skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a pretty visible part of the profile on any major dating app. It's true that one could fairly easily lie about it at first, but you'd have to be committed to the lie if you're trying to get into a long term relationship. There are plenty of small things that could signal something weird about your supposed college experience, and lying about that is a good way to end a relationship even with someone who wouldn't have minded.

As you get older and especially as you get a higher status job you could start to get away with leaving off the education section of the dating profile, and then sure it probably doesn't come up until later in the relationship when it's an unimportant point. But for a trade worker like OP I could see a degree having some effect on dating app success even into their 30s.

I wish dating apps weren't the de facto way to meet people now, but where I live it's uncommon to find a couple that met outside of either dating apps or work/school. Obviously not going to college eliminates meeting at college, and working in trades one probably does not have many female coworkers. So basically that leaves dating apps. Women get a lot of swipes usually and can afford to be picky with the early screening. Hell, they might have to be picky with screening otherwise they would be bombarded by messages.

Man I'd really love to see some real disruption to the current dating app scene. But the more wholesome stuff wouldn't necessarily be a great business model I guess.
Disney, Peacock and Paramount want a single spot to unify their content offering. HBOMax also kinda wants that, but also has enough HBO left to target "prestige" offerings. Apple+ is being Apple and directly targeting "prestige".

Netflix isn't doing any of that. It isn't going for the best and brightest it's going for the best and brightest, and "murder shows", and crappy reality shows, and cooking shows, and, and, and: https://www.vox.com/2015/4/16/11561544/netflix-doesnt-want-t...
Masters programs were recently skewered by the WSJ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27779775
>People start to wonder why you made that conscious choice. What does that say about you? Are you a bigot? Do you harbor hatred for those harmed by such language? Are you making a political statement? Why can't you just do what you're suggested? It's only a click away after all.

And such folks can ask me what I meant or they can just fuck right off. Even if that means a few parting barbs from such folk or even a coordinated campaign to damage my reputation.

I have no control over what other people think, do or say, other than to speak my mind as well.

As Justice Brandeis put it[0] nearly a hundred years ago:

If there be time to expose through discussion the
falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the
process of education, the remedy to be applied is
more speech, not enforced silence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_v._California#Quotes
I've been DM'd with passive aggressive "concern" when questioning the parameters of a workplace inclusive language push.
Yet again, another person who parlayed his prestigious college education into a good-paying, high status career who now is trying to tell us, no, college is not the way.

Ok man, nice pulling up the ladder.

Even adjusted for student loan debt and inflation the gap between college grads and non-grads is the widest it's ever been. Crisis such as the Great Recession and Covid has seen the gap widen, even as anti-college movement has gained popularity online. That's the funny thing about this, you got these people with degrees who who are saying to not go to college even as the wage premium is the widest it's ever been and keep widening with no end in sight. High inflation only makes college more attractive. Inflation hurts poor people whose wages suck.

Same for Peter Thiel...he is wrong to encourage ppl to drop out of college. You ware more likely to get rich with college, even with a liberal arts major major at a mid-ranked school, than you are to drop out (unless you got rich parents, I guess).
> Overtime for a salary non-exempt worker is poorly defined.

No it's 1.5x (minimum), just like hourly.

To find the hourly wage that the 1.5x applies to, you divide their salary for the pay period by the number of non-overtime paid hours in the pay period.

> An hourly computer professional making over $27.63/hour is likely exempt.

Under federal law, but maybe not under state law (CA, for instance, has a much higher threshold for computer software workers.)
> college is some 4 year, very specific journey for a very specific degree

It's not that at all IME. That's graduate school. What degree are you talking about? Colleges generally provide diverse, well-rounded educations.
There is not always a counterpart. "Guys" can be used as a collective noun to address a group of people regardless of the genders of the individuals in the group. That's the point.
Twitter account ArmedForcesUkr unjustly suspended, RU propganda accounts persist
It's ridiculous for eighteen year olds to have to consider their future earning potential, when the constant drumbeat is "you must go to college to be a successful human".

I was the only person in my immediate family to go to college, and it was clear from my school and my family that "college = success". I majored in psychology, which has absolutely no job prospects. At no point did I have meaningful support from anyone around me in terms of picking an "effective" degree, or evaluating job opportunities.

It worked out fine for me, because I spent most of my time not paying attention to class and screwing around on the internet instead, so the ~50k in private student loans at an extortionate rate that I had to take out to attend have never been a problem, but it was all by complete luck.
Pros - will make corporate speak in writing much easier to pull off. Being capable to write like an MBA/HR bot is a good skill for engineers to have.

