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If you cut out the commute, obsession with socializing, 1x speed inefficient lectures, impersonal general purpose homework, breadth first class catalog that try to get you well rounded - the necessary material for most professionals is not four years worth. "I never use what we learned at school, professional life is very different" is a very old meme.

Where I live, colleges prepare you to be able to choose to be many things - continue academia, or be part of the workforce under diverging titles. They assume you don't know what you want to be yet - and it is mostly true. But if you are at a point in life where you know what you want to be, you can skip most of it (or even do it live when needed). The "keep your options open" attitude of colleges have a lot of overhead. What most people need from a 4 year college can be easily condensed into a year. It WON'T be 4 years worth of material. But if you know what you want (not keeping your options open) you don't need most of it.
You can use a French Press for cold brew, too. Just leave it cool and plunge it in the morning. I think you can even leave it out of the fridge overnight?
Claiming you're good at excel is a red flag since it's a fundamental tool for the profession.

Claiming you're not good at excel is a red flag since it's a fundamental tool for the profession.
I'd prefer both. There is a meaningful difference in both compared to the rest of the world.

Similarly, nursing homes and any other assisted living makes sense as a category.
Is there a tofu equivalent of something like parmesan or brie? I can see how tofu relates to mozzarella or ricotta and I've reached that conclusion myself before, but there is a wide variety of cheeses.

Apparently vegan-cheese varieties of those exist, but I'm curious if anyone took tofu there.
>>stroke of luck

I'm sure that that's how we've found lots of really old stuff and continue to do so. Just imagine all the stuff that we haven't found yet.
I guess my real point is that common workloads that work for everyone don't work on your development environment. I could pay for a bigger environment from you, but really this does not make me want to move any workflow to your platform (especially not production deployments!).

Sure, I can try and sell a whole different tool to my team, or accept that they just want to get things done and keep using the current tool that works everywhere but on replit.

I get where you're coming from, and I might take your advice next time I have to do something frontend-related (which hopefully I won't), but also understand that this works fine on most other tools' free tiers. In fact it builds from scratch and publishes to GitHub pages in 50s in GitHub Actions.
People who are subject to allergies know they are so and allergies doesn't cause most of the same symptoms. You could probably differentiate most cases of sickness by simply taking your temperature.
Makes me wonder if we should have a white-hat government org that notifies big corporations or software projects about critical vulnerabilities in their code.
> Drink it black, and get used to it.

If you're going to end your advice with "get used to it", do you really need everything that came before?
I agree, vegan and vegetarian food is always best when it's not trying to impersonate other food. The best you can hope for is "yeah I can eat this".
This isn't true.

The definition for a flu epidemic is two standard deviations above the expected cases for influenza that year, as estimated by a Serfling-type regression model using a negative binomial distribution.

Influenza just doesn't breach that barrier for more than a few weeks most years, and rarely in widespread geographic areas at once.

Compare that to SARS-CoV-2, where the expected number of cases is zero.

"Epidemic" means something more than "Lots".
So, I’m dumb about this stuff, but I have a wireless keyboard that uses a WiFi dongle to connect. I’ve lost connection with it a few times on my new m1 Mac. I had never lost connection with it in the previous 5 years.

Could this be related to the phenomenon the authors are describing?
I was on the fence about getting some type of off-the-shelf ARM-based NAS, but once again my wariness of "consumer" hardware turned out to be a good call. I wish it could be otherwise.

My current NAS is an old PC that I built for the purpose many years ago with ECC RAM and an unlocked Phenom II, and currently runs Ubuntu Server after I experimented with OpenSolaris just in time for the Oracle takeover, and then took a detour through CentOS. It's getting kind of long in the tooth now, and I could get a lot more oomph for the same power consumption, or the same for less power.

It's clear that my next server is going to have to be one I build up myself, just as before. I'm leaning toward an AM4 server board (such things do exist), as it offers lots of CPU options from cheap/low-power to Ryzen 9 5950X. The latter is extreme overkill, but it's an option nonetheless. ;) I'd be most likely to go midrange on the CPU. ECC RAM is a no-exceptions must.

I'm on the fence whether or not I should spring for 10G Ethernet. I have absolutely nothing else that uses it right now, and I have perfectly good gigabit gear that has served me well and would rather not throw out or try to sell. It might be worthwhile anyway as a direct single-client SAN.
yeah, there is some push by the city's business lobby groups to get people to offices as businesses that supported these offices are losing a lot. But it's upto the private companies to decide. Most employees like me have quite good home setups like standing desks, coffee machines etc and can do most of the things from home. It'd be interesting to see what approach other companies will take. I've heard stories about some of the American and Indian/Asian companies starting to ask their employees to get to office. It all depends on the work culture . I work at Xero and they've been quite cool with flexibility even before Covid.
Yeah, this was a problem back when NSA's directorate went from Defensive to Offensive. We would like to patch issues that are zero days but they are just so damn fruitful when attacking enemies of the state... the battle lines are already drawn on this.
Yes, but roasting the green beans to roasted coffee beans does a lot of chemistry - to make the flavor what you like. There’s such a thing as brewing green coffee beans, though. I think they say it’s grassy?
I would be out of there by day 2.

