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> Code.org tracks 666,534 open computing jobs nationwide, yet only 71,226 computer science students graduated into the workforce last year. That means roughly 89% of open positions cannot be filled with the talent on hand.

This is horrible reasoning. Many, many of the best devs have degrees in other subjects or no degrees at all. This is has been true since the early days of the field and it's still true today.
Unpopular opinion time: nothing to see here but mean kids.

Ok, so you insist: some chan kids, triggered by social justice activist (totally lame in their book), went to her github account and made some "funny" PRs. Quality of life impact on victim: zero.

Victim, being a social justice activist went to chan to search for discussions about herself. Found kids being mean. I for one am surprised how tame the shit talk is.

Her conclusion: WHITE SUPREMACY!!!!!1111oneoneone

Really? This is how chans where, are and will always be. If you ever get involved with them in any way they will talk shit about you. They "attack" each other all the time too. That's how chan kids behave.

I never saved evidence about my "victimization" on chans because I just laughed about it. But if I did I would have hundreds of screenshots that where a lot more graphic then this (murder porn level) and I am a white cis male (now old too). This has absolutely nothing to do with social justice and everything with mean kids.
> had a maximum cruising speed of at least 450 miles per hour and a range of over 4,500 miles

Given the shape of the airplane, I'd guess the 4,500 miles range is not at 450 miles per hour, but much much less. Also, it needs to fly very high, so you need to correct the time it takes to travel with this with the longer take off and landing times.

It wouldn't surprise me if the "effective" velocity of this plane for long distances was more like 200 mph. I hope I'm wrong.
Well there is a dedicated paper on it. The short answer is the English description helps a guided search

https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09040
Do you not know basic economics? If I can build a house for $500000 and sell it for $600000 I'm going to build a house. I don't give single damn if someone makes up random numbers. All I have to care about is whether I can find a buyer. Looking for a buyer is equivalent to looking for demand.

Every time someone talks about something as brain dead as saying housing growth precedes demand they are just showing off their loyality to their political "tribe" because there is not enough ignorance in this world to believe something this stupid.

Do you know what 25 year olds are going to do if housing is too expensive but their parents have a nice 2500sqft house that they refuse to sell? They are going to stay at their parents house or live with a room mate because that's what they have been forced to do. If you build a house/apartment of course it is going to be filled immediately because there are already people in the city who are waiting for you to build the damn house. Not a single person has to migrate or come from a different region.

When you are saying "housing growth precedes demand" you are actually talking about "pent up demand" over several decades but trying to hide it via political speech with an agenda behind it. It's basically equivalent to saying "we have screwed up for 50 years now it's going to take decades to clean up the mess we have created so why bother? Let's just blame the few remaining people who are doing their part to fix this mess for causing the problems we have created.".
Excellent post. Whenever I see the full extent of harassment that an acquaintance endures it usually turns out to be far more than I assumed. So if someone you know is dealing with this keep in mind that there is probably a lot more than they are initially letting on.
How is gender bias, discrimination and online harassment US politics? Can you point out something in this discussion to me that gives you the impression that this is mainly about US politics? Because I was not under that impression at all.
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Great article! And good job!

How did you get started?
How did you market yourself in the beginning?

Any tips for a computer scientist with robotics background but who has been working in enterprise software for 8 years?
I don't know why people do this, but to figure out how to stop it, we need to understand it, don't we?

How?

How about, if any employer wants to hold one of these employees to account, how about requiring they make a video apology that begins with an admission of what they did, and an explanation of what was going on in their mind when they did it?

Anonymise the subject and make it public?

Give it to university psych departments for study?
If you mean Deutsche Börse AG, than that would be Frankfurt am Main and not Berlin which is a slight difference of about 400 km. Frankfurt to London is actually a shorter distance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stock_exchanges
Did you mean a Pulsar?
I literally only update apps on my phone when the old version becomes unusable [1] or when the new version actually provides something of worth.

For desktop software, most seem to, sadly, be self updating or a website.

For example, youtube now has a miniplayer when playing a playlist on desktop. I find that "feature" to be absolutely atrocious and would rather do without it. But due to it being a website they changed it to make it impossible to turn it off.

[1] Whatsapp
Write him an E-Mail describing your concerns. The internet cannot judge people it doesn't know from statements made by someone involved, no offense.

