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> Our teachers are woefully underpaid, in general, which means we’re not necessarily getting the students access to the best learning

Throw as much money at the problem you want. But until the philosophy of education changes, you won't be any better at creating successful computer scientists and programmers.

Our entire education system (even at the University level, which waters down curriculum to keep butts in seats) is now driven by a philosophy of maximizing equity, not opportunity. Writing software is a skill that requires high aptitude, and the needs of high aptitude learners are almost ignored by those deciding education policy and spending. The budget, teaching strategy, and curriculum focuses almost entirely on appealing to and raising the lowest common denominator.

In fact, aptitude is generally associated with the ultimate evil of the social justice crusader: privilege. It will (continue to) be shunned and bullied accordingly.
Sweet potatoes?
The halting problem can exist in bounded memory. A jump instruction that jumps to itself would be the most simple example.
Its not clear to me why it is permissible for schools to ever punish children for nonviolent speech in the united states, the fact that it's even up for debate calls into question if the constitution still is the highest law of the land. I don't see the part where the rights only kick in once you are 18.
GCP vs AWS in 2021 – A Cloud Computing Face Off
Cloud computing has drastically reformed the world of data analytics and technology. This article is going to talk about Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services in detail. The two tech companies are known for their tremendous contribution to cloud computing technology will be pitted against each other; – GCP Vs AWS.
Please ignore this "study" and whatever Jaroslav Flegr says. At my university he was mocked for his misuse of statistics - he does it even in this article, giant models with huge sample sizes finding correlations everywhere with p < 0.1.

Also, in this article https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11... he says that "pathogen responsible for mood disorders in animals-injured subjects is probably not the protozoon Toxoplasma gondii but another organism; possibly the agent of cat-scratched disease – the bacteria Bartonella henselae."
So did he discover yet another behaviour change inducing organism, or is he simply a shitty scientist? Let's have a look: he recruits respondents via Facebook, they take 4 psychological questionnaires (which are usually not very reliable and shouldn't be used in giant correlation tables) and finds effect sizes ranging from eta2 = 0.004 to eta2 = 0.045. Just look at this table - https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11... - results are significant because the sample size is 5000, but what are the practical differences? Barely 1 point on a scale that itself has reliability around 0.9 (which is good, but it still leads to standard measurement error greater than Flegr's effect sizes).
Ceiling fans used like that is an old fashioned method that was common in the Deep South of the US before AC, I believe. I would say that fits with what I am talking about.

Thank you for replying.
We can only hope, the bastards.
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> From a safety perspective, the choice of language is inconsequential.

Citation very much needed. Some safety-critical projects choose to use Ada over C or C++, despite that there are far fewer Ada programmers out there, and that there are fewer development tools for Ada. The people running those projects presumably disagree with you.

We know that the choice of language is very consequential regarding cybersecurity. The many foot-guns of C and C++ are the root of a significant fraction of security vulnerabilities. Saying that these same foot-guns are of no consequence in safety-critical software seems like a remarkable claim.

This document [0] explicitly disagrees with your position that language is of little consequence. (Not to gloss over that it appears to have been funded by AdaCore, who are of course motivated to reach that conclusion.)

[0] See especially page 12: (PDF) https://www.adacore.com/uploads/techPapers/Controlling-Costs...
Snotel is a 9 khz channel bandwidth, BPSK data at 4000 bits per second
That does not sound direct at all.
This post inspired me to finally unbox the PinePhone Beta Edition I've had sitting on my desk for a couple months, thanks! Now just waiting for a microSD card to arrive, I didn't have any laying around sadly.
Everything does not need to be made part of culture wars.

Why would using she be any different than he? It's like Alice and Bob of oh so many quantum thought experiments but without Bob. If there is only one protagonist you have to go 50/50.
I’m an experienced programmer and I hope a pretty good one. At least I’m paid that way so maybe it’s true.

I make mistakes. Sometimes there’s a typo. I sometimes miss that there was already a utility function that basically does that. Sometimes another engineer knows a better way to achieve the same thing. Sometimes I left in something unnecessary and missed it when I reviewed the changes.

I like having eyes on my code because it gives me reassurance and occasionally I learn things. It’s not an issue of trust.
Crushing climate impacts to hit sooner than feared: draft UN report
Well, we’re boned..
> Just because we don’t know the precise cause doesn’t mean we cannot, in the meantime, help alleviate the symptoms for someone suffering from the syndrome (since we don’t know the precise cause).

I didn’t imply anything contrary to that.

