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> Clojure is not similar to Scala at all.

Like I said, I don't know much about it other than it's a pure functional language that compiles to java byte codes, so I lump it in with Groovy and Scala which are both in the same family. Maybe it is easier - Groovy and Scala (as much fun as they both are) definitely aren't. Isn't it as "pure" a Lisp as they can get away with and still run on a JVM though? Lisp has sent many worthy men screaming for the hills.
A lot of people that get paid a lot of money for doing absolutely nothing will lose their job - tough luck for them.

I can sympathize with the on-the-ground employees but the businesses they're keeping the lights on in are leeches on the healthcare market - I posted separately on this article going into the specific functions of PBMs, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, Providers and Insurers if you're curious about the details, but there is a ton of inefficiency here.
This was also a huge part of the marketing push for years: if you listened to proponents, you have thought that the average app was bottlenecked on DOM updates, and that partial updates were too hard to do with anything else.
They gave a number, something like 60% of new iPad owners are buying in at this level. Assuming there's truth to that number then this is meant as an entry-level iPad, not an "upgrade".
I think you underestimate how easy it is for a CEO, manager, or even high-performing/high-status peer or IC to set the tone and give implicit instruction to others without ever intending to do it.

I have seen it in very mundane things that are not nearly of the magnitude of consequence of this topic. And also, in big things, such as expectations around working hours and standing up to unreasonable requirements.

Perhaps one aspect is that if a behavior is perceived to be a path to success in an organization, it will be emulated, rightly or wrongly, consciously or not. It's important to create an environment where many can thrive.
I’m in a similar boat. I suspect the answer is aiming a tier lower in school (to get a better deal) or going public in-state. I think private schools outside the top 50 or so will struggle.

My general inclination is at current prices everything other than in-state public schools are inappropriate for most people. The top 10-15 may be another story. Everything below would need to come with a crazy discount.

Interesting point in the article is despite all the worry they still came in 20 kids shy - that could have put them half a million over the tuition goal. Or allowed them to admit 20 more low income students.
How do you make it stop so you can move your mouse to other tabs/parts of the browser?
One reason people might upgrade from that one is I think Apple Pencil isn't supported on the 2014.
Every time you update the app it'll start asking again. It's the worst part about using Google's iPhone apps IMO.
Article doesn't say much, nor does the abstract I found.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/EE/C9EE0...

Literally just "something is possible" with no other discussion about capabilities
He’s a moral crusader
pencil support, better gaming, or 1 yr of tv+ service that I believe comes with all new apple products are some possible reasons. Screen is also slightly bigger. You could always hustle that Air 2 for a decent amount and pick up the new one for a great deal.
The iPad Air released earlier this year also only supports the 1st gen pencil.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, if as many vape co's say that they're tools for cessation then they should be okay with this too, but of course it's a much bigger market if it's available to everyone
this is the kind of thing that's hard to understand if you haven't experienced it yourself.

vaping delivers nicotine differently than smoking. iirc, the acidity of tobacco smoke allows the nicotine to be absorbed much more quickly. cigarettes also contain other (more dangerous) psychoactive compounds not found in vape liquid. from the chemical delivery perspective, the cigarette is preferable to the vape. the vape is fighting an uphill battle against the cigarette; it's winning now because it has fewer (noticeable/known) health effects and tastes better. if you start removing the flavor advantage, people switch back to cigarettes on the margin.
To be fair, anyone would be drawn by that money even if they weren't swimming in debt. People need to realize that times are hard for a lot of people. USD300,000 is a lot of money to the vast majority of working Americans. Law of averages says that at least some of those Americans will be smart enough to get a PhD. So you're gonna have PhD's out there who, yes, will jump at the chance to make 300 bands.
I'm a fan of Hanlon's Razor, but in certain cases (such as when many millions of dollars are involved) I feel it needs to be inverted if only out of caution.
From one perspective I would be in favor of this as long the tax on cigarettes is higher than the tax on vaping products. That way both appear unattractive, but cigarettes more so.

From another perspective I wouldn't be in favor of higher taxes on vaping products because it would be yet another tax affecting primarily lower income people.

So, while I don't think it's a bad idea, I think I would need to do some more research on the ramifications before supporting it.
Start with the customer, problem and value to the customer before you write code
> Others, like myself, think that it should be possible for everyone to have better options available so that nobody does want to work for scraps.

It sure seems like a lot of people will have to continue to work , e.g. for less than minimum wage, and without almost any legal protections, until better options are made available to them.

I'm more inclined to welcome incremental improvements, no matter how modest, than to bemoan everything short of some kind of ideal possibly-possible future.

