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>I don't know how you can dispute that if you are trying to compute A where A = B/C and you don't have a fixed value for B, then you cannot know A with any certainty.

I'll argue that C, the benefits, are also unknown. What about the long term effects of COVID-19? What if a new more deadly, more infectious or vaccine-resistant variant appears that could have been prevented from a quick mass vaccination?

You can only make the best decision from what we know at this time.
Both are functional styles.

(defn foo01 [a]
(let [b (x a)
c (y b)
r (z b c)]
r))

and

(defn foo02 [a]
(z (x a)
(y (x a))))

are both valid.

I prefer the first one where I can see the intermediate steps clearly.
Your comment can be read as being a little mean but I love it.

I think anyone can ask any type of question but being in management consulting for so long should have allowed him to have a better idea of what it would like to make such a change.
Oh, one other fun thing. We had a schoolday that ended with a 30 minute activity period where every student had to sign up on some web interface to a different teacher's room. This was so that you could get help, meet with teachers, project groups, whatever if you needed it. But there were limited spots in each teacher's periods and you needed to sign up in advance, with no more signups allowed after noon on the same day. I took a look at the web interface and realized that all the checks were client-side, so I wrote a little script that would let me sign up for any activity period, at any time, even during the activity periods. It was good fun being able to switch periods at the end of the day, and seeing teachers being confused after they had called attendance, checked me in to their room, and then seeing me drop off the attendance and show up somewhere else. Gave me a free pass to go wherever I wanted which was nice.
> It was written in Nov 2020 as shown on the homepage.

Nobody visits homepages anymore. :)
Not shocking at all.

IMS has been continuously developed and evolved to do one job well.
I'm not sure how to phrase this in a blameless manner but the problem almost certainly is not the fact that you dropped out of college. In my experience (and the experience of most people I know who've applied for remote roles), implicit location/time zone requirements have been a way bigger disqualifier than education.

I'm also from a third world country (and not one with the best of reputations). I don't have a degree either and have way less work experience (or experience of any kind!) than you do. But I've found and held remote jobs, not with ease, but I did it. I did go through a period where it seemed I could not get a single interview, and what I eventually realised after feeling very sorry for myself was that I needed to both package myself better (my CV, while nicely formatted and free of errors, was pretty bad at conveying my strengths) and target my job search better. There are companies out there that are actually remote-friendly (or even remote-first), are open to hiring people outside North America and Europe, care about experience over tertiary education, and compensate well. Yet I kept applying to roles I knew I didn't have an equal (or any!) shot at largely because the companies were popular.
So am I being too paranoid here to say that a bot (or something) somewhere on HN is instantly downvoting my very good questions and substantiated claims?

I always ask whoever disagrees to have the courage to sit down and discuss, but they always run away and never explain themselves.

Look really suspicious of either bot behaviour or just some angry hater don't you think?
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This assumes that the government actually reflects the will of the people. A majority of people seems to want at least some type of reform on this matter [0], but our elected officials aren't following though with it. Some have made promises that they haven't kept, but most politicians seem to not care about the will of the people.

0 - https://theharrispoll.com/student-debt-reform/
For me, as a hiring manager, the part that sticks out is "I live in a 3rd world country." That's going to make it hard for the majority of companies to hire you. They don't have a business presence there, they don't know the laws, taxation, etc. You're also not going to have timezone overlap with the rest of the remote team you might work with. Very few companies will even look at your resume because of that.
Those stills have about the same quality as your typical Bigfoot photo though.

Why not just release a damn video?
I disagree that the unstated assumption is eternal preservation of all writing. IMO the author is clearly focusing on official or semi-official published information, not necessarily what you and I write on places like HN.
Someone I know is looking into building tiny home communities for the impoverished. He has not been impressed by the available resources.

Overwhelmingly, these tiny/modular homes are hype. If you want to build a tiny home (or really any home), do it with 2x6s and nails. You can get cheaper roughing with rammed earth, CMUs, etc, but finishing is more expensive.

Timber homes at that size can almost compete on price (because most of your members are under 12'), but some of the new energy saving building codes are not timber frame friendly.

You can buy a prefab SIP home, but generally it will always be cheapest to just build the thing in place. Especially if you are planning on building more than one at a time.
If you have evidence, post it. Let's see the pcaps.
Indeed. That is definitely the next steps to allow individuals and eventuall companies to create their own principle lists.

There are no principles that make sense in every situation, there are no teams that will have the same principles.

Imagine being able to have a team and then adopt those principles easily into your team? That's the goal.
Flagship example of GitHub Copilot uses a float to store a monetary value
Your advice is pretty good but it only really applies to junior level roles.