I've been an independent consultant for two decades and take a lot of pride in my work. My clients constantly express delight with the results I deliver.

I recognize why people would want to coast along in an environment like the author described while collecting their free money, but I don't understand how they can manage to go on like that for months or years, without meaning or job satisfaction. It sickens me. And its the kind of bloat that gives consulting a dire name.
Well if anyplace is going to have a decent vegi-burger it will have to be The Vortex.

I love that place. From the decor, to their f* you set of rules, to their food.

Great place. Makes me miss ATl :(
I still use a bread machine bought 20 years ago. It's an engineering marvel, and what the yeast is for. But it makes me sad to see BMs dumped at the thrift store for a few dollars.

BMs are perfect for no-talent, lazy, frivolous bakers like me. I also like bread that doesn't taste like cake. If I wanted cake, I'd buy cake.
That was the point of the NSA, but the war on terror has corrupted that mission to the core.
why are you editing them out? they're natural things, people don't really hear them unless they're trying to.
> The shortage of baking ingredients caused by the shutdown just means that people really like to bake if they have the time and energy.

Or that they comfort eat more baked foods when cooped up and depressed while the world grinds to a halt for a year.
And drive right into a lake because the gps told you to.
Google Flu Trends was remarkably bad at influenza prediction
Couldn’t agree more. I am a current (mid career) PhD student in cryptography and WOW is it a mess. Provable security arguments are generally written in the implicit propositional logic + set theory of working mathematicians, but it is woefully inadequate for the job. Some very powerful composable frameworks have been developed, but they are really straining against the clunkiness of the formal system in which they have been constructed. The best new ideas I’ve seen for formalizing cryptographic settings all belong in category theory or topology, but have been formalized in set theory because that seems to be the only tool that the average cryptographer intuitively knows how to use.
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Learning a language in depth along with its extensive standard library can buy you months or even years of expertise. This is especially true in languages like C++ (a language with massive depth, such as template metaprogramming) or C# (a language with a massive set of libraries, ASP.NET alone can take years to truly master).

This is what companies are paying big bucks for, immediate competency and productivity.
The instructor claimed that there are a wide variety of textures and flavors of tofu, including soft and hard kinds. I cannot personally attest to this.
This is basically a fantasy. Public health measures that restrict freedom are unpopular even when they are justified. More than anything else your least favorite lawmaker wants to remain employed and to do so they will eventually bow to the will of the people even when the people are ignorant.

Public health measures that you disdain aren't popular where they are because your neighbors want to step on your neck they are popular because people who know more than you do know they on net save lives.

When there is nothing to be gained by such measure support will blow away like dust in the wind. There is no battle for you to fight.
Is it really wifi? Or is it Bluetooth?
I'm really excited to see this thread on HN because I've got a question about flu vs COVID, and I feel like this is my only (slim) chance to get a non-politicized answer to it.

It's a simple question. Flu deaths in the US have dropped precipitously. This past flu season resulted in (very roughly) ~1% of the deaths of previous seasons. It seems obvious that this is primarily due to social distancing efforts as you say. To naive little me, this implies that COVID deaths are also likely to have been reduced to ~1% from what they would have been without said measures. In the US, that implies that we may have steered into 500K deaths instead of a stunning potential 50M deaths.

Based on my admittedly naive calculations, I'm sure this is inaccurate, but I don't even know in which direction, could have been potentially even more. Did we really avert 50M deaths by social distancing?
Esopo: Turing Complete Poetry (2018)
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Open location codes (plus codes) are just as good and non-proprietary. Sad if actual emergency services have been persuaded to use a proprietary system.
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Here's one PDF report I've found from the US Department of Justice: <https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fpcseo06.pdf>

According to it, US federal attorneys dealt with 568 suspects of child sex abuse in 1994, and 601 in 2006. The chart shows the count remained steady-ish between those years. If we keep in mind that the US population was increasing, that means the rate of child sexual abusers being investigated has gone down.

