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IMO, most courses are shortcuts to actual experience, and there are no shortcuts to such things.
One might describe this as Education vs. Learning.

I do agree with the general-case argument that Education (vs Learning) is largely a filter for conformity (and socioeconomic status).

However, depending on the job (and company) you're applying for, conformity may or may not be a desirable trait. I recall an after-dinner conversation with a CEO and some VC's who said their favorite (illegal) interview question was "Have you ever been arrested? If so, for what?". Answering in the negative or pleading the 5th was a hard pass (as were stupid and/or egregious crimes) - they wanted people who were direct, honest, and took (calculated) risks.

The typical college student is conditioned to avoid risk - memorizing/cheating/etc to get the highest GPA, or at least making sure they get the credits required to graduate. Pick the project idea that you know you can do in a week (okay, a weekend), pick the uncontroversial/uninteresting subject for your paper, etc. - just keep your head down and pass the class.

Often, this seems to translate into people who can't program their way out of a FOR loop (or whatever the appropriate metaphor is for their field), solve new problems, or create new products. Inside-the-box thinking is great for passing standardized tests but somewhat less great for innovation.

At that point, your four-point-whatever GPA and the two semesters you spent as the Deputy Assistant Vice Co-President of the Student Navelgazing Council are really just reasons to mock you after you've left the interview. Maybe the HR department of a dusty institution with those upload-and-re-type-your-resume-style portals will care, but I've never met a recruiter, hiring manager, or staff engineer that did.

On the other hand, I've met people without CS degrees who have clearly put in the effort and know what they're talking about. A prior CTO once remarked that he had more respect for open source contributions and Coursera courses than he did for people who only had a degree to show. All a degree indicated, he said, was that their parents could afford to send them to college.

Also, I don't mean to disparage extracurriculars with my above comment, but there's a similar phenomenon there, too: people who sign up for some club or organization just to pad their resume are less impressive than people who have developed some degree of skill in non-trivial hobbies. It demonstrates that you're capable of developing yourself on multiple levels rather than simply checking as many boxes as your parents will pay for.

TL;DR I'd say you're far from naive if you're striving to learn and understand rather than recite and recall. You might get fewer wins when you punch above your weight class, but you'll be better in the end for doing it, especially when stacked up against people who never got off the metaphorical couch.
Cool, I thought earlier versions were partially closed source and I was curious. This is really high level work. Nice job. How many languages have you designed/implemented?
Some jargon isn't translating well here, and designed is probably the wrong word to use. "Staff Duty" (a singular "duty" as opposed to the myriad of official staff officer positions) consists of sitting at a desk and monitoring the company or battalion area for 24 hours straight. You end up dealing with things like privates coming back to the barracks drunk and getting into fights, etc. There are other semi-permanent staff roles you can get on Battalion/Brigade staff, but a lot of times lieutenants who finish platoon leader time just end up waiting for the next training assignment and you get put in the duty roster rotation. This happened to about half of my PL cohort when we re-deployed from Afghanistan. Mind you everyone has to do staff duty, but younger officers will do it more often because, well, they're younger and there's more of them.

>Or that having the qualities that make you a good officer in combat hinder you in the staff roles?

Some people claim this and I've definitely seen it as a phenomenon, but I don't think it's necessarily a truism. Plenty of folks can do both. I think a lot of good officers just don't want to do staff officer time is all. It's not really sexy, it can be really boring, and you spend a lot of time getting exposed to the bureaucracy and politics of the military (yes the army still has politics). A lot of younger officers (so lieutenants and captains) see that for the first time and balk and get out (I was one of them). So the folks who end up staying are a) fully committed to the military as a career, b) don't think they have any better options so they just deal with it and stay in, or c) are the kind of officer who isn't smart enough to place themselves in category (a) or (b). You can imagine the filter effect this has, but it's not unique to the military imo.
Or at the time he didn't think Tesla was going to make it.

He said a few times it came within a couple of weeks of failing when the Model 3 ramp wasn't working.
I mean if you manage to recycle or burn the plastic I'm assuming you don't get many nanoparticles into the environment. But if plastic ends up in rivers and oceans it's going to slowly fall apart and release particles. Tires always release particles when used.

The problem is how do you replace these? And how many that could be recycled or burned aren't? A lot of packaging plastic doesn't end up in the right place, so the only way to get a significant reduction here is to get rid of any non-essential use. And we should start where there is the most plastic used. Both of these together point to single use plastics in food packaging.

You don't need to package vegetables and fruit in plastic. Recycled paper bags do just fine.

It's an easy reduction.
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It's not as though it's some herculean task to get your writing hosted somewhere without ads and trackers. VPS providers with 1-button WordPress installs are dirt cheap. Netlify and GH pages are free.

