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"This is so wildly off the mark"...

The CDC unliterally...

* Outlawed all evictions
* Mandated masks on airplanes and public transportation
* Banned migrants at the border
* Grounded the entire cruise industry

And it's not that those things shouldn't be done. It's that they were done by a body with no checks and balances. None - whatsoever. There should not be a body in our government that can just make laws undemocratically. Or should there? This should be a cause of concern for everyone.
The same reason we learn any other subject -- to demystify it, and give people a basic understanding of it, so that others are less able to take advantage of your lack-of-knowledge to control you.

Yes, being exposed to a variety of fields in order to choose one and get a job is an important part of school. But I think giving kids a sense of how the important aspects of our lives / society work under the hood is where the true value of education lies.

For the same reason, I think film/media studies should be standard high school curriculum.
A genetically modified mold is used to create citric acid for a hundred years now and it used in almost all types of food. Maybe better if people don't know but even there are still problems with intellectual property.

Still, not the point. The topic of the article is corporate propaganda and you hand wave criticism away by making fun of "big company bad" remarks. To feel better than some of the most stupid criticism? That doesn't elevate you that much higher.

Yes, big company is bad. It did influence reporting and research for its own interest. That is very, very bad. Much worse than a criticism not hitting the mark by miles.
Counter-example, or exception that proves the rule?
Just give them some legos, knex or similar toy which will help them intuit many things about mathematics without trying to pressure them to be a top student. Show them interesting books and documentaries about animals, plants, and insects. Parental pressure to succeed is the destroyer of passion and joy in learning. Let your kids be kids and they'll learn what they need to along the way. Are they really going to start learning any science and math to get a head start on in kindergarten anyway?
Yes, apologies that we had to announce this before the code was actually ready. As you'll see, it's important context for our other announcements this week. But there's some work we still need to do to release the code. This work is my top priority right now, but will probably take a couple months.

Specifically, the Workers Runtime was built as an integrated component of the overall Cloudflare stack. We'll need to detangle it a bit into something that can run stand-alone. It's important to us that what we release is actually usable.

The two specific things we aim to enable with this are:

1. Testing Workers locally (with more accuracy than our existing simulator).

2. Running your production app on your own servers (with no dependency on Cloudflare).

(I'm the tech lead for Workers.)
Biking is a weird thing. You're not a car but you're not a pedestrian. It's really not safe for you to be where pedestrians are (and sometimes it is illegal) but cars want you out of their way. Additionally as a biker if you try and be courteous to cars it is almost always at the expense of your personal safety.

> I would rather the government focuses on infrastructure to solve for these problems than the manufacturers. Everybody wins then.

I agree 100% and liked what another user said - we have to imagine the city we want to live in and build backwards.
Because it's fun. Lots other good reasons, but to me this is the most important.
> It's obvious they just threw something together to comply with regulations.

Far worse, there is no regulation to force any of this it's just competition. Mostly by smaller "banks" with even worse track records concerning security.
Both are valid/true positions.
Is it just me, or is it a little bizarre to give a 5 year old a head start on math and science? Why not just have fun with the kid?
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Yes, the process of coming up with JPEG was extremely thorough. I recall from a uni lecture that originally multiple working groups were pursuing multiple research directions. Then they selected the 2 most promising and focused on those, and eventually the current JPEG codec emerged as winner. They meticulously hand-tuned the quantisation tables too. The process lasted about 6 years (1986-1992). No wonder it's still the most widespread codec. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group for a reason!
Simple. Not to fall for marketing slogans and false promises, and not to rely too much on the results of technology. If you know (at least basically) how the sausage is made, you will know it does not work without meat.
If it beeps, blinks, moves, or makes noise, it needs a kill switch!
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That’s exactly what I said. “Selects out” is the terminology used when discussing evolution. It’s not an active “decision,” it’s a thing that happens. “Natural selection.”
The remote ssh/container stuff is closed, as is Pylance.
Honestly, they shouldn't if they aren't interested.

But moving past that, Excel. Just a little bit of programming knowledge can really up your spreadsheet game.
> Not sure if there's still tools out there where a 13 year old kid with no technical experience can immediately get gratification with something so simple on a computer.

Lego MindStorms! There's a lab at my local university filled with Lego and basic robot sensors/actuators. Schools and other community clubs can book one-time or regular workshops.