Over that time period, the rate of people investigated for child pornography drastically increased. This evidence does not support a casual relationship.
The sheer scale seems really similar to the vertical integration of companies like Standard Oil. That alone doesn't necessarily mean that they're problematic, but it sure does suggest that we give them a closer look. If their scale allows them to be anti-consumer/anti-trade then that's bad.
I left flowers at a grave today in Fleetwood, PA
> What Hackerrank DOES do is shift the burden of actually caring about the people you're speaking to

FWIW, this is what I was keying off of.
Man charged over oxygen SOS for dying grandfather
WebAssembly is an open standard with multiple open source implementations that come as a default install with every browser, whereas Java was a proprietary, closed source, at-the-time-still-patented technology that some browsers would license for embedded distribution, but which by and large was an after-market installation by the end user.
This comment establishes its green flag of credibility by not referring to the unmentionable software by name.
> Drink it black

I learned to drink MIL-SPEC coffee black at Boeing, because the Boeing creamer tasted like it was mined.

I liked McDonalds coffee before they tried to copy Starbucks. Horrible and black and perfect for road trips!
Inventor? Not so much. He did manage to get a patent on other people's prior art by keeping it in a sealed box, though.
Can your gas powered car go months between fillups doing 20 mile commutes every day? Get 100+ mpg? Do 0-60 in less than 4 seconds?

Stuff is different. Different stuff works better in different situations. The point everyone is making is that long road trips and access to very remote locations are definitely not the sweet spot for an EV, but they're tasks it's capable of doing well enough.

Seriously if you desperately want to do your crazy day trip where you drive for 9 hours, and you own an EV... just rent a Jeep or an Outback.
I think most people have allergies now don't they? It didn't used to be that way. I get colds with no fever usually.
I think modern architectures are neither RISC nor CISC.

Successful modern architectures have adopted features of both. Even the most RISC architecture these days likely has AES instructions. Even the most CISC architecture is using RISC like micro ops.
Write something that sounds fun. It doesn't even have to be useful to anyone, just interesting. And you have to be able to talk about it. The last person we hired for our team, I actively courted because he'd written a javascript parser (note: just a parser, it parsed basic JS to an AST and did nothing with it) and talked about it at a local rust meetup I'd been hosting (until COVID).

If you don't have local (or maybe now vitual?) meetups to go to, write a blog post about it and post it to HN and put a single sentence "I'm looking for a job that lets me write Rust professionally" note at the bottom, you never know who's going to see it.
The burden isn't all that great, as most good C++ code ends up looking like how you'd write the Rust code anyways.
Engineering light availability for crop production
Here are the actual stats: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cpa.asp

About 45% of high school graduates enroll immediately in a 4 year program.
Given the current shipping situation, you might be glad of that forethought after all. I've just recently laid in a year's supply of my
own, against the risk that shortages recently warned of in the news may materialize; I only drink
two cups a day, granted, but I want those two cups a day.
It is not just that. The biggest test for contractor vs employees is IRS classification. If a person earns majority of their income from one entity, then they are classified as employee. There is no official percentage cutoff like 51% or even 95%, IRS supposed to look at the whole situation.

Majority of tech contractors are actually employees of contracting company, so that is one way to get around it. At one point, I was freelancing, and I had only one client. My/their accountant had me open an LLC for this reason.

Now there are a lot of gig workers who are on all of the platforms and probably earn equal amount of money from each platform. But there are plenty who are only on one platform, so they will need to be classified as employees.
You can mix in a tiny (like a few specks) of baking soda or some salt in the ground beans before brewing. I do it for culling acidity in decaf, but I think it helps with bitterness, too. There’s also “Kona Red” coffee if you want to just try what it can be like done well.
I am personally interested in this, as a cryptography PhD student, because the state of “provable security” is an absolute dumpster fire. In my opinion this is one particular application where machine-checkable proofs need to be established as a baseline standard.

Mathematics is not a jobs program—we should be building on previous work in the most efficient and effective way we can, and getting everyone to use standard techniques that easily translate to mechanizable proofs is the only way that is going to happen.
Flour and yeast flew off the shelves at the very beginning of the pandemic before depression could set in.
This is interesting, what's the benefit of advertising that it uses tailwind?

Can you customise the tailwind configuration? or apply tailwind classes to the components?
What's going on here, with this human?
There was a website called something like whatthreewordssucks.com which laid out all the many problems with it. The fact that it's actually been adopted by emergency services proves to me that the world is insane. There is no upside to this system.
This. It's very hard to work and succeed, particularly as a senior dev when you're the only one(or few) in a remote setting. Find a company that has embraced remote working style
That is correct. It would be almost 1:1 between CCS and CHAdeMO, but Electrify America only includes a single CHAdeMO cable per station. Most other networks are 1:1.

