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This is great. People romanticize construction, mechanical and other engineering like there would be no failures in those disciplines. Buildings collapse, machines break down in unforeseen circumstances. My pet theory is that in software it is just a lot easier to create a lot of stuff, so it is also a lot easier to create issues.

You can add that in eastern Europe you can get engineering degree which is "technical bachelor" from technical university, so I am software engineer as it is printed in my diploma.
Perspective for (2): it's because no one in graduate training really cares about code quality. Your PI focuses more of your attention on scientific writing, and so there's little to not time to polish your work. The incentives just don't support this work at the graduate training level.
Most of the apply links soft 404. Shame because I like the concept :/
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It's kind of weird that this is attributed to 'memeculture', given that I can recall people referring to others (in a denigrating fashion) as NPCs back in the 90s, before 'meme' was part of our lexicon.
It's something important to think about, but I don't think it holds in the case of beginning-of-career resumes. It's not about getting "those jobs", it's about getting admitted to one of the best programs. That's the filter. You're right that subsequent steps flow from that, generally. Though I would argue that there is much more space in CS / programming for the self-taught and self-motivated than there is in most other fields. Most other fields: you don't have the credentials? There's the door. Try being a biologist without a degree in biology!
For those looking for the changes:
>The metric has existed for decades now. In 1979, a groundbreaking report led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist Jule Charney—dubbed the “Charney Report”—suggested the planet’s climate sensitivity probably fell within a range of 1.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius for a doubling of CO2.

>The new study narrows the range at both ends, particularly the lower end. It finds there’s a 66% chance that the sensitivity range falls between 2.6 and 3.9 C of warming (4.9 to 7 F).

Also the article mentions analyzing how the Earth reacts to change being a big reason for the update, particularly clouds:

>Perhaps most importantly, the new study investigates multiple lines of evidence when it comes to climate sensitivity. It uses global climate models, which simulate large-scale processes across the whole world. It also uses detailed, process-based models, which can simulate fine-scale events related to the formation of clouds.

>The new report devotes a large chunk of its analysis exclusively to clouds. It examines the growing body of science on how different types of clouds respond to climate change, and how changes in these clouds may affect future climate change.

Not only with clouds but feedback loops in general are the most interesting aspect of these predictions for me. I'm sure it's insanely difficult to calculate all factors, but I wonder how all-encompassing these models tend to be. The article mentions this being a type of meta analysis, but for a single study looking at clouds, for example, is the lowering of Earth's albedo due to melting ice typically something they would take into account when studying cloud predictions or not?
Do you know what's the worst of all of this? It's that less than 40% of the populace is supporthing this government and most of those people are either paid down or outright intimidated by them.

Yet somehow through the use of gerrymandering, extortion, and other shady maneuvers they managed to maintain a 66%+ majority which is enough for them to control everything.

This is an autocracy, there is no question about it. The problem is that whenever the sanctions come it will punish the general populace, not the mafia which is what you call the Hungarian government.
I had extremely good experiences with opening a subsidiary office in Sofia, Bulgaria (not outsourcing, but legit part of the company.) Code quality went way up compared to what was developed in the US/UK, somewhat less expensive (but not that much, like you said), and most importantly and perhaps also the most surprisingly, the attitude of the young kids working there is way more positive and well-adjusted that what we see when hiring in the US/UK (especially in the UK).

At this point it's not even about the money, it's just that they're more pleasant people to work with.
There's no option to freelance while on an H-1B visa and the options to work for another entity concurrently - that is, to get paid by another entity - are very limited and self-employment is generally prohibited. That being said, preliminary steps to create a business or to volunteer for a non-profit are allowed.
These obese sweatshops are getting what they deserve.
The later, the parroting of facts and the inability to go into deep detail besides being told information tidbits and repeating them is what makes the NPC so chilling in todays world. Especially when a few people get that high level of norieity and trust.
I use Mail for Good every week to send my email blast to 3.5 million people. It works fine and is stable.

We haven't made any big changes to it recently because it hasn't broken. There is definitely some maintenance we could do as far as updating libraries.

We're hoping to re-write parts of it to use AWS Lambda instead of a Linux server, so we can further simplify use of it for less-technical users (a lot of nonprofits don't have developers on staff).
Thousands of years is a really small time in the evolutionary history of modern humans.
Go into a conservative areas the the top quadrants flip. Where the Top Left are the People who don't wear masks accost others for doing so and the top right are those wearing the mask in spite of the harassment.