What fascinates me the most is the adaptability to the students' abilities. Young students can do "block based programming", telling the robot what to do with very simple command blocks that connect to each other. With rising profession, advanced blocks can be made available that are more powerful, resembling software control structures. New sensors can be used and robots are built by the students themselves instead of prebuilt. At some point, you can ditch the graphical block based programming and show the generated Java code and introduce the students to basic software development.
Not just 64 bit. 64 bit floating point. You can't just get the "low bit". You need to take the exponent into account to figure out which bit of the mantissa to grab. It's intrinsically more computationally difficult than is-odd on a real integer.
I'm not sure which they're targeting, but early emscripten targeted asm.js, it predated WASM. I would consider asm.js to still be Javascript, it's just an optimized subset of the language.

I'll concede though that if they're targeting WASM it's not technically pure Javascript, but it still feels a bit to me like splitting hairs since it's always been explained to me that WASM and the Javascript runtime under the hood have a lot of overlap.
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That wasn't the shitty part.
more images in the full thing: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/di...

The highlighted image in this article has, to my eye, a clear phallus they've failed to "highlight". Some of the others are even harder to see without the interpretation assistance.

I have the impression that the New Madrid Earthquakes tore this region up worse than we know. collapsed cave segments might abound as bubbles under the earth we have yet to find; the stories of those quakes suggest to me that there might have been extensive caves around whose collapse was much of the surface quakes.

This area is subtropical jungle; the fecundity and corrosive effect of life in the millineum time scale is awesome. Im amazed that any work of human hands has survived to be found now.
I did something almost exactly the same when my kids were ~3. They picked up addition and subtraction really quickly by using their fingers and even understood negative numbers before the age of 4.

We home schooled during the pandemic and the amount they learned in one year was incredible. Tailoring the curriculum per kid was extremely effective but not sustainable so now they are back in a private school but they enjoy the social aspect much better.
Free tier is only feasible by tech giants like the FAANG type of companies that have unlimited resources compared to the rest of us.
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Interesting philosophical idea. I would argue that the position of the OP is really that things should have an off switch for when they're not being used. A watch is expected to be correct every time it's worn or looked at. It's never not being used.
I'm afraid that I'll get pulled back in for a project that I worked on 3 years ago. To me it's embarrassing and frustrating to have to revisit old code and it's certainly a time sink to re-contextualize myself enough to figure out what I did wrong and how to fix it.

I guess I should appreciate some of the stuff that I did more, especially since it was early on. I just wonder if there's a point where you generally start making far fewer mistakes as a programmer...

Hearing you say that you're haunted by almost every mistake you've ever made tells me that you have a good conscience. I suppose our mistakes should be memorable because it's how we learn to resist repeating them.
haha love it!

Or even, you can have some modules tagged as 'with donation' and it injects terraform into the module, which spins up some infrastructure that runs a distributed part of the site ;)

Everyone that uses a module, pays for it by running a bit of it :P
Even at a higher level than microcontrollers, i've worked with arm chips whose only documentation was random posts in chinese characters on sites i had never heard about before. They were cheap, but for the small volume devices i was working on dev time became significant.
Purism, framework, and similar are coming at the right time then, eh?

Most recent government services operate via the web or APIs anyhow.

Plus suing for alternatives to Google/Microsoft duopoly should be front and center for fringe firms in the space.
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* You often need to teach the basics to lots of people for the smaller number that will take it up as a career to be exposed to it.

* Lots of work is done on computers and programming is a way of automating that work

* If you don't code, you may well work with others that do and having some exposure to what on earth it is some people are/aren't doing is valuable. One of the most useful things I ever did was fail to run a business as it forced me to understand that sales/etc aren't easy, as many techies like to presume, and require skills I lack

* You can build things. Building things is fun, at least to me
> what advantage is there

So this is a pretty common mistake people make when discussing evolution. It’s not about what is advantageous, it’s about what survives the selection process. A combination of odds that play out.

Our eyes are not advantageous or chosen by evolution, our eyes were just acceptable enough for us to survive while other variations were not. There was no decision or work/progress towards an end goal. A creature developed along a certain line by chance, the situation in nature was such that they survived and passed on that trait, while others did not. Natural selection in action.
I've heard this before. TBF, there is a lot of idealistic portrayals of Greek society and philosophers in western media, and Egypt and Persian peoples are usually the bad guys. Whether you believe that is a deep set prejudice and active discrimination campaign or a natural tendency re the history of one's continent is up to you.
Makes sense, looks useful.

The main issue that remains is that voting on the main remaining issues causes stuff that’s obvious to everyone to float up, and stuff that’s only visible to few will sink. Say, nuances in technical feasibility. Or intuitions for the users’ perspective from hands-on experience. Or simply something that has been tried before.

