skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
..or time. Schools in the UK have already got a curriculum that's pretty full. Everyone will have their own different list of "essential life skills" and trying to fit them all into the curriculum is impossible.

One thing that is often missing from these conversations is that arguably the goal of education isn't really to teach you any specific skill, but rather to give you the capability to learn things by yourself.

Part of this process will necessarily mean teaching you things like reading and writing, but whenever I hear "My school didn't teach me X, so I had to teach myself, wasn't my school terrible", I think "no, probably not."
The US definition seems more robust, as otherwise, I could somehow steal something you built (e.g. a farm) and then generously allow you to continue using it, perhaps for a fee. You would therefore not be deprived of it but I would still be the new owner or user.

It seems unlikely this distinction would ever matter in a real court though.
As I scroll, and scroll some more, I begin to wonder if some of it is generated. That's a lot of text :P
These are linked. Students don’t have basic language skills because they don’t engage with exemplary works. If your only input is “Twitter speak and memes” then it’s not surprising that no one can communicate intelligently.
Here we go again.

The view in this article is that DevOps is a role, it was never meant to be this way.

The whole purpose of DevOps was to break down barriers between Dev and Ops, by not creating specialist roles and allowing developers to take ownership of ops, removing the need for the SysAdmin gates.

Instead what this article highlights is that we’ve moved the complexity to specialist tools which require another specialist role.

I would say this suggests you’re solving the wrong problem.
Gamma is about outputting to the monitor. HDR or not, the pipeline should be linear and the output converted to whatever the display needs.
We are getting more and more servers, more containers, more complex, dynamic infrastructure, more API driven infrastructure etc. All of this is driven with automation created by DevOps engineers. In addition, there is an absolute mountain of old stuff to modernise and automate.

DevOps is going nowhere. It’s day 1.
afaik, only merge commits have two parents. Then the source branch would still point to the head of that branch. Furthermore, without having checked, aren't merge commits deterministic in the order of references? I wouldn't be surprised if this information isn't trivially available in a porcelain command but more surprised if it's lost
Mathematics in isolation is a social anti-pattern.

Individuals keep arriving at the same conclusions, but they invent different notations/languages to express those results. Communication stalls. Tribes form around languages/styles of expression.

It's much much worse than wheel re-inventing too. It takes a very long time to figure out that two Mathematical constructions/notations are equivalent.

It took decades for somebody to notice that proofs are programs.
It's funny how China related threads are always full of ad hominem attacks on on whoever the official party villain is for that story.

Feels like propaganda on multiple levels. The strange arguments and random statistics. The attacking fairly sympathetic parties. Exactly following the party line.
> Its a very poorly written article with all the buzzwords one can think of.

Agreed. Reminds me of articles and blogs that GitLab team publishes these days.
I don't entirely agree. School certainly gave me no formal help with learning to handle social situations. I learned the majority of those skills through hobbies at Uni.

While I did learn reading, writing and math, my writing skills were subpar and this was never spotted or addressed. More importantly most of the writing skills taught were essay writing or letter writing. The former isn't particular relevant to the writing I do in day to day life and the latter was archaicly formal. The most valuable writing skills I got from school were actually science report writing (helped a lot with documentation and communication in a work setting) and even then I've learned far more from organisational roles in my hobbies and during my career than I ever did at School (or the formal education part of uni).
In some ways, we are poorer than our parents. Sure, we can buy TVs that are a ten times bigger for a fraction of the inflation adjusted price..

But we’re talking roads here, and roads are built with bitumen. The fact is that bitumen is getting scarcer and more expensive. Our cars are getting more fuel efficient and EVs don’t use fuel at all. But the cars still require the same amount of road, the same amount of bitumen, or maybe even more since cars are heavier and faster now.

We can’t extract oil just to make bitumen. That’s not economical. We primarily extract oil to get the fuel we need, and we get a certain amount of bitumen as a by-product.

