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A couple thoughts on Christo:

1.

The "waste of resources" argument never held too much importance in my mind, because he and JC were able to pay for the art installations on their own, as "wasteful" as that may be. That they were able to convince wealthy donors to pony up $ is something I'm sure many aspire to. And who are we to complain if someone can get others to believe in an idea with private funding? VCs, anyone? Kudos to them for their persuasiveness.

And separately, on the apparent quantities of material -- much of that was pretty completely recycled (metal, plastic), so it was chiefly the manufacturing and installation labor that was really spent. You could equally say that it also produced jobs wherever their art went.

2.

I think the thing that leaves the more dissatisfied taste in my mouth is that much of it didn't seem like very innovative or even subjectively amazing art. It only seemed to be self-fulfilling. In the sense that it was like the Kardashians -- they only seem to be popular because everyone says they're popular. Yet I don't get why they're popular. And similarly, looking at the art itself, if you didn't know better, nothing would say, "amazing", "world changing". (personal taste, of course)

You almost suspect that Christo's beginnings were spaghetti thrown against the wall, seeing if anyone would buy into some silly idea of wrapping something in colored plastic, like he was grasping for artistic straws. And it was only because he proposed something so large and crazy that it was different. And then when the first or 2nd one got some odd traction, it turned into an unexpected snowball. If he hadn't gotten any early success, you wouldn't look at the ideas and retrospectively say they were stunning, and what a shame they didn't get built.

I will say that the NYC gates and others that people were able to walk through and enjoy en masse were fun. But people like walking around in colorful new things anyway -- occupy the family for a couple hours. You wouldn't call Disneyland "art" exactly.

And it never shook me out of the nagging thought that there was something disproportionate -- maybe even "unfair" or overhyped about the popular success of the guy -- much like if the boss's son were to be winning a bunch of art shows sponsored by the family. Or that he was only an "artist" by virtue of being able to get people to pay for his experiments and the bigness of them.

Anyway, at least we have the memories to think about.
Where did you get "white against black thing"? This "agenda" is entirely in your head since the website is quite clearly a "police against black thing".

The fact that you are associating police with "white" in your head and getting upset about it is a huge part of this problem.
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Your tone is snarky despite your words being more or less correct. Correcting someone by saying you’re not using snark is just digging yourself a bit deeper I’m afraid.
Yes, I think it's important us in the UK not to be too self congratulatory on these issues. The UK have a similar racial skew in the number of people imprisoned from BAME communities compared to their representation in the overall population.

The reasons for this are many fold, ranging from poorer opportunities and education to more severe punishments for crimes committed.

That said, extrajudicial killings are extraordinarily rare in the UK. I don't think anyone, even someone from those communities, would ever expect to die during an interaction with the police in normal circumstances. While in the US it's becoming clear that there is a real fear of any police interaction being escalated to that point.
I sincerely believe that university is a thing that you can only do at a certain point in your life, and I'm passed that point.

As someone who didn't graduate until they were 49 I strongly disagree. The only thing I would change now is I would have put work aside and studied full time instead of part time.
Because if something does happen there, they use the gun for their protection. Same as in Germany (where the police is also armed). And pretty much every other country, even very peaceful ones, except probably UK.
Yeah please, let the author know your preferred programming language so he'll rewrite the whole software.
I would imagine criminals carry guns because it is easier to make their victims hand over their valuables or submit to being raped.
Was curious; quoting https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ptrace.2.html:

> PTRACE_SYSEMU, PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP (since Linux 2.6.14)

> For PTRACE_SYSEMU, continue and stop on entry to the next system call, which will not be executed. See the documentation on syscall-stops below. For PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP, do the same but also singlestep if not a system call. This call is used by programs like User Mode Linux that want to emulate all the tracee's system calls. The data argument is treated as for PTRACE_CONT. The addr argument is ignored. These requests are currently supported only on x86.

That sounds like a fun pile of dragons. Good luck backspacing the last bit out soon ;)
SaaS model like GitLab but I read here yesterday that community edition != paid/enterprise edition.
GPL license for free use. Charge for commercial use like Qt ... but apperently this is not working well.
For some reason, many people tested it on their own phones, and were sad when it crashed them, according to the twitter thread. Not sure what to say. lol.
Scandinavia I assume?

I’m from there and I never finished my degree. The reason was that I took some time off to travel, found a job during this time and I simply have not been back since. Almost a decade now.

Only recently have I looked into finishing it off through online courses but even then it is hard to motivate myself, not once have I been asked for it. I even ask recruiters and they also say I don’t need it to be hired (at least: Singapore, UK, Thailand, Sweden) and I’m talking about major companies. I can’t speak for countries other than where I am employed but here I am not underpaid due to lack of degree.