If you’re applying for mid level up and the only relevant experience you have for the role is a github profile with side projects, thats not going be enough to get an interview. Recruiters who screen candidates won’t even check out github profiles let alone evaluate their content.

Degrees are not really a hard barrier nowadays to get interviews. What’s important is relevant experience. OP doesn’t sound like they have relevant professional experience to the roles they’re applying for. which is probably why they are not getting interviews and is incorrectly blaming their lack of degree as the reason
But those notable people are the exception not the norm.

Norm is that people go through college to learn about complex things in computing.

That is why it is also norm to put it as a requirement in recruitment.
The second sentence was even more ambiguous than the first one
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Presumably "Bologna" is referring to the bologna process?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_Process

(I had only heard of the city in Italy and the type of sausage so was confused, this was the most likely sounding thing that came up on a search)
Yahoo did this in the 1990s and it was cool for a while, but the net got too big to maintain the directory. There was an open alternative but it got inundated by spam of course.
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>A certain subset of the population is willing to check the box that says "I meet these requirements" and then later push around the interviewer and say they don't actually meet them but that they ought to be considered anyways.

Yeah, I'm honest in interviews. Getting past Automated Resume Sorting Equations (ARSE) is tough. As soon as I talk to a real human, I'm honest and explain what I know and don't know.
Unions (and striking) become rather impotent when the means of production run by themselves and you no longer need workers.
In my experiences of mentoring underrepresented groups in the industry, it’s a matter of morality. Many see it as straight up dishonest to do so. It’s not just some secret hack they can just employ; you’re asking them to cast their morals aside and do something they believe is wrong.

I actually think this _worse_, let alone _much harder_ than simply telling HR to chill with that shit.
In my CA county, the newest ADU rule states that it can't be used for short term rentals. Of course, you are grandfathered in if you already had an ADU.
One of the minimum requirements that I have in a company is that their HR department understands the definition of the word minimum.
The tone of the responses here is absurd. Guys, be grateful for some progress. Instead of having to retype boilerplate code, your productivity is now enhanced by having a system that can do it for you. This is primarily about reducing the need to re-type total boilerplate and/or copy/paste from Stackoverflow. If you were to let some of the people here run things we'd never have any form of progress with anything ever.
I fail to see your point. Floats are best practice for many financial applications, where model error already eclipses floating point error and performance matters.
> It makes no difference without force behind it.

This is simply a false, anti-democratic trope. Protests interfere with everything from traffic to economies. And much more, they express intent to the leaders: Do something or be voted out of office, because we are motivated. The history of change through protest is very long.
I exactly had the same thought few weeks back on Twitter. Since I have ditched the whole 'social media bubble' for my mental health, it seems sometimes I wish there was some sort of HN-like aggregator for Tweets from my favorite topics and people.
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A problem is that people have different things in mind when they ask for estimates.

For some, an accurate estimate would mean that 50% of the time you're over and 50% of the time you're under. But management too often takes this type of 50/50 estimate and then makes all kinds of promises and contracts based on it. If you want an estimate that we're going to hit 99% of the time, that is going to be much much higher. Many places I've worked management would balk at any discussion of percentages like this when making estimates.

As the saying goes: What you say is "there's a 50% chance we'll be done in 6 months, if there's no distractions". What they hear is "I promise we'll be done in 6 months".
That is what I thought too, and then we were hit with smog from forest fires. But you are right a few hot days a year do not warrant getting air conditioning, I just found absence of it unusual
Needing to use 'site:______.com' in the search query defeats the purpose of an internet search engine.

I agree that it is necessary today, due to the sheer amount of useless sites that pop up on page 1 of the search. I wish Reddit invested more into making their internal site search better. If people did their searches directly on websites, Google would have an incentive to improve search results so it wasn't always the same 10-20 websites topping the list for nearly every query.
Seems like giving time-based estimates just isn't feasible, though. Sure, for some types of problems it's not hard (though it feels like tasks that can be that easily estimated should probably be automated), but many are new/hard problems that need to be solved. Yes, it would be great to have accurate time-based estimates, I don't think anyone disagrees with that. But there are lots of things that would be great that we can't have.