It's slightly easier to post stuff on something like lithub (or Facebook, Medium, etc.), but then how much does one really care about this if the excuse is that doing something about it is a minor inconvenience?

People want their cake and to eat it to. They want don't just want to get read. They wanna get paid for it. Too bad the marginal value of any particular writer is about the same as it costs for hosting them. Zero. So we all get barraged with endless crap because fools still think writing essays online is a serious career path.

(The serious career path here is making middle brow YouTube video essays. Still questionable, but at least you might get paid.)
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Foxconn is actually making a car platform themselves

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Foxconn-aims-fo...

Tesla and others are already using LFP as well btw.
"Big banks are, therefore, incentivized to underprice IPOs as much as they can get away with."

No, the banks get underwriting fees as a % of the offer, so they are incented for a higher price as well.

The 'winners' are the folks who get to buy from the underwriting bank and that's opaque: it could be 'the same banks clients', and so they get some major favour points for those allocations, and their own private wealth managers would ostensibly get a cut, but that's quasi insider stuff.

The banks 'working with the IPO company' lose money with a price that's too low.

Even if you were to say 'oh, the other parts of the banks are working for some action' the answer to that is, well, bankers are 'very me first' and I don't care who it is, the underwriting team wants to make as much money as they can, it's their personal bonus, and they're going to maximize the price. They don't care about the 'private wealth management teams' bonuses, they care about their own.

AirBnB I guarantee literally had some of the world's best bankers on the case.

There's just a lot of variation in very frothy markets and it's hard to estimate demand from far flung corners.
These are all fair criticisms of SLS. Given SLS’ limitations, it will require multiple launches to get everything needed to land and return the moon mission. At the same time, the speed of SpaceX’s success wasn’t a given when SLS was initiated. I don’t think NASA/government in general has the appetite for direct risk that SpaceX represents. However, that hasn’t stopped them from hedging low-risk high-cost with generous bets on SpaceX.

Let’s say you’re a member of congress accustomed to how programs work and someone says to you, pay me to make a rocket that is totally reusable to make the moon so cheap that tons of people will do it.

For one, cheap? Full stop. In whose interest is it to make space exploration cheap? Does the government want access to space cheap enough that someone might do something destabilizing or disruptive in any way?

Ok, let’s skip past cheap and the Congress-critter looks at the shiny Starship and asks, “How much stuff can it take to the moon?” The answer is “lots if we figure out orbital rocket refueling, otherwise nothing.” To get into TLI and beyond, SpaceX or somebody needs to figure out how to do that. Sure there have been some experiments, but nothing concrete yet.

Ok, you skip past the sci-fi orbital refueling and the suited person says, “I love it and I’ll vote for it, but tell me where all is it going to be built so we now which senators will speed this along.” You say, well, design and manufacturing in CA, and a KSC processing facility, engine tests in Central TX countryside and a new space-port in Boca Chica. Response is “oh come on man—CA, FL and TX already have tons of stuff going on and their reps won’t care about something this small! We need Idaho, Missouri, Mississippi, the kinds of places where a rep will burn down their grandma’s house for a project this size. Come back when you have a real plan.”
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C/C++ and Rust actually run very fine client side nowadays. However, it's just more cumbersome to make UI in those languages, so it's mostly used to port existing libs or for performance.
Before capitalism you had Cinderella stories. It's no miracle that inequality is as bad now as then.
To be fair, with the way Amazon's TC/RSUs work you always have some left unvested - I don't know if it is possible to quit "fully" vested (unless you're referring only to the initial grant.)
it's funny how culture shapes our designations of the same thing. In (specially us) english it's duct tape as the product is primarily known for installation work, and often referred to as "duck tape" for it's well known brand, whereas in (german speaking) europe we also employ an English word for it, but call it "gaffer tape", for it's usage by light operators in the event business (so called gaffers)
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Could someone please explain this for a layperson such as myself? Why was Palantir one of the few companies able to do this before, and does that mean any company now can get listed on the stock exchange?
[..] Accelerating the mass migration of blue Americans to cities like Austin isn’t only good for the country and the world. The New Yorkers and San Franciscans left behind will thank the migrants for lower rents![..]

Wow!

My 2c: if blue staters move to red states, it is very likely that they will turn red before they turn the state blue. Why? Those who can be convinced to move can be easily manipulated to act. Basic psychology. And are likely ‘followers’ rather than ‘leaders’.

But that’s just my theory. Will wait and watch to see how this plays out.
10 years in prison for illegal streaming? It's in the Covid-19 relief bill
That doesn't ring quite true with me. I mean, I'm sure what you're saying is a big component of the problem, but... I can take a pretty nice video of my cat playing with a toy, just using my phone, without doing any work on lighting or anything. Ditto for taking a front-facing-camera video of myself and then playing it back.