Voting on this sort of itemized stack is often quite lossy and risks putting important aspects behind a barrier of whether the company is lucky enough that the person who sees certain parts of the core issues is able to express that view on the fly.

The subtle things that aren’t obviously a problem are very often what defines progress in reality.

This is even before considering social aspects such as popularity, charm, the innate desire to please others, or personal friction.

To put another way. Like… why voting? What does voting capture? What is the meaning of the amount of votes from across the team for an entry of a particular list of definitions of the reality of work at the moment? – And this way of framing it, the way I’m asking a pretty demanding question – it isn’t very, mm, let’s say harmonious? And probably wouldn’t get many votes. :’)
It seems to be pretty rampant within alt-right corners [1]. But yes, of course they're interconnected for anyone that spends time reading and thinking about it.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2019/11/6/20919221/alt-right-history-gre...
> Coca-Cola

Conde Nast. Vanguard. Black Rock.

And journalists that write click-bait titles and little substance that provides content reflecting the title.

The real question is why are we seeing this here on HN?
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There are a lot of reasons why this wouldn't work but fundamentally the LTV is an interesting toy but crap economics. Bottom line is utility to people does not depend on person hours involved in production.

Think about it this way: I can have somebody skilled or unskilled do a job. Assume that they make the same output but it takes unskilled 2x the time, let us say maybe producing some leathercraft. Their output is not worth 2x the skilled, it's the same thing. Now assume that they take the same time but the skilled produces an output of 2x quality, maybe they are cooking something and the skilled makes a dish 2x as good. Neither are they worth the same. It may actually be worth less because they produce it slower so consumer has to wait 2x as long.
The only compelling reason is to increase your brain plasticity. They could learn a foreign language instead though, or an instrument, or both; then at least they might get laid.
My local natural gas company does the same thing. "Contact us now to upgrade your service!" "Oh, sorry, we don't offer service at that address."

Similarly, I've used the same tax preparer for the last 10 years, and never, ever, ever have I had a refund. Every year, I get the emails about "your refund is waiting for you". I get that the marketing is outsourced, but it's so annoying that the one thing I'd expect tax company to know about me isn't used.
Build stuff. Build stuff with all the pieces.

* Setup the database

* Define the schema

* Code the server side rest api

* Develop the web frontend

* Deploy it to a server

It doesn't have to be a side hustle it can just be something that solves a problem or scratches a particular itch that you have. If you find it useful then you'll stay motivated to work on it and power through each of the issues you encounter. You can refactor it as you go and learn without fear of deadlines and go at your own pace.

Once you've done it once you'll have the confidence to do it again. But nothing will help you learn full stack development as well as building a full stack application from scratch. There is no shortage of How To resources for each step from above but I find that until you start building something those resources have trouble sticking because you lack the context to anchor the information in.

So just start building stuff.
> I increasingly subscribe to the thesis that many designers and design teams design primarily in an effort to impress other designers. They don't have to use the things. They often don't even really care if the things work at all. They care that other designers - their artistic peers - are impressed.

To put things in perspective, this is how we get stuff like the Eiffel tower.
Yeah, I sort of liken it to lifting the curtain so that you can see the man [1] behind it. While part of me likes the idea of allowing for some "magic" to be left in the world, I also want my kids to be knowledgeable/informed on the more important technologies that affect your lives like this one.

[1] Not trying to come across as sexist — the reference is to The Wizard from The Wizard of Oz.
Given they are not interested in a tech career, I'd say they should learn to program if they:

- want to do something with computers no currently existing program allows them to,

- want to create something with artistic value (games, websites, computer graphics),

- enjoy it for the sake of it.

I can't come up with any other reason why they should.
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> "Maybe Diablo 2 difficulty and savageness belong to another era."

The popularity of the dark souls series would indicate otherwise. I feel the invisible hand of upper management here, using words like "casual" and "accessible" to justify the decision to make games "easier".
If he read the manual he'd know the off-switch for Switch controller is clicking the pair button one time.
that's the regex, anything added to the Test tab on the right isn't included.
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Look into an open source project which is similar to your work, and workout a similar benchmark
We don't have "safe spaces in colleges". I graduated from college recently and never witnessed any such thing. How long has it been since you've set foot on a college campus? This is a fabrication by fox news to promote contempt for young people, who are dealing with real problems like sky high costs of education, health care, and housing, and who don't deserve this kind of disrespect. Young people are survivors. They're a lot more resilient than you think. It's stunning to me how many people just swallow this kind of rhetoric without any sort of internal reality check. Do you think your own kids act this way? Do their friends? No? So what's the disconnect here?
If there's a plunger resisting the scale going down to harvest energy, that would prevent all the force from being on the load cell, giving you incorrect readings.
How not to write an article: randomly intersperse paragraphs with "real suggestions", arbitrary pullquotes, miscellaneous blurbs, and unrelated images. Also italicize half of it with no apparent logic.
It’s the simplist way to make more than minimum wage.
> except it had this obnoxiously bright blue led on the front.