> Please don’t get in the way of this by implying people are “making it up,” because, simply, they are not. Both of these are extremely well studied syndromes, but really only in the last few decades.

I didn’t imply people are making it up.

HN guidelines are “Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.”.

I understand that you find it natural to jump to conclusions about what others think, but it really damages good discussion.

> correlations

Exactly - for many psychiatric symptoms the causes are not actually known -instead we just measure a bunch of complicated things and try to read the tea leaves.
After the Battle of Britain ended, and Operation Barbarossa started, it was impossible for Germany to invade the UK. That was 6 months before the US entered the war.

I get the point you're making, but American military involvement had almost nothing to do with the UK repelling German invasion specifically.
I suspect that Azure Dev Ops is more comparable to Jira and is their real MS competition.
How many times do you want to train entry level employees over the course of a project for a few years?

How much will that training cost in terms of time spent hiring and onboarding over the duration of the project?

What is the productivity loss of doing the "lets hire a senior?" ... and not incurring the other expenses of training entry level who leave after a year?
Galileo was famous for being a martyr, not a genius.
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Damore said that men are better engineers than women. That is false.

Please go to https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideol... and come back quoting his exact words on that topic. We'll wait.

Oh, right. You can't. Because he never said that, nor did he say anything that amounted to that. When it comes to false claims, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones and all that.
In my experience, there's the "software developer" and the "formware developer," and as more companies go through a real "Digital Transformation," they begin to require their programmers to do more advanced tasks that go beyond form-based CRUD applications.
I think it's important to remember that there are two types of progress - evolutionary and revolutionary.

By numbers, advancements are overwhelmingly evolutionary - small steps in a predictable direction. If you want to be a scientist or an inventor or what have you, most of your career is going to be spent on these evolutionary steps. Such evolutionary work is well suited to teams and larger organizations, and results are a consequence of the amount of effort that goes in to them rather than individual competency.

However the revolutionary advances which shift our paradigms are extremely important, despite being very rare. Such revolutions can not be planned and thus are rarely the product of large scale collaboration. Maybe an individual has a moment of insight while taking a bath, perhaps some friends on a train have just the right conversation, but it's always a unique mind viewing the problem from a new perspective that upends everything. Yes that person is probably not literally cut off from all of society, but unless you're being ridiculously pedantic "lone genius" is a pretty good description.

While as stated it's incredibly dumb to bet everything on being one of these lone geniuses, the fact is societal advance does depend on large numbers of people cultivating unique minds that might glean such rare insights under the right circumstances. Statistically you are much more likely to be successful as an accountant than an artist, but how terrible would life be if therefore no one pursued art?
Serious question: how long have you had the machine? If it's more than a year or two you might want to consider opening it up and blowing out all the dust and fluff. I have a 2015 model that runs it just fine, but would really have struggled two weeks ago before I gave it a clean out. Feels like I just upgraded the thing.

I generally do this every year or two but recently I've been doing a lot of work on the house so it's been particularly dusty with debris from plasterboard, cutting timber, sanding, etc.
Could be a measurement artifact: maybe people are just consistently satisfied with phones, period.

Also, the 2021 data being referenced is comparing phone hardware, not ecosystems.
Supreme Court Rules for Cheerleader Punished for Vulgar Snapchat Message
South Africa is a small economy relative to US, EU(block) or China and has large income disparity(small, very wealthy upper/middle class).

$3.6B = ZAR51.17B (xe.com). That seems like a lot of savings for the small upper/middle class.

The name of the crypto company "afri" suggests it might have targeted the African market as a whole.

Can any Africans/South Africans explain how ZAR51.17B of savings accumulated in this crypto company(or scam)?

Is it like Madoff who conned rich people or did these guys manage to reach pensioners and steal their money too?
Ted Talks: The tyranny of merit – Michael Sandel
The core thing is that I haven't been a fan of the services layer described here. I'm more of the opinion that if you're going to use Django, use it all the way. Fat models and all that.

But, when I read more thoroughly, the guide makes a really compelling case. I've generally scoffed at the idea that you shouldn't couple your business logic to Django in case you want to swap out Django for something else. It's hard to imagine a realistic situation where that doesn't lead to a total rewrite anyway. But putting business logic in functions for readability and testability makes sense to me.

Other disagreements flow from that same one. Not testing your models much being an obvious one.

Not a fan of Hungarian notation. I've had a better experience with type hinting than the author.

I don't share the disdain for URL parameters.

