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Its interesting to me that while in the US, we were spearheading the computer revolution with our cutting edge semiconductor industry, Soviet rocket designs remain pretty much unsurpassed to this day.[0]

There's a cool documentary called "The Engines That Came In From The Cold" (available on youtube[1]) and if you have a Netflix subscription, I recommend the documentary "Cosmodrome" (2008)[2] which is about the history of the Soviet space program and these engines.

I'm sure you're aware that the US Space program has been reliant on ex-Soviet heavy lift vehicles for decades more or less. Especially, since the Space Shuttle program was canned, if it weren't for SpaceX, the Russian lift would be the only bus on the route, aside from NRO launches and other um..stuff

Indeed, the Soviets had a completely parallel semiconductor and electronics industry as well. I don't know for certain but it was undoubtedly lagging western developments by a large margin. Nonetheless, the Soviets had some very interesting developments of their own, such as the Kola superdeep borehole. It is all terribly fascinating.

[0] https://sputniknews.com/russia/201704081052440303-russia-roc...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMbl_ofF3AM

[2] https://letterboxd.com/film/cosmodrome/
>Is giving a speech about how to treat a broken bone considered ‘practicing medicine’?

For many (most?) states, this is a determination spelled out broadly by law, and left up to the licensing board itself to implement, interpret, administer, and enforce.

So the answer, in those states, is:

"Practicing engineering is whatever the state licensing board says it is."
Maybe we should stop using water for agriculture in Cali?

5% of the water in California is for urban use[1]. It always drove me up the wall when the state issued rules reducing water usage for people when they give plenty of water to all the farms ... IN THE MIDDLE OF A DESERT ...

[1] https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/

There's plenty of water for the cities, just not the agriculture. It's part of the reason people are buying up farm land.
Isn’t the Linux on M1 project making good progress? The M1 mini could be a pretty good Linux box someday.
Maybe it's because Christians are often the only folks who give a fuck? At least the largest group that does, so there's way more chances for some of them to be damaging.

I've been in a ton of shitty situations - on the street, ect - and christians as a group are way more reliably kind than any other group - particularly compared to anything run by the state.
Tying my identity to the company I worked for. Tech-corporate culture incentivizes you strongly couple your sense of self with your company, which was frankly disastrous for me and for anyone else I've known to fall into the trap.

I could see my company struggle and fall behind, and I desperately wanted to help turn things around (after all, this company was part of who I was). I overextended myself, made bad engineering and interpersonal decisions, and burned out. Worse, I stayed at the company for far too long, thinking that I could really make a difference in the trajectory.

Reading the article about "keeping your identity small" helped me greatly in not making the same mistakes.
I also highly recommend that area. My brother and I had an amazing day where we climbed out of the regular paths and walked around for dozens of kilometres exploring valleys and climbing up into remote carved corridors and rooms. Found some incredible terrain.

If you're in the USA, you can find something similar to Cappadocia in Bandolier National Monument, New Mexico. Similar geology in the carved volcanic ash/tuff, plus a nice campground within walking distance.
Most trackers, Renoise among them, could be characterized as a standalone sequencer instrument with some DAW features.

Renoise specifically is sampling-first. It has the gamut of typical sampler features and built-in effects, plus you have multiple ways to sequence everything(besides high-level pattern reuse across the song, you can abstract a lot of stuff into key-triggered sub-sequences or macro knobs). It has built-in effects, you can record automation curves and if you have something very specific in mind, there is Lua-based scripting and a little community of third-party scripts. In general, step sequencing is faster here than in any piano-roll based system, with the knock-on effect of it being extremely easy to build complex percussive sequences with a lot of timbral variation. Melodic lines and harmonies can be more frustrating if you are used to reading the piano roll to establish pitch visually. Renoise does have a tool to snap note entry to a scale of your choosing(with plenty of options for scale type) which smooths out the entry process tremendously, and if you're using a lot of block chords, they can be macro-ified as well to reduce the visual noise.

The VST support is OK. They recently started supporting VST3. I occasionally encounter glitches with it - particularly one longstanding one where it renders stuck notes - but not enough to dissuade me. Worst case, I isolate the problem notes and bounce them to samples(which is easy).
I would use ssize_t instead of size_t.

Mixing unsigned and signed is seriously broken in C, and hence better to stick with signed.
This article's explanation of a rectifier is incorrect. Most rectifiers used in real products are full bridge rectifiers which use both the positive and negative part of A/C.
At core, the issue is that the people who hack the law are way, way, way smarter and more motivated than those who write the law. The hackers in this case typically aren't doing anything illegal. They're just exploiting the system crafted by lawmakers.

