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Tell HN: WGU has a proactive sales team
Inspired by yesterday's thread about WGU[0], a prominent online university for non-traditional and professional students, I decided to check out the school and started filling out an application.

After I filled out contact details, and without even submitting the form, I immediately got a phone call from one of their admission counselors, eager to answer any questions. I politely thanked them for their time, and they called me back again today, still eager to answer any questions I have about admissions. I expect them to be in regular contact with me until I finally enroll in their program.

I think this is the kind of "going above and beyond" that distinguishes modern, relevant institutions from the dinosaur colleges that don't care about their students at all and only exist to employ hordes of overpaid administrators and professors.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31180816
Character count does matter, but I still don't see how it makes code more readable if all the significant operations are supposed to happen in the condition block of an if statement.
And then everyone claims their animal is a service animal so they do not have to pay extra to go on the pet friendly airline per ADA, and we are back to square one.

edit: sorry, I meant claiming their dog is a service animal, not any animal
tell that to John Carmack
Elon Musk’s Other Merger Worked Out
Orbit mode looks inward at you. Can it also look outward for a 360 panoramic view?
Doesn't seem like you can. From Virgin's website:

> We do not allow animals in the main cabin unless they are assistance animals.

https://help.virginatlantic.com/gb/en/how-to-book-your-pet-o...
I like the idea that life is a game, in so far as there is a beginning, middle and end.

But I dislike the idea of a winner and a loser that typically accompanies the idea of a game.

The suggestion of a simulation is a valid philosophical consideration, though I like the framing of the idea from episode #095 from Philosophize This! podcast, built on the paper by Nick Bostrom (freely available online):

1. Civilization will de destroyed/destroy itself before developing the technology

2. Civilization might eventually develop the simulation, but ultimately decide against it

3. Civilization develops a reality simulation, and you are already in it

I like the suggestion of #3, because if it's true, is our experience the base simulation or one of countless variations of the base simulation? The podcast/and paper suggests the base simulation is like the main branch of a git repo and simulations exist like test branches, for introducing new "features".

The point is though: if it is a simulation, so what? Perhaps the purpose of the simulation is to push the established limitations (speed of light, time, energy, space, etc)...

But as far as life being a game as a way to frame self-actualization, you do you OP
Did you try emailing them? Look up your most active users and send a personal email or reach out to them on Twitter.

Especially when you’re B2C, small, and your users are small, build that personal relationship. Find your most passionate users, figure out where they hang out (Reddit? Twitter? Facebook? Discord) and try to start a community there.

This serves two purposes:

- Your passionate users will want to talk to you! They will have a particular power-user perspective, but much better than no feedback.

- Building an effective community that is excited about your product is fantastic for marketing. Word of mouth is the most effective kind of advertising.
What is delta black. I can’t find anything after a cursory search.
I hope this is not true. I not only lack musical ability, I have musical anhedonia.
I've used Mercalli to fix this in post-processing but it's not a simple fix.

This is caused by a non-global shutter so you have to spend a lot of processing power to fix it.
>I get it that they wanted kids and were ready for the screaming and whining and moaning

you should consider as various circumstances arise that maybe they wanted kids without disabilities that cause the screaming, whining, and moaning and while you have to tolerate it they might have to live with it for the rest of their lives.

Maybe I'm just touchy though because I ran into someone with an attitude last week.
They vandalized a vehicle. That’s a crime.
Part of the problem, but the other half of the problem is greedy state government with s** policy
The patent in question that was invalidated [0]:

Wireless image distribution system and method

Abstract
A system and method for distributing at least one digital photographic image is presented, the system and method comprising at least one capturing device and at least one receiving device disposed in a communicative relation with one another via at least one wireless network. In particular, the capturing device is structured to capture the at least one digital photographic image via, for example, a capture assembly, whereas the receiving device is cooperatively structured to receive the digital photographic image via, for example, the at least one wireless network. In addition, the capturing device(s) and receiving device(s) may be disposed in a selectively paired relationship via one or more common pre-defined pairing criteria. Further, the at least one digital photographic image may be filtered via at least one pre-defined transfer criteria disposed on the capturing device and/or receiving device.