Cons - will homogenize language away from the diverse, semi-structured, creative space it is, and toward MBA/HR bot speak. Shakespeare invented a few words, and those words likely would be flagged. Sure we're not all Shakespeare, but the ramifications of flattening a language are significant and need to be taken seriously. Misinformation thrives in brittle ecosystems where the semantic meaning is flexible and the supporting ecosystem is brittle in the ability to respond to changes. Tools like this do this flattening and brittling specifically.
The whole list of proposals and where they're at is here:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals

You can see that "interface types" is at "Phase 1 - Feature Proposal (CG)", so still early days.

And there's a link to the proposal here, for people like me who don't know about it: https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types
While it has less quantity, Apple TV+ is also much cheaper at $5 per month.
Median Age of the Population in Every Country (2017)
I can’t remember the last time I watched something good on Netflix. Most of their “good” shows are good for a season or two, then seem to stall out. With the recent price increase, I dropped from the HD plan to the SD plan, as my wife mostly watches on her phone. So far so good.
So raising prices of their subs offering did the trick in extracting more earnings out of declining revenue then?
> That's not how most people think of China.

Really? It's exactly how I think of education in China.

Indeed, this is the case for most of the developing world, the only difference being that their Tier 1 cities are much larger and the education quality better (based on my experience interviewing people, students from top (Tsinghua, other C9) universities in China are basically equivalent with the Ivies + Stanford + MIT)
I don’t understand. The halting problem says you can’t tell if an algorithm halts without running it - you can’t be sure any program will run to completion in a specific time. It applies to any non trivial program.

And it’s well established that a rewrite is dangerous. The second system effect suggests that rewrites will always take much longer.
I think the difference is due to entrepreneurship culture. Human capital is useless if they're not used efficiently. There's a lot more monetary capital flowing into R&D and startups compared to Canada that just invests in real estate (it's literally the largest sector of our GDP).
“apps” meaning both front and backend. I think I provided an answer for both.
There absolutely are people that are not able to complete their degree with a B or C average. It's not an incredibly difficult thing to do at most schools, but I wouldn't exactly call it easy either. Additionally college is designed to test things that employers value most in junior hires. Basically comes down to "Are they able to consistently complete tasks on a deadline with minimal supervision?" Which isn't much of a bar, but many are still unable to pass.
But where does the code run physically? Of course on a server, otherwise it wouldn't be reachable from the net. But who maintains those servers? Is there some contract with those who maintain it?

In my experience if you run things professionally you have to set up log rotation purely for legal reasons anyways. Is serverless without logs? Or how would you there ensure to log privacy relevant data only for the legally allowed periods?

How do you do SSL on serverless and who is in control of the certs that guarantee safe communications between you and your customers? If it is not you, are they somehow contractually bound to keep your user data private?
Inclusive language corrections are currently only available in gsuite Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus.

source: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/03/more-assisti...
When people talk about a term being "gender-neutral", that doesn't just mean "people use this term to refer to people of all genders"; many people also mean "do people of all genders, upon hearing this term, feel included, rather than othered". For instance, using "guys" to refer to a group emphasizes the idea that "guy" is the default and "not guy" is the exception not worth noting.

"not considered non-inclusive by any Australian I know" does not mean "not considered non-inclusive by any Australian". You've just given an example of the type of response that you and potentially some of your colleagues might give to people attempting to raise this issue. How many people you know might accurately predict that that would be your response, and thus not raise the issue because it would cause strife?

Inclusiveness is not exclusively an "American" issue, nor is it a matter of being "easily offended". Someone raising this issue to you may not be expressing offense; they may be expressing a desire to include people.

(This is not an argument specifically for "folks"; I fully agree that you shouldn't necessarily adopt a specific replacement term if that term doesn't make sense locally. Perhaps there's an inclusive term that does make more sense locally, to avoid having something that feels like a loanword.)
To what extent do black computer science grads have worse job placement than white/asian ones? At my employer for every position we're required to interview at least one underrepresented demographic (basically female, black or latino), but recruiters are struggling to find candidates. It gives me the impression that there simply aren't many computer science grads in those demographics
Cultural institutions don't get designed around the narrow goals that they were initiated for, they morph into the goals of all the people who set them up and sustain them. Yes it would be good for students if we refactored education around their needs, but if that movement took off, it would itself morph again into the needs of this new round's set of participants, which would include employers, the working public, the retired public, the experts that teach etc. I don't see an insightful analysis by the author describing the incentivized participants of the education system, so I'll just slot this into the opinion pieces by wannabe experts looking for a job.
I knew this looked familiar! I paid for Projectfi this year. Can I use the same account?
I think that's the process, yes. Features get proposed, discussed, implemented, then eventually when they're done they're moved into the spec and tagged with a version.
For safety system software most people I know would be very nervous (as in, I'm outta here) about testing software components and then not testing the end result as a whole, just too many possible side effects could come into play, including system wide things that only reveal themselves when the entire program is complete and loaded/running.