From my first quick skim, that felt like a lot. But I really do agree with much more in this than I disagree with (one big app to start, small serializers, good function calls, unique names and lots more). And the things I do disagree with, this guide has me reconsidering (except type hinting. I love that shit). I mostly wanted to point out that even if I don't agree with everything written there, I think it's very well written.
YouTube announced the same change for "unlisted" video URLs today, too. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9230970
>I have not noticed a strong relationship between "the ability to DO THINGS" and someone's social or economic status.

Are we talking status relative to others or relative to the starting position?

There will always be the deadbeat child of someone wealthy who's still wealthier than you but all the "doers" I know have climbed the socioeconomic ladder at least a couple rungs in their adult lives.
Haven't done required code reviews in over 15 years. No need to. I care more about your tests and how your tests impacted how you wrote your code. That tells me everything I need to know.
Thank you. If there is no "need" for heat or cooling, likely there is some degree of vernacular architecture and passive solar design going on. It's just so normal you likely don't realize it is any different from how homes get built elsewhere and lifestyles elsewhere.
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If employers would have a pay 'stair' for new programmers jumping would not be advantageous. The root problem is employers punnishing not job hopping.
I just recommend this to some friends through the traditional communication channels. I learned a lot about the drug from the highly qualified Dr Pierre Cory in this podcast. Dr. Cory is a leading ICU lung disease specialist and testified to congress on treatment protocols early on in covid, recommending steroids 7 weeks before the oxford study. His in the trenches experience and insights are worth the listen.

They held this podcast early because of the big meta-analysis study that came out last week on ivermectin.

https://www.biospace.com/article/data-supports-use-of-anti-p...

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/oxford-university-explores-...
Because of ecosystem and water footprint impacts associated with dams, in conjunction with the operational requirements of power generation. Dams obviously convert a river into a lake and impede/alter natural migratory patterns. Less obviously, hydroelectric power generation dictates a pattern of water release that is at odds with other demands on water usage, for human and natural usage purposes. (You can imagine that downstream environments might benefit from water flow which is more steady, or which follows natural rhythms; this is in conflict to some degree with grid demand for power.)
I hate how every website is replacing gifs with videos you can't just right click to download.
Here is the cruel contradiction perceived by some job hunting devs:

Firms don't want to pay the wages of experienced developers.

Firms don't want to train inexperienced developers.

Thus you find the young developer who thinks that old developers have it made and the old developer who wishes they were young.
So this is basically a US version of Alibaba?
How do you define "succeed"?

Become CEO of a unicorn? Sure.

To live a happy and meaningful life? Or give a better life to your children? Then I don't agree. I would say for most its very hard to live a a happy meaningful life without working hard. There's some chance involved, sure. It would be hard to lead such a life if you're diagnosed with a debilitating disease. But I think the primary cause of success in this sense is hard work and sacrifice.
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Everyone should be free to request reviews by default if they wish.
> Extend issues with custom fields

Further support for my theory that every Trello eventually becomes a Jira.
> I also notice you use religious as a pejorative. There is little reason to do so.

While I tend to agree that Catholic schools are good at teaching science (except for reproductive science!), evangelical schools often teach against evolution, climate change, etc. A popular Christian textbook refers to the theory of evolution as “a wicked and vain philosophy.” And many of these schools accept vouchers! That means taxpayer funds set aside for education are actively being used, by religious schools, to make students dumber, in an explicit attempt at religious and political indoctrination.

https://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/education-creationism...
>The real loser here is the future of the US dollar.

This presumes that the quantity theory of money (and/or the theory of Ricardian equivalence) is correct, which it most likely is not[0]. Money printing does not cause hyper-inflation, as demonstrated in this CATO paper[1]. Governments are not households[2], because they hold monopolies on currency creation[3]. Also, currency creation is not 'debt'.[4]

It follows from this that there is a vast and largely unexplored space on the graph of currency creation over time, where the line can rise before it triggers negative systemic effects. A fiscally sovereign nation can never run out of its own currency.

This policy space is where the future lies, awaiting us. The worldview-assumptions implicit in your question would discourage us from exploring this space. That, in my view, would be the heart of folly.

Many thinking people in the economic and policy professions are realizing this, and not a moment too soon.

0. https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_money-and-banking-v2.0/s...
1. https://www.cato.org/working-paper/world-hyperinflations
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba8XdDqZ-Jg
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AyT9zftNrE
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIe_BiRIlgU
Can't wait when we can actually select for or even apply this to future children. Give them a leg up right away

/s
Yea, but I mean who would want to cash out their pennies earned anyways. Only businesses/creators should be cashing out and they would need to KYC for any normal donations. Users should be just donating their pennies to creators and websites, which doesn’t take any KYC.
I think hard currencies took care of trust about intrinsic value. It's only the establishment of rule-of-law and regulations allowed fiat currencies to proliferate. Regulations were written in the tears, fears, and anger of common folk. There's essentially no way to trust someone else with a BTC wallet and there's no trust in BTC's value because there's nothing behind it... it shouldn't be used to store value long-term, only for quick, transactional events.

