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Ask HN: Software Engineering Post-Graduate Training?
Does anyone know of something like a bootcamp for people already in industry for awhile. It'd be great to have something like "Data Engineering for Intermediates" or "Practical Examples of Scaling", but more immersive than an online course or video.
That makes 2 of us. What have you tried to solve it?
He can never be President as he was born in South Africa.
>Meet (which is also easier to schedule and use, given we use GSuite)

This is one of the main reasons I mostly use Meet. It's basically a couple clicks in Google Calendar to add the video meeting link.
I think the key is to allow enough intellectual diversity on the left so that someone like musk doesn't get pushed so easily into an outsider.

Being antirepublican, antiTrump and antilockdown is a valid position.
Networking code written in C! I wonder what can go wrong?
Nice insights in the later half of the article; thanks!
What a fool. And it won't be just other fools who get hurt or killed by this foolishness.
Creating 3D photos with machine learning
Well, it entirely depends on the type of lending. As long as the borrower uses that money to boost his income everything is fine. Car loans are a pretty good example of both wasteful and useful lending. You can drive to work with your car even if the workplace is far away. However, using a loan to buy an SUV or pickup truck doesn't increase your income beyond what you get with the economy car.
> > What is an "infinitely small" number?

> What is an infinitely large number?

Neither is a well-defined concept within the standard reals, and completely unnecessary for understanding that 0.999…=1.

> > What does it mean to say X is a number, if you can't subtract it from another number and get a number as an answer?

> By that logic, 0.99 repeating isn't a number at all, and therefore can't be equivalent to 1, because you can't subtract it from 1. So my understanding that they are different is correct.

0.99… is a real number. The sequence (a_n)_{n positive integer} with a_n = 9/10^1 + 9/10^2 + … + 9/10^n has a limit (do you want me to prove that?). 0.99… is defined as that limit. That limit is 1. Therefore 0.99… = 1.

I think you're struggling to grasp the definition here. The defintion of 0.ddd…, where d is an integer between 0 and 9, is the limit of the above sequence with 9 replaced by d. That limit always exists, and the definition is therefore OK. In the case of d=9, the limit is 1.
The problem with WhatsApp is that the other participants in a given chat are likely to back up the conversation to Google Drive of iCloud which defeats the purpose of E2E encryption. And, of course, the metadata.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
How does that leave citizens worse off? Removing charges from payment makes that comission go to citizens, small businesses and away from the pocket of big corporations. The fact that big business can't make money by charging for payment is not worrying. If the credit offering are not good for citizens, regulations will fix that. Government shouldn't allow everything in the fear that big business will do something even worse.
> One is a much more replaceable skill than the other in this equation. That's why Torvalds has contributed more to world productivity than most.

What is? It takes as plenty of skill to build a distro ( along with the package management systems, etc ) as it does to write a kernel. I understand that to most people, "kernel" = magic, but it really isn't. Not to mention many people helped develop the linux kernel.

Linus deserves credit, but so does red hat, slackware, debian, etc. Without those distros and GNU project, nobody would know of linus or the linux kernel. And the vast majority most of the GNU/Linux OS ecosystem is non-linux.

> That's why Torvalds has contributed more to world productivity than most.

The "great man" nonsense really has staying power. Using your logic, Torvalds' mother has contributed even more than torvalds to world productivity because she created linus...
The do notation allows the reader to misunderstand code quite deeply, contorting sound, standard and relatively simple functional programming techniques and idioms into an obfuscated and deceptive syntax that looks like something it is not.
Incredimental Builds
Preparedness is a personal duty. Throwing one's hands up in the air shows a lack of commitment and that some people shouldn't have had children in the first place.

Also, I wonder if CPS can take away children from parents who refuse to educated them on the basis of neglect.
I didn't know Dan Luu was at Twitter. And I didn't know Twitter had an engineering blog. Good on them both though, this is a great read.
If you're talking about journalists and bloggers buying into the hype and only noticing problems once things "go horribly sideways", then I agree; it's also fair to point out that second-order consequences are very often not obvious, and only apparent in hindsight. Hell, in my more naive days, I was also bullish on some of those companies, before I started reading about and contemplating the issues that were brought up later on.

But the cynical me wants to point out that any particular company doing gig economy/"share" economy/locust economy[0] business has to design and understand their own business model. Many of the ethical issues are already apparent at this stage; when you look at Cost Structure and Revenue Streams segments of your Business Model Canvas, take a stock of regulatory requirements affecting you, you can already what corners you cut and who's going to get a short end of your value proposition stick.

So e.g. I do not believe AirBnB was initially aware of the impact their business will have on the housing market, but I'm rather certain all the evil shenanigans Uber pulled were intentional.

