somewhere, I saw the proposal that honking should be required to be as loud inside the car as outside it, which provides a non-monetary disincentive.
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Why would blind auditions lower the average quality of female auditionees, and not male auditionees? That seems like searching for an explanation that fits a theory.

Worse, the authors acknowledge that blind auditions were part of a larger effort to recruit more women, but fail to account for other aspects of that effort. They simply attribute the entire effect to the blind auditions. But it seems likely that orchestras that were actively trying to recruit more women (like the NYPhil, which the paper claims increased the percentage of women in the orchestra from least in the nation to most) would have hired more women with or without blind auditions.

Original paper: https://www.nber.org/papers/w5903.pdf
The real reason is marketing. Otherwise stores would just have huge tubs of different goods, and you'd fill a standard size bottle/jar, then take the goods away, then bring those standardised containers back and keep doing that until the containers wear out. If you're wealthier, the store would do the washing and refilling.

French supermarkets used to do that with the cheap wine. You used to get "container" or "tub" stores in the 80s (UK) that you could buy loose product and put in your own containers.

This, to me seems a better, more responsible way to do things but it means reducing the numbers of products (only 3 types of extra-virgin olive oil, how will we survive!) and removing marketing opportunities like package labelling and shape. Companies couldn't just reduce the volume of a good in a packet when prices go up nor redesign the label to hide what is [not] inside.

It would be interesting to see how companies would innovate differentiation if, for example, all mobile phones came in a fixed size/shape box that couldn't use mixed media, could only use environmentally friendly dyes in the printing.
Individual members of a classical orchestra are not really visible to the audience though. They're not necessarily hidden, but they're generally too far away for looks to matter very much (except possibly in cases of extreme disfiguration).
One single Google search would have revealed that TFR means Total Fertility Rate.
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In theory, that sounds about right. In practice, each smallish team will be culturally independent, and there won't be enough data to show off how equally your company is treating employees (or it will treat them all equally bad, but that's a different discussion). Let's remember that majority of the companies are small, and not everyone will go out of their way to publicly commend internal policies.

Just imagine a 20 person company with 5 women who are being fairly treated: how do they get better gender balance? Even if these five persons were outspoken, how many people could they reach? Not to mention that a true character of a company is only revealed in a crisis (harrasment, known unequal pay, role progression...). This company will never get the breadth of candidates Facebook might to be able to rely on statistics. Without actively pursuing that as a goal, balance never happens.

Positive gender discrimination is a societal tool, a tool to fix unfair social treatment of genders at an early age ("here are pink dolls for you dear, your brother can go play games on the computer" just as a blunt example, but it's a lot more subtle in general).
>everyone benefits //

I'd expect it's detrimental to incumbents (who hold the most market power and so can block it).
Total fertility rate
Yet entire civilisations were built by people who learned only from books and lectures.

Come on, we know you are trying to promote your flashcard idea but there’s nothing new about it, and if you cast your mind back to your university days you’ll probably remember that you don’t simply read a book or listen to a lecture, you also need to reinforce and apply your learnings with numerous exercises.

That’s why all textbooks are full of exercises...
> "One interpretation of this result is that the adoption of the screen lowered the average quality of female auditionees in the blind auditions. Only if we can hold quality constant can we identify the true impact of the screen."

There's something of a repeating theme lately. Study of blind interviews/tests in various fields => women found to underperform despite experimental controls and expectations => commentary and authors grasp at straws to explain the result with anything but the fact that perhaps men and women don't have the same performance envelope in every walk of life.

How many more of such studies and straw-grasping explanations will we have to go through before someone considers occam's razor?
I think it's a good thing to both manage population as well as improve well being for individuals.
Maybe you could have a pair of vanes. Each vane is physically limited to a portion of possible angles. Vane A would only work above say -10 degrees AOA and vane B below +10 degrees AOA. This would give you a regular test of both sensors when the AoA changes in normal flight. You have more bounding of correct values.
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One advantage I see is that now you can do

/pets?owner=/people/98765

or

/pets?owner=/org/98765

which makes your api more polymorphic.

Having said that I don't think URL is the right term to describe this. It's more like a <type, id> tuple.
I did this of course, lets say:

Transferrin receptor, Temporary Fly restriction, Terrain Following Radar, Time Frequency Representation

And a Truck in Thailand is named TFR also...
Isn't it better economically not to bury the stuff in the ground and then dig it up?
Actual problem is that writing "TFR" or "Total Fertility Rate" takes a constant time (independent from the number of readers) while everyone looking it up is function of the number of readers.

Your parent comment is right in pointing out that it is not a familiar abbreviation.
Because it requires more concentration, and you have complete control over the pace.
Curl can do recursive downloads downloading everything and following links...
Interesting. Judging by the lines, we probably had a similar amount.

I wonder how many schools setup something similar? At least two I guess :).
It's simple. Steve Jobs died, and Jony Ive was now free to engage in his self-indulgent narcissistic hack work. It took an extra 4 years for the pipeline of Steve's influence to run dry.

They fired Scott Forstall for not assuming the failure of Maps V1. What do you think the likelihood is that Jony Ive will be fired for the butterfly keyboard fiasco, notched iPhone and other design catastrophes?
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Why not bring the 25kg bag back and refill it?
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Back in the day, saying that an all female team of developers would be somehow deficient and would write inferior software would be seen as sexist.

The idea that this kind of a priori judgement is not only acceptable but laudible has come as a bit of a surprise.

Not least because it would seem to justify rejecting female applicants for a role where a 'male perspective' is considered important.
not yet... didn't have the time :-/ but it seems much easier than the previous one...
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I suspect people use obscure acronyms like this as a signal that they're familiar with the problem domain and that you should listen to them.