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> IT apprenticeships often aren't good quality

In Canada, I have found that while there's no official program for IT apprenticeship, the cultural value of implicit apprenticeship is there; perhaps an inheritance from our excellent trades programs. Thing is, you'll find it mostly in the older, more-local institutions; not so much in the sexier, flashier software companies and international conglomerates.

When I started my career, fresh out of school, I worked at a small (~200 person) company. There was an IT greybeard (well, he seemed so to me, but he was only 40something). He taught me a lot, but more importantly like a good mentor he gave me room to grow, let me take on projects way beyond what any sane person would have given a 21 year old to work on, etc. The result was that I stuck around, contributed an awful lot of value, and then became eminently more employable than I had been. The next job at a much larger but still local institution had a real 60something greybeard that took this concept even further. Even now as I approach 40, there's a 50something guy at my current "senior" job who is just that much more "senior" and his wisdom is a continual benefit.

It's obviously made me realize that I need to do the same thing to pay it forward. It doesn't strictly need to be an organized program where I get some co-op student, but that _can_ work; I've had some in the past to great success. What it does need to be is a keen younger person who has a learning style that benefits from personal interaction. That's really not everyone in our field; some people are simply self-starting learners and they bristle at mentorship. We should never constrain such people to "require" someone breathing down their neck, as it were; but for people who need the guidance, that have the talent and aptitude but benefit from someone else setting their focus, it is indispensable.
Awesome, appreciate the input.
or use EVFs or hybrid EVF/OVFs in place of you glasses lenses. Could conceivably allow for AR glasses that would facilitate telescopic capabilities, once a million other roadblocks are overcome.
C gives you an initial illusion of simplicity, and being close to the hardware.

Then you learn about Undefined Behaviour.
Stellarators with Permanent Magnets
Calling Dick Tracy: https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0616/13/dick-tr...
Neoliberalism is the order of the day, in Europe, just as much as it is in the US and UK and Australia and elsewhere.
The only reason you might think we are any different is because we have some grandfathered social-welfare programs that are just too popular to be quickly (!) dismantled. But even those are being eroded slowly.
John Oliver had a pretty good segment about Bolsonaro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsZ3p9gOkpY
I would be very surprised if Rossman charged more for that repair than the cost of a new Macbook.

Apple loves to say that their products are so expensive and complicated that manual repairs just aren't worth doing. But observably, in the real world, even with all of the crap Apple puts in front of repair shops to slow them down, that isn't true. Third-party repairpeople still manage to regularly beat Apple's prices.
Can DIY homemade masks protect us from coronavirus
Nice for people to give their reasoning for flagging an article.
What is `dict()`? What's the meaning of `null`?
`undefined` literally means the value is not defined.
`null` only has a technical meaning, which says its value is the null pointer.
Yet somehow Brazil only has 154 reported cases...
Anyone save the full text? Every time I try to get to it I get a 404.
You 100% don't need my permission. But even if your feedback as valuable, couching it in this kind of language isn't. Also, just telling someone that their idea is shitty, even if true, isn't valuable feedback without a discussion of why it's shitty.

Anyway, since you seem to be doubling down on being an asshole, I don't intend to reply again here.
GP literally quoted their webpage. Maybe you should stop being cryptic and tell us what you know?

I checked out the copper.org website and saw a link on their home page that seems to suggest HCoV-19 and SARS-CoV-1 last "up to 4 hours" on copper surfaces [0]. But when I search the copper.org website using their search feature this is in fact the only result returned for "covid 19" or "coronavirus" [1][2]. Hardly an overbearing amount of independent evidence on this matter.

[0]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...

[1]: https://www.copper.org/search.html?q=covid+19&submit=Search

[2]: https://www.copper.org/search.html?q=coronavirus&submit=Sear...
Great. I will follow up with you. Thanks!
Yeah, I think that was it. Thanks. Pretty sad that I remember nothing about the movie except this minor thing.

https://www.tumblr.com/search/divergent%20locations
Lots of people seem to come up with it now. It's been two decades, and it's brought up by people who use it as an example in their other other agendas:

"look at y2k: we spent so much money, and nothing happened!" (so far, so good) "...therefore, if we hadn't, nothing would have happened anyway!!" (uh, based on...?) "...and it was all a massive scam, just like any massive present issue!!!" (ah, there's the underlying reason)
A different type of WASP than I was thinking!

