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The article is poorly titled - it's mostly about non-tech degrees or online programs.

In engineering, an MS in CS has the least value to employers. However, in other areas of engineering, it has a pretty high value. Many big companies will not let you do EE design work with just a BS, for example.
HoldMyCarbonCredits while we make the Salton Sea a SuperFund-Site! [0]

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Anyone know how recoverable Lithium is from Lithium batts? Does the Lithium degrade/denature/deconstruct over time in all lithium batteries? How bad for the environment is all the Lithium we are throwing out with all these used up batteries?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites
As someone who works in IT, with a security clearance, I am pretty sure this is a lie. We talk about salary all the time. Some people are weird about it, but that has been true every place I have worked at.
Two-thirds of Southern Republicans want to secede
Thank you, that's interesting and concise.
$100k still goes a long way in the majority of US cities. If you want to live in SF, NYC, Seattle, Chicago, etc then sure you might need to be making a little more, but if you think $100k isn't a good living then your perspective is a bit warped.
Url changed from https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=477739 to one that doesn't do a file download. If there's a better URL, we can change it again.
I think he meant "stop playing video games" which is solid advice.
I don't think the two are mutually exclusive - if we were going to liberate North Korea, the point would be largely to let the North Korean citizens live free of their horrifically oppressive government. You just have to distinguish between the culture of a country as defined by the traditions and history of its people and the culture as defined by the government, particularly if the government is a dictatorship. The former is good and should be preserved (generally) while the latter is generally to the detriment of the former.
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Well thank you for your lawyering, but what's your point? The people that invented this country thought it was very important that people can speak freely (including you!), and you're like "nah"?
In the US, discussion of pay and working conditions while on the job and off are protected acts under the NLRA. The NLRB is the board that enforces those protections.
https://archive.is/0sNA5. Also, the title seems to be "Why we crave internet justice". The article itself doesn't have much substance.
Dude, come on. FOX and Trump were running with this theory as fact, using it as a pejorative against the Chinese government, and kicking the shit out of Asians across the country while we were in the grips of a pandemic. Instead of focusing on things like "What can I as a citizen/political leader do to help the situation", it was just more hate-mongering.

Yes, the truth is important, and if the virus came from a lab leak, it should be known and dealt with. FOX and company weren't journalists looking for answers. They were hatemongers giving their viewers an "other" to blame for something out of their control, while telling them at the same time that the virus was fake and masks are tyrannical.

No one said you couldn't discuss it. No one was jailing you for talking about it. Stop the fake oppression.
> No reason to close schools

I mean, if you ignore the fact that children aren't the only people necessary to an open school.
I am just adding to your explanation. The brain is insensitive not because it is "inside your skull" but because of the lack of pain receptors in the brain.

Our bone marrow is inside our bones. Trust me, it is not pleasant to touch.
Sounds like a load of nonsense to me.

I think the background check for these jobs _does_ check if you have debts etc. and I think probes into your financial history to see behaviour - they won't take you on if you're a risk.

The salary thing is nonsense though, a motivated foreign state actor will find ways of bribing if they detect you can be corrupted.
It's not like clients just download blobs and dump them on disk. They download programs that they execute and then store the updated state on disk
No, but why the reluctance? Not that you must learn it, but being open to learning new things as an engineer (or just about anyone) is generally positive.
US sanctions exist to compell countries to make steps toward freedom, they don’t indicate a ranking of countries by freedom. Consequently the US will lift or ease sanctions toward a country that is progressing and impose or increase sanctions towards countries that regress. Of course there are many other factors—if US trade with a country isn’t important to that country, then the US is not likely to impose sanctions in the first place. In other cases, the US may have strategic reasons for working with a given country (an ally against a worse evil). So we shouldn’t expect them to serve as an accurate ranking of countries’ human rights records—that’s not the intent; the goal is to encourage countries to improve or cooperate.
I'm shocked by the clear, simple and thoughtful advice this booklet gives. It just feels like the antithesis to the kind of official government communications today that use needlessly complex language and seem to try to avoid actually saying anything of substance.
Ask HN: Where do Chinese and Indian developers spent most of their time online?
Do Chinese and Indian developers primarily spend most of their time online in the same places as US/European developers, or are there similar sites that I'm just not aware of? I'm thinking places like Reddit, HackerNews, GitHub, etc.
The median salary in some NYC boroughs is $32k just outside of Brooklyn and Queens.
Brazilian police arrest gang specialized in unlocking iPhones
The history of random.org
"Man is changing the climate" is a very weak statement if taken literally, and not really what people mean by the term climate change. Of course man has some sort of impact on the atmosphere, as we do on all aspects of our environment.