Maybe just ranking tasks by difficulty, or using Fibonacci rankings as recommended by some for Agile story points, would be a better use of everyone's time. That way, you can still say "A is roughly X times harder than B", without trying to rely on (almost certainly wrong) estimates in terms of days/months/years.
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Lynne Kelly's book, "Memory Craft", explores memory palace techniques used from ancient times by different cultures. She is the current Australian Senior Memory Champion. The most intriguing thing for me is how she has turned her walks around her neighbourhood into her memory palace. I think though she now prefers to call them her songlines, mimicking how the aboriginal people of Australia created memory songlines based on their landscape. This has given her a deep attachment to her surrounds. She spoke on Australian radio in 2019: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/lynne-ke....
Instead of making NDAs illegal, the tax breaks should be illegal. Then corporations could not "shop" different local governments to negotiate for the lowest tax bill.
> I'm guessing it's highly effective at selecting for the kind of candidates these companies want.

Why would a like a large company favors candidates that are willing to jump through hoops?

Perhaps they are selecting for docile, dutiful, eager to please?
Well to quote the "what" of the principle https://principles.dev/p/iterate-in-thens/

You should iterate sequentially on a focused chunk of work at a time. Once that chunk has been completed THEN start on the next chunk of work. This is opposed to doing multiple chunks of different of work in parallel.

It's really a way of working as opposed to operating on code.
So google pays the highest but still thinks engineers are paid too much? Why not pay them less.. the set high tier?

For google support employees cost too much.
Stop talking about arguments we have been having for decades as if we have yet to even discuss them. We are crying out now, we have been crying out about AI since its depictions in sci-fi, it is precisely your sentiment that "ooOOoOhh we're gonna have something scary to deal with SOON" that is dangerous because the soon just pushes the argument out of your personal responsibility and off on someone else... when it really will be too late. Though I would argue we are already too late because we've sold out to corporations and their literal 1984 fascist fever dreams all for iphones, technicolor distractions, further bread and circuses.
This is how all of the FAANG companies hire.
>is it possible to get something better for 50k?

Theoretically, yes. In practice, finding a builder who wants the job is pretty impossible.
This is exactly what I mean when I talk about misaligned incentives. Making money isn't the only reason people want an education, but that's the only thing Holberton is going to prepare students for, because that's how Holberton makes their money.

This is reflected in what Holberton offers: if I'm understanding correctly, they offer 7 different kinds of computer programming and 0 different kinds of pre-med, elementary education, psychology, etc. While nobody would argue that these aren't necessary components of our society, they don't fit Holberton's business model--a student with an elementary ed degree doesn't walk out of Holberton and start making close to six figures with which to pay Holberton back.

There's nothing wrong with having a more focused school, of course, but realize that the way Holberton is getting around the chicken-and-egg problem I'm talking about is by picking a field of education where there isn't a chicken-and-egg problem: you don't need a degree to work in computer programming. And in fact, you don't need to take classes at Holberton: I know two different programs that will pay you to learn computer programming, instead of you paying. This has done exactly nothing to solve the problem I'm talking about: it just avoids it.
Maybe they could start paying property taxes.
I'm more interested in bringing back giant bugs from the carboniferous period.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropleura

I have also thought about selectively breeding bugs in a high oxygen environment. We have made major changes to dogs and livestock through selective breeding. I'm sure we could make some giant bugs too.
Both Amazon and Aliexpress/baba follow a "this is a city" mentality. Crime and such are understood as statistics, not as a thing happening under their roof. This is a "beef up police funding next cycle" kind of problem.

Any one scam might be defeatable, but "scamming exists" seems to be true in any marketplace with enough participants.
How will you train your world model? Cross-entropy loss? Oh, it's reward again.
"Its creator, Prof Stefan Klein, said it could fly about 1,000km (600 miles), at a height of 8,200ft (2,500m), and had clocked up 40 hours in the air so far."

That sounds like pretty good mileage? Depending on the size of the tank, 1000km is pretty good range for an automobile.
Note that these are surface temperatures, while weather is usually reported as air temperatures. The air temperatures were around 30C, per the article.

Surface temperatures vary a great deal, asphalt in the sun for instance can be 30C+ hotter than the surrounding air.

Climate change is real, and human-caused. The Arctic is in crisis, and land temperatures matter. But it is not 48C up there in the same sense that it was 46C/115F in the Pacific Northwest this week.
As much as CATL. Or Tesla, soon.
It is a pretty interesting story, David Geffen apparently lied on his resume that he graduated from UCLA (he never even went there) to get a job in the mail room at WMA, from which point he moved up in the world. He also gave couple hundred million to UCLA once he became rich.
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I could be misremembering this, but wasn't there some drama about five years ago about schools literally investing a lot of their endowment and the like in hedge funds?
Those of us with Aphantasia[1] are jealous of people that can visualize anything at all, let alone a memory palace.