Another aviation-related WASP program was the essential WWII-era Women Airforce Service Pilots, which ran from 1942-44. These women "became trained pilots who tested aircraft, ferried aircraft and trained other pilots [including towing firing practice targets]. Their purpose was to free male pilots for combat roles during World War II."[0]

They were recently awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and granted internment rights at Arlington.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Airforce_Service_Pilots
Was there any significance to the yokai's appearance? Like, was it a reminder to do something in particular, or was it merely superstition?
That's why I said it's a theological problem

In practice the universe can't know all the ways you can mix-up a variable
If you haven't played through The Castle yet, you don't know what I mean! It's like a crowed music concert, but with gnomes and orcs piled up with dragons.
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus days after Trump
If tests indeed have such a high false-positive rate, then all estimates of fatality rate calculated by dividing over the number of individuals identified as "infected" are too low, i.e., by implication the virus is actually deadlier than naively estimated.

EDIT: All else remaining the same. See AnthonyMouse's comment below for important clarifications and corrections.
I don't live with anyone, and there's nothing particularly sensitive on my phone except for BitWarden, which has its own master password. The only reason I use a pin to unlock my phone is so that I'm allowed to use Apple Pay.

Why on earth are the two related? You can't actually use Apple Pay without Touch ID or a pin.
Bolsonaro's a fighter. He'll survive, come out stronger, and take down the foreign nationals (Macron, you listening?!) that covertly infected him.
> Then onus and exclusive right for repair/replacement will stay with the smartphone company.

No, it's not that simple.
Wow, is HN turning into reddit?

All your facts are grossly manipulated. Banon wasn't his campaign marketer, the assassination attempt wasn't fake, the murder neighbor was not "literally next door" ...

Please stop leftist and/or conservative "lacração" and gross advocacy, along with its conspiracy theory. It is manipulative and obvious.
Decades of neoliberal austerity will make it harder to fight the Covid pandemic
> It's clear that you're essentially presupposing there is either "free will" or "determinism"

Yes, free will doesn't seem possible in a deterministic universe.

> Anyway, when you make a rerun of the universe from the same initial conditions, you get randomness because of quantum mechanics, so the future outcome is not exactly the same, and you can't predict anything with certainty because of probabilities

Then the universe is not deterministic.

> Before you start to make the same argument that free will doesn't really exist, consider the question: does Hacker News exist? Well, duh, of course not! There are no websites, no Internet and no computers, it's obviously all just fundamental particles acting in some ways, you know, just the wave function of the universe deterministically obeying the Schrodinger equation, etc. Naive reductionism.

No, there is a difference between something existing and free will. A computer can calculate an answer to some query, and the answer exists, doesn't mean it was generated through the computer's free will.
Mine is a friend's birthday. Not a lover/ex, not even that close of a friend. So people that know me would never guess it, and for a stranger, it is just random number.

It also have the advantage of not having to save it in a password manager, since I have it on my calender (with a lot of other birthdays saved).
Ask HN: How do you clean your phone effectively?
We are adviced to wash our hands to avoid getting the coronavirus. But I see it all the time that people wash their hands but miss to clean their phones, and as soon as they finished washing, they return to their dirty phones.

What is an effective way to clean them? (without damaging them)
No but it gives a strong incentive to behave differently. If it doesn’t, an other player take it’s place.
For multiplayer, you're better served turning to the "rogue-lite" genre of games. Spelunky in particular is great. Crypt of the Necrodancer, Dungeon of the Endless, and Enter the Gungeon are also very good.
Home College: Hire a Personal Quarantine Professor
Some corporate polices require 6 digits. I literally am not able to set a 4 digit pin on my watch or my phone because of the policy.
Feels like North Korea's magic ability to resurrect military commanders after they're allegedly executed by artillery cannon, etc., lies running laps before the truth puts on its shoes.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B9nlVtHgGE0/?igshid=lxc09jpkk96...

Second part of this video is a helpful explanation of how it attacks.
Exactly what care was taken in crafting this playlist?

Most of these songs have very depressing lyrics that will only make people more stressed out.

Its fine to make a playlist like this but to promote it by exploiting the pandemic seems a bit krass or opportunistic.

There are plenty of songs out there that would lift people up in times like this rather than just piling on.
Or pick a random SBC from Aliexpress or something you have catching dust at home, and try to improve the mainline Linux support for it. That will get you opportunities to learn more deeply the various kernel subystems, too. Especially around driver and arch code. That's what I did anyway.
I believe the full article is in Chinese.
A sensible tech stack for apps
They are not. They are being slowly dismantled, but they are very popular so they have to do it slowly to not cause too much protest.
Here in Norway it means slightly less pay and less responsibility.

For example, I just had some wiring redone in my home, the certified electrician had an apprentice with him. The apprentice got instructed and monitored by the certified electrician, and on my bill they charged a fair bit less for his work.