Once you get into questions like, by how much is it changing, are those changes a big deal or not that serious, by how much does it really affect the weather, even what the actual history of global temperature is, there is a lot of disagreement even amongst scientists, although of course given the tiny size and cliquey nature of many academic fields, criticism from outside the field must always be considered as well.
Please try and define "genetics" in a way that isn't, in some way, sociopolitical. To give one example out of many thousands across history, still somewhat alive today: do you consider South Koreans and Japanese people to be the same race? Do you know if those groups consider themselves to be of the same race?

The concept of race very much predates our understanding of genetics, which is a relatively modern science.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological or nationalistic battle. It's repetitive, tedious, and nasty—the things we're trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hiding salaries only benefits the employer.
> Things will never be exactly equal. Why focus time emphasizing the differences?

Why remain ignornant, and potentially lose out on acertaining one's true market value, because it might hurt someone's feelings?

Price discovery via markets can only work with transparency. Opaqueness leads to inefficiencies.
".. public-health officials have worried over infections in the young — assuming they would eventually help bring the disease back to those much more vulnerable."

I had wondered why we allowed workers in long term care facilities to come and go and work in multiple facilities. In/out spread transmission vector devastated older at-risk. And NY forced known carrier patients from hospital into long term care, infecting more at-risk.

Also wondering why we aren't allowing low-risk children to get it naturally and develop anti-bodies while young so they can get on with their role of being children.
Wow, this is really impressive. There's a huge number of scenarios and the assets look really good considering it's fan made.

If this appeals to you, I'd highly recommend giving Star Wars Squadrons a try in a high end VR rig. The game overall isn't perfect, but it's by far the closest I've ever felt to feeling like I was flying a tie fighter or an x wing.
TL;DR Employers need to cough up more $$$
I saw a comic from 1898 "Un diner en famille" https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_d%C3%AEner_en_famille which I understand the captions to be "Let's not discuss the Dreyfus affair" and "they discussed it".

I won't disagree that the internet can exasperate things like this.. the comic feels _too_ familiar in the internet-age.
No. The main reason they would reject a transaction is to raise the demand for priority fees. I will repeat: there is zero incentive to include a zero-fee transaction.

In fact, the incentive is negative for two reasons. Firstly because it helps the miners to set a price floor. Secondly, because the empty blocks reduce the burn fee, which opens up more of the demand elasticity to be captured by the priority fee.

I know there are all these armchair geniuses like Vlad and Roughgarden that are convinced it will work out a certain way. Sorry, but they don’t know squat until there’s real money on the line.

You can almost guarantee that zero-fee txs will be ignored, and the bigger the pools get, the more they can collude to set a price floor.

So please tell me again how this is any different at all from the current fee structure in the miner perspective.
They can be awful offline too.
I don't know about the transistors in the article but generally organic transistors can be printed on flexible plastic substrates. The process doesn't need the same high temperatures and toxic chemicals that are needed for silicon transistors.

See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5090443/
People often forget that "slippery slope" is a fallacy. Political censorship is indeed of general concern; censoring anti-vax bullshit does not imply an inevitable path to political censorship.

The real solution, of course, is to out the hypocrisy and malfeasance of the spineless GOP/Fox leadership that panders to this ignorance, and gives it mainstream legitimacy. Without that legitimacy, these conspiracy theories will fade back into background noise where they belong.
Your consideration is absolutely right. The abstractions in Gorse do lose lots of informations. Prior knowedges, contextual informations is important to further improve recommender systems.
Likely this will be a bad development for the community at Slab City.
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What the parent to your comment means is that video games is serving a purpose such that you cant just "stop." You have to figure out what purpose its serving and find another way of achieving that. A better version of what they're trying to say is telling an alcoholic to "just stop drinking." Yes, if they can do that it would be good advice, but the problem is that they cant stop. So, ultimately that advice doesn't lead to results.
I don't think you need to be hard on yourself. Creating content up to the standard of 3b1b requires skills that can be far removed from what you want to teach.

Having knowledge of a topic is one thing but being able to create entertaining and educational content around it is another.
I’m guessing this is due to some executive bonus construction that only pays out if they have full self driving launched. Because why else would they push the PR when they don’t yet have actual self driving working?
As the article notes, this isn’t new information - it was clear very early on in the pandemic. Infection fatality rates from the CDC and other sources showed people under 50 had very low risk, not just kids. The lockdowns made no sense to me because it felt like everyone under 50 was being constrained so that those over 50 could avoid staying strictly quarantined but instead enjoy partial freedom and go outside of their homes. In reality people, businesses, schools, and so on should have been allowed to take the risks they were comfortable with as individuals. The big dissonance was when many European countries opened up schools around mid 2020 and America didn’t. But little attention was given to this aspect by the public or news media.