For one, does "everyone", for you, include every person in the world? Should everyone making a living with less than "better" options be forced to stop working as they are now and wait for those better options to materialize? It seems pretty obvious to me that accepting something less than perfect is better than refusing to accept anything that falls short in the interim.
I don't believe so, because Armored Bear Common Lisp runs on the JVM.
Those Vanguard holdings were purchased in the secondary market after SNAP market cap reached certain thresholds. Vanguard bought little or nothing in the IPO.
I remember reading the first entry many years ago and wondering why anyone would want to use a language with type enforcement when you could have duck typing. (I thought of types as something that had been enforced by the lack of expressive power of old languages in which the types were effectively closer to the machine -- like describing the size of a machine word or something.)

Later on I experienced the famous feature of Haskell in which it takes a while to write a valid program that compiles at all, but then the program immediately works correctly the first time and is free of several large classes of bugs.

So yeah, excellent description of that trend!

Edit: another closely related phenomenon is people gaining a new appreciation for formal grammars and formal specifications, understanding how hard parsing problems are and how bad the consequences of underspecification and undefined behavior can be. I imagine in the Jargon File heyday it would have been made fun of to use formal specifications everywhere, but now some of the most successful systems and tools use them to good effect. Maybe there was a "formal methods winter" or "formalism winter" to parallel the AI Winter?

Edit 2: also, as a sibling comment mentions, these tools are much nicer to use now than they were then. Protobuf and friends do something akin to what ASN.1 did, but the tools around them are so much nicer!
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I don't think it'd be possible to remove sports from American colleges - it's the closest thing the NFL has to a developmental league. Also I believe it's where most Olympic athletes go to train and receive coaching.
Thank you for the feedback!

We are currently working on addressing performance, having a dedicated workstream for testing and measuring performance across the different GitLab versions.

Our plan is to publish the results across the versions as they have gone through testing. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/quality/performance/wikis/Benc...

We currently test for latency, I will take the average 500MS feedback to the team.

We have already identified slow endpoints with high latency so they can be improved. E.g:

* https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/66696
* https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/65323
I wholly agree. Its funny to hear some of the older generations recommend staying at an employer for a long amount of time still (I am constantly told that job-hopping will badlly affect my career in the long run). I think the good advice is the exact opposite (in moderation). Change jobs, take what you want, that's the only way you're ever going to get it anymore in any reasonable amount of time.
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If your job is very 'real world engineering'y, work on projects that tickle theoretical itch. Try to implement a y combinator in a language you like without looking it up. Or learn physics and do simulations to help you.

The real question is why should you keep your programming motivation up if its not something you're enjoying? Find something you enjoy and do that! Programming is a means to an end. If you want to enjoy the means more, find a more inspiring end!

It's a bull market right now, you can try working in a very different kind of programming.
I'm pretty sure Bloomberg won't end up in the hospital unable to pay for his own heart surgery that the taxpayers will then have to cover. The average smoker who gets cancer? Not so sure, and I don't really want to pay for them
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We're going to buy an iPad for our boat to keep track of systems (they all have bluetooth now, especially the solar power stuff) and gps/navigation/charts ("maps"), plus have a copy of all the manuals in PDF ready to go. Also it interfaces with the onboard navigational sensors via a wifi gateway. It will probably live on the boat for 8-10 years before it's replaced, but since it's expected to have a long lifespan we want one with a new battery. Also also, the newer models are typically IPX-something rated (waterproof/resistant-esque) better than the old models.

Not everyone bought in to the tablet craze in the first few years.
Now do VR!
Not saying strong typing is good or bad, but I think tools allow strong typing much more conveniently now than when that B&D sentiment was written. Back then, you'd use vi/emacs and have to argue constantly with the type checker until it was placated. Now of course, your IDE will complete based on what's allowed in the Context.You().are.typing and it's more of a correct by construction affair. Ada might have faired differently if those tools existed then.
I've had the same experience here in Southern California.
Bummer that it's only compatible with the first-generation Apple Pencil and not second-generation Pencil. What's their rationale?
> what happens if they are bought

Not going to happen overnight and even then technically they cannot access your emails because only you hold the password to private keys (if you trust they encrypt your emails with your public key before storing). I prefer keeping my emails local so pop does the job.

Google can access your emails but something like protonmail can't (if you trust them to encrypt your emails).
Yet Another YASM. YAY!
Would be interesting to see a quantitative study of how helpful this type of thing is (e.g. compare student performance on a test with and without the confidence booster).
The title initially appeared to be clickbait, but as soon as I saw it was The Atlantic I knew it was going to be a serious reply. The title is a direct reference to all the meme journalism happening recently.
It really isn't insane when you think about it. It costs 80k to educate someone at Harvard.

