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Albuquerque still gets a lot of visitors because of Breaking Bad, just like that silly UFO story still brings dollars into the treasury of Roswell. Both cities play up their fictional connections. Albuquerque even renamed its Minor League baseball team the Isotopes because the city was mentioned so much on The Simpsons.

And BTW, Vernon's makes a great steak. But if you go there do your homework first. It's a speakeasy so you have to know the password to get in the door (not kidding).
Possibly narrow-minded reaction: this is a bad article about iffy studies.

The article throws up a link to a review of two studies [1] and spends the rest of its time freely asserting that "engineers" are arrogant people who lack "openness, kindness, and curiosity". Here's the closest it gets to some evidence:

>I know several people at Google just like that.

But OK, maybe the study actually offers good evidence that the author article missed?

From the HBR summary, the first study had ~100 engineering students fill out a questionnaire, do either a 15-minute guided meditation or stress relief video, and then either "list as many alternative uses for a brick as possible" or "list all the factors they would consider in designing a retaining wall for a river flood scenario". They found that self-reported mindfulness in the questionnaire was positively correlated with "the number and the originality of ideas that participants wrote down in the idea generation task and with the number of factors considered in the engineering design task".

In the second study, they looked at survey data from ~1400 and found that self-reported mindfulness is positively correlated with self-reported "confidence in one's ability to be innovative".

But neither of these things demonstrate that engineers are narrow-minded. They don't even demonstrate that mindfulness meaningfully affects creativity. They just suggest that self-reported mindfulness is positively correlated with producing ideas for a small toy task and confidence that one is creative.

It's a big jump from those conclusions to "mindfulness should help engineers be more creative". And then it's an enormous jump from that to "engineers are narrow-minded".

[1] https://hbr.org/2019/01/how-mindfulness-can-help-engineers-s...
I can't remember the original source..
Still: 10% faster according to phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=windows1...

(clear Linux is still the fastest, as always, but is unlike all other distributions)
Shouldn't it depend on who ran the AI?

If I use the shell to generate a very long random number, I'd expect the output to belong to me.
It's usually a red flag when a question comes with a built-in assumption that reads like an insult.
The article only describes extremely ideal conditions. Use 'in the wild' is still untested, from what I understand. Also, I don't think they provided any code to generate the disguised version of the adversarial patches.
Tuning Blameless Postmortems
I would check out https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflex which is truly a godsend for concurrency but actually uses loads of mutation internally.

Haskell helps loads here but the mechanisms are a lot more complex and nuanced than the circa 2000 ideology you were saying.
Huh? That would be robot subsidy or high minimum wage or UBI. (UBI works the best, though in the short term high minimum wage might actually have more affect has you get to decrease labor costs and not pay higher taxes on profits.)
AWS Tricks: RAID0 with EBS Volumes
One of my co-workers once got in the wrong Uber; she and another person with the same name were being picked up on the same corner, and the cars just happened to arrive close enough they each got into the wrong car. It was confirming the driver's name as they sat down that clued them in.
All of Scandinavia, most of Northern Europe, Australia, parts of Asia, Canada.
It's an interesting point...

Hypothetically, there's no reason the US government couldn't structure its loan program thusly:

(A) Originate loans for existing fiscal year, (B) bundle multiple loans together / blind desired loan details (e.g. lendee race, etc), (C) auction off loans on the open market, (D) require budgeting for next fiscal year loan program on the basis of previous year's auction.

You'd get the benefit of price / cost discovery while controlling for unfairness as desired?

There'd need to be some legal papering to deal with the outcome lag, but it seems more responsive than the tossing money down a well we do now.
Seconding "The Dark Side of the Moon" - I'd heard the story of Wernher von Braun before but this painted a much richer and more detailed picture.
Drought.gov, ran by FEMA/NDRP indicates no drought[0], as well as well as the NDMC/USDA ran Drought Monitor[1].

If everyone is insistent that the drought is still continuing, can someone please point me to some (current) data that indicates it?

[0] : https://www.drought.gov/drought/states/california

[1] : https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonito...
Amend to that. Pity it is not better known. "homeownership" is such a rotten ideology in the US and has led to so many problems.
>Contradictively, in the software engineering environment I'm working at, engineers who thrive are those who are open minded and capable of thinking out of the box: the jack-of-all-trades-and-master-of-something, the artist-artisan, the orator-motivator, the metaphor-generator, the cult-follower, the physicist, the photographer, the producer-psycholog, the gunpla-mad-scientist, etc.

I think this is nearly always the case. Meritocratic promotion systems don't really exist in reality. Being more social and open-minded than one's colleagues is always going to get one ahead.
This will happen at a certain point anyway. The current fashion- and inertia-driven nature of IT is not sustainable in the long term. Tons of money are poured on very questionable projects, all the time.