I did go through 3 years of university and I do agree that the experience itself is useful (even though it might seem otherwise at times).

(Edit: to be clear I’m working in software development)
Established companies rarely fall for the "We can't pay you but you get exposure". I don't think paying customers care about KDE or open source. If you can give concrete examples showing something else, it would be interesting.

The way to make money in open source is to sell service attached to software, software development as QT does it where services is small component is just not generating enough money. That's why RedHat is owned by IBM and Canonical Ltd. has revenue only 2x of Qt despite large number of users.
The entire point is "in disproportionately higher numbers" related to what? Just the entire population or their ratio in the total number or cases?

If you believe the number of convictions makes a difference there - you're welcome to counter it with some numbers of your own.

I do believe the percentage of arrests is the right number to compare it to here - as police violence happens exactly when the arrests are made. I do acknowledge that I used the wrong word "committed" where I could have written "arrested" - but here its just semantics and changes absolutely nothing.

Why would I have "an interest in being neutral about ending human lives" - really dude? Beautiful stuff really.
Indian E-Payments App Exposes Millions of Users in Data Breach
I fully agree about the role of an expressive test suite. One of the key insights of Kuhn as cited here is that a "theory" of gravitation requires examples like planetary motion and pendula. A UML Activity diagram can help to convey the application domain globally, but a good suite of unit tests helps me understand the micro-domain of a code base.
Never be a 'good' person when interacting with a corperation because even if the people you meet at this corpoation seem like nice humans they can not act as such. Even now after all this the dev decides not to carry on developing appget as it might result in fragmentation of the windows software ecosystem. So this guy is ACTUALLY making good long term decisions that help Microsoft. And then Microsoft release a statement saying "oh sorry - what did we do? we never meant to, we care, we reeaaaly do".

I don't know why this is acceptable. People need to realise that their first obligation is to be a good human, even if you are working for Microsoft.
“Proprietary” is not “commercial”. Stallman himself has no problem with selling software.
I had a discussion about this years ago and I remember a good question being thrown into it: 'what happens if you don't do it?',as opposed to 'what happens if you do it?'. For an average person, in a lot of countries, not having a degree equals to crappy jobs for the rest of their lives. Average person+ degree= slightly better prospects and maybe some easier office job.if a person is very intelligent, motivated,and is a bit streetwise,so to speak, they'd succeeded irrespectively. The main problem is that when you 18-20 years old, the perspective on the world is kind of limited,unless you grew up in a rich family doing all sorts of businesses ventures and they show you some aspects of it. Personally, growing up in small town,where pretty much nobody was doing some very interesting things,it was an eye opener when I moved to London and because of the work and the city itself, I did realise how much money there's in the world, that people are ready to pay stupid money for the most absurd things and so on. It opens your eyes in terms of what other people do and what's possible,gives you all sorts of ideas and etc.
wow really nice! will try it later. that topic made me join to do my first comment on HN lol. I wonder if there are many music producers around here? would be nice to exchange some ideas :)
People loved React because it solved a problem. They just happened to solve it using virtual DOM.

but theses next generation frameworks are showing that there's a better way to solve the same problem.
I've had the opposite experience working with a mix of uni-attendees and not.

Compared to their university-attended coworkers, the straight-to-industry folk were far more likely to cargo cult design patterns, languages, and frameworks.
Sigh, here we go again. The top comment (rightfully) calling out a poorly thought out/worded sentence (or an incorrect statement) instead of discussing the real issue that the post is about.
> pick the course which reduces the greatest amount of suffering

Reduces for who? Over what time frame? What's the scope, and why that scope and not a different scope?
Well it's a classic journalistic technique. Put two statements adjacent to each other and imply a connection but actually you can see there is no formal conjunction.
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Why? That's a total non sequitor. Free Software is not about being paid or not, its about how software is distributed.
Yeah I mostly share those feelings. Having a degree most certainly wouldn't hurt, but as you say, it's not worth quitting over. And I certainly don't have the energy to get a degree while employed full time (I know some people who have done it!).

I'd still like to study though. At a sustainable part-time pace. Say, 1-4 courses per year, with focus on things I actually want to learn, and not so much on things that would award me a paper.

(It'd help a lot if I could work, say, 4 days a week)
Google and Microsoft are some of the biggest contributors to free software in the world. Free software is mostly a way for huge companies to cooperate on IP, at this moment, or roughly equivalent to shareware for smaller companies who want to give you a taste of the software before you have to commit to buying.

There are definitely many exceptions, such as Mozilla and GNU and others, but some of the highest profile software fall in either the first category (Linux, Clang, Kubernetes, Docker, MySQL, OpenJDK, PostgreSQL) or the second (old AGPL MongoDB, ElasticSearch, CentOS).
> I don't see why "male-dominated" should be a problem.