Banks and municipalities who issued their own fiat currencies I believe encountered many more problems.
The article makes a big deal about the idea that code reviews show a lack of trust, and that not having mandatory code reviews shows that people trust each other.

This just isn't correct. People make mistakes all the time. It's human. Code reviews can help catch some of them before they become bugs that need to be fixed. This has absolutely nothing to do with trust. If you have people who think that requiring code reviews mean that you don't trust them, you've hired some overly-sensitive people who have inflated opinions of their abilities and are ignorant of basic realities about software development.

I agree that some reviews end up being perfunctory (either due to a busy reviewer, or the trivial nature of a change), but as much as I am generally a process hater, I think code reviews should be generally mandatory, but with a culture of merging small, seemingly-safe changes without review, when soliciting one would be an unnecessary burden. Even then, everyone working on a shared code base should be opening PRs for those sorts of things, even if they just merge them immediately without comment. That way you can use PRs as a communication tool (to let others know what's going on; even more useful in a heavily-developed repository), and if someone really does want to look over something after the fact, they can do so.
You would think this -- then you look at their balance sheet and re-evaluate everything you think about software.
So, yeh I partly agree.

However those orgs often have a Very Big License for GitHub Enterprise, and therefore with some enterprise porting tools it's not that high friction a switch (supplier managers will be all in favour; one less contract to manage!)
I've always thought of hard work to be one of the prerequisites to success, it's not enough on it's own, and it has to be in the right direction, and it has to have luck and/or the right network to stick. So it's necessary but not enough to go the distance, just like having a running car without fuel won't be enough to get you there.
I am not exactly sure if/how this will help.

But I am a 26 year old sales guy, who is in a similar boat (I wouldn't say I am depressed but have this deep intense feeling of "something is missing" I need to do more. I think I have had a mixed career, My first job I was PIP'd and I voluntarily left soon after. My second job I was the company's number 1 salesperson (Out of 60) and made a ton of money, I again soon left after- because "Something" was missing. My third job was so-so at best and again I felt something... On my 4th Job now, doing great by all respects, and yet I am interviewing for another job (Scratching my head on why).... The only rational explanation I have found is I love change... if you have savings and a good relationship with family/GF, I think a good idea might be to take some time off and spend sometime away from it all to think about what "really matters" and then come back and find your next path...
Threats to staff and hacking are already illegal and I think would be exceptions to the 1A. Extreme bullying while vile, isn't necessarily illegal. If it happens on school grounds or affects a student, there may be merit to pursue the allegations. But flipping off the school off-campus should never have been a reason to punish the student.

People talk shit about their friends, employers, rivals, etc. all the time, in private. That should always be possible. I would not want a society where we are never supposed to say negative about anything or anyone.

In one extreme view, expressing omnivorous preferences and and thus eating animals is "hate speech" toward animals.
They were apparently offering 10% per day returns. What could possibly go wrong?
If it’s not surprising why do you seem so confident that legalizing prostitution is the best idea? It sounds like in the less than ideal world we live in it’s likely to lead to more human trafficking, and more negative situations for women generally.
...but software engineers are not "repairing" things, we're building systems. Mechanics repair things in a similar way because there's literally repair manuals from the manufacturer that tell them how to repair your vehicle because _the manufacturer_ has thought of how to repair things.

You'd be surprised how much variation there is in the solution when it comes to autofabrication, and yes there's similar amounts of "figuring it out" that there is in the software world.

Quite frankly the automechanics <-> software engineer analogy is apples to oranges.
> don't you think it would be smart of them to release some numbers

I think it is smarter for them to operate in the same legal construct as everyone else: only admit what you are legally required to admit.
It’s not a binary issue. My point is that your argument can’t end at “criminalizing sex workers is bad!” That’s true, but there are many aspects to that, as well as adjacent issues like the ability to obtain health insurance. The Reddit post we’re discussing is a perfect example of how
myopic “legalization” can be insufficient to actually protect sex workers.
Which are some other? I can only find French and Spanish (and "beginner Italian") with a quick search. These are the three biggest Latin/Germanic languages -- not a huge selection.
While Russian media reports that it happened, which is the basis of BBC's reporting.
That's also very good to know.

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