Our parents generation was lucky that oil was practically pouring out of the ground..
I thought it was a hilarious stroke of creative genius.
From the sound of this is sounds like Microsoft should just clean slate and fire the entire Windows terminal team and management, and hire casey to rebuild a new team.

he sounds like he might not consider himself an expert on all of the elements, but he definitely has enough understanding and vision to know who to hire in, and get rid of the whole “acceptance of horrible performance” culture plaguing the current team.
I don’t think the article’s solution is a good one. The CPU metric is on its own really hard to understand and complex. I’d rather have the OS to understand and report when the CPU is throttled and do the reporting accordingly. So the metrics are easier to interpret.
You’re probably correct. It will be interesting to see how long she remains in the John Lewis role.
Couple that with adhd meds which induces a state of compulsiveness where one obsesses and marvels delusionally at their code writing ability.
Yeah, new labour actually did well until 2011. Since then it's fallen in cash terms I believe? I should have said "a decade".

https://ifs.org.uk/publications/14369

This is without accounting for any of the other factors: closure of special needs schools, forcing more kids to stay longer and take all classes, banning expulsions, etc.

We also spent a tonne of money on things like Academies and other political pet projects.
That's true but Germany also doesn't have speeding laws on their autobahns, and the UK does, so perhaps speeding laws are also crazy? Where does it end?
I was into VRML in the late 90s and have been in love with VR since the Lawnmower Man.

The kicker for me was the VR conference last year at the start of the pandemic that while anyone could attend in VR, only 25% did. Most thought attending on zoom was just easier. If it is not worth using VR for a VR conference then it seems pretty hopeless.

Maybe "virtual reality" has always been a mistake as a name as it is always going to under deliver.

I should be helping to build the Metaverse but I just don't believe in the concept anymore. At least not headset VR and I don't think I will live long enough to see an alternative.
> greater amount of time reading and writing on electronic devices.

It's not like they are reading anything well written or writing elegantly by themselves. Volume and quality are two different things.
Longest prompt it allows me is:

"It was late when the bell to my office rang, so late my secretary had already packed up for the night. I was sitting in the dark nursing a scotch I shouldn't finish, and I wasn't expecting new business at that hour. "Come in", I drawled, expecting one of the other private detectives in the building, mooching some booze or cigars. But it wasn't one of my weather-beaten comrades, it was a striking lady, tall and wearing an suit that explained very clearly she was not to be messed with. She was about my age, older than she felt but younger than you would think based on the outfit. "Are you Private Detective Maus?" she asked, her accent somewhere between Brooklyn and the Hamptons. "Call me Saul ma'am", I replied, "have a seat."

Anything longer than that - "Could not connect to the model" error.

Here is the result:

I fixed her with my best cool and witty stare and made myself very comfortable on the edge of my desk. "Now I'm not going to lie to you Miss, I don't know how you found me, but what you are asking is illegal, by law." I nodded at my glass of scotch, "but if you are desperate I'll help you out with a small fee." She smiled at me; the least I could do after she just walked in the door on my behalf, it's a first amendment issue. "I'm not desperate, I'm looking for information on a man named Clarence Berleth. He works here as a key-keeper for a judge on the third floor. It's fairly simple, all I need is the address and phone number to the judge's office." "Berleth's not a judge, he's a private detective." "Okay, fine, then I don't need a judge's help. I just need his address and phone number so I can call him up and ask him what he's doing talking to my husband. The judge doesn't seem to know anything about this little incident. No, wait, the judge seems to be related to the situation. But I don't think it's a good
> You can even use dynamic types to mandate that input is sanitized

If you're using types to mandate that input is santized, then that sounds like type safety to me!
I've tried VSCode a couple of times but I always go back to Neovim. VSCode still depends on the mouse and that kills it for me. I haven't found anything I can't do in Neovim actually. I have a nice setup with Tmux and being already in the terminal is just too convenient and fun.
The elderly population, while growing rapidly over the last century, had been quite insignificant as a share of the total population, until recently.