If you feel you need a few more skill-points in talking to women in order to find a girlfriend or wife. College is a much easier and more forgiving environment to learn that sort of thing.

Of course, that's not a concern for everyone. Some people know all they need to know already, or aren't looking for a hetero relationship!
I've been always cutting my own hair (counting maybe 10 years).
But indeed given the quarantine situation & not worrying at all about my looks, I thought I'd give a long(er) hair look a try.
I was always sporting short hair so it's quite a change heh.
> Because if something does happen there, they use the gun for their protection.

But this is (literally) overkill in my opinion. You could justify a flamethrower by saying 'they'd use it for their protection'. Most community police officers do not need to carry lethal weapons as they do not need that level of protection. They're patrolling communities, not war zones.
meanwhile, the real world problem plays out..
https://mobile.twitter.com/rob_bennett/status/12668957194552...
SpaceX just launched a shuttle into orbit that had a 1 second window for launch. They had zero extra fuel on board. It had 2 passengers and room for 2 more.

It's not ridiculous at all to think that they'd fuel a supply ship with exactly the fuel it needed and not more, and that that supply ship might have some empty space in it, especially if it were very, very large.
Uhhh, so as to the initial order of called vs. caller, it seems they're actually correct, and it was actually me being civilian and having reverse expectation; sorry!

As to the hardline related communications, I'm trying to find a good point in the recording. For now I managed to find the eventual successful contact attempt here: https://youtu.be/zNklfC6jgBs?t=10746; I'll try to rewind and find esp. the earlier Endeavour responses & the Russian responses.

edit: Ok, here's some early fun with Russians: https://youtu.be/zNklfC6jgBs?t=6085, not yet sure if that's the 1st one but definitively a sample of what I meant. Still looking for more. edit 2: A bit more just seconds later: https://youtu.be/zNklfC6jgBs?t=6616
If your own answer to your own question isn't absolutely YES then take a gap year or years. Join the Navy. See the world. When you're done with that you'll be much much more ready than if you indifferently do what you suppose you're supposed to do.

But yes, you do need to go to university, a good one. And you need to graduate.
> Criminals SHOULD fear the police, they are the ones committing crimes

There are crimes and crimes. We are talking here about a man being deliberately, painfully and slowly executed for 9 minutes, in front of a crowd, whereas crying for his life...

...for the crime of trying to scam 20 dollars!

Is this the value of your life if you are a jobless black man in US?. $20?

Sorry but this is inexcusable
30 year old here, I'm considering a new degree in computer science to add to my chem Engineering degree. I have 12 years casual programming experience.

My work experience has been design Engineering, which is a low 6 figure job. I also live in an area with an old industry that's getting Engineers outsourced.

I'm considering a comp sci degree so I can get into embedded, or electrical engineering, AI, or pretty much any 180k/yr job. I'm okay with taking a pay cut for a few years.
My Hustling Life in College
The odds, according to more than a few scientists (but citing just one here: https://cmr.asm.org/content/20/4/660), were 100% in not too much time.

I don't know if that makes shareholders and board members "idiots," just that it's something the firm probably should've worked to mitigate a bit more effectively.

Example: EHI is still holding on, and they (from my understanding based on employees I've spoken with) had continuity planning in place for situations that might've significantly impaired travel.
A huge amount of your future networking is done at uni. Also... you are more likely to marry somone you find at uni than most other institutions.

That being said, a PhD is probably only required if you wish to go into teaching.
I am currently leading a topic group at work on code documentation in AI development. I was already planning to skip the lists of dos and don'ts, as well as the usual best practice language, but maybe I should just refer everyone to this gist and Naur ...
YCombinator might well disappear in a few years. Universities tend to last much longer, some of them have been around for centuries. In 50 years something like YC might be a footnote in wikipedia, but I can assure you that most respectable universities will still be around to “guarantee” one’s worth.

I never graduated and I was an idiot. Stay in school, kids.
I have a degree in Theoretical Physics. During my second year I started to realise that I don't want to stay in academia, and at the same time I started to do a lot programming. I finished my Bachelors and got a job as a backend dev.

The way I see it, altough I learned a lot in uni, it's basically a "VIP" token to get yourself a job. And that's sad. Lots of companies will hire physics and math grads _just because_. They think they have "problem solving skills" - let me tell you - there are a tonne of STEM grads that do not have these skills (putting it politely) but get hired anyway.
Ive heard that it is essentially a joke or insult. You are saying "you can carry on talking but I'm not listening".
If the astronauts had been women would you also have used the term "humans"?
Police responding to a very real threat to their lives with lethal force (which is the majority of police shootings: police responding to criminals shooting at them) is not extrajudicial violence, it is self defence and protecting citizens. It is not feasible to respond to a lethal threat by a criminal with non-lethal force, lethal force is the minimum possible force to stop the threat.
I think your best bet would be the Total War series.

https://youtu.be/QvlSB9_NGTQ?t=521
My experience is the same.

