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My school let you have two calculators so you could have notes on one of them and use the other. I don't really understand why, I'd rather just have paper notes. Fun things to play with though, the HP38G's we had had a nifty infrared communication thing so you could trade stuff with other people.
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How We Legally Justify Paying People Less Than They're Worth.
Depends on the language I guess. In Clojure, no. In Common Lisp, probably.
That is part of "was one of the Pizza compiler designers".
Completely agree:

My eldest was born when I was 24, and my youngest when I was 30. Now at 49, we're approaching empty-nest-hood -- other than the copious time we spent with our 2-year-old grandson. But at least we get to sleep....
Ask HN: archive.org or archive.is, witch one will last more?
Hi all, is there any argument to support (financially, attention, or just archiving & sharing) one service more than the other? https://ibb.co/vH4vBNM

I prefer the UI of archive.today (former archive.is), but somehow archive.org has more brand recognition, right?
What languages are you really good at? As another commenter said, unless you're doing ML, most general purpose languages can monitor an API and make API calls.
> There´s only one reason for taking the vaxx, to protect yourself from severe disease.

My second reason to get vaccinated was to slow down spread as far as reasonably possible. Ergo, there are more reasons to get vaccinated than just that one you mentioned.

> If you´re young and healthy, [...] you benefit as much from the vaccine as you do from a tinfoil hat.

Bullshit. A tinfoil hat doesn't protect you against a covid infection a few weeks down the line, a vaccine does. And even though the likelyhood of severe symptoms for COVID-19 is generally lower for younger people, it's still beneficial to get vaccinated due to the lower chance on extreme symptoms and 'long covid'.
> If you’re gone for 6 months and everything functions just fine, are you really that important?

If the work you're doing is important to the employer in any way, they need to have a backup plan on how to get that work done anyway. Because employees also switch jobs, get sick etc. Simulating a situation where an important worker becomes unavailable for an extended period of time is probably even a good exercise from organization point of view.
> There is usually a baseline level of knowledge and skill expected even from a fresh coding bootcamp grad. If they’re not familiar with certain fundamental concepts, answering some of their questions can be frustrating for more senior colleagues.

Many schools seems to take pride in not teaching you how it is really done.

Banning IDEs is a classic.

A friend of mine got some remarks after I'd helped him: I'd introduced him to the BlockedQueue in Java and he wasn't supposed to know about that.

> Business domain knowledge or company-specific tooling is a different thing, but even there, some people tend to avoid note-taking (or looking up documentation), which can result in them repeatedly asking the exact same questions.

My current client actually praises me for just being honest and saying that the existing documentation isn't good enough.

YMMW but many times the training you get for the business specific part you get is awful or non existent and the documentation consist of whatever the previous person (who invented the tool/procedure/whatever) needed to remember.
Yes, but only for CRUD type access. For WebApps that have most of the business-logic on the server side, I have been using WebSockets -- pub/sub (MQTT) as well as RPC semantics.

It really depends on your use-case. I used to have most of the business logic in the web client, but over time I have come to see that you can implement greater integrity by not exposing CRUD-like operations over HTTPS.
How does the book explain this comment of yours?
or more free time, more PTO days, etc.
Both are supported, but people rarely use lists in normal code IME - just in macros or other syntax representations (eg Datalog).
UNIX was originally written in Assembly, C was used to rewrite the 4th version.
Dell batteries last about 2 to 3 years of extensive use, we replace them all the time. They are easily replaceable though.
Any major tech stack will work fine. I assume “real time alerts” will need an integration with a 3rd-party notification provider (email, sms, etc) and the bulk of your business logic will be defined with whoever is providing your share price API.

So, tech doesn’t really matter, pick something simple and mainstream so you can get help as needed.

Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, Nodejs, Java, whatever. Postgres for a database.

You likely won’t need any exotic cool tech, novel databases etc.
There are also differences in aptitude. The same amount of practice may produce very different outcomes in different developers.
There's also things like desk space, parking spot, hardware, time dealing with contracts...
>The chemical structure is the clue to the explosive potential. The N-N-N triad is a strange beast that shows up in a lot of explosive materials.

This makes me wonder - what properties of a substance can you infer from its structure without ever testing the substance itself?
Not only x86 assembly, microcoded CPUs has always been quite common on CISC designs, hence why 1960's papers tend to refer to Assembly as bytecode.
>If you’re gone for 6 months and everything functions just fine, are you really that important?

I would spin that arguement against the business rather than against people. It's clearly a business-PoV argument. If your business stops functioning after losing a small percentage of employees then it's a poorly planned businesses. It has poor redundancy measures and should fail.
That's my whole point. We are not yet at a level of penetration where that is needed, so the problem solar concentrate plants solve isn't really solved yet in general.
Yeah I don't think we look all that disfavorably on things like amputations to save someone's life if it's the only lifesaving option available on the spot (in the past or present).
Yeah. For the purpose of behavior prediction while driving, horses can be approximated as very dull, very easily panicked humans. They have all the regular instincts (collision avoidance, fear of heights etc) that keep animals alive.

