skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, software engineering won't exist for another 50 to 200 years because:

- It takes several years for someone to prove themselves as a developer among their peers and this reputation does not usually spread outside the confines of a single company. People have to prove themselves all over again each time they change company.

- Big, high-exposure, high-influence software companies like Facebook, Google etc... force arbitrary tests on prospective developers (candidates); but these tests say nothing about a person's skill as a software developer. These tests are reliable at selecting for status-oriented individuals who can regurgitate solutions to common programming puzzles and present themselves as fast-talking and quick-thinking (I.e. Ben Shapiro archetype). These companies have a huge impact on global software development tools and philosophies; their recruitment decisions have a huge impact on deciding industry best-practices. The huge influx of superficial, fast-thinking, fast-talking software developers within the centers of power is making the software industry look like the medical industry 200 years ago when all reputable doctors insisted that blood-letting, electroshock therapy and lobotomies were reasonable treatments for most ailments. Their arguments relied on superficial, smart-sounding observations and appealed to the authority of large medical institutions. Modern developers like to leverage their associations with financially successful corporations 'sources of authority' to project themselves as top experts and to promote their agendas.

- Too many people who have no sense of curiosity at all joined this industry purely for financial reasons over the past couple of decades; these status-oriented people will end up running all the big tech companies and enforcing their ill-conceived philosophies onto others, silencing inquisitive minds. It's a numbers game; the voices of the many high-status, fast-talking, loud-mouthed idiots will drown out those of the few quiet, low-status geniuses.

We are entering the dark ages of software development.
Yes, everywhere except in the USA.
Meh, if you're diving so deep into excel to learn all the shortcuts, why not just port the data into a scripting language which can do a lot more advanced things more easily and transparently.
Of course, you also have to contend with things like "medicare is not allowed to negotiate drug prices"... except now there's even _more_ motivation for drug companies to bribe politicians to get things like that encoded into law.

While I'm a proponent of universal healthcare, it does have some negatives.
I've done this kind of conversion, not as a job, but on a case by case basis within my own work. An example would be taking a simple computation that I would share with people (mostly engineers) in the form of a spreadsheet, and instead turning it into a Python program, even replete with GUI. Here are some of the pitfalls that I've experienced.

If I share a computation as a spreadsheet, people already know how to work with the GUI, which is actually quite sophisticated, even if it doesn't prevent you from screwing up. People could extend my spreadsheets, e.g., adding columns to do the same computation on multiple input sets, etc. They could easily extract the output in text format and paste it into something else. And so forth.

A Python program with GUI created the expectation that I was writing commercial quality "software," and that if it wasn't 100% intuitive, I would hand-hold each colleague, and make changes on demand, including converters to multiple file formats (often, so they could put the data back into a spreadsheet). And of course I also had to help each person install Python on their computer.

Of course I'm not a full fledged software developer, just a "scientific" programmer, and of course the lesson I learned is common knowledge: Writing and supporting real software is orders of magnitude more costly than just writing a one-off program to solve a problem, to the point where the conversion to "proper code" could be a net liability to the business. You have to assess whether it will actually add value. In one sibling comment, it sounds like the answer was yes, so I acknowledge that.

The difference was not so much the technology, but the cultural expectations associated with Excel versus "software."

Today, I do all of my work in Python, but when I share a simple computation with colleagues, I will often convert it back into Excel for them.
Citation needed. I don’t think Muslims are set to be a majority in Europe any time soon.
I recommend Peter Hiesinger's 'The Self-Assembling Brain' if you're interested in a neurobiologist's perspective on this problem and its importance to AI.
This is a great 3 minute podcast about how US health insurance companies started a propaganda campaign to scare Americans about Canadian Health Insurance system - https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/931990578/why-americans-have-...
Archive.is link: https://archive.is/GWohX
Machine-learning improves the prediction of stroke recovery
It's surprising that anybody working on something related to security and computers would have to Google that name.

But yeah, goes to show that Windows is not absolutely omnipresent.
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"It does not occur to them that in a single-payer system, the incentive on everyone is to find ways to lower the cost of healthcare, while in a privatized healthcare system the incentives are reversed."