I often hear people say that a university education teaches nothing useful, that it's just learning to take tests, that the course material is irrelevant, that it's just for networking and signalling, etc.

I suspect they both a) selected the wrong major and b) went to the wrong university.
What is the best and right way to open-source packages from a company monorepo?
There are a few tools to split commits from sub-dirs to a branch which you can then push to a public repo/monorepo.

E.g. `git subtree`, https://github.com/facebook/fbshipit, https://github.com/splitsh/lite, https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo.

A lot of these approaches though rely on the source-of-truth being the internal company monorepo. PRs are synced internally, merged, and then pushed out. It means that someone outside the organization cannot be a maintainer, and the speed of PR merges is dictated by the available resources inside the company. So I'd argue this is not the right OSS way of doing things.

Even if there are two public monorepos out in the open you can have similar problems trying to collaborate, because to modify one line of a package, you may need to pull a huge monorepo and its tooling down.

Does anyone have a solution or an example of an OSS-friendly approach to monorepo open-sourcing?
> The definition of the state as the "monopoly on violence" only works if you think that states inherently have the right to their power.

Not at all. The idea is that the state has a mandate from its citizens to exercise violence (within due limits) to enforce the decisions of the citizens. It's a monopoly because citizens don't have the right to use violence against each other, and even if they do the state is guaranteed to be able to respond with enough force to make it stop.

> In effect, Americans have contractually given the state the essential powers of violence but still keep the means to take that power back.

This justification to arms ownership always strikes me as delusional. Whatever the amount of weapons in circulation there is absolutely no way American citizens could fight their own police and their own army.
Can't speak for other professions but as a dev I've got no regrets in getting a CS degree. There's nothing you'll learn there that you couldn't maybe teach yourself but that's exactly the point. Unless you're a gifted autodidact you'll face considerable difficulty and will likely end up skipping through the important stuff coming away with a very flawed understanding indeed.
> The anti-university sentiment on HN is absolutely alien to me.

I will explain why. Hint: you are the part of the problem.

> I've never seen anyone without a good education do it well.

This is your lived experience, so I respect it. On the other hand, a lot of people on HN's lived experience is that, they witnessed, first hand, people without a good education do it well, so very well, extremely wonderfully well. Please respect it too.
I guess I'm being unfair when I say that most software developers lack social skills, it's rare for me to run into another dev who I can't hold a decent conversation with (it's rare for me to run into another dev at all to be honest). It's more that most devs are usually bad at workplace communication with non-technical people.

Besides that, most software developers just aren't that great. By definition half of them are below average in their ability, so if you're an average programmer with good business communication skills you're ahead of the curve by a good margin.

At the end of the day, the best way to get an internship is to know the right people. My brother went to university with the lead developer of the company I got my internship at, it wasn't the only reason I got the job, but it was definitely a big contributing factor. My B- GPA definitely wasn't why I got the job, and I had literally zero experience with Ruby on Rails or JS at the time either.

Upon saying that, my experience doesn't necessarily map to everyone else. At the risk of sounding arrogant: I'm a very talented, although not necessarily motivated, programmer. I managed to get my degree without attending more than a week of lectures each semester, while at the same time feeding a pretty heavy drinking problem.
The avatar is cropped from this image of the K-Pop band AOA:

https://imgur.com/r/AceOfAngels8/0n1LG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOA_(group)
Absolutely possible. To validate this theory, one would have to look at how those numbers develop over the decades. If you're right, they would start low and rise over time. I haven't found a good data source yet to confirm or falsify that.

That wasn't exactly my point though: there will always be justification for violence. MLK and Ghandi were great men because they saw that the escalating spiral of death and violence cannot be stopped by retribution.

What happens now will devastate black communities, encourage white flight, and possibly tip the next elections. Its not the first time, we've seen this happen before.
VirtualDOM allowed you to update the dom with better performance than before. Is there now a better technique? Why is it better than VirtualDOM?
It seems weirdly specific to create a map of only police brutality, like creating a map of murders by white people below the age 25.

I am also not sure why it needs to have a geographic component. Perhaps you don't really care on which block the police brutality occurred as much as the outcome of the case.
As far as I understand it, from the point of view of the FSF they are neither free nor non-free, since, according to their terms, the software is not being "distributed" (you are not running it in your own computer).