Being an enforcer or a rule breaker is very much dependent upon what the rules are.
> Thought, the Java is finally on decline on the back

Is there any evidence this is actually the case?
I've talked with a lot of different Indian and similar 'offshore' engineers, developers and managers and most of them ended up in the place they did due to choices between being a farmer or being an IT person, being in a poor province vs. being in a less-poor province, and being able to support your parents. Almost none of them had an upbringing, background or base passion for technology or IT in general.

While you can in theory do your IT things with no passion at all, and kill all creativity and still be productive, it often ends up being just 'mass' like you describe, a transformed version of the classical western 'consultants' that usually end up being companies that focus on sales and billable hours and never really deliver what the people needed (referring to earlier HN posts about accenture and deloitte).

I get that at some point all companies converge on the same generic point of being in the business of making money at all costs, and making it 'measurable' via sales, hours and contracts. It doesn't matter if it's software, financial, legal etc. At least not to them at that point.

The bigger problem with this is that the IT systems are not as well defined or a closed system as the other examples might be. A ledger would be simple to verify in comparison: you apply a fixed set of rules to a fixed period of data and it must result in something within a known range. With software you can do a little bit of determining that the 'borders' of your 'box' of functionality would be, but to do an exhaustive verification is so far from profitable that it's only done in a few highly regulated systems like flight controllers.

So now we have a system where a lot of money and power vectors are involved that would (somewhat) work for legal and finance and the likes (i.e. the classical big ones that existed long before software did) and a constant attempt to apply it to IT and hide everything they don't like about getting the wrong results. It still eats resources like the other kinds of work, but doesn't produce the results you would expect for the resources that went in to it.

Software doesn't operate in a vacuum, disconnecting users, buyers, sellers, or stakeholders in general is bad for everyone and because of endless change and interaction the whole model of 'buying a product' hasn't been realistic since 2000, and with connected OT (think SCADA and the likes) it won't even apply to embedded systems anymore.
> "There exist things such as 'harmful ideas'"

The irony of the above being that we only got to where we are today because people were willing to advocate ideas that were universally considered "harmful ideas" like the abolition of the divine right of kings, freedom of religion, equality of all races, and equality of the sexes.

What view considered "harmful" today will spawn the next protected class of tomorrow? If we listen to the parent poster, we will never know.
This and the later XDF (eXtreme Deep Field) surveys still raise the hairs on the back of my neck every time I look at them. It really puts our human scale and importance in perspective.
I have a new Lenovo laptop, purchased on Amazon directly from Lenovo, arriving on Tuesday.

I intend to unbox the laptop and record it on my GoPro.

Seems silly, but...
Yeah, the anti Mao sentiment is very clear.

This is not just a factual historical account. It also takes a lot of opportunities to point out how awful a person Mao was, and makes claims about his motives, which don't always seem knowable.

Of course, when writing about one of the worst rulers in human history, being a bit judgemental is understandable. But it does make me want to check other sources.

On the fact level, there seems to be an enormous amount of work behind the book.
Yes the world is scary, people speaking up have always put themselves at risk but we have better tools to protect ourselves and find like minded people now.

This isn't new and at worst doesn't seem that much different to how people have always acted. The argument is that things have got worse, but they just seem to be the same.
> with the apparent sun-setting of the H1-B program companies are just hiring offshoring firms instead.

Are you speculating here or have seen an actual trend out there?
While the environmental impact would be minimal (primarily because there's not much environment to speak of to begin with), no one can possibly prepare for a direct hit on the head.
Additional details about Datoms:

To determine whether a Datom is being rectracted or added there is a fifth element in the tuple [0].

There are many similarities to modelling temporal data in SQL [1]. But Datoms are simpler and more open as you can freely build relations between them (composable), similar to a graph-db.

[0] https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/whatis/data-model.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_database
I don't trust governments not to coopt such a system and make it political in one way or another.

I'd prefer we go a federated route, like Mastodon. That way the servers are private, but the system as a whole is not controlled by a central authority. Can't find a server that will let you express what you want to express? Roll your own. Don't want to hear about Emacs ever again, join a vi-only server, or a never-emacs server.
Interesting! thanks for the insight.
So nothing changed in practice and yet the rating drops? Sounds like the media did its job.
I'm in the same boat. News is addicting. I've done a lot to rid myself of various addictions but news has been the last and hardest one to crack. It seems like it would be beneficial to know what's going on, and sometimes it is. Socially you look like a weirdo if you don't know the latest scare.

But that's not why I check it. I am addicted, and people a hundred years back recognized this as well.