So why was there so much fear mongering and safetyism, suggesting that even a small risk of opening up schools is unacceptable? In my opinion a big reason in America was because COVID became politicized in a contentious election year, since a crisis can be leveraged by critiquing how the crisis is managed and by hurting the economy (one of Trump’s strengths going into 2020). This irrational approach and unwillingness to consider data was enabled by a broader rise in safetyism even before COVID, which normalized it to some degree. For instance “vision zero” programs that seek to diminish or ban cars in pursuit of perfect safety. Or kids not being allowed to freely roam on their own. And so on.
This conversion has VR support as well, so you should get that same immersion, with the stronger gameplay provided by the Alliance game engine. I haven't played Squadrons myself.
> Elixir felt like a functional language un-necessarily trying to look like a class based language.

Not really. Named functions live in modules because that is how it is done in Erlang; Elixir is compiled to Erlang's abstract syntax. In practice does anyone define Clojure functions outside of a namespace? Haskell functions are always defined in modules too, do you think they got that from class based languages?
Watch a few episodes.
The U.S. set off a nuclear bomb in space in 1962
I was smoking relatively heavily in my early twenties (at least once a day) but drastically reduced my use when I started being serious about work. I felt like I was less sharp.

Then I had a brain infection that took years to heal(still working on the aftermath). I had heavy neurological symptoms and weed made it so much worse, so I completely stopped. The infection kinda traumatized me and the symptoms were not so far from cannabis consumption : brain fog, memory loss, problem with diction and focus, vertigo and nausea... So now I have absolutely no intention of smoking again since it will remind me of when I was at the worst.

I don't regret the years I smoked tho, I laughed so much with my friends. I'm just glad this is behind me.
It seems like a manual like that today would have to go through multiple layers of bureaucracy and legal approvals that would suck all life out of the language. I know that the army always had censors, etc. but maybe it is yet another example how things were “simpler” back then?
The page title is "Roxane Gay: Why People Are So Awful Online" though.
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It's not just New York. It's not just the big cities. And it's not just prices going up. I'm not anti-tourist. I'm anti-tourist thinking they deserve to live like the locals when they're not. Tourists can stay in hotels and still go out to the bars and help bring money to the city. What they shouldn't do is feel entitled to live in a house. In fact every house they live in is one less for the locals to actually live in. That's the issue. It drains supply, which does cause prices to rise exactly for those who can't afford it (who's the ones most likely going to be working in these tourist shops? Not those who can afford $1000+ rent that's for sure).

And the thing is those local bars/restaurants often move out once there's no longer locals around. Tourist bars and restaurants move in, as is seen in several neighborhoods in Barcelona. Tourists feeling like they have the right to live in houses that the locals need is the issue, not tourism itself (at least for this specific one).

I still disagree that tourists add much to culture. Culture of an area is more than just a transient thing caused by people being on the street. It's the festivals, customs, etc of the people of the place. Tourists don't contribute to this in my opinion (except, perhaps, in negative ways when they stumble back to their AirBnB in a residential neighborhood waking up all the people who live there and who have to go to work tomorrow and leaving the area trashed).
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People are awful in cars too.

So the rule seems to be that people are awful when there is a piece of glass between them.
Great project!

Are you thinking about offering this as a service as well? It feels like you could have a lot of interest with a run-it-yourself or we-do-it-for-you-as-a-service model. I couldn't see that after a quick look :)
horse carriages are seldom the protagonist of any movie, you realize...
Ask HN: What do you use to run complicated, multi-node integration tests?
We run big integration tests that stand up multiple services (Postgres, etc.) plus our own code in a Kubernetes cluster, then run lots of tests on them. Some of tests are stress tests that put a bunch of load on them, some are benchmarks, and some are pure integration tests.

We currently use Argo Workflows (to express the pipelines) plus Argo Events (to start automatic tests on GitHub webhooks), which allows us control over the Kubernetes aspect, but it is a mess of YAML, and it requires us to first put the workflows into Kubernetes as "workflow templates" that are then executed to generate the running "workflows". Argo is also quite flaky and buggy. I've been thinking of using Jsonnet to make this less of a mess, but that doesn't solve all the complaints.