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US9936086B2/en

TL;DR some kind of device sends an image to some kind of "paired" companion device wirelessly.
I’m confused where in the world you live where someone could have potentially voided your warranty and destroyed a 50,000$ car and you wouldn’t want restitution? You would be completely fine with this situation???
New Relic, the company that tweaked MySQL to ingest more data than anybody could imagine. Cool. But New Relic is very obsolete in 2022 and should not be used.
they should deal with fake reviews first.
>This leads to the notion of being taxed for having a brain

Isn't this the same logic as used in the US against capital gains taxes, that a person is being punished for being successful?
Seems like the variety of outcomes for allowing pets would make this prohibitive. Imagine the first time a dog bites another passenger or shits on a seat mid flight or starts uncontrollably barking.
Reading it again, I can see how it could seem that way, although none of that was on my mind.
I mean.. the largest most liquid market in the world is the us equities market.. every foreign investor worth his salt (and his time) spends time researching and ultimately investing in us equities. Not to mention every country has their own accounting/financial disclosure laws so the data will inherently be untrustworthy. Hell even Canadian financials are hard to discern from the American pov given FFRS (or whatever the foreign reporting system is called).
> and they persist to this day among the black populations.

Well, light skin preference for females persists to this day in African populations and every other population.

It was also present -- and documented even in Africa -- before any European presence existed, so it's strange to say that Europeans imported it. And darker skin is usually preferred for men.
I wonder if we'll ever get over the hump in human development of assuming "bigotry" as the root cause of everything bad in the world. obviously it exists, but the world is more nuanced than "bigots ruin everything for non-bigots" being the core of every issue. by no means is it a mystery as to how we got here, but still, it's disappointing that we seem to have sort of high-centered on this false idea that unlimited tolerance is the only solution to everything and anything short of it is just plain old-fashioned "bigotry", and we seem to lack the means of getting unstuck. it's pretty hard to be optimistic about this—the "bigotry" narrative is very appealing and easy to take at face value without putting any further thought into the issues at play. everyone wants to be a good person (or at least think of themselves as such).
> That sounds the authors are giving up on the project, not that it's an opportunity for Wolfire to leverage the community to build a brand new thing.

It doesn't have to be either of these things. They have been very clear that they're releasing the code as open source as a learning experience for those interested in one or more of these three things:

1. Are interested in looking at what shipped game code can look like.

2. Want to look at specific code, like the procedural animation system.

3. Are an Overgrowth modder who wants to make a more involved total conversion or mod

They haven't given up on the project nor are they attempting to leverage the community for anything. Instead, they are releasing their code for others to see (and potentially use) in case it's useful...full stop. The code is released under the Apache license in the case that someone wants to reuse the code for their own project and sell it. Actual content is not included because then someone could just resell Overgrowth.

This viewpoint of yours is unnecessarily dense and pessimistic, especially in regards to a company that has done exactly this same thing in the past with Lugaru.
It's not just your eyes. My vision is usually pretty good, but it is hard to read the dark text on dark background.
Plastic Products Release Trillions of Microscopic Particles into Water
If you didn't have billions of people around the world buying them, the technology in your typical smartphone would cost many many thousands of dollars. Big markets with big demand can drive down cost curves almost unimaginably. It starts making sense to hire smart people to look at every aspect of how the thing works and is made, and to invest huge amounts of capital into equipment that can only be justified when the number of units is in the tens of millions. Something as niche as oversized passive e-ink screens will never attract that capital or expertise, since it could never recoup those costs. Eventually someone will either improve the technology enough for it to have a large end market (changing wallpaper in the home?) or it will stay niche until the patents run out and the tech can find more applications that currently don't make sense because the licensing fees would be too high.
I had no issues when tested. But still wanted to CMA lol
A Library's Trove of Wax Cylinders Will Soon Break Its Century-Long Silence
> Or, the new hire identifies the complexity in the situation, maps it to their speciality, but proposes a way forward that doesn’t match expectations. Leader: “Wait, I didn’t know things were that broken” or “this isn’t actually what we hired you to fix!”

> Tension mounts, and that approach inevitably fails as well.

I've run into this in a consulting capacity before. They wanted to address just one sticking point using a specific technology, I looked at it, saw a bunch of other potential pitfalls they would hit, brought them up, and it quickly became apparent we were talking across each other. They decided to just use a different technology, in their case, probably the right call for the immediate use case, but it did limit some future options. Not sure how things went long-term there, around if it was the right call for them ultimately or not, because once they were using a different technology they didn't have a need to keep talking to me about the first one.

So when talking about full time positions, I bring that up in the interview process. "Oh, you want to use X, let's talk more about why?" If it seems like a bad fit where what they actually need isn't what I'd be excited about working on, I'm less interested, hopefully they take that feedback and find someone who's a better fit. If they seem stuck on "but we just want to use X, can't you do that" then I know it's a bad fit culture-wise.
True, selective imports are easier to understand, but not as readable than a list of `require`. Also, supports glob loading, which is better than JS import keyword.
Restitution to the owner for a potentially voided warranty and bricked car?
If patents exist as a legal form of intellectual property, they should be able to be purchased and exchanged in a commercial market. Authors, composers and other creators of works with intellectual property rights can transfer or sell those rights and there is no obligation for the purchaser to do anything with the work other than own it and collect royalties.

