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I have taught many software development classes, with dozens of students. It's completely open enrollment, no restrictions on age, experience, income, certainly not gender. Only 2 women ever asked, let alone attended.

The 1st was taking the class because her dad was a programmer, but she couldn't figure out how to use the mouse to save her life, and it was only frustrating for her after that.

The second one was taking the class because her dad is also a programmer, and she was bloody fantastic. She was the only female in that particular class, and she put older, more experienced men to shame with her critical thinking, problem solving, and pattern recognition over the course of the semester. A CEO of a multi-million dollar company was going over to the desk of a girl half his age to ask questions and get help. If I had 10 of her, I'd hire them all.

But I don't. It's like 1 in 25. And that's generous.

And it doesn't have to be someone's fault or society's fault. It just is.

I'll teach anyone that comes in wanting to learn. And for 15 years, it's mostly men are interested, and stick with it.

I've also had some exceptionally bad men in class, who realize they need to go do something else. The CEO took a semester, struggled, finished OK, and didn't continue. Meanwhile, the girl just finished her first year of a CS degree.

It's not like all men are great programmers because they show interest. But in my experience, most who show interest are men. And occasionally, you get a woman that's an absolute gem.
This book explores various aspects and limitations of learning algorithms and their implications regarding suffering. At the end of the book, the computational theory is used to derive various interventions or training methods that will reduce suffering in humans. The amount of frustration is expressed by a simple equation which indicates how it can be reduced. The ensuing interventions are very similar to those proposed by Buddhist and Stoic philosophy, and include mindfulness meditation. Therefore, this book can be interpreted as an exposition of a computational theory justifying why such philosophies and meditation reduce human suffering.

Looks interesting. Thank you for sharing!
> Stugna or Javelin can kill T80 from 4km away, what use is dismounted infantryman there?

Well they can carry their own Stugna or Javelin. Isn't that an argument for more dismounted infantry, not less?
$13 billion is a drop in the bucket for governments. The have been passing Trillion dollar bills for some time.
Wow, this has amazing websites here. Found inaturalist.org from here. Going to write an article on this.
>That said, I have heard that a large percentage of men get zero matches, just none at all. At that point yes it's a poor proposition.

I've heard that is true in real life, too. Women have it easier and are more picky.
End game then is LittleKernel/Zircon on Fly.io? When do we get to play with those?
I'm over 150hrs into it and an obsessed. I mostly fly in the Bay Area. The data is old but is good enough where I could not only find my house, but saw my car in the driveway.

There's a free plugin for swapping in Google maps data to but it's really best for areas without photogrammetry.

But the sim is so detailed that when I went on a discovery flight IRL I had zero issues finding my home from the air because I already was familiar with the view from up there.
Modern and developed societies are pretty lonely from what I can see. Perhaps that’s the price such societies must pay for their advancements? You either be more human and less developed, or vice-versa.
I was going to complain about a bunch of stuff in this post, but it's from 2017.

So PostgreSQL has improved alot since then.
There was a shuttle launch pad at Vandenberg, SLC-6, which never saw a launch. After the loss of Challenger on STS-51-L, the Air Force gave up on the shuttle anyway, leaving it as an albatross around NASA's neck.
The role of patients and professionals in the definition of schizophrenia
In my experience it wasn't too hard to convert most matches I was interested in in dates. Once I have someone on the hook it's easy to get the fish out of the water.
So Cloudflare Workers are Heroku?
As a counter-point, package managers generate “lock files” that are designed to be tracked in VC.

For these translation files, I’d imagine there may be occasional work to modify them even after they are initially generated.
My friend, DEI efforts hasn’t caused Netflix to lose subscriptions. They did that by consistently producing garbage shows, canceling the ones that were promising, and losing the rights to the good ones they licensed - raising prices all the while.
> Surprisingly enough, the AEGIS Anti Ballistic Missile variant is in fact designed to intercept the name on the tin.