I don't think this is completely true. That greatly depends on the population. Regardless of single payer or private insurance, it's the underlying mentality of the people, or restrictions placed by the plan (which people then complain about). Many people think they have coverage, so they might as well use it. This can happen extremely often and for minor things. Think people going into the doctor or urgent care because they have cold symptoms (for less than a week) and want antibiotics. Most people want the easiest, most beneficial thing, like why diet and exercise when you can just take a pill for your type 2 diabetes, cholesterol, or blood pressure?

People don't think about costs during the most costly parts of life - end of life care. People want doctors to do "everything" to extend a person's existence, even if the outcome isn't likely to result in extended life. When the system does make choices about who to treat or how to treat, there is generally some public backlash (like NY letting many elderly die because they thought they needed to save the ventilators/beds for younger covid patients).

It's the views and intelligence of society that dictate behavior-based costs. This includes what restrictions are placed on both supply and demand sides.
Saying that a member of a party leaving is "throwing it all away" is ridiculous. She tried to address the problems internally, didn't get her way, so she left. Why would one have to continue being a member of a party that one disagrees with? Whether you agree with her reasons or not, people are and should be free to leave and join a political party as they want. Trying to cast people who leave as some sort of traitor to the cause is cult-like thinking.
I still do not get why posts like yours get downvoted. What you say about Canada is true. Not always and depends on particular location but still there are examples of everything you just mentioned.
> Canadians might wait several weeks or a few months to get a knee replacement

Hard to tell from this what else falls under "knee replacement" category of urgency. I personally know ppl who traveled to india to get a root canal. Weird to dismiss it as " deliberate propaganda campaign " and link to npr article with no actual statistics.
This is pretty obvious but you should start looking for another job. Then when you have another job lined up you can tell them you have had enough of their mismanagement.
R is first and foremost an interactive language, and the focus of the libraries, tooling, and community reflects that.

I believe working in pandas/sklearn/jupyter ecosystem is much slower (>50%) if you are doing EDA and statistical modelling (ML) than tidyverse/tidymodels/rstudio. The exception is deep learning and adjacent fields (like computer vision).

Of course Python is better at everything else, so adding an extra languages might or might be worth the hassle.
The specific identifiable altitude still requires an arbitrary selection of lift coefficient and vehicle mass in order to calculate. The calculation is vehicle dependent, not general. The values used in the original definition of the general case were set to be "typical", which yielded 91km. Because of the arbitrariness of this definition, it was defined to be 100km as that was "more memorable"
Austin Powers in Space.
I haven't gone back since I left in 92.
but is has a nice Python API
https://github.com/martinohanlon/mcpi
I’m not sure about that “totally solvable to mutual satisfaction.” Even if it there is enough water now and they can reach agreement on sharing the water’s advantages (which means Egypt has to give up something), looking at population growth (about 2% a year for Egypt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Egypt), 2.9% for Ethiopia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Ethiopia), that can change rapidly.

If those growth rates continue the per capita amount of Nile water will halve in 25-30 years.
Hydro doesn’t taste as good as organic, and it needs to be flushed or you ingest a lot of nitrates, which is likely carcinogenic. Flushing requires careful planning and a system designed for it. You can’t just treat it like a fridge full of food. With soil you can just leave stuff in the ground until you want to eat it.

I’ve poured a lot of time and money into the hobby, and have settled on organic soil with some simple drip for indoor growing.

The water use is about the same. As long as you’re indoor the water has nowhere to runoff/evaporate to.

IMO the benefits of hydro/Aquaponics are nonexistent. Also, the whole system is a pile of plastics. The tote and drain pipe in the linked article are not food grade plastic, which would scare me away from this system.

The automation is way way way overkill. Hydro is very easy to tweak. The nutrient profile is a tiny percentage of the labor, and a $3 battery operated temp/humidity display is plenty for keeping things nice for the plants. They show the high and low since last reset, which is all you need.

If I had any outdoor space with good sun I would set up a greenhouse, but since I don’t have that I run leds directly off of solar panels on my roof (dc-dc step ups and downs as needed).

Kind of cool to see them rise and set with the sun.
> "people here have a problem accepting foss because they see windows as free so what benefit is switching to ubuntu?"

Because even if they gave you Windows free of cost, Windows has never been free as in freedom, and probably never will be. That's the thing people seem unable to wrap their brains around about FOSS is that it's about freedom, not cost. The fact that it's also cost-free is just added bonus that nobody in their right mind should complain about.
It is not just standards, you will find many engineering contracts these days refer to RAGAGEP - Recommended and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practice.