Why I don't spend the time reading Tolstoy or Neitzsche or something more substantial I don't know. What I do know is that I burn more time than is healthy consuming it and it doesn't give back nearly as much as I give in. I have no suggestions, but maybe this will be what I try to expunge for the rest of this quarantine phase. I think at the end of it, the only thing in control of any addiction is one's self, site blockers and timers help, but what I really need are bulletproof arguments against consuming it, and from there I believe the motivation will follow.
There's a cost curve lambda excels at. For services handling under 100 requests a second it's cheaper than a cheap EC2 instances.
Donald Trump, a political outsider, broke the stronghold of career politicians and was elected President. This event shocked the bi-partisan cabal of politicians and their support systems (including journalists and other intellectuals). This group has been continuously constructing narratives to undermine the highly democratic processes in USA that allowed Trump to achieve this breakthrough.

So USA is now a "flawed democracy" now, as its systems allowed an outsider to upset the status quo.
Half the country doesn't believe in science and that's where most of the work is. That's why you need high-skilled immigrants. But companies like TCS and Infosys do take away jobs from Americans.
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Yes, it should! But none of the policies I mentioned previously does that.
Good question! The phrase "many people" covers up the relative paucity of actual instances, as well as the exact nature of those instances.

Every person who loses their job to a misunderstanding is a tragedy to that person, and every person who loses their job claims it's due to a misunderstanding. We live in a polarized nation such that other companies seem to rush to hire those very same people on purpose, so it doesn't seem to be a huge tragedy, but I'm sure it feels tragic.

It also seems to happen very, very rarely, and usually after events that seem indefensible on their face. That is, rarely are people willing to say "they should have faced no consequences," but often people are willing to say "they should not have faced consequences quite that severe."
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I have exactly one non-shady use case:

I work with an event org with a fairly common name, and another city in our region has an event with the same name. For some years, we’ve outranked them for major keywords and getting their confused customers was becoming a headache for us.

So now if our website thinks you’re in the other city, a little banner appears above the content asking if you’re looking for the other site, and offers the link.

This has saved us ~10 phone calls per day in season. Before adding this link we all got to the point of just doing their customer service for them and helping people buy tickets because it was less drama than trying to get them to call the right people.
The ultimate take-away from "Mythical Man Month" is that the limit of adding people is not zero extra-work-per-additional-person, but unbounded negative extra-work-per-additional-person.
Yes they were built by innovation. Creation of a new country no matter how it happens is an innovation. Creation of a new company, no matter how it happens, is an innovation.

Growing a company also is an innovation. You can only grow by venturing into new areas. If you think ARAMCO has never made any improvements in petroleum engineering, cyber security, logistics, etc, then you are daft. If all they had was oil fields they wouldn't make so much money. It's a combination of having them, knowing how to extract wealth from them, knowing how to identify more, and knowing how to reduce competition (OPEC is an example of constant innovation, there is no precedent to follow in setting the prices for a commodity like oil which humans have never relied on as extensively as they do now).
Every time you file chargeback - merchant have to pay mandatory fee to CC to investigate that regardless of outcome.

This is best way to awaken otherwise ignorant merchant.
There's an important distinction between anatomically modern humans and behaviorally modern humans. Behaviorally modern humans were the ones that were able to migrate all over the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_modernity
I had my O1 application approved by USCIS in early March. I still haven't been able to visit the US embassy here in Sweden for the final interview - they've shut down processing non-immigrantion visas due to COVID. Any idea when US embassies will open up again?
Do you not understand the difference between a rando making such an accusation and a law enforcement or intelligence agency making a documented case?

This does, indeed, have the potential to be abused at some point in the future. But at present there is a real, documented, problem that needs to be solved. Let's solve the existing problem, and deal with the potential one if and when it occurs.
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See also "Rules for Rulers" from CGP Grey for an animated treatment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
I think news gives the illusion that you are doing something important when you really aren't, and that has appeal.

Sometimes I feel like I am endlessly scrolling for a "solution" or bit of news that I "like". Then I have to take a step back and do something else, because nothing good really comes of that.
At least, in France, in my opinion, it's becoming difficult to find favourable coverage of the government in the press, even in state-owned media. I find it neutral at best.
Hey, look at this guy, Mr Hong - DNA says he will murder three people next year - curious, he has the same DNA antigenicity as the President of the Politbureau - what do you suggest. Terminate, send the balls and heart to the Presidents Doctor, the rest in parts storage for the President and children...
The TN visa does not have a lottery, unlike the H1-B. It also comes out much faster.
AFAIK, the best (first?) popular science book that tackles this question is Before the Dawn [1] by Nicholas Wade.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_the_Dawn_(book)
>Why, at the government level, do we not look at best practices worldwide?