Don't share that mail in public if you want an honest answer.
I do that with this setup too. Just put private things in `private` folder that is git ignored.
I'm cautiously optimistic about this, even if it is self-interested. Ads are very much a necessary evil rather than something desirable in society I think, and providing developers with an alternative business model isn't a bad thing.
Tons of areas have either no 4G at all or the signal is too weak to work fast.
Because it talks about harassment in IT? Those trolls or “kids” as few people names them, are in most cases HN target audience. :)
>https://www.tinykat.cafe/static/b7462864208b987ab4889dcf7a27...

>This one in particular stood out to me because it's a very specific type of harassment I've received my whole life, usually from East Asians.

Maybe call your commonsense prejudice?
Whole Belarus protests story just exposes flaws of democracy - probably to the point of it no longer being viable in a post-industrial world: let people really vote and they inevitably vote against their own interest, just because any sort of reality possible for the masses can't be accepted by them for being too grim: real voting can only be won by blatantly lying.

I hope we will find a way to peacefully wind down the democracy in the West before it completely destroys our economy and society.
Yep, although that's not saying much.

The housing market in the UK is pretty screwed at the moment, and has been for a long while.
"SpaceX, an aerospace company in Hawthorne, California, has already launched more than 650 of a planned 12,000 Starlink satellites. Other operators include the London-based OneWeb, which has launched 74 of what it hopes will be a gigantic fleet of 48,000 satellites, and Amazon, which last month received US government approval to launch 3,236 satellites for its planned Kuiper service."

We need to do something about millionaires. Urgently.
But also global governance: space is not US's backyard.
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You shoulda pasted it into image search.

マンコ is pussy and ビッチ (bitch) is slut. So, it's like "nice to meet you, I'm pussy slut" and then handing someone a business card.

I remember seeing it come up as example of unfortunate foreign names in Japanese when watching some variety program once. I cracked up pretty hard at that one. Though I've encountered a doozy in real life too, though it escapes me exactly what it was now.
don't have to, travel by myself, I can assure you regular Barcelona street could be as well in Vienna, very similar
Have you considered just using a (sticky) compose key and setting macros for some weird characters? That way you wouldn't have to run scripts to change modes.
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Probably targeted by the subjects of this post. @dang is it possible to get this unflagged? This stuff is important for us to see.
50ms ping should be reasonable for most games.

whippersnappers who complain about 20ms ping should watch some quakeworld or quake 3 cpma where this dude rat used to destroy everyone on 300ms.
I prefer an orbital ring already across the entire sky.
Sounds like a Gamma Ray
In fact, when my old TV broke down a couple of years ago (dead pixel columns), I replaced it with a 34" PC monitor. I actually paid through the nose to get less features (and more reliability).

It's a good thing that I'm blessed with a small living room, and I don't need 50" monstrosities ;)
That is true for much of the finance field.
> It's much better with computers, though. I am able to decently run modern games on 2015 gaming PC.

Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates were and are obsessed with backwards compatibility, and _not_ breaking user programmes.

I am not sure how much the Great Man Theory applies here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory) or whether personal computers would have a culture of backwards compatibility without those two?

Intel also seems to care about backwards compatibility. (Though they needed a nudge from AMD when transitioning to 64 bit.)

In contrast, Apple and ARM seem more eager to start from a clean slate. So I can perfectly imagine a personal computer industry in an alternate universe that's happy to force people to recompile their programmes every few years; and otherwise to just abandon old binary-only software.
> Can someone explain the physical layer aspects of starlink? Is the spectrum same as mobile data spectrum or does it work with different part of spectrum. If it is different part, do we need specific hardware to receive and transmit?

Almost certainly has its own slice of spectrum. You need a pizza-box sized antenna set up, so it's not quite person-portable yet, but not too bad for installing on a vehicle.

> Are there any interference/loses issues that might popup when scaled?

Each satellite only has so much bandwidth. So the more people using it in the same area, the worse it's going to get. In theory they'll add more satellites as needed, but it's never going to be much good for towns/cities.

> What is stopping spaceX to provide internet outside US?

Ground stations and regulations. Once they have satellite-satellite communications running the ground stations become less of an issue (though there's a latency penalty if your signal has to go a long way round the satellites before getting to the ground).
Google Promises to De-Index ‘Proxies’ and ‘Mirrors’ of Pirate Sites in Australia
Yep it's lift and for some planes power loss due to less oxygen in the engine, but that highly depends on the kind of engine. You do get faster easier due to less drag but you also need to be faster until you have enough lift to take off. So maybe the takeoff run won't take that much longer, but you'll have covered a lot more distance.
That Al Capone didn't turn to flipping burgers after the 21st Amendment doesn't illustrate the correctness of the 18th Amendment.