EDIT: also: I know that I'm being an armchair ethicist here, that it's easy to see the larger picture from a high horse, especially when one doesn't need to use said businesses. But to my defense: doing that is a valid market signal on its own; to the extent I don't deal with businesses I consider ethically challenged, and discourage others from dealing with them, this sends a (however small) signal to the free market that those issues are something that matters to some customers, and are worth competing on.

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[0] - I only now remembered this article, https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/04/03/the-locust-economy/. Worth pointing out that it was written in 2013, about when the "share economy" hype was at its peak, and everyone wanted to do a startup with this model.
I posted a similar post on my own blog yesterday(https://sharitt.com/2020/04/28/practicality-vs-purity.html)

Oddly one of the few things I actually kept is Google search itself after noticed that I basically add !g to every DDG search, and I've tried to firewall it off as much as I can.
I think the number of concepts that need to be understood to be an efficient React developer has grown over the years just enough that it has become slightly frustrating to learn. It is still presented as a very simple small surface area framework but there's a lot of subtly with how many new concepts need to be understood now like hooks as an example. I think it just crossed a threshold and became less intuitive and more tiresome as a result unless you are embedded in React land and do React stuff all the time.
Seems plausible. I am imagining a voice that reads all the submitted link titles and then lets you choose one and go to the link or listen to the comments. Having comments be actual recordings of the commenter's speech would actually be quite interesting and more personal than reading them in the fairly generic text form.
Then we would have to force all immigrants to actually use legal entry so they could also be fitted.

The problem with trafficking is that many victims have entered the US illegally and there are no records of their existence that cause authorities to question their whereabouts or even suspect they exist.
If you mean the US, then he'd either need a consitutional amendment
first or for the US to invade South Africa. Which are, considering that
we live in the stupidest timeline, not impossible courses of events.
You don't think worker not allowed to come to you factory won't cause issue to tesla ?
Zoom Gets Stuffed: Here’s How Hackers Got Hold of 500k Passwords
Grid view is the default view now in meet. It rolled out (for my org at least) yesterday.
As long as your mother is American, it doesn’t matter where your born.
That's not what the person you are replying to said though, "the organizational structure is wrong". More like: It is a mistake to use microservices UNLESS you have a certain organizational structure/capacity already.

I think they were saying something more aligned with your opinion than you read it as.
It's possible the answer is more prosaic than conspiracy, and technical in nature. If FB Messenger uses a central server for discovery only and communication is strictly Peer to Peer, as is the case in a number of messenging apps, then there is nothing to wiretap without altering the FB Messenger client to copy received texts and phone them home. And that would add a backdoor that would make it less secure for everyone. I found a link from 2019 that indicated FB Messenger uses the Signal protocol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Protocol) for their encrypted chats using the mobile client, so that makes the P2P theory more plausible.

An interesting experiment: set up daily FB messenger chat with a buddy and discuss in depth some product of narrow class of products you don't usually search or discuss (Nike shoes for example). Do this for a couple a weeks and keep track of the ads online that you and your buddy see. Did the number of adds for shoes or Nike shoes go up?
A good architecture is orthogonal, meaning parts can scale independently...

Shared code shackles everything together, like global variables...
I wonder what people have to think about Outlook (M365) for many of these things (email, calendar, storage, photos)? Assuming people are fine with paid subscriptions. The author himself is using paid services from apple.
Thanks for this, generally find discovering new (as in recent) guitar music challenging. You've sent me down a veyr enjoyable rabbit hole of awesome new stuff!
The is a chat-like client builtin to Photos now. It is actually pretty nice to easily send pictures to my mother with the ability to answer questions about them. Unlike other chats no need to download and reupload the pictures.

When that came out I was rather surprised it wasn't just an extension to Hangouts or one of their other chat apps.
Have you seen what the big chains such as Tesco, ASDA, Next, M&S do to their supply chain vendors? Amazon aren't any different or more evil.
Fantastic idea and execution. One comment: it would be helpful to see leaderboard entries after you finish a battle. Understanding how others complete a battle can help me improve.
The Internet has been (depressingly) post-literate for a while.

I adore good English. IMO writing peaked in the middle of the last century. There are some beautifully literate, clean, elegant, but unpretentious books from that period. Like this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Structures-Things-Dont-Fall-Down-eboo...

Elegance and simplicity started to become rarer in the 70s, when writing became more about ego, forceful persuasion, and opinionation and less about communication.

Then YouTube happened, and now we're in the hyper-emotive era of "Wassup fam?" and "Mash that Like button." And memes.

Some of it is certainly entertaining - because it has to be. But it's not so good at sharing complex and nuanced world views.