What you describe already occurs to some extent in the process and machinery safety sector, where specialised PLC programming languages are used - there is a type of graphical coding called Function Block, where each block can be a re-useable function encapsulated inside a block with connecting pins on the exterior. eg a two out of three voting scheme with degraded voting and MOS function available

The blocks are tested, or sometimes provided as a type of firmware by the PLC vendor, and then deployed in the overall program with expectation inside the block is known behavior, but before shipping, the entire program is tested at FAT.

Depending on the type of safety system you are building, and the hazards it protects against, there is potentially the expectation from the standards that every possible combination of inputs is tested, along with all foreseeable (and sometimes unexpected) mis-use of the machine/process.

In reality that's not physically achievable in any real time available for some systems, so you have to make educated guesses where the big/important problems might hide, fuzz etc, but the point is you aren't going to test like that until you think your system development is 100% complete and no more changes are expected.

And if you test and need to make any significant changes due to testing outcomes or emergent requirements, then you are potentially doing every single one of those tests again. At very least a relevant subset plus some randoms.

Background: I am registered TUV FS Eng and design/deliver safety systems.

It's a whole different game, across the multi year span of a project you might in some cases literally average less than one line of code a day, 95%+ of work is not writing code, just preparing to, and testing.
This spurred some research. Everyone knows he got rejected from art school. But prior to that he basically failed out of high school too. He attended two of them.
Apple is less rushed than most others. They don't need to win by yesterday. I think the same could be said for Amazon. They're not killing it like apple, but they are slowly building up a fairly decent collection of originals that doesn't feel as rushed as Netflix.
It really depends on which field you are talking about. I’d say it is very hard to find an area of math that’s completely new , but you will often find existing areas where novel perspectives are driving math forward. Geometric algebra may be a hot topic in some areas, but the ideas of exterior algebra go back more than a century at this point, so is it really new??

Just to humor you though, I think Deep Operator learning is a vastly exciting new field which combines ideas from functional analysis and deep learning in order to do things like solving PDEs.
> City dwellers are not subsidizing anybody.

City dwellers already subsidize rural living through taxes. On the federal level, more rural states are subsidized by more urban ones, paying more per capita and receiving less per capita. Similar things happen at the state level, but the numbers are a bit harder to track down.
I have no problem with what you said, as there's an acknowledgement that your choices can face consequences.

Every generation leaves behind huge numbers of individuals who do not evolve their usage of certain words. And every generation struggles with the previous' generation's collection of those people.
Apple TV + is so underrated and under-talked about it's not even funny.

Netflix still produces some interesting shows and I especially like the anime that they are bringing on like Thermae Roma (sp?) that was recently released. I don't think I'd ever see that on Apple TV + which is a big disappointment.

But this is why I also don't invest in Netflix. Missed the boat on growing to get here.
What are you missing that won't get (and in a better way) after you graduate?
And the guy who discovered the first evidence of the Big Bang was a priest. But both facts are irrelevant. A thing is not more or less valid because of who believes it; the only thing that changes the validity of a claim is evidence about why the claim is (or isn't) true.

"Mysticism is a personal, subjective framework for insight and self-improvement that doesn't have to follow the rules of the scientific method."

Anything that makes claims about how the world works does, in fact, need to follow the scientific method. Why? Because it's a process that's literally designed to counteract the most common mistakes and biases that humans make in order to find the truth, and because so far, it's been the most accurate and effective method of predicting the future.