When people say "hypersonic missiles" they mean missiles with a hypersonic glide phase, which have non-ballistic flight paths and can't generally be intercepted by anti-ballistic-missile countermeasures.
You can do that easily on Android with Termux. Not sure it would be very powerful though.
Finance has been a glorious, high paid profession for much longer than tech. Tech only became glorious in the mid-late 1990’s and has proven to be a continuation of the corporate raider mentality of eviscerating companies into top-heavy laden enterprises. Basically, “productivity” increases is the manifestation or facade if you will of these ideals.

You may think that it doesn’t matter what the vast population wanted, but the slack in the system has been narrowed so far now that even the last bastion of the Fed cannot bail out the top-heavy institutions much longer.
I was asked to evaluate a new medical device recently that ran Windows CE 6.0.

I genuinely didn’t know where to start.
A Corporate Culture War Stoked by a Crypto CEO
If you think they're lottery tickets - pick a better startup. Seriously. You shouldn't be joining startups unless you think they have a chance of liquidation for you.

If you really do think they're worthless THEN JOIN FAANG.
It's likely at least somewhat serious.

I know Drew is a fan of Plan 9, so that may not be out of the picture - though it looks like there's already a non-negligible amount of stuff planned that may or may not be gotten to.
Letters: When Documents Contain a Surprise
Ask HN: NextJS /API vs. Heroku
I recently migrated my apps to NextJS (which used to be React SPA) and the perf is incredible.

I'm considering ditching my Heroku dyno and building the API on NextJS directly.

Have you been there? Is it worth it?
Being over budget and off schedule is most of the purpose. Once a plant is delivered, the gravy train stops. No one actually involved wants that.

The Finns recognized the gravy train would stop soon, anyway, and elected to deliver a (more-or-less) working reactor, after consuming 5B euros beyond the 3B quoted cost, more than a decade late. In the US, corruption is secure enough to go far, far beyond that price, with no demand to deliver.
Reading the article they are not generated files, but files that are never touched by developers. Translators will work with those files. I expect that for translators they have a different sparse checkout that only fetches .xlf files for their target languages.
Seems like a lot of alternative OSs these days are microkernels. Fuchsia/Zircon, Redox, and now this. Seems pretty interesting. I wonder if the Linux kernel will take cues from these developments and start shoving auxiliary device drivers into userspace? A pleb can dream.
It's an app that you download and setting up is so easy an 8 year old can do it. No one has to deploy a smart contract on their own, you just go to the app store and install it. It's inexplicable to me why someone would complain about software they've clearly never used or even looked at.

Of course people can use other wallets if they like to. These are open networks just like the internet itself. No one can stop folks from doing dumb stuff online, input their credit card information where they shouldn't, wire thousands of dollars to a "girl" overseas who "loves" them, visit shady sites with their outdated Internet Explorer on a WindowsXP machine... Why didn't Microsoft prevent this!?
>I wonder if there is a way (in the game theory sense) to craft a strategy that is both optimal for individuals and the community, and then design an app around that.

That wouldn't be possible unless both the individuals and the community is settling for less. And that is true for anything. In socialist or leftist countries, people are levelled off, most having and average outcome and no individual doing really great or really bad. In other countries, some have really great outcomes and others have really bad outcomes.
I really like the pipelines feature in Heroku. Being able to automatically deploy to a staging environment from main and then be able to promote that exact slug to production is pretty cool. I’ve yet to find a tool that has replicated that experience or something like it without getting in the weeds with Docker.

As far as I know it’s not possible to have separate environments where you’re guaranteed a bit-for-bit match going from staging to production in Render. You have to build for each environment, which if your builds are deterministic should be fine, but I’ve definitely seen that go haywire where you find out your build is in fact not deterministic in some subtle way.
Loved all the insights here. Especially the ones mentioned by gwbrooks. They are quite insightful for someone starting out in their career.
"Surely you're joking mr Feynman" and "What do you think that other people think" from Richard Feynman.