So I don't think we will get there, because moving pictures and sound are inherently not a literate medium. They can be a literary medium, but you get Maximum User Engagement™ with crude lowest-common-denominator content, and not with subtlety, difficulty, or complexity.
VS Code was lost on shutdown with pending update (2018)
During Presidents’ Day car ads are run that contain impersonations of past and present presidents, they are impersonated for commercial advantage, do they get prior permission before running those radio ads?
This is a well-known feature. From the cnet review (https://www.cnet.com/reviews/apple-airpods-review/):

"W1 chip makes for seamless pairing: Apple's custom Bluetooth chip, the W1, is designed to allow for automatic pairing with Apple devices running iOS 10 or later, WatchOS 3 or later or MacOS Sierra or later. And it totally delivers: Just place the headphones near your compatible device and they'll automatically be detected and ask for pairing, no diving into settings menu needed. You can also transition easily between Apple devices, toggling between the sound of your computer to that of your iPhone or iPad. For Apple Watch owners, that seamless transition between Watch and iPhone is critical, and it's one reason that AirPods are something of an appealing accessory for Watch owners. "

> They only work perfectly with Apple devices

You're correct that the seamless pairing feature only works on apple devices. On non-apple devices, they work equivalently - no worse or better really - than competing headphones. That doesn't mean that the pairing feature isn't very valuable for those of us willing to own more than one apple device.
The Failure of Internet Freedom
That pisses me off so much. To top it off I have bad signal in my flat, and they refuse to contact me any other way or even leave voicemails.
So like monoliths vs microservices it's probably a balance between the two (leaning heavily in one direction).

I've never understood why it needs to be either/or. Is it really that difficult to support a microservice deployment that only represents 50% or even 20-25% of the org/project?
No, you will only do it for the volunteers. Everyone else will exercise their rights and refuse the implant.
> On a privately owned site?

Yes, censorship is not exclusive to the government.
We really need a law that forces people to label fakes when they willingly produce ones that are hard to tell from the real thing, and harshly punish the ones that omit the label.

It's ok to fake stuff, but it should be clear that you are doing so.

We already have fake cars in advertising, fake food on menus, fake news, fake expert advices... I really don't want to add perfect impersonification to the list.
Of the children and adults I have met who were home schooled, most were inquisitive, thoughtful and open people which I found to be a stark contrast to those who were educated in institutions.

I believe that a side benefit of home education is that the process does not destroy a persons respect for learning and accomplishment.
Or maybe we simply legislate that any charger take card payments? That would allow competition in the market to continue while also providing accessibility to the general populace.
9,976 Bytes of Unsolicited Advice
Will coronavirus finally kill the open office?
A list of Gists containing simple but useful Swift
Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Printing
I love how billionaires with their private jets and 40,000 square foot homes want every body else to go back to work
Nice! Now they can steal more information from me!
I love Google!
he also "predicted" close to 0 covid cases by end of April (groan):
https://twitter.com/JBauernberger/status/1255452046897135617
The Great Pirates by Flemming Funch, 7 December 1994
Thanks, hadn't considered any of that. The exemptions of government expenditures and exports do seem inherent to any VAT, now that you mention them, but I wouldn't think the capital goods sales credit for businesses would necessarily have to be, would it?
Welker farms has some good videos about the tech of farming.
I think that field can be used for other box purposes. "PO Boxes" are exclusively offered by the USPS, but there are private providers that provide a "PMB" mailbox, which depending on the situation may just a number. I think military post office may use that field as well.

It's been a long time since I've had to look at it, but there is a Postal Addressing Standards document that covers all of the various use cases. It actually gets pretty interesting when you need to get a letter delivered to a customer mailbox at a UPS store in an area with rural mail delivery.
He needs to stop tweeting drunk it's as simple as that.
I feel like any hotel owner would stop that from happening. Even if the net result is positive (catch the predator), the individual hotel will forever be associated with a negative (hey, look, there's the hotel that was used by predators).

I think that's what stops them?
everything may be sunny on the outside, but it may pouring rain on the inside. most people's "life experience" with Amazon is most likely limited to shopping, but they likely don't see or consider other criticisms of Amazon such as monopoly power or anti-labor activities
I don't really think you've understood my point. The art of writing is thousands of years old, whereas the use of audiovisual media is barely a century old. Widespread use and access to technology that lets you create audiovisual communication and share it is perhaps 15-20 years old. This is extremely recent, considering that spoken language (which became writing) was itself in development for hundreds of thousands of years.

The first writing by cavemen was probably scribbles, too. I'd give video another thousand years before writing it off.