Robbery, extortion, theft and burglary - plus other crimes and social ills - are all made far, far, far worse by keeping the control and supply of recreational drugs firmly in the hands of homicidal maniacs.
From experience in investigating mishaps like that:

1) no maker-checker control,

2) no imposed limits (with forced maker-checkers - more than one checker)($900m with one click???? what the actual ....),

3) lack of training,

4a) pressure to do this NOW NOW NOW NOW (sorry for the caps),

4b) overworked/tired (matching point 6 below), if that person is "stuck" at home with two screaming kids aged 2-6 for the past five months, I feel for them.

5) toxic environnment that did not allow the employee to spend 2 extra mins to think twice before clicking,

6) in these COVID times not having someone next to him/her and/or was too afraid to ping someone to ask "hey dude, just to make sure, am I using MenuOption1 or MenuOption2 for this almost $1b thingie?" (again, inadequate training & toxic env.)(easier to tap someone in the bag and ask them to look at your screen that get on a Lync call, share screen.

Absolute controls in place would be limits & maker-checker.

And this is the point, when I browse the "jobs" HN, I NEVER see any on audit/controls/GRC.. as if DevOps are the gods of everythinig and auditors are useless and not needed.. sigh

I know there are other (better?) websites when it comes to looking for Audit/Sec work, but I feel that things like that should be taken care of in the development cycle, not the post-mortem of a mishap.
Biblical names have versions in all languages from the Middle East and Europe, and to a lesser extent Africa and Asia as well. Adam, Eve, Noah, Abraham, Mary are near-universal.

Some of the different versions are not easily recognizable, like the English John and the Arabic Yahya, but if you knew the original Hebrew Yohanan it's not so hard.
Seems pretty diverse

https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/7qt0h5/4chan_pol_mee...
What I'd like to blog about is a niche of a niche of a niche which I'd like to someday consult in and I'm afraid I'd give too much away
> but the browsers still lose your data, namely the scroll position. [..]
> Imagine a desktop browser pulling shit like that. Again, not just a Firefox issue, from what I can tell none of the vendors think this is important.

A bug for storing the current scroll position at all was opened shortly after the release of the 2nd generation Firefox for Android (which is the one that's being replaced now, the 1st generation being the attempt to use a XUL/JS interface on mobile as well, which led to horrible performance problems), and then remained open for 3½ years – at which point it was only fixed because I personally was getting fed up enough about it.

So there might be something to that observation… session restoring originally had a number of other annoying bugs as well, one of which had amassed half a dozen duplicate bug reports, but still didn't get much in the way of official attention [1]. On the flip side it did get me contributing to Firefox for quite some time, which was a nice experience, but on the other hand it does make me a bit apprehensive how long some of those lost features and UX regressions will potentially remain that way…

I'm mildly curious about the reader mode issues, though. While I never used reader mode much and so never extensively tested it, I do remember writing some code to handle reader mode as well – on the other hand I guess it doesn't matter much now any more what with the old codebase being shunted away into the sidings for good…

[1] Maybe it's because commercial developers (which includes the fulltime Mozilla staff, since they are being paid for working on the browser) tend use more expensive phones that are less memory-constrained and hence run into session restoring problems less often? Who knows…
I wonder if you're not going a git hard on the "strongly disagree". The main issue I think is that "as a European" tends to excludes eastern Europe in its generalization. As such, I agree that it isn't very correct. It would probably make more sense if it was "as a citizen of the more politically homogeneous Western Europe, in particular Portugal, Spain, France, Ireland, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Italy, Iceland, Austria... and to some extend also but not so much for all topics and cases the other countries in Europe"... but that is a bit too terse.

I think it also tries to convey how different "a very large number of countries and millions of people" views X. It will always be a generalization.

So, if you consider "as a European" to be "Western Europe", it very often applies, overall. It is a generalization, after all. And, as far as generalizations go, I honestly think "as a European", or... maybe better "as a Western European", if you will, to be very useful way to express a very complex connection, and difference in opinion or... zeitgeist. For example, it helps illuminate the dichotomy in the reaction to private philanthropy in the US that should have never been necessary. For Americans, it is accepted that it is a heart warming act, while (for a European), it more often comes across as dystopian.

As a final note, I'm wondering if you might not want to see that argument I'm presenting. Because you point out how my case with ads and money in politics isn't that uncommon in western Europe. Let's be clear, I'm not saying it doesn't happen, or that Europe is problem free or perfect, or anything like that, but the problem and perception of it, is worlds apart. Attack ads come across as a joke that have no place in political discourse, yet, it is everywhere in the US.

