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Despite the cheapness of those devices, they are increasingly irrelevant and inaccessible to the general public. They are instead being passed over for locked down devices like iPads and iPhones. To a normal person the mere thought of figuring out how to use a raspberry pi (or increasingly even a windows PC) induces a stress response.
The USA essentially runs on rackets. E.g higher education, changing engine oil at 5000 miles, Citizens United...
And that's where Intel screwed up. It could have devoted .001% of quarterly revenues to fund ten years of linux hardware compatibility testing and driver development.

It would have hedged against Microsoft in numerous ways: business dependence, forcing the hardware utilization Intel always accused Windows of ignoring, probably would have given them a functional beachhead in netbooks, mobile phones, and kept them abreast of other developments like ARM.

Google could have also done this for pennies to hedge Microsoft. IBM could have used it to push back into consumer hardware.

But the ship has sailed for Google with Android and ChromeOS. IBM is dying. Intel is the only one that is still has some market incentive.
Here is a course you might be interested in:

https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/84-fundamentals-o...

When on the site, search for "agent-based modeling" and you'll get a nice handful of relevant courses and tutorials.
Thank you for calling that out, I agree, which is why I mentioned "supply inflation" and "supply deflation." To your point, that's only 'inflation' in the Austrian sense which I personally couldn't disagree with more. After all the M2 supply grew 15X since the 1970s but inflation only decreased the buying power to 1/7th so the fact they're equal seems trivially disprovable.
I would characterize working over talented foreigners in this way as a grift, rather than a scam.

They pay the high sticker price because it's rationally their best choice, but the value they're purchasing isn't in the degree, but rather the favorable status they earn in the immigration labyrinth.

This isn't good for them, except in comparison to other options. It certainly isn't good for native-born Americans, who are (for the most part) stuck paying the same high sticker prices, without getting the features which justify the high cost of the product.
Nah, this is probably BS.

If I had the resources of a government, I could bribe just about anyone who works for a living.
I think this looks very good, and I love seeing that it has the capability to automatically select the recommendation algorithm with the best performance.

I think there are two major areas where this can be improved. A quick read through the docs doesn't show much info about the algorithms themselves, and from what I can see, it doesn't look like you can customize the hyperparameters of the algorithms (correct me if I'm wrong). You have to just wait for the automated hyperparameter search to finish. I think this is mostly very good but the ability to freeze them would be even better to save compute time in subsequent retrainings. The other thing I notice is that there's no system to detect when the offline model is too out of date and trigger retraining. It would be nice to have a way of automating the retraining based on performance evaluations rather than on a clock schedule.
The code that you used at work. If you make something outside work, and never actually use it in your employer's codebases, they don't get a license. Whatever you do use in your work at your employer, they do get a license to. Which seems fair IMO, and avoids the pitfall of "wait when did you write this and can we use it?"

I'd much prefer this to a noncompete.
It's great, I've been really enjoying it. Everything you love about Tie Fighter, but feels thoroughly modern, has that feel, "this is just like the movies!". I just hope my 20 year old joystick survives, prices for replacement are off-putting.
Do you make more than most of your peers in your work place, or less?
From a couple months ago, but still highly relevant. Particularly interested by the claim that corporations like Comcast and ViacomCBS rely far more than you would imagine on their entertainment divisions.
Your sentence is really the same divisive "other side is crazy" crap that everyone else is complaining about. Folks on both the left and right (under US definitions) will sniffily do that same thing and act like their positions are obviously correct and the other side obviously unreasonable.
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I'm not sure how to take this article considering that I am trying to switch into tech with a Biology undergrad with some CS coursework.

I'm already been admitted to OMSCS but I've been thinking of applying to on-campus masters programs at Cornell, USC, and Stanford but the >$50k price tag is making me resist.

Are these on-campus programs at prestigious universities worth it to get access to high-growth startups and big tech companies as well as more face-to-face time with instructors and other classmates as opposed to a part-time online masters?
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Why? Is it outdated?
I just watched a 5 minute video explaining how this impacts miner fees etc.
Extremely convoluted and complicated.
To me nano and the other 'fee-less', instant transfer coins represent the future of crytos. I missed the train on ETH and BTC and now I feel like there's too much to catch up to, but also feel there are much simpler and usable coins (in the real world) are coming.
No because then I would be living in a society where I would be surrounded by poor and unhealthy people.

I enjoy living in a society where most people are adequately paid without having to work excessive hours, where medical care is easy, simple, and cheap to access, where losing one's job does not turn one into a second class citizen.

Excessive hours, more than 50 hours a week for more than a few weeks, are in fact illegal.

I enjoy it when the person selling me smiles simply because they are happy instead of because it is a requirement of the job.