Because there is a ruling class and for the rulers it is not about best practices or happiness, it is about maximizing wealth and maintaining power.

Education and healthcare (which should be considered human rights not industries) are very helpful in seeing some of the tools the ruling class uses to maintain power. Both education and healthcare are standardized enough they are rated by Country and while the US spends more on both than any other country the US is not even close to being rated number 1 in either category.

Yet, to your point, when one points to other countries as evidence how well other systems work (with less funding) that person will be demonized as Anti-American. Even in the current pandemic where the numbers speak for themselves, we are subjected to having to hear the ruling class get on TV and tell us how we are #1 and doing better than every other Country and even worse in many cases this ruling class refers to the pandemic in the past tense and proclaim how they defeated it. It is Machiavellianism incarnate.
The RAISE act doesn’t touch country quotas for employment based Green Cards.

In fact on my reading it implements a cap for spouses and children for family based immigration.
Yes, there are two different kinds of white people that constitute the majority of the Republican party.

(I'm not trying to be overly snarky here.)
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I dunno, it could go either way.

AWS is not cheap, unless you really understand the business domain, or someone else has done the hard work of understanding the business and re-architecting the design to leverage AWS' value propositions. It is painful to watch a team that doesn't understand what is really going on blindly rip and replace on-prem VM's with EC2's that only need to for example, run a script once a day to perform an extract and load operation in a few minutes. Even when you run pico instances, applying the same design culture across the enterprise adds up in a big hurry.

This isn't Indian or non-Indian, this is "whether they deeply care about the customer enough to look for innovation on your own". You can't agile your way to nor bottle up and sell by the caseload innovation. I wish like hell we could, I'd buy a Panamax-load of that and mainline it into the fusion and AGI problems. What jrumbut said in this thread has some validity in certain scenarios, "Outsourcing turns an investment opportunity into an expense." And like the-dude said, the initial innovation is the automation behind aaS. It is up to those who build on top of aaS to carry that innovation momentum forward by adding their own innovation, the innovation isn't transitive nor inheritable by just using *aaS, which seems to be happening a lot currently though that is changing at an accelerating pace.
Here’s a great example ( https://apnews.com/edd4ebdd7a245e568da69db38aea04db , third paragraph):

“[The mayor] put on a pair of goggles someone handed him and drank water but did not leave his spot at the front of the protest and continued to take tear gas as the demonstration raged — with protesters lighting a large fire between protective fencing and the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse amid the pop-pop-pop sounds of the federal agents deploying tear gas and stun grenades into the crowd.”

The federal officers are officially assigned to protect that courthouse. They built a fence but people still managed to build a large fire on the wrong side of the fence. It looks like the officers have a good reason to want the crowd to disperse, although I’m not sure that it’s a great idea to use tear gas so close to a fire. Unfortunately, as I understand it, if the crowd refuses to leave and tear gas has been ruled out, the remaining options are all very violent.
A big problem is that many educators and school boards treat education as indoctrination. i.e. "Teach people what to think"

The real goal of education is to teach people how to think. Logic, rhetoric, analysis, scientific method, how to identify logical fallacies, understanding statistics, falsifiable theories, analyzing history not only through secondary sources, but actively seeking out primary sources to corroborate secondary sources, so on and so forth.

A useful education for a healthy well-functioning society is about inquiry, not regurgitation.
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Can you elaborate on this? State federations are nothing new. US and Germany come to mind as particular successes of this.
So come 121 time they all got marked down for not finishing that's a good way to get put on a pip.

"needs improvement, did not finish course xyz"
“Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in India.”
Your ability to reenter on your valid TN shouldn't be impacted by your time outside the U.S. even if extensive; you might just need to provide proof that your employment in the U.S. still exists when you return.
I am actually not sure if this isn't more of a problem of RSA than a feature.

I have seen many simple introductions to some cryptography that try to explain RSA. The problem is: They're almost always wrong and explain some insecure variation of RSA. (Most of the time they talk about a "Message" as the input to the RSA function without ever explaining the concept of padding and why this is important in RSA.)

The thing is: Implementing some form of RSA is relatively easy. Implementing RSA in a secure way is far from trivial.
The status quo didn't change. Money was in politics before Citizen's United and it is after. The voting rights act remains in force, though some irrelevant points that no longer apply were allowed to no longer have to be enforced by the Supreme Court. I really don't see what practically changed.
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Commodore reported 7-year record revenue&profit 4 years before going bankrupt. https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-financial-history-1978-19...
"... Taxed in Ireland"
There is a good chance it's just https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geoip2-connection-type-...