What does 80k get you on the free market in Boston? Certainly not a Harvard education and lifestyle.
We can compete with the rest of the world, we simply need to do what other countries are and produce local demand for the local supply.

e.g. farm to school is a great way to provide local farms consistent local demand baseline so they're not just selling to the arbitrageurs and megacorps via often-gamed futures markets.

I'm a big fan of de-commoditizing what really shouldn't be commodities in the first place.
Oligarchy, I'll buy. But why feudal, specifically?
You mean felons? That's the only disenfranchised community in the US
I frequently hear this claim, but it is not what I observed during my PhD studies. All students, from the moment they got in, and most faculty under 50 years old were aware that more than half of the graduating class will not continue working in academia (rather they would do industry RnD or consultancy or something else). And plenty of efforts existed within my program itself, and in the university as a whole, to prepare students both for academic and non-academic jobs.
It's like an "awesome list" or subreddit of visual programming languages except each entry has a detail page that includes a review and feedback
To keep this on topic with HN, how could engineering / math / software could inform the admissions process? In my opinion, ranked lists in general are misinterpreted by nearly everyone.

Here's an example. Suppose I create an admissions exam and admit the first N top-scoring students. Great, that might explain a great deal of admissions criteria among many schools, seems reasonable.

Now, administer the exam by putting the hardest questions first (i.e. lowest correct answer rate in some representative sample). Enforce questions must be answered in order, and immediately terminate the exam after a student has gotten some number K of answers wrong. Admit the students who answered the most right questions.

What would the admit list look like? It would turn out to look basically the same as the conventional way the test was administered, except with some noise near the cut-off number of questions--in other words, K and N are the same parameter in disguise.

What would be different? For something like the Specialized High School Admissions Test or how the SAT is used for highly competitive schools, the vast majority of students would get every one of the first K questions wrong and be immediately eliminated. You can't possibly claim that their knowledge or competency was tested, because so few questions can't possibly be representative of comprehensive knowledge or competency. And yet, the admit list would be nearly the same!

I can say, with high confidence, that the purpose of at least test-based admissions is not to validate knowledge or competency. That in fact, making students endure taking the whole test is a waste of their time. And now it should be obvious why such an admissions structure, despite being what some people and some schools want, feels so immensely unfair.

And the only way I came to this conclusion is by just looking at the math.
FWIW, I've had a great experience so far with Posteo(.de).
A few things.

Advances in computing are limited by memory bandwidth. Even if you could accelerate a computation 10,000x by implementing it as an ASIC, you would need to increase memory bandwidth 10,000x as well.

People are getting better at taking advantage of multiple cpus, but we have limited ability to get parallelism for many applications that matter, such as web browsing, so we aren't ready to break up those tasks to run on 1024 low-performance but low-power CPUs.

You can get server machines with 64 cores on a "chip", even put two cores together for 128. Those sell like hotcakes for cloud computing.
They might as well call the site "PleaseHackMe."
That's why I said it should be a pass/fail system, not ranked by performance. If you graduated a public school, that should be sufficient enough knowledge to pass the college entrance exam, and spots should be based on first-come, first-served.

Either public schools are teaching enough for college level work, or they aren't. You can't have it both ways.
Why was the mainstream media campaigning for Clinton?
Those services were, and still are, much worse than Uber and the like. They're not bad in any absolute sense; just relatively bad. I'm pretty sure they weren't and aren't "computer-dispatched" in the same way Uber and the like are either. For one, you almost always had and have to speak to a person by phone, and often more than once, e.g. to receive updates about when a driver could be expected to arrive.
Here, maybe is what you were looking for?

> https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/hazel.html
The backdoors are more WordPress than Linux malware - a lot of them at least nominally run on both Windows and Linux hosts of WordPress, but you have a good point.

There's also something to the "read the source" thing - there are a lot of WordPress and/or Joomla backdoors, web shells, trojans, etc, but since you can read the source, you can understand them. There's no need for a Wizard from IBM or Kasperskey or Symantec or MacAfee to tell you what WSO does - you can see it for yourself. If it's PHP or Perl or shell scripts, no exotic disassembly is needed - any old fool an see what it does. This de-mystifies the malware, I think.
He's announced he's not running though.
Also, something I'd read before (though I can't find a reference now) is that the "design by committee" was that everything filtered through Jean Ichbiah (I think), who acted as benevolent dictator for the design process, and he was careful about the features forming a cohesive whole.

