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I wonder how you would have fared in the normal system. We can't know which is why we need large numbers.

I went trought the normal school system and I also feel like I am pathologically unable to do anything I don't consider to be fun. I get away with it because I just barely made all the tests. But it caused me some stress, my bachelors, masters and PhD theses were finished over the weekend by skipping a lot of sleep. I do things in the end because the thought: "if others can do it, I surely should also be able to do it", motivates me to kick my own ass into action apparently. My brother is just as smart but never motivates himself in the end (near a deadline). In stead he drop the ball. He ended up an alcoholic and is now recovering, trying to find a way of life without stress. I feel I just escaped that by a small margin.

Next to school I did play a lot with computers but despite this fact I went into biology. It was fun and I'm good at memorizing books by stuffing them into my brain 1 night before a test so I did well.

Now, at 38 I managed to go from biology to data science to bioinformatics to software development. And I finally feel like I want to get to work, not because of deadlines but because I feel like I'm building something really cool.

I wonder how I would have done in your system. I don't care much for my titles, I saw many people blindly do what their professor told them and got PhDs without creativity. Sure you have to be baseline smart, but motivation trumps IQ imo (at least when IQ is above a certain minimum, which I recon is really not as high as you would think).

I almost hope my son makes it through school with minimal effort so that he has time to focus on fun things. Things that interest him naturally. I feel we lost trust in self motivation and build a pretty shitty system as an insurance against not being able to motivate oneself. But this system, at least for some, is very demotivating (my son included).
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Why do you think it is that certs attract those kind of people?

It makes little sense from a career perspective to go though those certification training schemes without truly developing the competency they are aimed at promoting and also it serves to give certs a bad reputation even for people who pursue them in good faith.
General-purpose arms that can, as a matter of software, do dishes could take up less space, put the clean dishes away, and then do other things, too, like simple food prep, surface cleaning, other 'straightening up', etc.
Exactly, it's more like suspending yourself from your armpits
I would add vendure.io to the list.

It's an awesome TypeScript/NestJS/Vue modular e-commerce FOSS.

and Michael is a great stweard too, can't recommend it enough: https://github.com/vendure-ecommerce/vendure/
Gotta use that army of UX Designers for something...
Feel like we've gone full-circle for the umpteenth time.
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Or maybe the person actually had an effect on many people here, and they are legitimately sad that he passed away?
Even so, going by how slow most bad slows are declared unconstitutional, it could give us a good 20-30 years of not having such surveillance.
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This could provide employment to disabled persons, or those unable to travel, etc..

Slap on a VR system to the bot and I am guessing a lot of chores and stuff can be done remotely.

I would imagine a set of ready made extensions for various works, would be helpful as well.
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A Reason why Apple is affected relatively often is the huge volumes of products they ship. No other manufacturer ships that many identical phones and probably no one has shipped that many identical headphones over such a short time frame.

Even a problem affecting only 0.01% has a sizeable number of affected customers if you ship 100 million devices. If you only ship 1 million, that same problem is much less likely to find public support. Apple already has good quality control (my opinion) but to reach the same level of public complains as other companies, they need to be several magnitudes better.
Education ? /s :)
anglosphere banking systems seem particularly slow but then just use venmo or cashapp, paypal, doesn't even have any fees.

Or wechat pay and alipay etc.. frictionless money exchange is basically already done without resorting to crypto. The things crypto adds mostly general users don't really care about.
This 'relative bird-like way' makes no sense at all. Humans are not birds. They are not even related. They are completely different organisms.

Humans have had zero evolutionary pressure for minimizing energy expenditure while in hovering flight.

Birds had more than 150 million years to optimize their benefits for survival and reproduction [1,2]. They even survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event [3] where the evolutionary pressure of food scarcity was at an extreme.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_birds
[2] https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evograms_0...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_e...
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> Why so much social change for a virus where the median age of death is over 80

The “social change” is why the media age of death is so high; the elderly are the least able to withstand the supportive measures necessary to survive serious COVID-19 illness, and it is the “social change” that has kept the number of simultaneous cases down to the level where those who need it are likely to get the proper supportive care.

Without that, the median age of death would drop considerably, as well as the number of deaths skyrocketing.

Of course, just because death is both the most serious adverse outcome and the one for which statistics are easiest to compile doesn't mean it's all we should care about.

> How many of that 1.5% would have made the end of the year?

The vast majority of those in the developed world. Sure, in the US the median age of death may be a little over 80, but life expectancy at age 80 is 9 years for women, 7 for men.
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No, because of leverage. The air lifts all along the whole wing. On average, the air lifts from the middle.