FSD is a complete alien that might try to kill itself for the most trivial and inscrutable reason like the sensor noise excited the neural network in a certain way.
Just to give a data point on how other countries handle it. In Germany there’s mandatory time off for mothers 6 weeks before the estimated birth until 8 weeks (12 weeks for twins) after the actual birth. (This is strict, there’s no option to voluntarily work during this time. Students can’t even take university exams).

Afterwards both parents can take up to 3 years time-off each while their job will be protected. Between both parents up to 14 months are paid, each parent has to take at least 2 months off or only 12 months will be paid. Note this is not full salary but 65% of the net salary (and not taxed) plus a cap that TBH huts as a tech worker but is fine for most people.

Now here’s what the employer is on the hook for:
- Need to keep your job available during all the time taken off. You need to be able to renter at the same level and salary.
- Time off during the mandatory protective leave for mother’s is paid by the employer but fully reimbursed by the public health insurance (so net 0). Companies pay into this system a small percentage of payroll, currently between 0,14% and 0,88% depending on the employers chosen insurance.
- The 14 months paternity leave are fully paid for by taxes and the employer has to apply for it themselves

This is still a burden for very small companies but overall it creates a situation where there’s almost no financial impact for companies when people become parents. Society as a whole shoulders that.
Its a great mystery to me why American students have to buy expensive programmable calculators for course work. I vaguely remember reading that it is the result of lobbying by calculator manufacturers.

In my country even undergraduate science/engineering students dont need a programmable calculator. Some undergraduate programs like CS don't need any type of calculator.
I tried but my timestamp is of the form %Y%m%d.%H%M%S:
Do you have an option to just specify the timestamp format?
If not, can you give an example of defining own format?
Many thanks
I think you're also missing a key nuance to the reality of arguing for voter ID. Right wing didn't want to provide it but agreed it could be mandatory to vote,so it's reasonable to reneg and highlight the issues with that.
That's enormous speed. I can't even imagine it. I mean, the Total International Internet Bandwidth is 416Tb/s. That's only 1/3 more.
Maybe not fantasy. But we are far away from series large scale flow battery for grid storage.

Some of the companies who wanted to build large scale flow batteries have had a lot of problems in the last decade and very few to non have managed to do it.

RedFlow seems to have some aspiration for grid scale but it seems to just assemblies of smaller batteries, rather then what most companies hope a flow battery for the grid to look like.
My guess is that it happens so frequently that it wouldn't be profitable to cover damages caused by hitting animals.
It seems to be working again. Most likely they were down temporarily for whatever reason.
Ask HN: What if AI was used to verify users reading articles before discussion?
I recently read a frustrating thread on HN where it was obvious several people were making arguments against points that were already addressed in the article. The discussion in the thread was cluttered with people attacking straw men instead of having any fruitful discourse.

I then came upon the idea that perhaps something like GPT-3 could be used to have users answer 3 questions about the article's content before being able to comment.
The language here is so imprecise that if someone had intentions to treat someone unequally, they’ll do that anyways whether they have a framework in place or not.

This is just a bunch of corporate malarkey, let’s be brutally nakedly honest here. The fact is that this is just a more SV version of corporate bullshit with emojis - same exact thing you find in an old corporation like GE or IBM, just dressed up differently.
Realistically, anything you're already comfortable with will work for that. I would pick Python, at least for a quick prototype.

You can start thinking about an efficient implementation when you've got a defined feature set and are seriously thinking about delivering an actual product. And when that happens you can just use which tech works best for which type of service anyway.
> Modern research is incremental.

All research is incremental.

Even though in context it appears to speak to the right idea, I just want to make sure the casual reader doesn't emphasize too much on the "modern" part. This idea of groundbreaking research happening out-of-the-blue is nothing but a pop-sci fantasy.

Every groundbreaking idea, whether it be Newton/Leibniz's calculus, Marx's manifesto, or more recently the deep learning revolution led by Bengio/Hinton/LeCun/Schmidhuber, are only groundbreaking in hindsight.

Ideas take time to come into the shape that appeals to the spirit of the times. Sometimes, they win a lottery (e.g. the Hardware lottery [1]).

[1]: https://hardwarelottery.github.io
How would you go about 1 given existing law, precedent, and circumstances.

Would you dramatically expand what you can legally borrow without infringing or just allow wholesale automated washing from one copyright to another?

What do you do when random corp starts shutting down open source over ownership of code it swiped from project claiming infringement?
But "everyone can be a coder", so said the code camps!
They are not expensive: https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-9750GII-Graphing-Calculator-...
Don't make the mistake to believe others are thinking wrongly, that their conclusions rely on errors. Such insights are valuable to correct your own thinking and you can share the insights you have gained.