More generally, demographics cannot explain the slowdown in growth in my opinion. The age pyramid in 1980:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/1...

Seemed better suited to growth than the one in 1960:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/1...
Nice: telemetry, CLA and now data collection •`_´•

Soon it will be a closed source data collecting SaaS solution
Electron tube New Automatic Computer
It is. These days most things are more expensive in the UK than USA. Particularly housing.
Kids enter school at 5 or 6 with a range of reading abilities - some can recognise simple words, but very few are fully literate. The UK currently has a literacy rate of 99% -- something is going right.

Learning to write and perform basic maths doesn't seem that hard to us, but for most of human history was the reserve of a select few. Perhaps the fact that it seems so easy is actually because school can be quite effective at times?
Idk why I didn't think about this sooner. I need to sponsor as well. Neovim is a crucial part of my work.
I’ve never really gotten this argument. People can go really deep on Terraform, Cloud Automation, CI/CD, containerisation etc without being developers or sysadmins.

“DevOps Engineer” fits that role perfectly in spite of the breaking-down-siloes goodness.
Turbo. I miss the old turbo button, even when it didn't actually do much of anything.
Maths geniuses are hardly going to be applying for John Lewis jobs.
Obligatory reference to shellcheck:

https://www.shellcheck.net/
Exactly this. It has been shown time and time again that the surest way to reduce population growth is through education and increased social mobility. I think we can probably agree that it is the most ethical way as well.
For me, the threshold is when they actually start losing customers (or more specifically, losing revenue).
I read Lady Chatterley's Lover at ~15-17, some forty years ago... Really couldn't grok what all the fuss had been about; Felt mostly like "Didn't people back then even know where babies come from?". (Not that there were any babies made in it, AFAICR, but that level of naïveté.)
This article seems to completely miss the alternative explanation: that trees make a location more desirable and thus more valuable (and that the racial differences in tree coverage stem from racial differences in income).

Now, the redlining evidence shows that some of relationship runs in the (rich + white) → trees direction. But I posit that a significant portion of the correlation runs the other way: trees → rich.
Jeff Bezos leaves enduring legacy as he steps away as Amazon CEO
> Most people do not have one.

Statistics...

According to the 2019 AEI report on postsecondary attainment, the UK currently has 51.6% postsecondary attainment amongst those then aged 25-34: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/International...

Reports for the entire working-force (e.g. 25-65) will skew much lower due to the significantly lower percentage of postsecondary education in the overall population that started to rise through to the 1990s.
Can a soundbar rival a surround-sound system in a blind listening test? (2020)
I'm not sure about that. I do see a lot more intellectual rigor in the older techies than in the ones from my generation. Just basic grammar illustrate that well.

And it makes sense, if you can't rely on automatic systems to do part of your work, you will be trained by your daily tasks to be a more powerful thinker.

If what the company do is hard, being ok will not cut it. You cannot google your way into innovation, you can't copy/paste architecture design, and your calculator won't save you from a logical mistake.

I'm personnally very adapted to agile envs with margin of errors and a lot of feedback loops. But a waterfall is more challenging, because I'm not born in it. And you don't use scrum to build the path to moon landing.

More than that, I arised in the "a good dev is lazy" period, where working smart, not hard was praised. But hitting 30, reality calls back: there are no shortcut to awesomeness, you will have to work hard. And not many engineers are ready to do so. The ones who do often create their company.
Cultural changes would make that difficult. Nonetheless, here's a 100 year old exam that mostly still makes sense today and actually tests practical life knowledge, literacy and numeracy:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/1912-eighth-grade-exam_n_3744...

Not sure any kid today would understand the sentence "Decline I." though.
https://www.reseau-canope.fr/musee/collections/fr/museum/mne... some examples of old notebooks.
But would you have been able to learn from those roles if school hadn't laid the groundwork?