We also use CircleCI for some stuff, but it's much too limited; no support for running multiple nodes, for example. We've decided to just use it for normal building, unit tests, and linting.
Interesting that, of all the many possible simple solutions to this massive problem with the protocol, they chose to ignore it in favor of something that solves… wait, what is the problem exactly that this upgrade solves?
I respect that you didn't get into programming for money, but many of us do, including myself. Programming for me was a way to escape growing up in poverty, it was a way to gain financial independence and start a business of my own in an area that has almost no barriers to entry. I started an HFT firm and in order to compete I have to hire some of the most technically sophisticated people I can find. I am fairly confident that many of them are highly motivated by money just as I am and that being able to put to use their skill to provide for themselves an incredibly high standard of living motivates them a lot more than if their skill had little to no means of providing them with a great paycheck.

Certainly there are interesting aspects to programming, but there are interesting aspects to a variety of different subjects and I don't know that programming is intrinsically more fascinating than music, or psychology, or history. What makes programming stand out at this particular moment is the massive amount of economic potential it has.
I think we should be wary of enforcing a particular truth or narrative. I think society should be vigilant against government punishing people for what they think or say - that is anathema to the freedom guaranteed to us in the 1st Amendment.

However, your analysis doesn't acknowledge the very real war on truth being fought daily on a multitude of fronts. There are many actors, and many reasons they are doing it.

Some people just want to watch the world burn (troll armies, 4chan-like people, alt-right, etc). Some people want to keep ignorant people in their place, and pit people against each other (cable 'news", especially Fox).

People are being exposed to misinformation (deliberate lies about the state of current affairs) more and more easily than ever before.

It's like saying we have a freedom to hold whatever rocks we find on the ground, then someone finding a block of uranium. Sure, we have that freedom, but there is a very real danger and we need to figure how to deal with the more dangerous aspects of it. Censorship/government enforcement is a heavy hammer and I don't think it's the answer - but that doesn't mean there isn't a problem.
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I'm generally less anti-lobbying than most - I think there's value in corporations being able to express their desires to elected officials - but this is the case that just completely destroys the validity of it.

It's just unjustifiable that we have the current system in place. There is not one single, rational argument to be made that US citizens are better off having to file their taxes every year. A system in which people get a tax bill from the government with an explanation of how it's calculate, then they can file their own tax return if they disagree, is just clearly better in every single way.

I think Intuit is a company that makes a lot of really useful products, but I can't look at them as anything except just utterly unethical because of their lobbying on this topic.
> You don't need a masters to apply to a doctorate program.

Don't make overly broad statements. This is true for many programs, but false for many programs. It tends to be true for CS, and less true for EE, for example. When I applied for grad schools in EE, the universities that let you in the PhD program with just a BS were a minority. The top 10 school I got into said they would allow it only for special circumstances, and even then, would make you take about 2 extra years of coursework compared to those coming in with an MS (so practically the same as being admitted to a MS first). In my time there, I didn't encounter a single person who got into the PhD program with just a BS.

Googling now, what I say may be less true. My undergrad university, which absolutely required a MS to get into the PhD program, no longer does. Although the grad school I went to hasn't changed - you still have to take about 2 more years of coursework if you get in without a MS, and your qualifying exam is delayed pretty much as if you were first getting an MS.
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What's worse, that division is extremely profitable to some. So they spend their resources stoking that division. This only serves to drive the wedge deeper. Meanwhile, it's like the classic game of Three Card Monte. We are so busy hating the people we're told are "our enemy", that we ignore potential real enemies.
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There should be plenty of copper wiring available at the build sites.
Cars have a particular....lack of communication ability, compared to the internet.

Though a cute joke, I think there is something lost by reducing it to "people can be awful anywhere".
But do you really need the consent of all the guardians?
Not exactly. The jury is explicitly allowed to infer that the suspect had a reason to hide something if they rely in court on something that they refused to reveal during interviews.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence_in_England_an...
I had most of these concerns when I was early learning the language. I found it annoying to have everything in modules. Now, however, I've come to appreciate the organization and structure that this forces upon the programmer.

It makes me structure my code and group related concerns at time of writing. I now code my functions as a working collective rather than individual items.

And with .exs files, you can have multiple modules in one file for quick scripting.[0]

[0]https://github.com/matteing/stack/blob/main/server/boilerpla...
Yeah the main thing with OMSCS is that it's part-time and apparently some companies require you to be a full-time student in order to intern. I'm scared I'd be limited if I do OMSCS.

In terms of the bootcamp pathway, I feel like I have the foundation to teach myself the skills I need but it seems like the one positive thing that can come out of the bootcamp for me are the potential connections and job placement I would be able to get.

Let me know if I am wrong about it though!