So it's more like suspending yourself from your elbows, with your arms out horizontal.
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> I do it with a chroot bash script for Ubuntu server atm

I’ve been using ZFS root on Ubuntu without any such nonsense for years, but I had to debootstrap it manually.

See guides here: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Ubu...

With Ubuntu 20.04 the standard installer should support setting up a ZFS root without all that manual work, but I haven’t tested it myself.
In extreme cases they do surgery to cut off the blood flow before it pops
This “bank tech is stupid” meme is ill-informed.

There is spectacular technology developed at banks, you just don’t hear about it because of secrecy.
First of all, I think that the idea and the effort behind the book are a fantastic and worth undertaking.

The issue for me is that the connection between the individual topics and its relevance for Software Engineering is not clear or present (I no doubt that the author sees the relation as obvious).

I would have liked more elaboration of the relation of each topic (in a given section there can be several) with respect to SE, and its positive and negative implications for its practice.

In a similar line, the following two sources are worth reading:
* Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering. I'm typically surprised when some IT person tells me that he do not even know of its existence.
* IEEE Voice of Evidence Articles. They are reviews of existing evidence on various topics.
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For anyone who doesn't read the title, I think it's probably best I mention that it's the listings on the jobs site that are underpaid/exploitative in many cases, not the company itself. So don't take this the wrong way, okay?
Oh man, I thought it was familiar.
Warranty is 2 years minimum but manufacturers tend to add a voluntary 1 year warranty on top. The hope (often successfully) seems to be that customers "forget" that they still can claim warranty after more than one year.
For me it has to be the data analysis pipeline I wrote for one of the biggest semiconductor manufacturing fabs in the world. Its is triggered for every lot they produce (a lot is usually 25 wafers). This company holds the majority market share in semi manufacturing space, so it is more than coin flip likely that the device you are using to read this contains a chip which was analyzed by my pipeline. (So if it breaks due to thermal issues... sorry).
I'm surprised there is no mention of Postgres' Genetic Query Optimizer (GEQO) here. It kicks in when there is a large number of joins and reduces query planning time at the cost of query execution time.

Another post in this thread mentions adaptive query planning and mistakenly imply that the GEQO is a module for this. My hands have been itching to look into experimenting on some improvements on the GEQO, specifically by improving the genetic algorithms used. When there are many similar queries, so in the adaptive query planning setting, one could also use reinforcement learning to improve query planning over time.
> I bet readers of HN would be pretty upset if they were similarly stereotyped based on a narrow but vocal minority

Would they be upset or not, but that's what is happening pretty much in every article about "Silicon Valley" that I've read lately in mainstream press. Stereotyping is rampant. And movie-style hackers is way not the worst stereotype promoted by the press.

> Both Journalists and people in Tech use twitter to have reasonable discussions about current events

Unless "reasonable discussion" means "throwing insults or 'right on, bro!'s at each other", twitter is pretty much built to prevent any possibility of reasonable discussions. I can allow that despite being built to prevent it, some people with heroic superhuman effort manage to do it anyway. I tip off my hat to them and remain astonished why they chose such an unsuitable platform. But then there are people who write US Constitution on a grain of rice - just for the sake of accomplishment. But this is a rare occurrence which is completely atypical to what is usually happening on twitter. Probably the grain of rice thing happens more often.
China is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to China.

Butchering of Douglas Adams' work aside, it's true, having taken a train a few times across bits of mainland China - it just. does. not. stop. and you can witness constant construction too.
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Taking a look at job descriptions immediately answers your question.
You say that, from what I've experienced their support is far inferior in the UK to what you'd get in the US.
The physics are different. For a gymnast the support is at the hands, so the force felt by the gymnast is a product of his weight and the distance between his shoulders and hand palms. For a bird I'm guessing that air applies support to the body and wings, so forces are more evenly distributed throughout its length.
It doesn't quite say in the article but I'd guess that they're using USB connection with accessory protocol based on:

- Their chosen controller doesn't have Bluetooth.

- The images show phone cradle having cable connection to the phone.

- There's an off remark in the motor segment that they made the external board power the phone implying they were connected before.

- It's the easiest way and supported by Android APIs.

Android Things as a project is dead and it never ran on phones - it was always meant to power IoT devices with screen.
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We can't create artificial intelligence because we have absolutely no idea what intelligence and consciousness really are. You can't recreate what you don't understand and we are not even close to understanding what makes us, us.