Tesla supercharger coverage is pretty good with just over 1000 sites. EA coverage is actually pretty good too with just 600 sites. The # of sites needed for L3 in the short term isn't really that high. The number of plugs is important. I think EA averages 6 plugs per site, and Tesla is a little over 8 per site, with most new sites being 8 stall setups.
I personally know this timeline to be incorrect by at least a year. I was part of a startup that got acquired by FB in early 2015. We moved our codebase into the FB monorepo pretty quickly. One of our microservices was written in Rust. It was only a few hundred lines, but it was in the repo and actively deployed on FB infra by April or so of 2015.
A microeconomist looks at productivity [pdf] (2016)
For the "keep it fresh" part, I use Fellow Atmos containers for my beans (I'm sure there are other options too). They allow you to pump out the air by twisting the lid back and forth. I live by myself and only drink 2-3 cups of coffee a week, so it's been useful since a standard 12 oz bag lasts over a month for me.
Why should a private company be able to:

1. Store private goods permanently on the public commons?
2. Hinder the use of the public commons for long-term?
3. Treat the public commons as a refuse-dump?
4. Privatize the gains while socialize the losses?

Do we need something better in terms of overall transport? Of course we do. But dumping them off a flatbed truck at 4AM and YOLO'ing is not how you do it either. But it is how you get myself and people like me loading them into dumpsters to be hauled away.
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Hi, I am currently a junior backend developer working on a lot of big data stuff at the moment and the technologies we use such as Kubernetes, Spark, Kafka, EMR, Redis are all very overwhelming.

I was wondering what is the best way to learn more about these distributed systems and form better mental models when dealing with them. Any resources or tips would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance! :)
I tend to agree with this. And I’ve tried Bitwig.

However, as someone that’s been using Live for more than 15 years, the muscle memory with the workflow is real. And my large collection of custom plugin chains, sample instruments, templates... I couldn’t find enough reason to create the momentum to switch.

The good thing is, Bitwig brought real competition, which forces Live to improve.
I have this pc engines apu2 openbsd setup. Upgrading openbsd is kind of a pain, but other than that, it has been trouble free:

https://github.com/elad/openbsd-apu2

In the last 5 years, it has crashed zero times.

Once, after a power loss, fsck blocked until I pressed y over and over again.
I don't see why MS would adjust his salary. He is still doing the exact same work. If anything he is paying the rent, electricity and internet bills that MS otherwise would pay for him! Am I missing something? I understand that living costs could be lower in his small city. But how is that MS's concern. He get's paid for his work/talent! It's not an attack on your statement. I'm genuinely curious.
This kind of fluff job isn't great if it's your whole life; but it's perfect as a backdrop to a passion/hobby. Perfect day-job for, say, a novelist, or musician, or other type of person who's trying to "make it" in a way that first requires years of no-return investment.

You might say that such a job is soul-killing — but that's still better than a job that leaves you without the time or energy required to pursue the passion you want to dedicate your life toward. Many people using a job as a clerk, barista, admin assistant, etc. as a backstop to this sort of pursuit, would kill to trade that day-job in for this one.
What is a premium but a private tax?
Or people voluntarily did things like wearing masks/distancing indoors that presumably helped. I was more conservative personally but I'm not sure how much, say, driving to adjacent states for outdoor activities made a difference.
If this doesn’t summarize a large swath of big 4 consulting I don’t know what does. I can echo a very similar experience in this area. I have done consulting in a small corner of the energy industry for about 10 years now. I have always worked on the technical/development/customization side of the equation. I joined a consulting company that promised local(non travel) management consulting. They wanted to break into my field so they hired me and a few others to start a practice. I quickly realized that most of the the management consultants were hucksters and relied on networking and nepotism to stay busy. I often heard “back when I was at Deloitte/PwC/EY/KPMG…” the work consisted of building a ton of process model documents and PowerPoint presentations. If there was any real work that needed to be done it was shipped to India. The manager on site was often looking for any slight variation in requirements so they could claim a variance and extend the work order and create a change order. The senior consultants were often 1-2 years out of college and had training in running meetings and using consulting words to keep the business off guard. I spent a year there and decided I wanted to go independent. That was 7 years ago. Best move I ever made.
That’s just the morphine talking.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casomorphin
The Scottish spreadsheet!
The Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning [pdf]
Disney Imagineering’s Project Kiwi is a free-walking robot of Groot
The `-e` thing gets very messy quickly if you need to pass non-trivial data from the outside world into the application (have you ever tried to "parameterize" a Sed script?). It also doesn't compose well with other CLI tools.

I think these are two perfectly reasonable things to be annoyed by.
Anybody that worked at Walmart in the 80’s and 90’s saw unprecedented application of technology to retail operations. Even as a lowly stock boy i could see how the efficiencies and cost savings gave them a huge advantage over their competition.
Catalina was a significant downgrade in quality and as far as I know the M1 wasn't a thing yet.
It amounts to a rounding error when you look at yearly cost of shilling. Remember the Suez Canal when blocked was costing 400 million a day.
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How do you define junk food? Most animal-based products are more “junky” than vegan alternatives. No vegan meat substitute will have cholesterol, for instance.

As for nutritional value, there are certainly good fats and carbs in those products. Absent some protein, sure, but to say they have no nutritional value is disingenuous.