This is part of the reason the best tax system is one that is super simple. Once you add in exceptions and complexity, you necessarily create loopholes. Government needs to be humble about the reality that the adversary will always be smarter and willing to work harder.
One important distinction is between holding strong opinions personally vs being in a position of authority and forcing those (strongly held, weakly justified) opinions on the rest of the team. That’s a quick way to erode morale.

Flip side of the coin: having strong opinions but being open to discussion and reconsidering your position in the face of new evidence is a great way to earn respect.
School choice would go a long way and breakup the teachers unions (through school choice).

School choice effectively allows increased wages for good teachers and yes there's competition so you'll have lower end schools as well. However, it'll be a rising ship, which raises all boats IMO. You can also audit the schools and shutdown poorly run ones, etc.
Using machine learning to discover materials for solar hydrogen production
Aristotle would disagree.

You're mostly correct though, that they are separate things. For teaching technical topics well, both are needed.
Yeah, but most of the civics classes are a joke compared to the citizenship test.

The used to have shop or home economics as required classes.

I do agree that it is up to the student to maintain proficiency. I just feel like many of the tests and classes are ridiculously easy, like to the point of being geared to passing people rather than teaching. But I do also acknowledge that I forget about stuff I don't use, like complex fractions and fraction multiplication.
The Marshall plan however did have a huge effect on the post war development which was really successful
I agree with your final point, but China resource usage is partially attributable to American consumption. We can’t export all our manufacturing to other countries and then point at them for causing climate change.
It's correct. You must be thinking of the Web.
State or federal doesn't matter. County is too small, when town A has a different curriculum than town B 29 km away things break down. Maybe town B is richer, then town B might not want to fund schools in town A, leaving those desolate. But maybe town As curriculum is better suited for higher education, then what? There ia no silver bullet, but going with stuff that works it would be centralised at a certain level. Se goes for law enforcement, emergency services, military, health care... Otherwise there wont be any social fairness left.
If I understand correctly:

1, proprietary binary, it's not plain text, can't be diff'd doesn't compress as well as plain text at least.

2. files are stored on Figma's servers and I'm bound to their storage and versioning infrastructure.
I am close to two families with children in the SF public school system. One family has a 5-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl. The other family has an 11-year-old boy.

SF schools went to all-remote education starting in March 2020 and by the end of the 2020-2021 school year, did not yet return for in-person instruction. The effect on children's education has been devastating. [0]

The teacher's union refused to entertain in-person teaching even though SF has reportedly reached herd immunity as of May 2021. Negotiations have yielded almost no progress and well-meaning high-earning parents dedicated to the public school system have been stymied despite organizing as a group. [1]

As a former college professor, I understand low wages are a problem for most teachers. Even as a tenure-track professor, my salary in 2009 was less than 50% of what I was (and am) able to command as a front-end developer in the Bay Area.

Teaching K-12 in public schools in the US is difficult. There are nigh insurmountable problems which, in my opinion, are the product of so few financial resources dedicated to the project of educating children in the US.

The behavioral problems less-endowed schools encounter among their students is an outgrowth of poor funding and poverty economics.

Public school education in wealthy communities (famously Stuyvesant High School [2]) is a different story altogether.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/opinion/remote-learning-f...

[1] https://decreasingthedistance.org

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuyvesant_High_School
Oh yea talk about it even being $28 back then, crashing to $15, was also a teen that time, same damn regrets lol
> They see that it is vouched for by 1000 other people.

Oh, no, no, if I understood your idea - that's something I really want to avoid. This sort of query must explicitly be against the recommended/designed use. It cannot be a popular vote, it must be peer-to-peer. A web rather than a cesspool. A query must result in "no paths to any trusted sources found".

Just like in the real world - my opinions on, say, some processes in metallurgy (something I have no clue about) cannot depend on opinion of someone I don't have any connections with, even if they're renown expert in that field. I may trust them through some institutions, certification programs or something like that - say, they graduated from some university that I consider trustworthy. But if there are no connections at all I can't say anything about that person's credibility. Best I can do upon reading their opinion is that it's self-appraised.

This web must be designed in a way that people they don't know, people that aren't connected to one's node in the web through peers they know and trust, mustn't have any significant weight, no matter how many there are. One should be free to make their own arbitrary queries, but this online popular vote thing is already known to be a very flawed metric.

Not to mention it would require to solve that very hard one-true-identity problem. If all your connections are people you know, and their connections are people they know, identity becomes a non-issue. As long as the small world hypothesis is close enough to the reality, this should work. And it would be a non-issue even if someone invents a fake identity - it'll either a recognized legit alter ego (pseudonymous account, who still may express opinions people listen to), or a meaningless fake person that no one knows (that may vouch for whatever, the only connections is through its creator).
If I CMD+R on Hacker News, it reloads the page. If I do it on outlook.office.com, it starts drafting a reply to the email I have selected. Reload button does the same thing everywhere.
For anyone interested in what this may look like, I highly recommend the book “The Water Knife”.