You can't expect a school to teach every child every skill they need for their adult life. It sounds like you were able to teach yourself the skills you needed to succeed -- in my eyes, producing children able to self-teach is the sign of a very successful school system.
It is more than a role, in many companies it even has a career path.
Why not free markets though? Why is this concept so dirty?

The idea housing is so expensive is just ridiculous. There should theoretically be no arbitrage between renting and owning. The market is so distorted though that the idea is a joke.

If there is something that free markets would do a very good job at solving it is this problem. If we don't believe in that at least we are really in trouble.

The really sad thing is this is just crushing poor people with rents. No one would be helped more by free markets in real estate than poor people.
But in practical circumstances (indoor air) you will suffocate through co2 poisoning long before you would notice less o2.
I have been hearing for at least 10 years that the role of sysadmin is dead....

Yet they are in more demand than ever today.. The role has changed, sysadmins today need to know more things that were exclusive to "devs" in the past, like version control... but administering systems weather they are fields of cloud cattle or onprem pet servers I still do not see the role of sysadmin going away...

sysadmins may manage more servers per admin, they may have other roles in addition to what as traditional sysadmin 15 years ago, but the vision of the author of a magical system were devs just hand over their code to AI, I think it fantasy
Quite interested what you could mean by this, could you elaborate?
specifically with regard to your question, you may find this research interesting: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep07660

also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektite
I think there are two different use cases:

- measurement at thread level (top and the like) should report
instructions retired per unit of time, not %CPU.
We want to know how much work is being done.
The explanation on why so much/so little requires more information
(scheduler? cache misses? cpu throttling?)

- measurement at the CPU level (mpstat, etc) should report
both %CPU (as "time active" vs "wall clock time") and
active clock cycles per unit of time
(dividing by clock stretching factor if used, and
perhaps scaled to absolute max frequency and/or %CPU
if one wants a percentage).

%CPU tells us whether we are making full use of the available time,
and perhaps suggests to schedule threads differently if appropriate

Clock cycles tell us how much one CPU is affected by throttling
(manual, automatic, due to C-state exits, etc), and this is an orthogonal
indication on whether there is something at the system level that is
making the CPU underutilized
Obits are a source for new and reminded music recently. Such talent.

Jon Hassell

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/arts/music/ellen-mcilwain...

https://yoshiwada.bandcamp.com/music

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/loretta-kle...
I gather that Dyson does actually pay fairly well in the UK, the problem is the UK as a whole really doesn't pay engineers that well - and not just SWE, but chem-eng, civil-eng, mech-eng, and so on.

I'm British myself but I've been living in the US west-coast for the past 7.5 years because I get paid 2-3x more here for the exact same work (heck, even 4x if you don't count London).

The reasons for the disparity are as complex as they are legion - but I believe the size of the market you can sell to matters the most - and with the UK out of the EU the size of the effective market it can realistically sell to has shrunk considerably, so I don't see things getting better at all for the UK eng sector.

...secondarily, the UK is having the same problem the US is having with boomer-generation people still working and occupying senior positions... and housing... which limits opportunities for nominal upward mobility in younger professionals, which in-turn suppresses total-comp. This is especially a problem given the UK's entrenched business culture which I'm not personally a fan of.
Being able to read "exemplary works" is a really strange and narrow definition of literate.

I also have to disagree that "twitter speak and memes" is not intelligent communication -- just because something is new, doesn't mean it's less intelligent.
Why should reading the Iliad be our standard for literacy? Our standard should be can they apply for jobs, understand bills, understand basic contracts for housing and jobs, read food and drug packaging etc. Those are the things that allow people to successfully navigate modern life.
This is fun! It took some prompt crafting to get actual "ASCII art" out of the model (with settings suggested elsewhere in these comments):

My name is GPT-J-6B and between the six backticks below you can see my face in 400 characters of ASCII art:

```
┌─────┐
│←┤
││(◣◡)│
│└─◡◢┘
│─┆┌─◢┌─┈┐
││││(|)││
│││(O)││
│└─└─┘─┘──┐
│└─└─┘─└─┘
│└─└─┘─└─┘
│└─└─┘─└─┘
└─└─┘─└─┘
```
> I do see a lot more intellectual rigor in the older techies than in the ones from my generation.