I keep a roll of black electrical tape in my office :)
Clearly you don't know what a landfill is.
Most likely your kid was asked their age to access something and was honest.
When (and if) the government finally opens up the eHerkening (commercial part available for companies, not for personal use) to all people you can chose your own identity provider. This has been going on for years now and unfortunately it's not looking to go anywhere since new EU legislation is forcing it to the background for personal use.

Iff this would have been opened up a third party provider could make something available on any platform (with requirements of course). Won't solve the problem but at lease someone would be able to instead of no-one.
Nah, these types of posts always give off that “tiger mom” energy. Let your kid enjoy their time off, ya know, let them be a kid…
I took a summer class in C++ in middle school and ditched programming for probably 5 years before coming back when i learned I could make games with my TI calculator :)
Half the country voted for Trump, do you really want to tell all of them they're in the same group as the Nazis? They might just take you at your word.
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It goes deeper than that. He encourages this behaviour in all aspects of interactions - getting other people to look things up for you etc, while firewalling yourself from other people's requests for assistance, finding ways to be more efficient at your job and hiding this from your boss so you can use the time saving for your side hustle.
An iPhone 12 uses less material than an iPhone 11 yet is more valuable than an iPhone 11.

A Tesla uses about 25 tons less fossil fuels than a gasoline car, even if its electricity is powered by a natgas generating station. The Tesla uses about the same amount of fossil fuels as the trucks transporting the fuel to the filling station.

Software of course, is special. New software is better than old software otherwise nobody would buy it. Yet the material usage is roughly equivalent at roughly $0.

These three types of progress can continue indefinitely.
I was waiting for someone to drop the Arrival name. A year or less back, Arrival news seemed to be everywhere but lately they seemed to have dropped off the map. Perhaps they're heads-down, focusing on deliveries and new applications?

They seemed like an exciting company to follow, bar all of the SPAC noise. Hope that all is going well with them, bc they're certainly in a space with, or soon to have a lot of competition.
Germany supports ID card reading on almost all distros: https://www.ausweisapp.bund.de/en/open-source-software
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Are there any potential legal issues with requiring citizens to sign a contract (the Google or Apple Terms of Service) in order to access government services?
> I don't get the incentive to even mention that.

"The best way to damage a cause is to advocate for it badly."

If you allow bad anti-GMO/Monsanto arguments to proliferate, the good ones will have a harder time reaching the light.
They do on my site :) (assuming there is at least one post in that period, otherwise 404)
In my experience "pure JS" is normally used to differentiate projects from those using NodeJS FFI - the important part is the target / executing runtime (which would be the JS runtime for WASM), rather than the project source.

For my own purposes, the priority for me when reading "pure" is that the core runtime I'm using (the JS runtime) is the only runtime dependency - I'm not depending on external binaries and execution environments like an FFI implementation would.

It also opens up codebases to browser compat, where FFI would typically not be available.
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This seems to be common in battery powered test equipment. I have a decade old Fluke multimeter and five year old Mitutoyo calipers that both seem to be powered by magic. Neither has needed battery replacement despite regular use.
Longer elected terms would lead to better government?
Yeah, the only real changes in the initial Resurrection release were the obvious graphical improvements, and some fairly minor quality-of-life improvements to the stash system.

That said, they have started to make actual gameplay changes since then. Last month gave us the first gameplay patch to Diablo 2 since 2010: https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2/23788293/diablo-ii-r...
That reads like an argument for static type checking languages and against runtime dynamic languages, and I'm generally in the same camp as you, but obviously it's not impossible to use either to write a good program if it's only 1000 lines (they also state they use shellcheck, which is not nothing). There's absolutely something to gain from their approach.

And shell is not particularly cryptic, it's just taught awfully -- the main problem being that lazy tutorials just don't mention how quoting/tokenizing works. Using shellcheck almost always pushes you in the right direction.
You are probably over-estimating the size of Harvard. It’s not that huge for an R1 institution. Obviously, they have to pay huge money for cutting edge equipment and high salaries for top talent. But I don’t think that Harvard is protected from any administrative bloat so endemic in higher education. And since Harvard commands so much money the problem can theoretically be much worse than with state universities and LACs.