Plus we have a lot of pretty awesome languages that are mature enough and are serving very different niches (so their union can cover everything in IT) like Rust, Erlang/Elixir, Zig, OCaml (which can be transpiled to two JS variants, BuckleScript and ReasonML), TypeScript, and probably 20+ others.

Not to derail the thread but the dependency on very slow and hard-to-debug dynamic languages like Ruby and Python is getting out of hand.

Statements like "But it's easier to find devs for Python and Ruby than it is for Rust and Elixir" might be statistically correct now but that means nothing. People change technologies as market demands change so I am absolutely not worried about displaced programmers. There's almost no such thing as displaced programmers either, 99% of all my acquaintances just learned the new tech their employer wanted from them and moved on to the next stable paycheck.
I did eventually find that notice in the documentation, after I posted my comment (and sent you an email). I should have read more of the docs first.

Still, I wonder why you chose to write your own GUI just for the Beef IDE (and installer) rather than use an existing general-purpose GUI. Were you aware of the accessibility issue?
I was not so much trying to point out hypocrisy, as an apparent lack of self awareness. The author does not realize that he resorts to "group identities" as well, nor does he consider what kind of effect his statements as a teacher can have on his students.

As another example of doubtful self awareness, the author mentions the enthusiastic reception of his "heterodox thinking" seminar — has he considered that receiving a perfect evaluation score (5 of 5) is NOT exactly evidence that the seminar has succeeded in instilling heterodox thinking in his students?

And, given said lack of self awareness, I would not surprised if the author's attitudes about gender had more of an influence on his treatment of students than he realizes.
LLHD: Low Level Hardware Description
It depends if your Ubuntu is LTS or not. I'd say LTS Ubuntu > Arch > non LTS Ubuntu as Arch tries to be stable on its only version but Ubuntu can be more aggressive between LTS.

PPA breaking is apparently not Ubuntu's fault.
Printing money still represents a risk; the taxpayers provided real resources to people who then aren't going to pay them back resources back. If they are happy with that it is because they don't understand it rather than that the situation is acceptable.

If the American government is going to print money so people can go to college, why not print money for everything? The idea is much worse than an income tax because with money printing nobody knows who is losing out. We know by raw balance equations that someone who would have gotten something real now isn't but there is no way to identify who or what.

That level of confusion can't possibly be a good idea. "Just print money and solve the problem" is a dangerous approach and really better dropped from the conversation. Playing word & number games to pretend something real didn't happen is a bad direction to take politics.
You are likely right. Yet I wonder if

a) Fog Creek had that high a profile when they put that advice into practice, and if not...

b) The people that Fog Creek had such a high profile among included its prospective/repeat customers (as opposed to just non-customer fellow software developers.)
While it's evident that some people are spiteful and ask for things they don't actually want just to be an inconvenience, I find it hard to believe that you actually think this is why every single indigenous person is asking for the acknowledgement. If you do believe that's the case, the only response I can make is that your belief runs counter to everything I've heard from indigenous people myself.

If we operate under the assumption that not every single person asking for a statement of acknowledgement is acting under bad faith, it's important to note that you haven't actually presented any reason about why it would be unreasonable to include.

Without a cogent argument against the inclusion of the statement, it's very sensible to point to the refusal to include the acknowledgement, and say "this person is refusing to do this simple kindness we have asked for, which makes him a bit of a jerk".
> The first two points don't seem to have anything to do with _why_ bankruptcy shouldn't be used for student loans. The government makes plenty of loans and to my knowledge all of those other classes of gov backed loans are dischargeable.

The government typically doesn't make those other kinds of loans with no credit check or analysis of how the loan proceeds will be used. The point is that federal student loans are a regime apart from other kinds of loans, which justifies having a separate regime for handling people who cannot pay their loans. (Income-based repayment, rather than bankruptcy.)

> Though I don't know the percentage of gov:private student loans offhand.

As of December 2018, 92% of student loan debt is owed to the federal government.

> Your third point seems to suggest you may not be fully aware of the parameters of income based repayment and its many gotchas. People who rely on it, through no fault of their own, regularly find themselves paying 10x their monthly payment through paperwork malfunctions.

I took out a quarter million in student loans for law school under this precise regime, so I'm well aware of the parameters. It's a perfectly fine system. Everything is on the web, and you can change repayment plans easily through a web interface. The media loves to find a handful of anecdotes of people who screwed up the paperwork, but it is not a difficult thing to deal with for people who are college graduates.

For example, your student loan payment can shoot up if you ignore the emails from your loan servicer and forget to submit your annual income report. But even then, you can fix it in five minutes just by authorizing the loan servicer to pull your's and your spouse's most recent tax filing. It's only marginally harder than paying your utility bill, and much easier than setting up utilities at a new house.