The last book is more serious than the first. Both are still good. The best about these books is that they explain how one of the best physicists of the 20th century (i.m.o. the best after Einstein, and arguably the best teacher who have ever lived) thinks and how he copes with the world around him. His life story is a sad one, he helped developing the atomic bomb in the Manhattan project (which he regrets later on in his life) and lost his first wife from tuberculosis on a young age, and died from a rare type of cancer at age 69. Still, these books are one of the funniest books I've ever read.
They're using git as a cache. Having generated files stored there means they're available if they're needed (eg in CI) without needing further access controls, they're versioned, and it's a simple and understandable strategy. As the article states, most devs are set up to ignore those files so they're not much of a source of the slowness. It's a common pattern for apps that have to serve lots of different locales.
"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."
Convolution Reverb was definitely practical on CPUs for much longer than 10 years, and a lot of people were using it, even on underpowered computers (I was using a base model Macbook Air myself since 2011, and yes, LOTS of long reverbs). Physical modelled reverb has been possible on consumer CPUs since the 90s of course (convolution reverb isn't in the category of "physical modelling" btw). If you're talking about physical modelling synthesis, it uses lots of recursion, so it's less interesting for GPUs.

I'll also dispute the claim that low latency isn't necessary for amateur audio. Recording with low latency is necessary for everyone performing on an instrument. One can achieve low latency with external DSP or external sound processors, but most amateurs are only relying on plugins instead of more expensive hardware, and that's where their monitoring comes from. People programming instruments rather than playing (and not exclusively using samplers, which are I/O bound rather than CPU bound) still need real time processing for other tasks. Try mixing with Bluetooth: it's hilarious how much latency can slow you down even when you're not performing.
Valued at $0 because thats what theyll be treated as when the founders and moneyed investors get paid out first.

Sure, options are how you get rich from a startup, but you dont get rich at a startup by working for one, only by being a founder or an investor.

That's why I work at a FAANG:P startups exist to screw their employees
Also developed by u-he thats one big player in plugin synth world already. If CLAP solves issues plugin devs have and maybe makes plugins better than customers will demand support.
>If you’re genuinely looking for attention from anyone that’ll give it to you, you probably want to do some self-reflection.

Not true. The larger you can make the pool the more fish swim in it. And mor sharks. But you get to pick the fish.

>Spamming indiscriminately may get you the a few extra internet points, but it doesn’t get you any good matches that you wouldn’t have gotten from being a genuine human person on there.

You don't really get to know a person from it's profile. Until you get to chat and meet in person there is still a % that you might like that person. Optimizing for outcomes brings the success here.
lol that’s true, I guess most men can get on grinder and find a partner if they just want sex
xlf files are usually generated. They're XML. No one wants to write that by hand.
don't really understand this mentality. I think people or organizations who create software, or anything really, ought to have the right (not just legally, but ethically) to determine how much of it they want to open up, given that they've built it.

I don't see the relationship to giant corporations either. Sublime is proprietary, Datomic is, a lot of bespoke tools are because the creators depend on capturing their full value.
The article states that there's contributions from other vendors as well, I suspect that this may actually catch.

I've not really followed the industry, but my understanding is the controlling interests behind VST are unpleasant to work with for everyone involved - so this is a chance to build something better and in the open.
The (Other) French Chef
The non-cellular mediatek chips actually have decent mainline support (not just kernel, tf-a and coreboot as well). At least the ones they put in Chromebooks. The mediatek socs with modems in them seem to be a different story.
The entire energy project right now is to decarbonize rapidly. The world energy mix is more than 80% fossil and biofuel. Nuclear is competing with fossil and biofuel.

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-mix
>the still unsolved long term storage problem (it's been >70 years of nuclear power and there still does not exist a long term storage facility in the world)

Storage has /been solved/ for decades.

High Level Waste is only a tiny fraction of total waste. As it stands, all of the HLW created by all the nuclear plants in the world could be kept in a football field sized area. The vast majority of the rest of the generated waste will decay to to harmlessness during the lifetime of a plant.