And to be clear: I am a writer by profession myself. So I'm definitely on the side of "writing is important." I'm merely acknowledging that technology trends are changing.
Car sales have crashed, and EVs in particular will lose a lot of allure from dirt-cheap oil. Tesla is in for a rough ride in the next year or two.
Not just because he was born there, George Romney and McCain were born abroad. The thing is they need to be a "natural born American citizen".
I'm a bit of a sucker for memes, but clicking around a bit I feel it often misses the boat, I think because what makes a good meme is very subtle, it deviates from the meme's normal use, in an unexpected way... But not to much as there is always a right and wrong use of a meme... Still fun though. I liked this one: One does not simply stop making memes... it's surprising because it is so meta, on that very site. It's rare among those ai memes though.
Isn't Elon wating for a huuuuuge payday? One that could not happen if the stock drops too much?

Which raises the question, whether or not, this Tweet is similar to the going-private one.
> Also, I’d like to understand how if we can say 99.999... is = 100, wouldn’t we also be able to say 99.9999888999... = 99.9999..., and therefore also just 100? And so on?

You've just introduced a novel symbol into the discussion. What is the definition of 99.9999888999...? Before anyone can answer what it equals, you must define it. Recall that if the digits repeat, we already have a definition, so that case is fine. Your case is not à priori well-defined.
There is a classic tradeoff here between top down organisation dictates giving consistency vs engineering independence giving flexibility.

Two organisations that I know of who favour the latter are Spotify and Netflix. It has benefits - different languages are good for different jobs and engineers like to be able to choose their tools.

It would be bad if this was taken too far, and something was written in a language only one person knows, but that problem already exists with the technical knowledge if something only has one mantainer.
Different states have different numbers of cases due to the different measures that have been taken. Bay Area quarantined early, and has been stricter than most of the country, followed by California at large. It's not like different states net different results simply due to magic.

So if you want to loosen up restrictions in California, it shouldn't be grounded in the fact that California seems to just be impervious. What you're proposing would be in direct contradiction with the reason why California has lower numbers. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that, as there is an ideological case to be made for measuring liberty against security, but the lower number of cases is totally irrelevant for substantiating that position.
Having used DDG for several years now as the default on all my devices, i can say that since December the results are completely useless. Not sure what happened.

I had never to use "!g" before. Now it is required for 1/3 of my regular searches, and "!ig" for 100% of the image "!i" searches.
Points for not being a Silicon Valley coward blindly following the 'lockdown' religion but he doesn't seem to have a clear handle on the virus to be saying what he is.

I'm not sure he even noticed C19 in January or February.

virus OR coronavirus OR c19 OR covid OR covid-19 (from:elonmusk) until:2020-04-29 since:2020-01-01
Very impressive that the virus acknowledges state boundaries.
> It's like picking how to allocate skill points in an RPG

To stretch your analogy:

And then we try to make up for the skill points gap by throwing money at the unlucky and tell them to just buy some better items to make up for it.

And it doesn’t work.

> Some parents can do more, that's guaranteed. Some parents can't, that's also for certain.

But that’s the beauty - you don’t need everyone to be able to in order to build a better culture and a better future.

> And if kids grow up with less education-centric culture or worse learning outcomes you can't just blame parents for not instilling that.

In my culture that’s exactly what we do. It’s not always fair on the parents but in practice for the community it works a lot better than throwing money at the problem.
I have projects from 7 years ago that got dependencies stuck on an old major (that's the default) and the webpack I put there in 2013 still successfully builds. The original versions are noted in package.json, so all you might need to do is fix it to the minor/patch (1min task with search/replace). I wouldn't be afraid of parcel - you can do the same thing.
Ask HN: What is your favourite OS and why?
What makes it your favourite? How is it better than other competing OS's?
Hah, good point! I'm dumb.
Writing from the Netherlands. I believe the American rhetoric has fully been divided between the "if you aren't careful, you are killing people" on the left and "open the economy" on the right.

I'm surprised that it isn't clear why the left is in an extremely dangerous position. They can't win unless lots of people are dying. Otherwise, the non-zoom working class will vote in anyone who prioritizes the economy. Isn't wholesale economic collapse a much bigger civilization-wide existential threat than COVID19 itself?

I would have also thought that the left would be more scared of another 4 years of Trump (now with unlimited power and money) than his voter base dying in droves. Just surprising, that's all.
There's an argument to be made that assembling right now in certain numbers is necessarily not peaceable, if it puts others in danger.
When DuckDuckGo doesn’t cut it, which IME is not often, then Google is always easily available with !g query
That's not true, else Ted Cruz wouldn't have been able to run for President in 2016. Cruz was born in Calgary. His mother is an American, father Canadian. The requirement in the Constitution is only that one must be a "natural born citizen".
...so? There is nothing in that description that is alarming. Sounds like a fun and creative project to show what you know, while giving less-verbal learners a chance to express themselves differently than an essay. I wish I went to your school!
Hm, duodecuple is the tuple for 12. Maybe this was their plan all along.
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