Look. Income based repayment is not some radical concept Donald Trump came up with. Sweden, the U.K., and Australia all have every similar systems for student loans. It requires a bit more paperwork than "free college" but somehow people in those countries manage to do it.

> Additionally many of the benefits of taking jobs that qualify for perks, like loan forgiveness, under income based repayment systems are out the window under the DeVos regime.

Incorrect. If you're talking about the statistics on people having public service loan forgiveness applications being rejected, that's been the subject of some of the most misleading reporting I've ever seen. Almost everyone rejected was rejected on proper grounds. There are a lot of people who have student loans that pre-date Obama's PSLF reform. Tons of those people were filing for forgiveness who simply did not have eligible loans.
Duck duck go doesn't roll off the tongue as well as Google but it is my default search engine. The genuis thing they implemented was !g at the end of a search term. Now I can get two sources of search info for problems. Most things ddg is fine, but technical problems, you can't have enough options.
The opposite has been true since at least 2008.

Credit card issuers actually target recent bk's since they have no debt. :)

They're also ignoring medical debt, since otherwise a large percent of their applicants would be rejected.
> The rule around bankruptcy is basically a trade off to make the loans more accessible.

> No bankruptcy rule and many loans would never be made and the ones that would be, would have crazy high interest rates.

The government makes almost all of the loans (no other lender can make guaranteed loans any more) and the rates are set by law (and were even when the federal loan programs were open to private lenders); private student loans or
have crazy high interest rates and aren't made in large amounts, especially if you exclude first-party loans by shady schools. The rules don't induce third-party lenders to make accessible loans; even when those could participate in the federal loan program it was the federal guarantee, not the borrower being in the hook after bankruptcy, that was intended to induce private lender behavior, and with the federal guarantee.)
Even better, just aggressively tax owners based on the land value. This requires them to either eat high costs for their speculation, or use it for income-producing purposes (someplace to live or someplace to work).
By the standards of this site and (I'm pretty sure) the vast majority of its readers, dropping a phrase like that is obviously flamebait. If you want evidence for that, you needn't look further than the first reply to your post.

We've already had to ask you this, coincidentally even using a similar analogy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20580702. No more firebombs, please.

Since you bring it up, I'm guessing you felt that the "calling out your peers" aspect was a mitigating factor. The thing is, your comment didn't say anything about that, and readers have no way of knowing. Intent doesn't communicate itself, so the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
It's 2020... that's like the minimum you need to even hope people will read past the article title. Attentions gets scarcer, so quasi-offensiveness and assumptiveness have become kind of required to catch even a drop of it.
He's from the north of England. They are known for being a big abrupt. ;0)
It is not pure quackery, you can make measurements on anything and use it for anything. The fact that it is not biologically "real" is a different thing.

I can make up a model for the human mind called there carboat model. It splits everyone up on a spectrum on how much they like boats and cars. Now I can use that model to make statistical assumptions about the people I measured. It bet the assumptions will have high accuracy on boat and car related matters.
The "fast project page" this links to is pretty interesting: https://patrickcollison.com/fast

> The Empire State Building. Construction was started and finished in 410 days.

> Unix. Ken Thompson wrote the first version in three weeks.

> Git. Linus Torvalds started working on Git on April 3 2005. It was self-hosting 4 days later.

Inspiring.
It's a great post anyway, sorry if my tone was too critical. I enjoyed reading it, for what it's worth, just felt like expecting anything surprising or revelatory out of it wouldn't be the right approach.
Elementary Cellular Automata in React
Is there any evidence that mass scale gait analysis is done anywhere? Or is this just paranoia about something that could happen, perhaps in the future?

There's no telling what type of data analysis might be possible in the future when applied to historical data.
I see in the US requirements that the rear side door lock has to disable both the exterior and interior handles. Odd.
What's the alternative? Fines and jail are basically the legal system's two main options for punishment.

If a poor person commits a crime, that's not serious enough to throw them in jail, what should the legal system do?

It seems like "If you're poor, you can commit non-felony crimes without consequences" seems like a REAL bad policy idea.
I'm still waiting to hear people argue over the correct pronunciation of DDG as the default way to refer to it.

Dee Dee Gee

Dudge

De-dog
I recommend working through the beginner and advanced programming for Android tutorials on Udacity, both are free:

https://www.udacity.com/course/developing-android-apps-with-...

https://www.udacity.com/course/advanced-android-with-kotlin-...

That gives you a solid start to look into more details and do some codelabs on

https://codelabs.developers.google.com/?cat=Android

or watch a series about a certain topic on Youtube. I really like the Coding In Flow channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Fh8kvtkVPkeihBs42jGcA
Obit: https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/obituaries/k-allen/article_6...
I think the challenge is enforcing it.