So it is a job, just the job title is a bit different.
Here's my version of a multiplayer rougelikelike in the browser. Also has an optional crypto integration.

https://playerkillers.exchange
Depends on the studio. Here is an overview and some testimonials,

https://software.intel.com/en-us/gamedev/tools
Countless spelling mistakes and missing punctuation make it hard to follow. Article tries to clear misconceptions, but uses a dark image of a man with hoodie and sunglasses in front of a laptop (the biggest stereotype one could find about the word 'hacker') and "most of the time its some 13 your old kid who's trying to make some easy money" (citation needed). Another argument is hackers are not technology minded.
Thank you :) That is a great point. Yes in the consumer space the monthly subscription fees are mostly in the $5-$10/month range and that's why we decided to go with $7 but for SMB applications we will set the price higher (with more features.)
Show HN: How to Be Productive Working from Home
i was so disappointed when I realised they were emulating a USB keyboard to enter the PINs. That first picture made me think they had a actual robot finger for a moment ...
will add english sources as I bother to waste time finding them (they are obviously facts unless you get your news via facebook or whatsapp)

banon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon (search for brazil and follow the sources from there) (also note banon already said he pay personal attention to his wikipedia page)

the killing: https://theintercept.com/2019/01/17/marielle-franco-brazil-a...

last right wing president saying ending the separation of powers as suggested by bolsonaro is too dangerous even for him (who sold most state owned companies to foreighn capital and skyrocketed the debt with the FMI) https://mobile.twitter.com/FHC

bonus source: he was fined for racist comments https://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/ultimas-noticias/2017/1...
Would be nice to get a survey of current Linux kernel maintainer demographics (age) and see where we're at. Can be good data for a call to arms and potential company backing via charitable funds.
Surviving the coronavirus, then testing positive again
I noticed this happening with friends around me - parents forcing them to do things that they actively resented. Fuck those parents, your kids were not born to redeem your unfulfilled desires and ambitions.
Children are sensitive, and when you raise them to be freethinkers it's a joy.
Nethacks like most traditional roguelike is amongst these games I like to call checklist tickers, which is to say with a moderate amount of luck, if you plod through the required amount of trivia and perfectly follow the winning moves checklist you should succeed. It kind of ruins the fun for me - playing feels more like a chore than an actual game - but it seems really enjoyable to some.
I think this discussion got off-track. The question is about whether the company that sold you the car is allowed to impose EULA-type limits on how you modify, use, or resell it, above and beyond safety laws that apply equally to ever person and product.
We can just bikeshed inside our own mind. It needn't be articulated.
Uber whistleblower Susan Fowler: ‘Everything was chaos’
From the title I thought it would be some type of data dashboard with a simple conf file to grab all the data. The conf file could have options like "endpoint" for the API endpoint, "type" for the chart type (bar, plot, pie, etc), "target" for how to target the data in the response (res["someData"]), or "targetx" and "targety" for graphs, "labels" and "axis" for assigning labels to the data, and "style" for selecting different variations for the graphs/chart such as solid/dotted/dashed for line types.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen so much misinformation in a single article .. not even sure where to begin.
Once the quarantine is lifted we will have a bunch of non inoculated people, and the corona will spread all over again.
One guy makes up "facts" then another brings up John Oliver, the king of making things up but in a "sophisticated and logical so must be true" way.
What about consuming 5gram of creatine monohydrate (micronized) once a week, once in a while.

Is it safe?
The browser is already a browser, mail client, download manager, office suite, multimedia player, game console, chat client, videoconferencing system…

I'm okay with the browser being allowed to not do things sometimes, even if that thing is basically encrypted Telnet.
FTA:

> contract workers stating that, contrary to statements to them from Facebook, they are barred by their actual employers from working from home, despite the technical feasibility and clear public health benefits of doing so.

Sounds like Facebook should immediately evaluate their relationships with these contracting companies.
The situation is similar in Norway. We're a bit more strict, as parts of the private sector is also forcibly shut down: Gyms, pubs, hairdressers, movie theaters are all closed.

Our infection rate has grown dramatically in the past few days, and not as a result of increased testing AFAIK. Testing capacity has been limited, but is being drastically increased as of today. So maybe the already high growth rate will increase further as a result.
"His youthful curiosity is no match for my technical brilliance"
https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-01-24
I flagged it because I was happy and thought it's the result of the new trial that supposed to come out in a few weeks. I'm disappointed now :(
I know it's easy to say, but try to go deep man, and break those prior learnings..
So I think what GP is asking is, what is the practical difference between an "apprenticeship" and an entry-level position that involves significant on-the-job training?
> Our society didn't want the Lisboa agreement, but our politicians signed it anyways - so what exactly does our society want and what exactly should the EU be saying about it?

Then vote for a different set of politicians and leave the EU. The UK paved the way. I believe in you!

> Even if 100% of people voted, still the 2.85% of voice don't seem like much space to express what our society wants, you know? And why there should only be space for one central opinion? That doesn't seem that diverse.

Humans aren't borgs, but that doesn't mean we can't generalise about the general tendencies of society. Do you want me to admit that not everyone in a society has the same opinion? Seems a bit pointless, but sure, I'll admit that.
The idea may be to avoid shifting a 1 into the sign bit, which is undefined behavior.