Aside from attribution errors, it could just be a political play to push responsibility of the behavior of certain individuals on groups. That is a common and deliberate political strategy that happens without anyone making an error.
In the UK, most people getting into hospitals now with severe Covid are young and unvaccinated. So while yes, the risks are much lower for young people, there are enough of them getting seriously ill.
No. We cannot allow an oligopoly that no one can avoid to issue life bans for small mistakes without any recourse or due process.

Punishment has to fit the crime. If we allow corporations that are more powerful than nation states and can crush a person's chances in life then conflict resolution needs to be bit more sophisticated than a cost optimisation algorithm.
More than the quantum of the expense, I am questioning the need. Couple of hundred dollars on an unnecessary expense is still wastage.
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> The problem is as you can imagine, how to built 8M ( 4K Resolution ) pixel / MicroLED at mass scale,

Samsung has a key know-how. They been researching GaN on glass continuously since 2008.

They first got something resembling a decent emitter through a practical process back in 2011-2012. Imagine where they are now.
the ability to de facto say "by using this software you agree to ..." is based on copyright - because anybody can refuse the license, saying "by using this you agree to X" is technically a lie (by the way, by reading this comment you agree to send me $1000 worth of BTC within 10 days), "using this" does not make you enter a binding contract, it's just that if you refuse to accept the license, you're infringing on copyright. The licenses are accepted because of threat of a copyright infringement lawsuit. If there was no copyright, people would be free to ignore all such license offers as they would not require a license in the first place.
But only after denying their responsibility for a few years.
Paternity leave, to have any effect on societal norms, must of course be universally offered. To be universally offered it almost certainly needs to be mandated and/or subsidized (partially or fully). One can imagine different schemes where large employers are responsible for bearing more of the cost than small and so on, but in the end it almost has to be a national (at least partially) tax-funded scheme. To be accepted for fathers to use, a significant portion of it must be usable by each parent (non-transferable).

> But why do virtually zero, say, small businesses like restaurants, cleaners, mechanics, etc. offer leave policies remotely like this? Because these businesses actually need all their workers to actually work, and when they don't, the business actually stops functioning.

With a good parental leave system, any business no matter how small must be ready for any employee to disappear for 3-12 months. It’s just the reality of running a business. But again (and this is what’s important) if it’s universally used then the same applies to the restaurant across the street too! It’s not a competitive disadvantage.

The same applies for employees: if your manager with 99% certainty took 6-12 months paternal leave with each child, just like every man in the company, then your taking 6-12 months will not be a disadvantage for your career as a man either.

> If we really believe that parental leave and parental bonds are beneficial for society, then society should pay for it, instead of hoisting the cost onto companies, where only the richest companies are able to do so.

Absolutely 100% agree. This isn’t a benefit for the parent it’s a benefit for the child. Non-transferable tax funded leave of at least 3 months per parent should be par for the course.
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Thank you! Stephen, co-founder here. We will address that.
Star Trek's tech vision is astounding. How many things in it have actually been built? I count:

• Tablets (the padds)

• VR "holodecks"

• Computers that you can talk to and ask questions

• "Tricorders" (smartphones?)

• Turbolifts (https://www.dezeen.com/2017/07/12/thyssenkrupp-unveils-world...)

Maybe we'll get to add a warp drive to the list by the time I die.

What else?
That is a different sense of the word "independent" than the American "separation of powers" one.
Thanks! Stephen, co-founder here. We will address that!
Espressif don't make a 16MB variant of the D4, and because the Flash is in the SiP, external flash can't be used. sorry :(
In my experience the edits are super-minor, the kind of stuff anyone can do on the cheap. Whenever there is doubt, the author is called to rewrite. At least in neuroscience, i dont think they make any kind of changes in the text other than typos and minor rephrasing (most major suggestions is done by the reviewers). Proofreading and minor final touches are not expensive.

It also depends on the author guidelines of each journal. Nature group e.g. has requirements about when your subscripts should be in italics. And i think sometimes they prettify images. I don't care about those things, and it doesnt change a thing about the impact of 99% of papers. Most authors submit great quality manuscripts anyway, judging from what i 've reviewed. In fact i m pretty sure i m doing more copyediting and suggestions while reviewing than any of the paid editors.

Another thing is, a ton of effort is wasted in reformatting (and sometimes rewriting) a paper to resubmit to another journal. Publishing is definitely a wasteful process.

There are always publishing costs, but it would be cheaper to set up a public utility for proofreading and uploading papers rather than the current situation
Yeah, skill differences should be obvious but also considered a problem, since in the end we're all in this together. I don't know how it is in the US, but over here it's really hard to find good developers, let alone ones that are willing and able to stick with one company for a longer period of time, so you really need to get people on a 'lower' level up to your level.