An analogy I've thought of is this. A modern jetliner is a miracle of engineering, aerodynamics, electronics, and programming. If the average person on the street, such as myself, was tasked with attempting to recreate one the best that would be achieved would be an extremely crude model that could not even achieve the most basic task of an aircraft: taking off and flying. Thus it is with researchers trying to recreate human intelligence.
I don't have a good link for it, but peanut butter?
20+ years ago, I wrote the Fortran code that polls the vibration of a turbine shaft every 1/100th of second. That facility is still in operation, the system I worked on is still in operation, those type of facilities run 24x7x365 and rarely have a downtime where system or turbine might be taken offline for long. I guess my code has been running every 1/100th of second for 20 years or so. I don't think I can write any code that will beat that little piece of code in frequency of use.
The number of CEOs who think printing money is a good idea might make you wonder if they even know anything about money. Polluting air costs less money why not do it ?

80% movies don't need the 100 million dollar budget and I'm pretty sure Johnny Deepp would be happy to release Edward Scissorhands to the public domain.

Most big movies make their money by single day screenings and releasing movies at different dates in different regions with market buzz.

> If we take away the option of artificial scarcity then an entire highly trained professional class will be out of work.

Interestingly your argument fails for porn. Its about 1/4th the size of hollywood.

How about publishers own the copyright and creators own the copyright instead of commoditising a copyright artefact ?

I assure you musicians can survive and Depp can do some theatre. Most EDM is essentially copyright free, especially techno. 1 year of exclusivity is fine. Fuck NDAs.

These days the cost of production has gone down so I think you will see more indie media taking advantage of that. The average budget for a reasonable movie is less than 5 million, heck even 500k dollars going by kickstarter funded movies.
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Yes, that's what I meant. The script does the partitioning, zfs init, chroot, debootstrap, and apt install. You just run it from a live cd.

https://github.com/kstenerud/ubuntu-server-zfs
I see this being used by low cost remote operators to cleanup your room or do your laundry. Autonomy is still a gimmick, but imagine if you can pay $50/month so that a reliable remote operator (entire armies of call centres will turn into remote robot operators) swipes every surface with a cloth?
Yeah it seems like an area that needs massively more research, the information available on what causes these seems filled with gaps.
A lot of software these days is run by JIT compiling VMs, anything Java, anything JavaScript, and that trend is likely to accelerate in future with new tech like Graal that can JITC even stuff like LLVM bitcode or Python.

The nice thing about JITCs is:

1. They run parallel to the application so can use those spare cores your program isn't using.

2. Especially true as they run a lot during startup when your app is probably single threaded anyway, even for something like a web server where it's going to be multi-threaded soon.

3. Upgrading the VM upgrades the compiler, so new instructions can be used almost immediately, as long as your software is tested/runs on the newest VMs.

JVM has historically tried to auto-vectorise everything and not been all that good at it, but now it's getting vector extensions that generalise to newer instruction sets fairly well, so we might start to see more HPC done in higher level languages.
Teaching online is like flying blind; you have so much less information than you do in person, and can't read body language, get an immediate overview, check in on students in the thousand tiny ways that come without thinking in person.

Teaching virtually is doable, and still valuable, but it's definitely a degraded experience.
Thankful to Alan Turing for creating the Turing machine which compilers and this computers rely on. Thankful for Alan Turing breaking the German Enigma crypto together with the Polish crypto breakers so the west could listen to Nazi War communication and we got rid of them winning the war. Alan Turing was gay and was not treated well by the UK government something the UK government later made an apology for. Also grateful to the Russian WWII effort wish I could have seen the 75th year memory victory parade this year. Thanks to all Americans Soldiers for saving us.

Grateful that the crypto Enigma breaker has been rebuilt.
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Don't know why, it's a very sensible post to me.

I'm not sure echo chambers are bad - I like the "warrens and plazas" idea. If ideas really are a market - or more relevantly, policy is a market - we'd never buy anything if we only had half-baked prototypes to choose from.

That said, twitter really makes me appreciate traditional politics.

Party states in their manifesto they value x, y, z
Party representative does something that is consistent, or not, with that (individuals get to decide this, even if the media get to present "an angle").

Some "undesirable group" (Neo-nazis, tankies, etc) may vote for that party, but they don't control the message. Or if they do, the party leader has failed.

Twitter politics, by contrast, is built on the fundamental attribution error. If you don't take the most charitable interpretation of my side, and the worst interpretation of theirs, you're my enemy.
>and now the masks which make it harder to walk outdoors in the heat we have here

No big need to wear a mask outdoors unless in crowds or close conversation, in Japan they call it 'the three C's'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkmlpmFLzuo

If I'm out and about I do hold my breath for a few seconds if a jogger or cyclist passes close by, but if I forget I don't let it bother me.
I strongly disagree on entertainment, what appeals to a specific person is a function of that person and the skill the performer has in the aim to hit that spot.