In case you are wondering the society in question is Norway. No it's not paradise, just a bit closer than some places and that is to a significant extent because of a greater degree of solidarity.
A great example of this is Jane Street. They write "all" of their software in OCaml. They have a 2 week up-to-speed course about their tools and language. I don't expect it to take too much effort to get up to speed in any language if you're already a programmer. You might. It be peak efficiency but you'll get pretty good faster than you think. The static friction force makes it not feel that way
The funny thing is when I googled that phrase I got another Hacker News thread from the same user quoting the same line. It might have been from an event or something.
“Therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery. It makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.”

The wisdom of ages, or if you prefer,

“Robbery and violent crimes often involve alcohol use, and there is a positive correlation between such crimes and alcohol use. 15% of robberies, 63% of intimate partner violence incidents, 37% of sexual assaults, 45-46% of physical assaults and 40-45% of homicides in the United States involved use of alcohol.”

So not just merriment and conviviality. There’s a flip side.
Having worked with both to create the same system (building a game server) I've found Clojure actually sits better with the functional thinking style (1 data structure, 100 functions).

While Phoenix was the killer app for Elixir, and Elixir has far superior readability (using the Ruby syntax); there were couple of things that were off-putting and I struggled with them.

1. everything is inside a module was an unnecessary distraction

2. And then the separation between anonymous and named functions simply were unnecessary

3. And that I would have to declare the data / record inside a module (??)

Elixir felt like a functional language un-necessarily trying to look like a class based language.

I sometimes feel that had Elixir had only supported functions outside of modules... oh that freedom.

But some of the thought that went into Flow, Channels (which has become the de riguere now), mix (developer ergonomics ftw), those micro-second latency responses, distillery are still too classy and amazing.
I use arm servers in production and regularly benchmark them.

On my application the M1 is 11x the speed of a rpi4 in single core performance.

Ampere Altra running at 3ghz is a bit above 4x a rpi4. Single core.

I'm moving to Ampere instances in the cloud.
I’ve been exploring a similar space. Mind expanding on why you think the combo sticks?
> It's not a violation of your free speech.

captain pedantic, you meant to say it's not a violation of the first amendment.

censorship is a violation of free speech
> you are perfectly able to determine the order of the invoices.

But you can't determine if there are any gaps which is what the Italian ruling seemed to be concerned with (as best I could follow the Google translation which was pretty bad) and the Germans aren't bothered about.

I think if it were me, I'd ere on the side of caution and have them be sequential (ordered, gapless).
I agree that overcommitting can be a lot of fun, and feels good. However, its easy to overdo it to the point where you really hurt yourself in at least the medium term.

Back in 2011 or so I went all-in on a job. It was fun and exciting. Then one time I pulled a few all-nighters in a row, AND management started to get abusive ("if this code doesn't work in 48 hours you're all fired") and something snapped in me. I felt physically ill for a week. But even more astoundingly, I couldn't program for a solid 3 months. The feeling of revulsion to the computer was so powerful, I just couldn't, wouldn't program anything (obviously I quit that job so programming that project was not what I was attempting). Interacting with computers for any reason, like email, or journaling, was dicey for a while.

On the bright side, I got out more during that time, went to the beach, played music at open mic nights, and enjoyed real life. And I recovered. But it was slow. I wasn't really "normal" for a solid 18 months. And now I simply will not do that to myself again. I still push hard, but I push smart - I know what my breaking point is, and I'm not interested in experiencing that again.

I'd also add that, technically speaking, that kind of effort is terribly inefficient. "Slow down to speed up" and "if you don't have time to do it right, you better have time to do it again" are true statements. Often that effort is characterized as a furtive exploration of a vast combinatorial space looking for a specific outcome - a kind of intellectual gambling. Far better to master techniques individually and then combine them cleanly and with confidence for the desired effect.
>Do you agree there is a reasonable possibility the claim is true?

Sure, it is reasonable it is politically motivated. It is also reasonable it isn't. Giving the lack of definitive answer, I chose to give the benefit of the doubt to the ECHR. Either way, I don't understand what point you are trying to make.
> California Energy Commission’s estimate that the Salton Sea area could produce 600,000 tons of lithium per year, which is amazing since the entire world’s industry produced a mere 85,000 tons of lithium in all of 2019.
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Sorry, I didn't realize I had an obligation to spend all of my Friday night constantly refreshing HN. My fault.
It's estimated that ~50 years passed since the time bat virus (RaTG13) and SARS-CoV2 diverged.