I believe the BC law exempts empty yet available (for rent sign).

Your going to have to have an army of govt workers checking the validity of all claims they aren’t empty.
> Valley temperatures are predicted to rise between 3.5 and 6 degrees F by 2100

I think it's funny we accept we will be able to make meat in a lab in 20 years time but not nuts.
Why not just get rid of the income tax and only have sales tax? We could make exceptions for basic food and shelter.
But also sobering:

>San Francisco proposed a new bus lane on Van Ness in 2001. Its opening was recently delayed to 2021, yielding a project duration of around 7,300 days. “The project has been delayed due to an increase of wet weather since the project started,” said Paul Rose, a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesperson. The project will cost $310 million, i.e. $100,000 per meter. The Alaska Highway, mentioned above, constructed across remote tundra, cost $793 per meter in 2019 dollars.
For the Dutch speakers among us:

The Universiteit van Vlaanderen and -Nederland episodes are frequently very interesting and while the titles are clickbait, the speakers are from academia and often tell interesting things. I regularly talk about this with friends and family. As an example, today I learned new things about palliative care that would apply to anyone who contracts a terminal illness, which is a lot of us. Another impactful episode was (translated) "Was the holocaust a predetermined plan?" (from UvNL) which was about how it developed from the Jews being the blame of everything through multiple intermediate steps to attempting to kill all Jews. Rather than having been a single man's hate for those people, it was more about society's mindset combined with that those people were seen as highly likely to be saboteurs. I think that's good to know about to try and recognize similar signs, if any, in today's life.

Met Nerds Om Tafel is another general recommendation, though the quality depends on the episode's topic and the "guest nerd", so I recommend looking at the title before listening. I liked S05E21 with Mux about electric driving a lot and it was quite inspiring to see what he does with hardware hacking while still daring (and being allowed to) to drive the modded car on a public road, as well as the general mindset of someone who is not just good with tech or software but also knows electronics really really well. Everything that I take for granted (motherboards, cars, whatever) is a development board for him.
Maybe I’m dense and missing it but why are properties purchased just to sit? Seems like a wasted revenue stream regardless of the original intent.
I've never seen any country have laws against giving targeted coupons/discount code to some customers.
It's called free because it's "given without charge". Nothing would be free under "had no costs involved in production" (not even a smile!).

It's free in the same way a Christmas gift is free; but with giving education we're also guaranteed a return in an improved society with people capable of performing roles we have need of.

Better to give education than to structure society around greed and demanding a profit in return for education?
Exograph home-watching project challenges the value of privacy
Start playing it at 3x speed.
Database Migrations with Rust and Diesel
Not everything is about optimal efficiency. Podcasts are a conversational and passive way to be entertained or learn new things. If all that mattered was efficiency, the most efficient way to get the dopamine that entertainment provides would be to just do drugs.
> They are negatively blind, in that I cannot charge someone with family wealth in excess of $1M a lower rate than someone with negative family wealth. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Private student loans (which, like federally guaranteed loans, have reduced bankruptcy dischargeability since 2006) have no such restriction.

Federal loans do have such a restriction, but that obviously doesn't exist to influence lender behavior, if it ever did, since the entity imposing the rule is also the only lender now permitted to issue such loans.
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> I'd much rather overpay $20-50/month

I don't think the alternatives are nearly that expensive. Vultr, DigitalOcean and others have virtual private servers for only $5 per month. They're small instances but totally fine for side-projects. I run a cheap $5/month VPS and it was able to withstand my project making the HN front page without issues. I don't use Google cloud hosting for the same reasons as you, I don't want to have too many eggs in one basket.
Is there such thing as an actual credentialed "software engineer"?

From my experience, it's a title invoked by anyone ranging from a CS grad to someone who has completed a 3 week coding bootcamp...
For Apple this is with their iCloud backups, storage etc. If you lose the password and your devices it can still be reset.
this .... so much this.
> military surveillance

Who said anything about military surveillance? Why on earth would you jump to the conclusion that military surveillance is what we are discussion? Most government-run domestic surveillance likely comes from law enforcement and agencies with a domestic purview like Homeland Security. The NSA is the exception, of course.

I would expect that even most privacy advocates wouldn't have a problem with surveillance that is a part of actual military operations.

> It is not very nice to decrease the security of me and my family to obtain an ideological goal.

That's your opinion. Ben Franklin and many others would disagree, and we have a Bill of Rights in place specifically to disallow this kind of tradeoff.

If you want absolute security at any cost, Singapore is always an option.
You can also hate your job and see that it serves no purpose, or worse that you are doing harm (like working collections for predatory lenders or in a factory that churns out bombs that will be dropped on someone).