However, even with some minimal effort on lighting (turning off lights behind me, keeping an overhead light and a light somewhat in front of me), my Zoom calls still look like shit (as do most of my co-workers', who are mostly using Macs).

Now, Google has put a lot of work into my phone's camera, work that I doubt Dell has put into the little built-in webcam on my laptop. But I doubt the camera in my phone is a significant part of the phone's BOM cost (though maybe I'm wrong about this). Would my laptop cost that much more if some more attention was paid to its integrated webcam?

And then Zoom is compressing the hell out of the video and is likely destroying quality in several places in the pipeline.

I agree that lighting is important, but I don't think it explains all that much of the issue we're talking about here. The camera hardware sucks, and the software pipeline is optimized for reliable delivery, not quality.
Hey approach needs server on at least 2 regions to cover 90% of worldwide usage. I guess they only have server in the U.S. and some users may experience some lacking. I'd say having SFO3,FRA and NRT are pretty much enough for global customer.
There has been documentation for how to update the proprietary firmware for the RS9116 modem on the Librem 5 since early 2019:
https://developer.puri.sm/Librem5/Development_Environment/Bo...
I mentioned this before, but why not have a camera bump on the outside of laptops? Almost all modern smartphones have a camera bump.

I Skype with family a couple of times a week. I'd gladly pay another $100-200 for a better integrated webcam.
You can often do an initial consultation with a lawyer for free. They can let you know what general options you have if any and then if you need them to execute on any of the options you pay them. They can give you an idea of the costs up front.

I've done this before in regards to a startup project I was working on with 2 others and the information was very useful and totally free.
I agree about the time aspect, though the Spiked piece was to show that the desire of some in the media for Sweden's failure has been going on for a long time.

> it could easily be argued that the US is similarly incapable of imposing real lockdowns, for both legal and cultural reasons

Completely agree, but again, the media made their focus Trump instead of detailing the situation as it really is (which is not to ignore his input). That must not sell enough papers nowadays.
That's pretty cool. I feel like these people (who very smart people choose to lead), must be some next level incredible intellect.
>People on this site like to proselytize about freedom of speech

Perhaps you've been away for a few months? Stopping the spread of "fake news" is all the rage now.
Let's say you have a Mac. What hardware/software do you need other than the tripod to get a good mirrorless camera setup? I notice a lot of pro YouTubers use setups like this, but I'm not a photography guy so I don't know much about this.
Is your comment adding an informed opinion on this topic? Or are you perhaps smart in one area and think you can just wing an opinion on this topic?

I live with someone with clinical depression. One of the most maddening things for her is the astounding number of people who have absolutely no idea what they are talking about offering "helpful" opinions. No, they aren't helpful, they are hurtful.

When someone trivializes the problem such as you have, it adds the body of disinformation on the topic that seeps into mainstream opinion: that depressives have done something to deserve what they are suffering, or that there is some simple solution that they just too stupid or unwilling to do that will fix things, or that they have some perverse desire to remain depressed, or they lack the character to "buck up" and put their depression behind them.
Bootstrapping the compiler isn't a sign of language maturity. V has changed pretty significantly both in terms of syntax as well as semantics since that release.

Regarding compile times, why do you claim less than one second when your own tracking shows 2.5 seconds and trending upwards? (fast.vlang.io) Aren't you concerned that as the compiler and language are actually implemented, compile times will continue to worsen? Have you considered that perhaps that's why there are so few languages that claim that kind of bootstrap time?
too many to know about and count. Way more than the side I am highlighting. But this isn't just "a company", it is Apple. I know everyone doesn't believe in them, even if you ground yourself in their track record of execution.

I would also challenge the notion of "no competency at all". This isn't like a great chess player thinking they can use that skill to become a great football player. This is more like one of the best baseball players becoming a great football player [1]. Things are different but there exists a lot more similarities than you think. And if you are one of the greatest of all time (which is true for both Bo Jackson and Apple) there is a non-zero chance you can pull it off.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Jackson
I found this article to be cool https://www.michael-noll.com/blog/2013/12/02/twitter-algebir...
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? You've done it a lot, unfortunately, and we're trying for something different here.

If you've read the paper and found a reason to criticize the work for not taking this obvious objection into account, your comment should say specifically what that reason is. If not, then "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Threads are sensitive to initial conditions, so it's particularly important not to post crap comments when a thread is new. Since it takes time for more thoughtful comments to start appearing, conscious restraint is needed here.
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I hate that every page of search results now is just a giant clickbait affiliate link article. I can't trust recommendations when every single one of them has an affiliate link.