If you want self-improvement or mindfulness, that's fine and personal, but making claims about the nature of the universe isn't a personal opinion, it's a statement of fact about things external to yourself that is either true or false irrespective of your own experiences.
Yup those two are the best ROI for me too. Had to politeley turn down 3 other offers/contacts from last month at workatastartup (didnt pursue them tbh, I hate interviews)

And HN who's hiring has gotten me several contracts/gigs in the past so can vouch for its usefulness too
If anyone from Netflix is lurking, I have a wild suggestion:

If I’ve recently watched a movie or series, don’t relentlessly show it in the “recommended-content-looping-screensaver”. I know it exists, because I’ve watched it. And you know that too.
I present you with the word "literally."
> The 1967 Arab-Israeli War was the first conflict since World War II that saw the large-scale employment of tank formations on a mobile battlefield

Anyone with a mild knowledge of history knows about the huge tank battle that took place between India and Pakistan in 1965. Hard to take the article without any reference to that conflict.
I think people will eventually do this. But giving them a sane, simple starting point is probably a good idea. (Though I awhile ago threw all mine out and went with basic Doom setup, but everyone's journey will be different)
One would also have to know how many people of each background applied for jobs at ebay.

This goes even more for remote dev roles. A job post will get a ton of Indian applicants.
>One, they watched tradecraft in the fifties slowly kill their parents before OSHA was really a thing

This is a really good point---to some extent we can see college as individiuals reacting to working environments---"inefficiently" in that it doesn't solve the problem, but it solves it for them---meanwhile eventually society handles it as a whole.

I think there can also be a "prestige" thing going on---jobs that aren't prestigious can become less well-paid (relatively), because those with prestige can at some point say, "Why are we paying these undesireables all this money, can't we bring in some immigrants/subsidize substitutes/outsource?" Which means that it's quite possible that certain trades could become much more valuable, very quickly---as we've seen in nursing, for instance.
The last good show I watched on Netflix was Mindhunter.
No, this is the line for a queue of these jokes. ;p
I think it's because they're said to pay a heck of a lot of money to engineers. Perhaps they also have similar interviews. But the acronym seems to be employment related more than what the company actually does.
There was a time I thought most of what I learned in university courses was useless--a lot of the material seemed to be either esoteric (e.g., automata theory) or obvious (e.g., databases). And then I was talking with a colleague about some design stuff, and he turns to me and says "the great thing about you, jcranmer, is that you've actually gone to school and learned all of this stuff." Since then, I have been continuously more surprised than I should be when I talk to other people and realize how much they haven't picked up on that I was taught in school courses.

I actually went back through my school notes and looked through all of the CS classes I took to see how many of those courses turned out to not be useful to me at some point in my career. The answer is "Natural Language Processing" and maybe some of the algorithms courses (although interestingly enough, not Advanced Algorithms [1]). Admittedly, this is probably partially due to working in compilers--which ends up being at the intersection of a lot of different fields--but I've still found reasons to apply learnings from ML, information visualization, or cryptography in my work.

So even if I would have been a good programmer without going to university, it's definitely the case that the CS degree has given me even more knowledge to become a better programmer.

[1] I've had to use Chernoff bounds once to bound a probability distribution.
> Obama: 'We tortured some folks'

https://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/john-brennan-torture-...
Thanks for the meaningful feedback! We'll try to work on explaining our own usage pattern.
> Btw the performance of emulated float operations on rp2040 Vs the teensy is a factor of ~100x

wow, I was going to ask whether a mult to an int before doing the DSP, then a div back to float would be faster than a softfpu, but I think that answers the question pretty well.

but, if you're looking at a teensy4, it might also be worthwhile to look at a daisy seed: https://www.electro-smith.com/daisy/daisy (they also sell specific hardware if you're looking to go eurorack with it)
Can you explain how a squiggly line is enforcement?
Netflix has been doomed since they were forced to become a media company rather than a tech company.
Affordable doesn't mean shit, it means not optimised to gouge as much cash as possible from the buyer, and also probably means coming with a price control covenant. Many council houses in the UK were historically built to very high spec.
Well, there’s a simple reason- FAANG was an acronym to describe a group of companies’ stock market performance not their underlying value. Of course it’s a ridiculous grouping - Facebook and Google are ad tech companies, Amazon is a logistics company, Apple is a hardware company and Netflix is a Hollywood studio .
As long as land prices are high, a highrise should net a lot more profit though, would it not?
> Do you think founders should retain ownership of the companies they create?

No. The idea that a company is something you "own" rather than a group of people doing some kind of economic activity is a social construct, and one designed to disenfranchise the people doing the ongoing work. A company is a collection of assets and people - to own assets makes sense, to own other people's labour in an ongoing capacity does not.

> On what basis do you think he should have been compelled to sell his stake in the company he created?

I don't think he should - I think we should change the system that allows people to be worth billions off the backs of others. I don't want redistribution, I want reform.
I'd rather not share the school (I'm writing under a pseudonym and don't want to leave more hints than I already have), but it was a Computer Science degree.