In the case of a song or a book, it is simple (in most cases) to know that someone is performing your song or publishing your book without consent. This isn't the case with patents. There is an involved process to determine if a given entity is violating another's patent rights. This friction in determining right from wrong is the mechanism that allows patent trolls to extract a toll from anyone who isn't able or willing to fight the claim. This puts an asymmetric amount of leverage in the hands of the patent trolls. Some mechanism/legislation needs to be put in place to balance the power so that there is a higher cost to the patent owner who brings spurious claims.
This is true.

However if the transitive-closure in the dependencies contains an sdist package anywhere in the tree, written in a way that wasn't designed to be imported on all platforms (this is rare, but does happen), then it isn't possible to resolve cross platform.

The prevalence of wheels does alleviate this to some extent. I think it is one of the early design decisions that pip can only install/resolve for the current platform and this will be very difficult to unwind. There are movements slowly in a direction that may one day make it possible to statically resolve python packages and remove dynamic dependency metadata or builds happening during dependency resolution.
> Just remember that it's not free, something had to be traded off to achieve it.

I don't think that is clear at all in the general case. There's no reason why we should believe that "something had to be traded off to achieve it". In some cases probably that's what happened, maybe even explicitly, but in other cases there are just some designs that are better than others.
Updated Apr 1 2022 9:08 PM GMT+1
Issue started at Apr 15 2022 1:43 AM GMT+1

You must be able to mitigate a lot of issues if you can see 15 days into the future (that or the page doesnt get updated with a lot of attention)
Won't be surprised if it's satire.
It is part of the ancient tradition of persuasion that the Greeks used and appropriated by many other cultures because it seemed to work well:

Ethos, pathos, logos.

What you were enduring was the ethos part, where other people tout the credentials of the speaker so that you will be more likely to accept the The following propaganda.
It would make them less likely to do this again. It’s the same benefit of arresting people who smash a window or spray paint a car.
Not these ones. There's no controller so you can't fly them anywhere - they just follow a predetermined flight path.
Oh, wow... was really not expecting "toddlers". Those descriptions of otherwise unpredictably acting humans is not restricted to merely the toddler aged humans.
What feasible reason would cause you to believe two companies' internal morale are the same, even though only one of them has disproportionately negative reviews?

Feel free to only visit 2.5 star restaurants on Yelp because clearly that must just be disgruntled people disproportionately for no reason.
Why isn't it trivial to cut out that noise?

is it 4 motors? especially with data about current RPMs of the motors, with a FFT and some adjustments, it should be pretty trivial to deafen the sound.

From my listening many motors are effectively pretty simple instruments with normal harmonics etc which are easy to model. I could be wrong though.
> But I worry that the professionalism of the resume is a signal mostly for wealth and social status

What?
It’s very likely the warranty is voided and there is diminished value to the car now. He could easily push a destruction of property/vandalism charge.
Because web sites would prefer the DMCA requestors to be careful, afraid, and face consequences for lying. That's why you should never use your opponent's forms.
If a CPU doesn't run the OS and software I need to run, it might as well be a GPU or a Cray 9 or something dug out of the wreckage at Area 51. All of which are good descriptions of a CPU available only on the increasingly-proprietary Mac platform.

So this entire thread is kind of pointless with regard to many real-world use cases.
This was obvious from the start just looking at their refugee numbers and the fact that they didn't have enough experience with immigration.

This whole thing is a bit of a mindfuck for me because I can't find any logical reason for what Sweden has done. I think the government has actually acted out of pure humanity and accepted so many refugees without thinking through any of it and now they're paying the price.

Compare that with Canada who picks and chooses their immigrants and has a 100-year outlook on the future of their demography.
What if the back of the plane is pets ok and the front of the plane is for people who don't want to be near them?

Where I live people bring the dogs into the grocery store (carrying them, putting them in the cart, or just walking on a leash.... and no, they aren't all service dogs) and I've never seen a problem.

Personally I think you should be able to get a special collar or jacket for them that says they have passed a test that they are well enough trained for such things etc.
I would think that removing parts from a car is vandalism and thus criminal.

Also the cost of having a separate shop put everything back and verify is in the thousands so likely would hit felony.

A friend had his bumper replaced and it was $10k on his Model3.
That sounds like an interesting idea - now I want to print ebooks in my favorite font size... but that feature is locked behind DRM. Still, for webnovels it may be viable.
Golang has generics now and I'm already using them. They're great! But that's an obvious point.