Are there any search query parameters or search engines that have a way to block all articles with affiliate links?
I'll add: even if he is speaking for AWS with some authority, he certainly doesn't speak for the rest of Amazon. I've seen some teams with _really_ bad practices (security and otherwise.)

As for your comment about the writer, the entire website feels very "off" to me - no author listed, no "About" page with names/links, nothing to give this credibility. I did see the link to the cofounder's Twitter page, so at least there is someone behind it, but it is pretty well hidden.
Lots of wifi is via USB.
That's basically what I do with uMatrix.
They're driven by generational improvements in technology and tooling.

I'd say they're driven by corporate greed. Cloud computing is basically renting time, and so the more you use them, the more $$$ they make.
I think he's referring to the fact that this tunnel is constructed by a Norwegian company. Thus return on investment from Norwegian money.
palantir didn’t raise new money. what they did was a secondary direct listing where existing shareholders just put their shares up for sale to create a public market for shares.

a primary direct listing was not allowed before this ruling. this means that companies can now both list existing shares for sale plus raise new money by auctioning off newly created shares instead of going through a traditional IPO.
If they cannot be truthful as to detainment of journalists, how can I trust they are not padding journalists as well? I would expect their criteria to exclude the "don't take part in a protest" considering being caught up in a "kettle" is "detainment" even though journalists were released because they identified as journalists.
Based on this I'm still not sure if she actually wrote the piece or just published it (as her bio lists her as a co-founder of the site.)
When people are depressed they tend to eat junk food to boost their mood
That's true, but then it's not a twitter link to a document. It's a client accessing an API. It's an application. There's no real good way to view twitter as a document. Replacing twitter.com with nitter.net is okay but still tedious and it is doing the heavy lifting of being the application.
Bringing up masks is a slight digression, but we complied in California. We wore masks. We worked from home and we shut down restaurants, gyms, schools..and yet, our infection rates are sky rocketing. It’s maddening and disheartening.
Which is why maybe it’s a good investment? I always buy cheap stocks because I know people feel like it’s more affordable, and has potential for larger returns, even if it ‘s not true.
I doubt it, Apple's UEFI isn't exactly open
I am not a lawyer, but...

Dilution of the sort you seem to be describing would expose the founder and investor to a minority oppression lawsuit from OP which could result in monetary damages, and/or the forced sale of all or part of the company at a price determined by the court.

You can't just dilute people without there being any consequences, unless the new shares are being sold at a justifiable price and at an arm's length. The attempts made so far by the founder to push out the OP would color any future dilution, making it harder to justify that dilution in court, even if on the surface it appears legitimate.

If the shares are not sold to a third-party arms-length investor, OP would have to be given the opportunity to participate in the share issuance on a proportional basis. If the founder and investor conspire to issue shares to themselves with the sole purpose of diluting OP, not only would that dilution possibly be reversed in court, but further sanctions could be imposed on the founder and investor as well.
I downvoted because by the HN guidelines comments should try to be curious and interesting and because “Please don't post shallow dismissals”.

The abstract mentions that diet affects gut microbiome and that gut microbiome has a “shaping effect” on psychiatric disorders:

> “A growing body of literature shows that the gut microbiome plays a shaping role in a variety of psychiatric disorders, including major depressive disorder (MDD). In this review, the interplay between the microbiome and MDD is discussed in three facets. First, we discuss factors that affect the onset/development of MDD that also greatly impinge on the composition of the gut microbiota—especially diet and stressful life events.”

That is, the comment is low effort, and dismissive, and unsubstantiated speculation. Are we supposed to conclude that “depressed people eat junk food” is all there is to it? Citation requested. Are they just saying “depressed people eat junk food”? Boring. Are they saying “maybe depressed people eat junk food”? Is there a reason to have “maybe” there? Might they not?
The “iPad in the car” is very far away from being an iPad. It’s even far away from being a useful low-end Android tablet. It would take a vast amount of R&D to make it successful as a standalone product.
I have heard it is a common strategy among activists now, but that was a claim made by their "opponents", so not sure how prevalent it is.
I've never seen a Scott Aaronson article here that wasn't hysteric bullshit. The survival of civilization depends on schools for gifted kids and humiliating people Aaronson doesn't like. WTF?
I don't think the SEC wants to control what users can do here, only prevent entities like Ripple from trying to conduct scams. So I think this action actually benefits everyone exactly as intended.
I didn't know it. [1] says it means "even a person of low status or importance has rights". The janitor in the story has rights, like he can certainly try to call the CEO to pitch an idea. Is that what you meant to point out? I feel like I'm missing out on the profoundness.

[1] https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/a+cat+may+look+at+a+kin...