A performer, no matter how more talented that person is, will deliver a worse performance if they are trying to aim more broadly.

Whereas with news the issue is that news died when they optimized for ads/engagement, but that is fundamentally why Facebook, Twitter etc are all terrible. The interests of the user and the interests of the creator are mismatched.
I had an MBP with a fried motherboard, out of warranty and paid for it to be replaced out of pocket (400 eur or so). Some months later Apple contacted me and WIRED money to my bank account to compensate the cost. This was for an Early 2011 MBP and they had GPU replacement program for it after a lot of reports about issues.

All of this in North Macedonia, with no Apple stores (but the fix was done at an authorized reseller). To be honest I was kind of amazed they did that and definitely left a lasting good impression of them.
I was about to mention Kiesel but you beat me to it. I'd argue that they're the real American guitar company (Gibson & Fender are has beens). Affordable made to order instruments that are ergonomic, high quality, and innovative.

https://www.kieselguitars.com/customshop/
Maybe you don't know what it is.

But it's a utility to edit the sudoers file with validation that prevents you from saving a broken file.

If the file is broken, you cannot use sudo.

visudo on the latest Ubuntu defaults to nano.
> China is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

China is almost exactly the same size as the United States.
Out of curiosity, what kind of robot can you get out of Asia for $20,000?
Is there any reason that you select 50 requests per second? Anyway, I'm also interested in performance metrics.
Here's an RC glider doing 545 mph with that technique: https://youtu.be/MoaWlKC3wIM

I don't know how they manage to control it or measure the speed, but it looks legit.
As long as your favorite music is “overproduced electronic music” in a couple different flavor this is the best time to be alive. Everything else is dying.
All things being equal, I'm sure a random sample of children from the top SES quintile will have better educational outcomes then the bottom quintile (as measured by test scores, graduation rate, lifetime earnings, pick your metric). However my anecdotal experience based on my own background and other unschoolers I know is that unschooling specifically is not biased toward the wealthy.

Rather it seems to correlate with parents who for whatever reason are willing to go far outside societal norms and the comforting embrace of social proof in the interest of doing what's best for their child. This isn't a value judgement one way or another; that statement could apply as much to an anti-vaxxer as an unschooler. The point I'm trying to make is that if a family enrolls their children in private school, hires tutors, arranges legacy admissions to $ivy_league_school, etc, no one will question the advantages they are conferring on their children. If instead they keep one parent at home and unschool their children, they will be doing so against a very strong current of social pressure, likely including their own extended family, and depending on where they live they may be acting against the will of the state itself.

If anything, homeschooling in general is a way for families who lack the wealth to buy into elite education to try to provide their children with better educational opportunities than those afforded them in the local public school. It requires considerable sacrifice, particularly if it means giving up a second income and moving to a cheap place in the country to make the numbers work. Whether or not it's actually better for the children in question is ultimately up to the parents.

I count my hybrid schooling/homeschooling/unschooling experience as a privilege in the sense that it's made me better than I would be otherwise. But it has nothing to do with wealth or income. I could arrange to be born 1000 times to 1000 wealthy families and not have the same advantage as I did with my poor family.
There is also the expectation of quality, given the branding, price and the presentation. If a $50 pair of headphones break, it's not a big deal. If a $300 pair of headphones break (repeatedly, it seems), you start to talk about it.
Once you go up in air, larger wings means less air drag from wing tip turbulence.
105.41 MB transferred

Maybe think twice before putting a 40MB GIF on a website?
As a datapoint to support your argument: I bought a new PC in 2020, the one I bought prior to that was in 2013 and it still runs here at home only relegated to server duty as the HW is good enough for that but lags behind for gaming.

I don't know how long I'll be able to run that server for before needing to upgrade something, but I suspect its lifetime is until something catastrophically fails.
I just checked homedepot.com, and a search for "dishwasher" brings up options from $400 to $550.

It would be.... optimistic... to expect any household robot for anywhere near the same price to do that job as well and as durably as a conventional dishwasher. Which, I should point out, can wash dishes for years with no maintenance at all!

In fact, you can write news stories about the idea that dishwashers require any kind of maintenance? https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristatorres/clean-dishwasher-filte...

I am not ordinarily a pessimistic man, but I would expect to see major, society-destroying levels of technological unemployment from advanced automation long before we see a dishwashing robot.