So it's certainly not a recent transmission, which is why an intermediate host is proposed, which could also be bat, or some other host species. Coronaviruses are endemic in that region of China.
The Salton Sea is already a man made disaster deep into ecological collapse. Even if they do it terribly, I doubt they'll make anything worse. It's also a region with no economic future, so hopefully this brings some jobs. This will be interesting to watch, I'm hopeful.
A young Steve Jobs famously thought that as long as you ate a certain diet, you could skip showering/deodorant and still smell ok. His coworkers/manager at Atari did not agree and put him on the night shift: https://techpp.com/2017/02/24/steve-jobs-facts-you-might-not...
Theoretically, it could have easily returned to Earth with the Space Shuttle, assuming another vehicle could rendezvous and transport it to LEO.

The Ascent State was 2.8 x 4.2 x 4.04m with a dry mass of 2150 kg.

The Shuttle's cargo bay was 18 x 4.6 x 4.6m (at least...can't find a depth weirdly) with a return-to-Earth payload capacity of 14,400 kg.
I can agree with that!
The employees at tech firms I’ve worked at solved this by “anonymizing”. Basically a few folks maintained a big publicly readable spreadsheet with columns like Title, Level, YOE, YOE at Company, Office Location, Gender, Base Comp, Total Comp. Technically the fields were sufficiently granular that some rows could in principle be de-anonymized, but that wasn’t really the point.

N.b. This was just random employees collecting volunteered information, nothing HR-sanctioned.
Yes and no. Yeah Erlang has been around for 30 years but "30 year old language" makes it sound like it came out 30 years ago and then stopped. Erlang is still being very actively developed and improved, it's by no means a crusty old language.
I am waiting for the day when some ransomeware attack happens to Intuit a day before taxes are due and it causes such a disruption that congress will act and this shit is over but I guess I am dreaming...
>And the best way to get along with any people is to understand them

I feel like this advice alone could help everyone globally when they condemn some political or religious group specifically because someone considers them "backward." Nobody ever stops to think that they got successful within that system, so what would cause them to ditch their beliefs now because you "an enlightened" individual "know better."
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And own hardware that is perfectly fine for everything but the latest Battlefield 15: Broforce now with .00001% improved graphics.
I wonder why do people spend their time (and money) on this?
Real-world crypto is 'solved' by nano, with its feeless and instant transactions. I'm very new to the crypto world but ETH (especially BTC) seem way, way too complex, expensive and slow for any real world application. No wonder why there isn't any.
What if you had a pool of anonymous employee-contributed data about title + pay + benefits that showed you where you were on the distribution? Would you contribute to, and view, that.
You just shine your headlights at them and they freeze. Spotlighting is illegal almost everywhere because if makes it so easy.
The exercise of editorial discretion in a privately owned publication or forum and censorship are two very different things.

What steams my clams is that the people who complain about private forums exercising editorial discretion tend to be the same people who insist that private property rights are sacrosanct, and so, for example, private property owners should be able to ban union organizers from their property [1]. This strikes me as brazenly hypocritical. Either free speech trumps private property, or private property trumps free speech. You can't have it both ways.

[1] https://www.natlawreview.com/article/supreme-court-holds-uni...
A lot of this type of misleading rhetoric often boils down to simply exploiting that many humans mistake correlation for causation and our education system really hasn’t don’t enough to hammer in not confusing those two.
Depends on how strong the systemic models were from the past. Thorough experience dealing with, say, people and how they interact competitively, will have a outsized reverberation later in life. You never ever want to be wrong about people.

A soda drinking habit you can’t kick? You’ll mostly kick it once you get serious. The other stuff is probably going to take life changing events to alter.
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Something about the language of manuals from this time is truly a masterclass in effective teaching. This and instructional videos from this time feels like a lost art
> I don't mean saying something like "our tech stack is in Rust." More like "3-5 years experience in Rust" under the job requirements.

I think i addressed this in my edit. We are not doing this.
I buy it. It is fairly well known that too much or the wrong kind of debt can cost you even secret clearance. So for other compartments to require pay secrecy is well in line with that concern.
I would agree here that the combination of being "closed to collaboration", the slow pace of development lately, and really infrequent communication from the sole owner/leader/BDFL does send a weird vibe and raises some concern regarding what direction the language is going to be going in in the future.
Almost like they should've gave the entirety of the politicians and core officers this booklet before going over there.
Nor were you likely given a W-2 that came with (S/NF) in front of the gross earnings field.

IOW, IT worker in the GP’s post was making something up.
> Why don’t you ask Joe Biden the next time he takes unscripted questions.

That's not the response of someone who can confidently prove or even support their claim. You're basically admitting it was baseless.
Right - I think a lot of people hope that by being more educated they'll get "smarter". That's not really how it works. You just get more educated.

In software, you DO need a lot of skills. But I think more important than that is having the ability to learn new things/skills quickly (being smart). The industry is always changing and evolving.