It focuses on the water rights disputes of a future dystopian US where states fight proxy wars with each other to secure access to water. It’s set in Los Vegas and Arizona as they are coping with a refugee crisis of Floridians and Texans fleeing the impact of climate change.

The author Paola Bacigalupi also wrote “The Windup Girl” set in a post pandemic Bangkok where calories have become the primary currency.

Truly excellent hard sci fi set in the near future.
From memory: last I heard the average is 18 months. I don’t know if that was accurate then or still is, nor how much it varies regionally or by any other criteria (I can look it up later but had a quick moment to reply and HN moves fast and might fill in the gap before I can take more time to look).
Well, something like 1/3rd of all the vegetables and 2/3rds of all the fruit in the US is grown in California. Where do you propose this gets grown instead?
This stuff sounds basic, but it's important and a lot of stores get it wrong. I couldn't use the Windows store on my last PC because at the time it didn't let me install some games to my SSD and some to my hard drive.
> Maybe town B is richer, then town B might not want to fund schools in town A, leaving those desolate.

Ok but I can say 'maybe country B is richer, then country B might not want to fund schools in country A, leaving those desolate'.

Why's that not the same?
Why wouldn't six months be more than enough time to ship a project?
Your tone is ultra-cynical-sounding, and yet you seem to take for granted that the people running China and the US (and presumably other nations) act in the interest of their countries when they restrict trade. Why?
Is a good util by the looks of it, it was a backhanded compliment
No. Both are 1-d (lines).

It's because triangles are loops (closed) and straight lines aren't.
Ask HN: Why are climate related posts so controversial?
Climate posts are routinely flagged and easily have the most “controversial” statements amongst all the submissions.

Why is this the case?
Reduce motion is an accessibility option made to… reduce motion. Changing the animation from swipe to crossfade accomplishes that quite neatly. It keeps everything in place as it switches.

I use it because moving the entire display can give me motion sickness. It’s doing exactly what it should do.
I shall try it and then complain to you when I don't have a Lambo next week. /sarcasm

Looks good.
I can’t wait for the opportunity to provide my CC info to multiple different companies for the opportunity to install software that doesn’t pass the basic iOS security requirements.

And then I get to play the “is this malware” game coupled with no refund support.

Hooray for Android inspired sideloading.
Or... they could take turns? Or both gather resources and lactate while carrying the kiddo? Complete division of labor is not necessarily the only way.
Yes, read TFA
> All of your recent comments are anti-vax and covid conspiracy propaganda.

Please read this site terms of use. Post only substantive comments that contribute to discussion and avoid name-calling, and shallow dismissals.
Which was only preferred over the Morgenthau plan because they needed Germany against the Soviet Union.
So without an common enemy no union.
Not having a lawyer review my ESOP.
Hydroxychloroquine is a good example. Lots of doctors were trying it and thought it seemed to help. Due to the interest in the drug several RCTs of it were performed and it was shown to have no effect on patient recovery or prophylaxis of covid.
That's not the whole story because when you water a farm much of it goes back into the ground or evaporates into clouds. When you flush the toilet it gets treated then sent to the ocean.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_conflict

Will there ever not be water wars?
I had that same amazement about something so complex written in QuickBasic, which is why I dived in when it was open-sourced and took delight in the dense (bad!) code and hacks to meet Real-mode limitations. I've been contributing ever since, but I can't take credit; the engine was only open-sourced in 2005.

And Technomancy remains at the forefront of my mind too :)
Arizona today is using less water now than it did in the 50s, despite that massive increase in population. There's hope that by the end of the decade it will be entirely groundwater neutral. The population is not really the issue, especially given that domestic usage isn't anywhere close to the largest consumer.
> The incredible pictures of a depleted Lake Mead, on the California-Nevada border,

Lake Mead is on the Nevada-Arizona border
To improve its image China must tell a story with emotion
Disdain for sales. My first exposure to a sales team was as an engineer that had to deliver on whatever requirements sales dreamed up. Several years of head-shaking bullshit and I decided that the entire vocation was worthless. Took me ten years to figure out the better approach is to build bridges there, not burn them down.

Co-founding a company without really understanding my personal exposure. Had a small consultancy that had some early success, I was personally billing and leading projects, hiring folks and managing them. CEO just stopped actually cutting checks to IRS for a few years in a row. This snowballed into a major issue that I was personally liable for. Unfucking that took 5-6 years of my life. Yes yes yes I'm sure some of you out there would have been auditing financials every quarter...I didn't. Maybe that's the second half of the mistake.