I don't get it either. I'd like to get some recognition for 10+ years of experience, but for now I'm just "a developer". At the same time I see job openings for senior developers asking for only three years of experience. ???
The risk of severe illness in healthy people is extremely low. Here in Sweden it´s less than 0.2%. If you already had covid the risk is something like 0.00008% to even get infected. In my view, both of those numbers are so low that protection from vaccination is equal to a tinfoil hat. Only an idiot vaccinates himself for a virus with 0.2% risk of severe disease.

Now, there might be a difference in what we call "healthy people" here in Sweden. Because we´re not fat.
When drawing it can do very small partial refreshes. Sometimes E-ink screens also have a fast refresh mode and a high quality refresh mode. Doing the fast refresh ends up with ghosting since it doesn't give the pigment particles enough time to move. Using it for some things is fine, but only if you later also do the proper refresh.

In practice you'll see full screen refreshes be the high quality type, and smaller refreshes being of the fast type. That said plenty of e-ink displays don't bother with the fast refresh or even with partial refreshes and just always do a full screen high quality refresh. For E-books that's probably fine.
I don't know about "most gps software" but I have a Garmin doing that and Google Maps does the same. So in my experience it's 100%. Now if such well established software products didn't figure out such basic stuff, either we're calling it wrongly "basic" (and it's a difficult problem) or the responsible factors just don't bother. The major difference is though, while gps navigation can do with frequent recalculations, realtime obstacle avoidance less so.
im thinking about note taking programs that have a distraction-free mode or append-only mode... maybe a slow mode where you can only type as fast as you can write would help somewhat
The former. In animal farming, they measure "food conversion ratio" i.e. they want animals that will get as close as possible to turning 1kg of food into 1kg of body weight. Some animals within the same type can vary in this value. I've often wondered if something similar happens in humans.

No-one said monitoring and reducing your calories is easy, but it is simple.
There have been hundreds of millions of vaccinations. What unforseen danger is there at this point? Be precise.
>>Not sure if science ever justifies the cruelty of fat shaming mate?

You literally said it here.
Would be a good testing and useful example for say a lisp program?
> Lennon had been part of one of the, if not the, greatest bands of all time

I think that's the crux of it. What I find particularly confounding, is that these explanations remove the agency from John Lennon. To say that he was tricked by Yoko into bad ideas, is to cast doubts on his artistic merit. Whatever creative chops he had that shaped the Beatles into being more than just some long forgotten cover band, are the same that led him to seek new creative directions. If you listen to punk and post-punk bands in the wake of their collaborations, it seems like he and Yoko were on the right track. I'm certain that if John was alive, there'd be decades more interesting stuff in his back catalogue... definitely better than a cover of "Got My Mind Set On You"
I love how animalistic it looks - you could readily give it a realistic dog costume and convince people you had a live pooch (maybe a bit weird, but breeding has produced far less grace in motion than this thing.) I'd like to see it going up and down regular stairs, though.

The A1 bot they're using is $10k, less than some purebred show dogs - maybe we'll see consumer wallet friendly versions of these in the next decade. Rote yardwork, cleaning trash and sidewalks, clearing animals and bugs from crawlspaces and tight areas - heck, a "pack"of these could probably help animal control folks herd strays.

Even if battery life is only 30 minutes between recharging there might be a valuable niche for these guys. Imagine festival and event cleanups, retrieving needles and glass and other unsavory or unsafe hazards would be much safer and more thorough.

These could have a rich platform for tons of applications once the navigation is solved, and this looks like a big milestone.
Absolutely, bad managers can still be bad managers, even with a framework like this.

But it can help big companies in two ways:

1. You can assess bad managers against the framework, show how they are not delivering it, and remove an excuse that they “didn’t realise”.

2. Help good managers see what’s required in common situations.

For what it’s worth, I agree with you that this is often corporate malarkey. Typically, the company doesn’t live up to the framework - it’s merely wallpapering for their own biases, which still come through anyway. But I understand why they try, and it sometimes works better than others. Not doing anything would probably be even worse. And all other solutions have their own problems. At enterprise level, there is no universal solution.
I think the article is a convoluted way of saying "use your judgement". The cost of adopting certain design, per the article, is not a real number, it is an estimate. The probability of needing a feature, P2, per the article, is also not a real number but an estimate.

What's so hard to estimate in software world is because the shear amounts of unknown. An abstraction leaking library, a not-fitting-exactly-your-use-case SaaS, ever changing standards, end-of-life of mission critical component, no-easy-fix vulnerability, emotional stress from team member, a dying cat, a never stop talking non-engineering colleague, there are more than "code" in software. Be prepared for change
But for Calculus (part of CS) you need a graphing calculator.
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