My experience has been the opposite - though as this is based on observation it's obviously subjective - and opportunities for selection-bias are also present (i.e. how many of the last-generation that didn't get promoted-out of being a technical contributor was because they were more valuable to the company that way?)

Your remark about automated tooling is interesting - because I feel that modern tooling (TLA+, Z3, constraint-provers, and cutting-edge languages like Haskell, Idris, and so on) really do require almost a postgraduate-level of understanding of the CS theory involved - whereas if you look at _the SE scene_ in the 1970s and 1980s - or even the mid-1990s, the tooling certainly did require you to do more planning and reasoning ahead of time (VB6, lol) but I can't see the entire industry of the time doing their modelling and verification entirely by themselves: on the contrary (and based on the horror-inducing programming code I've seen) a lot of it was ad-hoc and trial-and-error - Visual Studio didn't get built-in support for unit-tests until 2008 (or 2005 if you had the expensive edition). Also consider that the old SE processes used back then (Waterfall, boxed software, slow-moving-and-big release cycles, etc) meant there was more room for less-rigorous folks in large software dev teams.

> and your calculator won't save you from a logical listake.

For that, you need a spell-checker!

UPDATE: Ah, you edited your post, which ruins the joke :/
Thanks so much, that explains it! I was looking for an API document but, of course, couldn’t find one because it doesn’t exist. Inspecting the network requests is a great idea!

I’d like to try running the model myself. What would the a basic would the basics steps be for doing this?
Is a macbook pro from 2006 with linux on it :). Good luck trying to surf the net with safari on Snow leopard Mac os 10.6 , which incidentally i had to reinstall before i could transform it into Linux! I use the browser to get me i believe rEFind by roderick w. Smith. That was an experience, i tell you. The DRM stuff is not s problem on firefox after you install the packages it needs.
Israel Used First AI-Guided Swarm of Combat Drones in Gaza Attacks
The old Perforce Mainline Model[0] prescribes regular merges from the mainline into your working branch, in order to reduce the hit, when you merge back down, into the mainline.

Basic common sense, and it also applies to git. With git, those regular up-merges are a lot easier.

Personally, I have been using git for years, and have never looked back at Perforce, but learning on more primitive VCSes taught me a disciplined, careful approach.

I did have to “unlearn” a few things (mostly, relaxing, and having more faith in the tool), but the transition has been fairly smooth.

[0] https://www.perforce.com/video-tutorials/vcs/mainline-model-...
Not just "not open source", but Github specifically said they intend to monetize it.
It's a common wage for shop staff - most of the big supermarkets pay that amount. Smaller employers may only pay the "living wage" which is £8.91. The UK national minimum wage is £8.36.
I used to be a teacher in a school system that emphasized against rote learning, knowledge memorization, and numerical calculations (for physics). Well, we did do that stuff but it could only get the student a grade D or E. The massive problem was that even the teachers didn't understand what the mysterious higher level skills we were supposed to be teaching were or how to teach or assess them. The students had no hope of fair treatment. The official assessment criteria were wholistic and wordy. Numerical grades were forbidden, as was averaging scores from multiple assessments into the final, so teachers made up some grades based on feelings, or secretly used a spreadsheet that added a little random factor to make it look non-formulaic. Anyway, point is, some modern education removes the old low-level skills (mainly memorization) but doesn't replace it with anything nor even keep the useful parts of it (eg. mental arithmetic).
Engaging with exemplary works mostly improves your ability to appreciate exemplary works. Children don't start out with that ability, so unsurprisingly they are not keen on reading them. There's an argument that we should force them to read them anyway, but that's for promotion of culture, not functional literacy.

If we want them to read safety notices correctly then we're better off teaching J. K. Rowling than Shakespeare.