College is only going to get you the skills - maybe, a lot of times they teach you things that aren't that useful in the job market and don't teach you the things that are.
I'm all for pay transparency. Information symmetry is good and I admire the Swedish system in regards to taxes which is very open.

As the article points out it'd probably be a boon for minorities who traditionally do less well in secret negotiations for different reasons despite being equally competent, and paying equally competent people the same is good both for the firm and for the individuals in the long run.

Personally, I would start to question myself if I felt like I had to hide what I make. Never worked anywhere where hard working people were maligned for their salary if it was justified.
I would love to build a Tie Fighter Cockpit gaming rig some day
This is good advise. Our large shop has so much C++ nobody here is gonna run and hide from it. Our libs are large, in large numbers. So not having C++ is a disadvantage.

And for those same reasons we know building C++ is giant pain in the butt.

Given the opportunity, I would seriously consider Rust when rearchitecting a system to peel off small bits I can do 100% RUST because I then can escape C++ dependency/cmake/DPKG/RPM hell to something closer to GO.

When I deal with old C++ code not brought up to current build spec at our place I can waste 30-40% of my time getting various things to build. Getting the old code into the new system is now easier, but I killed a week learning it. And should I have to deal with a library off the beaten path who's dependencies I don't know, getting it into the new build system will be a pain-plus because I will then have to find/compute/assess its dependencies.

Getting out from all this nonsense is, I think, is an undersold part of RUST. You still get static types, C++ performance, memory safety, and you get a running start to CDCI because at least getting the darn PR built is a 4 to 6 Phd job of hand holding C++ through dep management.
The fact remains that this seems likely to increase the perception of unfairness, lower the level of individual happiness, and increase the time spent complaining and analyzing salary discrepancies.

Things will never be exactly equal. Why focus time emphasizing the differences?
Car dealerships only exist because the US passed laws that mandated their existence.
My Norwegian dentist, on the rare occasions that he uses any numbing injection, drips some on the injection site first then as he pushes the needle in he also pushes the plunger down. He takes it very slowly so that the only discomfort is the physical effort of holding my jaw still against the pressure.

A big contrast to butcher who did my last filling in the UK before I emigrated.
Thanks for your advice
> You should hire people who know a statically typed language and prepared to learn Rust.

I believe i said exactly this. Specifically i said:

> We're hiring devs who want to use Rust.

Which seems clear to me. My edit also addresses new Rust devs. Our requirement is that you want to work in Rust. Which shouldn't be shocking or controversial.
In the U.S. contracts along those lines are (unfortunately) not uncommon. I think they may be illegal in California at least
Oh you mean like they liberated the people of Iraq in 2003? yeah North Koreans are really missing out...

And people in Cuba and Hong Kong raise American flags just because the US is an enemy of their State (enemy of my enemy is my friend) not because of "freedom and change".
> Instead of a moon base or an expanding space station, it was a time of expensive, unreplicable, and zany over-designed unmanned missions, like bouncing robots in big balloons down to the martian surface, as if NASA was the Wile E. Coyote backed by a couple billion in government funding. Even now, people are hyped over NASA’s drone helicopter on Mars that flies for only 90 seconds at a time, a thing that is, let’s be honest, basically just a publicity stunt.

Complaint that space exploration isn't fast enough and doesn't look cool enough. That's original.

I'm certainly willing to criticize NASA for many things, but bouncing landers and figuring out how to fly in a different atmosphere sound pretty appropriate to me.

I suspect the author would find reason for dismay even if the space race was being led by pitiful refugees in ramshackle backyard rockets; "those people don't properly represent us." Perhaps I'm not catching the argument properly... No, I know i'm not. "It needs to be done, but not like that"?
So? They could just take precautions when visiting them, or self-isolate. No reason to close schools (as happened in some countries) and so on.
I think the easiest path into tech is through internships. Being a student at a well-known university can help get you in the door for good internships, but it doesn’t have to be an expensive private college. Some schools also have a “second bachelor’s” program in CS which might get you into the kind of internships you want.

I was in a similar situation as you. I did a 3-month “boot camp” and then worked at an unknown startup until FAANG recruiters started to email me, but obviously YMMV.
I tried it briefly: I really liked it at first but there is one critical flaw; you need to be able to do the flash cards in reverse. Knowing the definition of something by seeing the name is useful, but it's only half of the value of flashcards. I'll come back to it if they add the ability to study the cards seeing the definition side to quiz you on what the name of the concept is.
I am going to write an article about "Should you use yes-no questions as the titles of articles about complex systems? The answer might not surprise you.".

In fact, let me make it a 15-minute video instead. That will really help people get to grips with it.