Not all of us are "jealous" of course, but a memory palace seems like an incredibly useful technique if you can master it. I wind up just taking a lot of notes and relying on a Reminders app.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
Oh man. I remember this as it was coming out. It was certainly a wild ride... I was in high school at the time and didn't know how to react to the whole protest thing. I remember I played the heck out of the demo that he released for the Nintendo DS - the Tetris parody in-game, "Tetrid", was a bit of a mindbend, and could probably cause seizures, but the deformed block shapes made an interesting puzzle.
Not in the bank. In a basket of investments that doesn't entirely align with Yale's mission statement.
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Visiting an old forum and all the pictures will be gone because, surprise, free image hosting doesn't make economic sense.
Good health and proper nutrition is the not the baseline, as over 40% of children in the US are overweight, obese, or severely obese [1].

Two parents, let alone parents who "don't suck", is also not the baseline, as 25% of children grow up in single parent households [2].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity-child-17-18/obe...
[2] https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/543941-americas-single-p...
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Throwable military robots sent to assist with Florida condo collapse
An analyst criticised, saying certification is a bear and not easy to meet.

But this isn't a commercial airliner that will be in the air for 40 years. This is a consumer car. Surely the certification shouldn't be for 1M hours as cited?
This con artist is still at it? Wow.
https://archive.ph/dJ1fU
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post-Glacial_Sea_Lev...
Who wrote the Dictator's Handbook? I haven't heard of it.

But yes, I think that's the basic idea. There are many levers to political power. Sometimes people think that authoritarians rule by fiat, like a god, but they also are balancing and managing many political factors (though not so much the free will of the people).
Oh man, that got meta super fast. Its like a mobius strip!
Fundamental secret? I thought this is obvious. Imagine the following simple model. People have 3 normally distributed attributes: luck, talent and laziness, their sum determines succcess. If you generate 1 million people and sort them by success, the top 1000 will be good at all of the 3 attributes
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Experience leading consumer-based projects with industry-wide impact

Everything definitely had some impact across every industry, not always good.

Proven cross-functional partner, working across functions to drive solutions

CS, electronics and economics.

Experience in mentoring/influencing senior engineers across organizations

7 years guest university lecturer

12+ years of experience in programming languages (Python, C++, Java or R) with a technical background

Started in 1997

8+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, NLP, data mining, or artificial intelligence
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related technical field

Build and deployed 20 or 30 projects in all areas since 1997
PhD in economics and computer science

Highly experienced in the mobile graphics pipeline and interaction across display and optics

only been doing that for 10 years or so.

Experience in encoding/compression technologies in graphics display pipeline

dds isn't that special

Experience in working with graphics hardware and drivers on mobile platforms

vulkan crashes a lot.

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Now mine.

#1 Not US based

#2 Not an evil company

....
Oh dear, good luck everyone.
As someone who's company is doing exactly that (albeit with only 1 day per week) I can't see that happening here.

Agreeing on a day between 6 people isn't that hard (disagreement can just be solved by the TL making the decision) and once the policy exists it's hard to put the genie back in the bottle.

Forcing everyone to come in seems like a huge political blunder for a TL, why would they do that?
I always look into the internals of libraries I use, it's usually easier, and faster than reading the documentation. Sure, there are some libraries that so advanced that it makes this difficult, but you should still know what it's doing, and how the code is organized.

The idea of an abstraction layer is to make it easier to read and write code that is at a different layer. Many of us write our own abstractions, it's not because we don't understand what its doing.
There is one exception to your location arbitrage: those who want a hobby farm. if you need to go to the office every day your hobby farm will be close to the city. If you only go in once a week a 1.5 hour drive doesn't sound so bad and you can move farther out meaning more land for the same number of people who want a horse or whatever.

This is only a tiny subset of people though, and is more the exception that proves the rule.
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No, many are toppled and replaced by democracies. That's where all the democracies came from - they didn't start that way.
Not a lawyer, but in that case it seemed to be a factor that turnitin was transformative, because it never sold the texts to others and thus didn't reduce the market value of them. But that wouldn't apply to copilot which might reduce the usage of libraries since you can "code" equivalent functionality with copilot now.

Would it be a stretch to assert that GPL'd libraries have a market value for their creator in terms of reputation etc.?
At my last company I worked on two very different sides of it throughout my time there. One side did no estimates at all as the nature of the work could afford that. The other side heavily relied on estimates and spent a lot of time planning and creating them. I found the non-estimate side of the company vastly more sane, enjoyable, less stressful, etc.

I get why stakeholders want estimates, don't get me wrong. But I can't help but think just letting them go and trusting the team is ultimately more effective in many cases.
Can Tesla align body panels yet?

I want Tesla to succeed but I know of several horror stories with quality and getting any kind of support or repairs post-purchase. They have some work to do.