Getting comfortable. After the above, I was running the show and just got comfortable. No real growth but a good salary for myself and a few other folks. Turns our there are parts of running a company that I'm just not wired for and never got good at. Decided I should let someone else do that and shut the company down (long explanation as to why selling it wasn't a good option). Worked at a FAANG for a bit then took another job. Doubled my TC in about three years and think I should have probably done this a long time ago.
> I would imagine education degrees are not particularly versatile: they’re meant to train you to become a teacher, more or less.

This would imply that education degrees make their recipients better educators. There is no strong evidence of that.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/who-profits-from-the-mast...

> The fact that teachers with master’s degrees are no more effective in the classroom, on average, than their colleagues without advanced degrees is one of the most consistent findings in education research. In a study published in 2011, Paul Peterson and I confirmed this finding by comparing the student achievement of the same teachers before and after they earned master’s degrees, and found no impact.[1]

> This finding may be non-controversial among researchers, but it has largely been ignored by policymakers.

[1] It's easier to pick a good teacher than to train one: Familiar and new results on the correlates of teacher effectiveness

Neither holding a college major in education nor acquiring a master's degree is correlated with elementary and middle school teaching effectiveness, regardless of the university at which the degree was earned. Teachers generally do become more effective with a few years of teaching experience, but we also find evidence that teachers may become less effective with experience, particularly later in their careers. These and other findings with respect to the correlates of teacher effectiveness are obtained from estimations using value-added models that control for student characteristics as well as school and (where appropriate teacher) fixed effects in order to measure teacher effectiveness in reading and math for Florida students in fourth through eighth grades for eight school years, 2001–2002 through 2008–2009.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02727...
Survival is sort of not the point though? We want people to thrive not just live. People with male role models do better in school, less likely to commit crime, take risks, live longer and are happier.
They provide it in the form of a hazard ratio:

"hazard ratio for resolution of symptoms, 1.07 [95% CI, 0.87 to 1.32]"

So statistically, those on ivermectin recovered 1.07 times as quickly as those on placebo, but the uncertainty bounds are from 0.87 times as fact to 1.32 times as fast.
That is the same kind of peace that the Roman Empire brought.
I disagree, Vietnamese and Japanese dishes aren’t known for their spices and are bland when compared to Thai food. I’d say some Filipino dishes if anything are too aggressive since many of them are sour due to vinegar or tamarind.

Also every mentioned country commonly used fermented fish/shrimp paste. The smelly “pla ra” is part of som tam but restaurants in the west probably don’t offer it at all.

Phở is famous but bulalo (oxtail bone marrow soup) is not, yet the two are comparable. The latter has a large piece of oxtail that would make it a delicacy on its own, and it’s good-looking too.

With a set of base dishes that taste good and look good for westerners, I’m not sure the taste is what’s keeping Filipino cuisine a secret.

Ethiopian food is “common” in Los Angeles, but I wouldn’t say it’s particularly varied or spiced.
The US seem to be very undemocratic on the one hand, and way too democratic on the other. I guess that makes for a dangerous mixture. Examples: The election system makes it intentionally hard to vote, e.g. election day isn't on weekends nor is it a public holiday. Limited number of voting places. And then you have elected law enforcement and elected judges.
Well, I think other people hire them because there’s high demand for talent and that kind of churn is expected.

If you’re not having difficulty hiring while rejecting those candidates, that suggests you’re probably attracting people like me who stick around longer (for better or worse all around) or something about your offer is appealing to talent who have a knack for finding good long term opportunities.
Sorry ... the message I was trying to convey was to focus on business value from any technical skill and figure out a smart way to monetize it. The technical medium isn't particularly relevant.

A small script can (has) paid $1K in an hr due to the business value. This is an outlier and isn't repeatable due to the limitations of the approach. So, skill selling isn't particularly scalable ... value selling is scalable.

However, there are more experienced hackers on this forum who have done such stuff way more meaningfully and at scale. That can be a topic for an Ask HN and will likely gather lots of insights if it gets momentum.

PS: Pls don't mistake this as a get rich quick idea. The message is to figure out and deliver business value (functionality, time, organization, entertainment) ... what have you ... and figure out a way to deliver it through a technical medium (be it HTML/CSS, Node, PHP, Rust, Scala, Python, R ... or whatever). PHP can do it too!

There are many things to learn and become good at. Technical prowess in isolation is surely not one of them.

Hope this helps.
Canadian teachers are not underpaid though
In my experience, it is hard to tell the difference between someone who killed it at a job for 1 year and moved on from someone who couldn't hack it and moved on. Promotion at a company signifies that they were well received and able to adapt and meet milestones. Same job title in and out reads to me to believe that they couldn't hack it and were no goes development opportunity.

IMHO, a promotion before you leave confer s legitamacy to your tenure.
It's been developed so fast! I think official kernel support will be released with 5.13, so just a few weeks now.
Extended to absurdity this framework leads to cringey edge examples about could be justified on the basis “someone worse” exists.