The values in question are being convertd back to loff_t anyway, but that's an implementation-defined conversion rather than undefined behavior.

So that is to say, doing the shift in the corresponding unsigned type and then converting to the original signed type is better defined at the language level than just doing the shift in the signed type.

I think this is just academic, because shifting a 1 into the sign bit behaves the same way on all platforms targeted by Linux using the only compiler that you can use.

Well, or maybe not. The one problem there is new changes in GCC which assume that all sorts of things that used to work (and were thus de facto implementation-defined) are no longer happening in programs (because they are undefined behavior, so who would do that?) Thus even if the target hardware has stable two's complement behavior on a left shift that alters the sign of a value, and that has worked fine for years, an updated GCC can suddenly decide that it's okay optimize based on the idea that the program doesn't do such a thing.

On a different note, the proposed change is jarringly ugly because u64 is size specific, whereas loff_t isn't. A long long isn't defined as 64 bits; it is at least 64 bits. On a system that, say, makes long long 128 bits, the proposed code change is not correct. To make this change with the proper elegance and precision, what you need is for loff_t to have a sister unsigned type that pairs with it: a uloff_t.
That's assuming a large fraction of the people who have been tested are asymptomatic, otherwise a high false positive rate among asymptomatic people would have minimal effect on the numbers because they aren't being tested to begin with.

Meanwhile you also have the opposite happening for the same reason -- if even a small percentage of asymptomatic people are actually infected but not being tested, a small percentage of "asymptomatic people" (i.e. nearly the entire population) could represent a very large proportion of those infected and cause the fatality rate estimates to be much higher than the true number.
>I would have thought barbed wire, artillery, tranches, chemicla warfare and machine guns would have formed a nice barrier.

The demand for black market trade overcomes all barriers.
Employee Services
It's definitely not random. For example there is very little chance it contains a 4, and a very good chance it contains a 1.
NetHack is more about trial and error than simply progressing and winning.

It's definitely a throwback to an era of gaming where it was hard to have a lot of content, and so time was often spent on mastering challenges.
Facebook is not telling them they have to come into the office. Rather, it’s the contracting companies that these people actually work for. Quite a difference, which is clarified in the first paragraph.
Keeping OpenAPI DRY and Portable
I think you are right, but I am afraid it doesn't help the conversation here if you give a value judgment.
I don't like people dying but in this case he could be a hero: saving millions of lives by them taking the virus seriously
Getting the exact same five answers from him repeatedly about what he thinks about startups and philosophy doesn't matter in any way, as you put it, and he's currently working on a programming language. Programming languages, it stands to reason, are what he should be asked about.
Honestly a depressing thought ha. Rules control the fun.
This thread is about fashion.

Did you read what the OP quoted? Here it is:

> Languages, especially dynamic ones and their runtime environments come and go like fashion.
This is massively harder than you expect. Vaccines need longer term testing because they can have serious side effects, including making you more vulnerable to the virus.
Whatever activity it is that you enjoy doing, and that can be done while at home.
At what point can you make an OSHA complaint that your employer is failing to provide you a safe (disease-free) workplace?
“however, it's almost always good senior people working against the system to help juniors, not the system supporting any meaningful mentorship”

That’s how I often feel. I still get measured only by results so when I help somebody I am reducing my own output. I still mentor people a lot and involve them as much as possible because I feel it’s the right thing to do. My direct manager supports me but with one level up or more I feel that it hurts my ratings.

It’s also kind of annoying that all new interesting stuff goes to new people or interns and the most senior people are stuck with keeping things going and doing mainly maintenance work.
To state what is obvious you have a person who by nature comes in contact with many people in many situations. (Any many of those they come in contact with also do). So you'd expect them to have a higher probability of getting infected.

Not only that but you have a person who specifically might have to avoid not appearing to be 'business as usual' or not wanting offend people by not having a meeting or a visit as planned. That's quite a different standard then most of 'regular' people can in trying to avoid socials situations.
One big question is what percentage of positive tests are asymptomatic? If only a tiny percent are asymptomatic, then this false positive issue would not be elevating the total numbers much, right? I won’t claim to have the best resource here but one article stated:

“ Dr. Tedros noted that only 1 percent of cases in China are reported as “asymptomatic.” And of that 1 percent, 75 percent do go on to develop symptoms.”

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-compr...
Yet Linux broke things several times around those times. I recall Linux 2.0 was very breaking. gcc 3.1 -> 3.2 also broke almost everything a few years later.

Linux has had plenty of opportunity to fix stuff, all wasted.
This thread is devolving and should be removed.
> One Accenture employee

Yeah look easy to hate on Facebook, but Accenture is a big company and can easily send their own staff home to sit on the bench and do business development or just work on another client.