Another thing was a take on the Jargon File entry where a good amount of hacker backlash was due to it being a language forced by the DoD, so of course it is going to be bad.
> it's a secure connection to an HTTP/HTTPS proxy being run by Cloudflare

How does an HTTPS proxy work? will it be like how cloudflare does https with websites (mitm)?
People learn to game systems. Hanlon's razor is an initial condition.
Part of it might be to find work where the grunt work is more closely related to business goals. Seeing its purpose (and assuming you care about the business goals) might provide the drive needed to do the work.
It is depressing that our system is so broken that this kind of strategic planning is needed to avoid destitution in your elder years. For everyone who isn't familiar with bankruptcy law or hasn't been casually informed - how do they survive retirement. If you've shifted your 401(k) money into private investments for a better return or already burned through your IRA - if you're retired in a state that isn't protective of your primary residence (and lots of people have retired to places that aren't Texas) then what? Is it just "sucks to be you, you didn't understand all these complicated rules well enough?" and what if your mind is deteriorating, then it's on your inattentive descendants to make sure all of this is running as it should be? Or are you constantly losing money paying a firm to manage your affairs - essentially the "please don't let health insurance bankrupt me" tax.
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The WaitButWhy post a few years back is incredibly compelling in helping one understand how little time with your parents you may have. For example, if you see them 10 days a year, and they're 70, you might have (10/days * 15 years).... 150 total days with your parents.
Link: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

Add on:
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
>it's basically the same as having a personal CC and my company reimburses me for the expenses

The company collects all the rewards for the spend but you take on all of the risk of repayment. If you used your personal card you'd collect the rewards.

Using personal cards and being reimbursed is a nice perk for many.
Bill Gates: I met with Epstein because “he knows a lot of rich people”
Dear NSA, you can't protect America by destroying it.
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There's some non-DOD avionics floating around that are ADA, I guess because of requirements and regulatory overlaps.

http://archive.adaic.com/projects/atwork/boeing.html
TIL VHDL was commisioned by the DoD.

Also random note, but wouldn't most engineers familiar with HDL's be electronic engineers rather than software developers?
All people are the people who view themselves as having the most reasonable point of view.
I think one of the problems in the US is the worshiping of school rankings.

When I grew up in Canada there was very little of that. You typically went to a local university, maybe in the next province over, but often in your home town. I knew very few people who said "It's McGill or nothing".

Yes, there are really highly ranked universities in Canada, but there wasn't the mad scramble of "if I don't get into a top school my life is over" attitude. Most of the universities were middle-of-the-road and you know what? That was ok and people turned out just fine.

There is a pervasive attitude in the US that unless you're going to a top school, you are severely handicapping your future.
Opera's been using the terminology that way for years now.
D Lang is my default language

But it all depends on what. You should always use the right tool for the job. Don’t kill the fly with a bazooka when a fly swatter is all you need.
who needs confidence boost the most? the students?
I like the compass! It's nerdy, but I like to carry one when navigating an unknown city, and I find it very helpful.
More $ is wasted in bad transport than cost of building better transport
That would be highly unlikely due to the population of CA and hence it’s overall pull within the NCAA. Not to mention that wouldn’t it be considered discriminative if there is a law allowing something but then the NCAA says “”we don’t like that law”? Wouldn’t this be the same as a private university saying “you aren’t admitted because you are gay”?
"Can I talk to the last dev to work on this?"

"What happened to the last dev to work on this?"
Who is lending you $100k-$200k to buy real estate as an 18 year old? Nobody unless you're rich already.
Your example of the "media crying wolf" on Trump has left members of his inner circle in jail for lying about their connections to Russia. Hardly "crying wolf".
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Is Google still committed to Wear OS? They're so far behind.
How does that ambient light sensor behind screen works?
> to help you grind an axe about your boss or something.

I like my boss just fine. Please refrain from personal swipes on Hacker News.
Well, if you bought a new iPad mini in 2014, Apple is deprecating your device in this release.

Based on previous iPad deprecations, your iPad Air 2 will probably be deprecated within the next two years.

Convenience and security wise, you'd want to buy a new device before your old one is made incompatible with new iOS releases.
I've seen a lot of Ada code in aerospace projects, but the trend for 15+ years seems to be to write new projects in something else (usually C or C++), and sometimes even rewrite old Ada software.

In this industry, knowing Ada could still be useful, even if only to read it.
I am thinking about using GPT-2 or better to write homeworks for my MBA... Nobody would spot a difference (I am worried/relieved).
How does the existence of hooks preclude you from using function components without state (without any hooks)?