My take on this is to allow for rapidly evolving practices in an industry where key standards may not be updated to over a decade in some cases, or even cease to exist at all due to emerging fields.

What this means is that a responsible engineer has to make a defendable decision, using experience and judgement to justify a particular course of action.

As my engineering manager used to say to me, "Would you feel comfortable saying those words again, just adding on Your Honour'at the end?"
I do know people in Canada who have to wait days to be seen for certain things or who pay for supplemental healthcare plans to fill in the gaps. That doesn’t mean they’d rather be in our system, which seems to get more broken every day.
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Profits in the healthcare industry account for a single digit percentage of costs. Health insurers made $35 billion in profits in 2019: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/big-name-payers-earne.... Americans spent $3.8 trillion on healthcare that year. Okay, get rid of insurer profits. Your costs have gone down less than 1%.
There's been a bunch of small miscues on the broadcast (weird delays, music coming in too loud and at weird times, etc). We've been spoiled by SpaceX's experience broadcasting. Regardless, so awesome that everyone is broadcasting these flights for the world to see!
Turn-it-in checks your assignment text against other submitted assignments, and highlights copypasted parts. Then the teacher chooses what to do. What’s your problem with it?
More nuance is the opposite of a problem.
I think it comes from Excel hate and thinking Google sheets are good enough.

Many people to this day aren't even aware cells can be named like proper variable names.
Like a NASA live stream, but with gratuitous billionaire idolization constantly interrupting the flight.
I'm aware. I'm not saying the altitude is the exact same altitude at all times under all conditions. I'm saying there is a specific altitude where centrifugal force becomes the dominant force if you want to stay aloft. And that was Kármán's original conception. Yes, that altitude will vary with the atmospheric tides (and with C_L, as another commenter points out). But it is still a definite altitude and not at all arbitrary.

arbitrary: "based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system"

It is not based on random choice or personal whim. It is the result of a systematic analysis of the relationship between the forces required to sustain flight.
This is a really great point!

In medical, automotive, aerospace, military applications, the software that goes into the device is kind of considered part of the object. It needs this validation for obvious reasons, such as the long lifecycle and critical nature of these products.

But in cellphone handsets, PC software and firmware such as in IoT home devices, and even IT infrastructure like SoHo routers especially but also other devices, there is no agreed upon standards that I am aware of. Even in payment applications, there isn't much there. Large institutions and banks get by often by using "legacy" infrastructure like mainframes to keep the COBOL stuff running, as it has been vetted over decades.

Going further, the architecture of infrastructure, firmware and software should be examined more closely. Recently, IT architecture has been exploited over and over (Kaseya, SolarWinds, MTA) having quite asymmetric effects. In the past it was worms and drive-by malware from janky websites, today it is extremely costly disasters that make the news but roll on bye until the next turd is flipped over.

The problem space is very difficult to define, since "software" and "architecture" are such general terms encompassing basically anything. I rate the difficulty in analyzing these problems for sufficient solutions as very high. When I consider neural-net AI applications, it seems to get even more murky.

Is anybody aware of other software and infrastructure standards that exist or are in research which could apply to more general fields, or to corporate/business IT infrastructure, or to home devices, etc?
I really doubt that Mark Zuckerberg would care.

He might shrug if off as a missed marketing opportunity, but this man has no understanding of how incompatible the the sentence "We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control." is with any of his undertakings, or what it takes to show some respect to values humanity tries to embrace. He exploits those weaknesses.

He pretends to work towards that greater goal, talks about it but fails to recognize that he's just doing this to increase his hold on power. "Yes, I'm draining our rivers but I do this to deliver the water directly to you, don't you see?"
It’s typical Brandson to approach everything from the fun side - the whole live stream shows it :)
I’m sure this article will get some hate from parts of the cybersecurity world, but to me —- who started in cyber in the 80s (when it was called “trusted computing”) and then came back to it decades later — it really resonates.

The binary fallacy is endemic in cybersecurity. At INKY we do active blocking of phishing emails, so people automatically assume that we must take the position, as many of our peer companies do, that “simulated phishing awareness training is worthless”. What we’ve actually found is that phishing awareness training is useful in that it trains users to be rightly suspicious of the identities of email senders. It doesn’t really train users to spot phish, no, but that doesn’t make it worthless!