But then again, maybe you are right. It is after all pretending to include the "shared voice" of people who do might very well not share that voice. It can be disingenuous. I wonder if making it more specific will still open up for smaller subsets that disagree. If you say "as a Norwegian", you are still implying agreement from others that will very much disagree.
> We need to do something about millionaires. Urgently.

Can you elaborate what premise this conclusion follows from? And what do you want to do about them?

And going out on a limb, I would assume you have a problem with the satellites, but Amazon, SpaceX and OneWeb are companies, not a Millionaires. So maybe you meant to say we should do something about companies?
Best description I've come across of architecture like this is 'ego driven utopia'...
While you probably could carry a starlink antenna on a backpack, nobody forces you to (And it would be very inconvenient). They are much to big to be incorporated into smartphones or notebooks.
Facebook's and Google's first-party businesses will be totally fine. It's the marketplaces (ad sense, audience network) along with all the smaller players in mobile measurement/attribution/advertising that are going to be harmed by this.

File this under actions by a megacorp that increase the power of them and other megacorps.
FYI On this site if you press "I do not accept" on the privacy pop-up it it redirects you to another page.
To be honest, knowing what I know about 4chan, I would guess that's a white weeb. Of course, it could be a 16 year old girl from Osaka, but to a first order approximation literally everyone on /g/ is a white guy.
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This is bad. This is really really bad. The EU has invested billions in telescopes and that's now going to go to waste. Instead advancing human knowledge it's just going to fill rich guy pockets even more.
Thanks. That is a good suggestion. It's not my intent to have the Internet judge this person. I'm hoping to receive advice, suggestions, and ideas of how to proceed. Hopefully, one or more people here have experienced something similar and can share their thoughts.
I'm really disappointed to see it flagged, because this is a real issue in the tech industry and its online spaces. Especially with the widespread moves to work-from-home, it's extremely important that we have online spaces that are better than this.
In short, science denial is based on emotion instead of facts.
Do the targeted ads even work? For me I either see ads for something I just bought, or for something I have no interest in.
I guess the biggest criticism is it promotes quantity over quality. Similar to counting lines of code or pages of a book written. Although I think it’s safe to assume in this case there is some implicit notion of minimum quality to consider a note “written”.
/pol/ and /g/ have very different board cultures. Actually, /pol/ and literally any other board have very different board cultures.
I'm not sure I agree.

We have trade-deals across countries, and IMO these trade deals should account for access to markets, e.g., Chinese companies can operate in Europe freely (abiding by our laws) _if_ European companies can operate in China freely as well.

Trade-deals change all the time, and when these change, some companies might get kick off.

I think this is a functional and rational thing to do for the EU.

If you don't have any deals or specific laws about it, then pretty much everything goes. Maybe the EU could have a law that all foreign companies that abide by the EU rules can operate in Europe freely, but I strongly doubt that. Every country does pretty much whatever they want in this regard (e.g. we see it with some countries allowing Huawei to sell 5G equipment, others forbidding it, and others like Germany attempting to forbid it without mentioning Huawei). All these countries have different rules, so they all end up doing their different stuff.

China (+) is buying lots of EU companies, "forcing" them to produce and do engineering in China, with a Chinese partner, and then ripping them completely off, as part of their 2025 program.

TBH I'm very concerned about some of the companies they have bought (e.g. Rukka). I am certain this is good for China, but I don't see how this can be good for the EU in the long term. China is very open that their plan is to acquire and become leaders in the technology, and then flip a switch and cut us out.. but they are the highest bidders today...

(+) these are actually chinese companies, but sponsored and ordered by the Chinese government, with essentially unlimited funds.
You don't realize it, but all this toxicity is mainly an anglo thing. I regularly spend time around spanish, portuguese and some french internet and it's quite different.

When there's such drama, participants even use english words to describe this phenomena. It's a clear anglo cultural artifact that spilled over due to US cultural hegemony.
The fact that this was flagged so quickly shows that HN and its readers are part of the problem :(
I think the call for action by teams/management to ensure sufficient support (including time off) is a really important one. Lots of organisations are investing time and effort into trying to build a more diverse workforce, but the bulk of that attention tends to be in hiring, rather than retaining and supporting minority groups in the workforce.
Citi is one of them banks that spend a lot of their $$$$$$ in IT. They jokingly say that they are an IT company with a banking license.

Anyone related can please pitch in with a TA account. How bad/frequent are their Software Errors?
On some games (Rainbow 6: Siege being the one I'm most familiar with) latency actually helps you, as the enemy has an out of date picture of where you are.
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