I use Golang professionally every day, and these aren't the sorts of things that I run into. Then again, we run everything on Linux.

One thing I wish Golang had was the ability to easily deep clone things. Especially if you have a struct with nested struct _pointers_.

Options now are manually doing it field-by-field (error prone, if a new field is added you might miss it); using reflection (yuck!); or marshalling to JSON and back again.

Another thing is when reading to/from JSON, being able to differentiate between a field which doesn't exist ("undefined" in Javascript), or is null. Unfortunately some third-party APIs I interact with treat "null" as a command to remove the field. But if you use `omitempty`, you can't have null at all.

Other than that though, it's a treat to work with!
98% of Activision Blizzard Stockholders Approve Proposed Microsoft Transaction
You have no idea what the "swamp" is. What if it's some catastrophic data loss, an RCE vulnerability or causes an individual to be permanently locked out of an important account?

Still don't care because 80/20?
Show HN: A simplified Wave Function Collapse algorithm
It's amusing that you're concerned about someone making a joke turning this into Slashdot, because the actual discussion here comparing specs and cost of Intel vs. Mac could be lifted directly from the Slashdot archives circa the late 90s (adjusting for the specs).
Which will be why the linked post has a section "April 2022 Update".

> I wrote this in 2020, and have changed jobs twice since. Both jobs involved Go in some capacity, where it's supposed to shine (web services). It has not been a pleasant experience either - I've lost count of the amount of incidents directly caused by poor error handling, or Go default values.
I've encountered shops billing $300+ per hour for fairly routine types of software work. And yeah, that's still pretty far away from the $800/hr or so that would be 800k for 20hr weeks, but we're not talking super specialists there. And you're not gonna take home all of that if you're just an employee at that shop, but if you go independent or start your own shop... you suddenly have a higher ceiling for basically just "doing the same thing you were already."

It does take a very specific additional skill set to build up a network of clients and have the patience for that to turn into something where you're regularly booked, but if money is the number one thing you want to optimize for, it's something you should investigate.
This sounds more luxurious than my last flight from ORD to RDU.
The current prime minister of Sweden [1] is the leader of the Social Democrats, and not a right-winger.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena_Andersson
I had my heroin addicted friend explain it to me: they add it because when others hear about the overdose, they will think that it was someone who couldn't handle a potent dose of heroin, not that it was fentanyl. Effectively they go looking for the supposedly potent heroin, advertised by the overdose.
ML models are... very local. They fail at sensemaking. If it's any comfort, the same model would probably identify President Mobutu as a leopard.
The Lightning connector was introduced in 2012 while USB-C was introduced in 2014.

My theory is that Apple made commitments to keep supporting the Lightning connector on their phones for a number of years to get manufacturers to create devices with it.

Say whatever you want, when it was introduced it was clearly a big improvement over the micro USB connectors everyone else was using. By now it’s holding them back though.
It certainly helped me. Exploring music opened my mind up to both my potential ability as well as the technical side of audio, which lead fairly directly to me becoming a programmer.

Video games and guitar are like the foundation of my career. I needed to know how they both worked, and that journey exposed me to so much cool stuff. I really can’t see how a musical instrument would hurt, and I see plenty of reasons as to why it would help.

The key is wanting to play.
I tried playing 0AD a few times over the years. It's a beautiful game, or at least by standards at the time that I last played it, and if you compare to nearly any available open source free game, it really blows the competition out of the water. Also I don't remember seeing bugs and I think it's also multiplayer. All in all extremely impressive.

The problem for me is that I don't understand it. It has been too long now to say what I've tried or where my confusion came from, but while the general concept of building a base to build an army is clear (because that's how AoE works), I think I was confused by the win condition, or something about being nearby enemy entities to convert them automatically iirc. I didn't know anyone else that played it so I'd have to explain it to friends to play it together, so instead I guess I moved on.

Does anyone know a good site or video that explains the most important rules and mechanics from start to finish? I'd still be interested in playing this with friends if I can understand how it works. Or maybe I should just give it another stab now that I'm not a teen anymore.
Thankfully, humans are flawed so don't all go for the most perfect choice every time, because sometimes they want to try something _different_.

If we were robots, we would sit 8 hours a day in grey cubicles to write Java and Javascript because they have the biggest ecosystem and mindshare, increasing our productivity.

But I'm a human, for my small projects I optimise for other metrics than hireability. And truth be told, even at work sometimes I try to make my code writing a little fun with smaller ecosystems that spark joy.
If you think a crying baby is a bummer on a flight, try a crying dog. Just happened to me on my last flight.
Harsh but very true.