On the subject of end users I agree with the author as well. What we’ve found is that if you give users useful guidance they truly understand, on a minority of emails, they actually follow it and click on far fewer bad links, pay fewer fake invoices etc. On the other hand, if you slap a static banner on every incoming email that says “external: be super careful!” and nothing else, users quickly learn to ignore this useless information and ultimately become completely blind to it. (And no, making the banner really fugly doesn’t help any.) In our experience with email security over the last 6 years, escaping the tyranny of binary thinking is absolutely critical to getting users properly engaged.
Steampunk actually exists as subgenre of metal, rock, and folk ;)
Drupal and PHP is the standard chose? How? Were alternatives explored? This seems very odd as the choice for standardized websites.

A better solution would be standardize a backend apis and setup standards around how data is queried and stored. Next standardize how that data is presented to the user and how the user can manipulate that data. None of this requires a specific technology and sounds like decisions were made by people that don’t understand the problem they’re trying to solve or are being influenced by others with something to gain (like your big Drupal house).
The oldest person to venture into space was John Glenn who went into space at the age of 77 in 1998.

Brandon will be the second-oldest person who turns 71 next Sunday.

Wally Funk, A Lifelong Aspiring Astronaut, Will Finally Head To Space At 82. On July 20, she'll join the crew on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

(Based on 80km being space for Virgin, New Shepard seems to make the 100km mark)
>I'm not saying the altitude is the exact same altitude at all times under all conditions.

You were disputing a post in which this was literally the only point I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27801257
How does that translate into the costs of stitches at Stanford Health Care?
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1. I can’t read your mind. I assume you’re unwilling or unable to discuss the issue further.

2. Some issues, as I said, are specific to certain implementations and don’t invalidate eproctoring as a whole.
It will be interesting what is most commercially successful in the short term. I've a feeling Bransons option will be and he'll develop the option to 100km

Then again might get bought out
> ditch social media

Personally I have made my addiction to social media work for me. I make full use of curated feeds, and make sure my feed has a good signal to noise ratio. The ADs are annoying, but I would rather trade my data for them. I can't afford $5.00 per month, and happily let ADs subsidize these companies (Twitter, Facebook etc).
Jasenovac happenned during WWII, one of the most despicable events in history of the Croatia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasenovac_concentration_camp

However, the memory of Jasenovac often serves as justification for new atrocities commited to revenge the victims (50 years later!)

Serbia was bombarded for crimes on Kosovo, probably to stop Kosovo from becoming next Bosnia...
Your "friends" are liars.

As a simple example, here in the UK can can call my GP and have an appointment for a basic checkup within a week or two and faster if there was an issue of concern. Things are a bit overwhelmed at the moment due to the relaxation of covid restrictions and surgeries starting to ramp-up to deal with the backlog of non-covid issues, but any claim that waits are multi-month is simply not true.

While no country has an ideal model, _every_ country has a better one than the US. If you put together a list of all of the worst possible decisions and mis-features you could possibly add to a public health system you would end up with the US model.
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Is this an actual problem in the various real-world examples of single payer and universal healthcare out there?
Free market principles require an educated buyer in a market with competitive service providers. When you're admitted to an emergency room, there is no shopping around even if you are educated in healthcare enough to know what your options are...
The problem with personal sites is that they're hard to discover. Case in point: there are a lot of personal sites out there right now (and many more which existed but are now offline), that only a few people even know exist.

We have platforms which make it easy to set up self-posted blogs, we just need a way to make them more discoverable. Which is what Twitter, Reddit, and especially Medium (which I imagine WriteFreely was inspired by) had in mind.

This is something I said before: the reason existing platforms dominate the market is because they have the most users. Most people create blogs or any other kind of content because they want to be heard.
What you experienced in your younger days is totally possible at anytime of your life. You just need to quite down the thinking mind.

Mind has a habit of either ruminating about the past or imagining the future. Once you quiet it down the NOW appears with all its shininess and vivid colors. Meditation helps a lot. I had a realization 10 years back and after it I can switch my brain to NOW anytime.

Meditation is a good way to achieve it. I got this ability after reading “Power of Now” by Echary Tolle.
There is a large economy built around policing weed and other drugs that may not be nearly as bad for you as they would have you believe. Legalization is an existential threat so they'll pull whatever strings they have to prevent it. The general public doesn't have this lobbying power, but when public opinion translates into getting voted in, that's when tides turn.
It works for me in QTweb (yes I know) with javascript disabled.