HLW regulations around transport are so high in most countries that the standards for transport casks has made them practically indestructible. They can literally be hit by trains and no be breached. Solutions like those developed by Deep Isolation also effectively solve any long term storage problem for the HLW.
"Memory leaks are memory safe in Rust" -- https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-06-reference-cycles.html
Anything that results in fewer nukes at minimal cost is a net good.

In the US, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission employs 2000 people to reject nuke construction plans. They are cheap at the price.
There are ways it could be built into the contract. But most don't support that operation today.
FUSE for filesystems already exists in userspace, so its not unheard of. Just making it work safely and secure is the first steps to having these kinds of features upstreamed.
Seems like an interesting article, but I really distike some of the website choices here. Why is the first sentence, just the title repeated? Why do you have ads for five other articles mixed in with the content? The article is not that long, so that seems like way overkill.
The usual approach is to delegate the most complex technical work to defense contractors who can pay market rates (or close enough) to civilian employees.

The military doesn't even want conscripts anymore. They have discipline problems, take too long to train, and don't stay long enough. Conscription stopped being relevant when technology became more important than numbers.
The grid storage that has actually been deployed like hydroelectric and battery storage does have cost history. But it's too expensive, and are geographically limited in the case of the former. The grid storage systems like hydrogen electric storage, or ammonia have not been deployed at scale and has no cost history. I'm not inclined to gamble the future of civilization on technologies that we have zero experience building and operating.

By comparison, we have 70 years of experience building and operating nuclear plants. We only need to build 4 nuclear plants for each one we currently have to achieve a 100% decarbonized grid. The cost history of nuclear power shows a clear trend that serial production is cheaper than one off builds.

And you are incorrect about nuclear power not sharing components with existing applications. Nuclear power plants use steam generators, turbines, dynamos, and cooling towers. These are used in other heat engine based power plants.
I wish I had your unimpeachable knowledge and foresight of which small fraction of startups will not only succeed, but succeed so much that your options will actually be worth something meaningful.

I would wish you the best of luck, but sounds like you don't need it.
Attempted breach at undersea cable off the coast of Hawaii
Ask HN: What are the biggest pain points in ML Engineering
Wondering is painful in the ML development cycle today? For example, is reproducibility a big need or are there parts of deployment a real hassle?
Have you considered jmp.chat? You'll never have to worry about VoLTE, WiFi calling, or 3G decomissioning again.
People are rationally distrustful of habitual dishonesty, corruption, and gross negligence at industrial scale.
For example:

https://reduxx.info/exclusive-female-inmate-reports-rape-occ...

https://reduxx.info/this-is-a-nightmare-female-inmate-speaks...

This is nothing at all like the unfounded fears surrounding same-sex marriage. These are women, who are trapped in prison, being abused by men who have claimed a 'female gender identity' to be incarcerated in the female prison estate.
The obvious answer is many things now taken as truth were once considered heretical; and also many completely wrong ideas (ether, the humors, etc) still produced useful science and technology.

By all means demand falsifiability of any claims to truth, but don't insist that any one of us or all of us collectively are worthy arbiters of truth.
Image Line (makers of FL Studio) are in the "are already evaluating CLAP" list, so they're not already supporting.
For those who haven’t read much Asimov and enjoy short stories like this one, check out his book “The Complete Stories Volume 1.” There are some really entertaining and prescient sci-fi short stories in it.
They've done the exact same thing with web pages.

Google started penalizing pages and sites with "low content". So now if a page ranks well and could potentially answer your query, you know it's going to have a ton of fluff. That's why on pages for cooking recipes, for example, you have to scroll through the author's life story before getting to the recipe.

And people hate doing that. So to solve the problem they created, Google added to search results the "Knowledge Panels" and "People also ask" sections and such.

And it has a nice benefit for Google - probably unintentional: people stay on Google properties rather than clicking away to 3rd-party sites.

Some relevant links:

"The web starts on page four" - 306 points and 239 comments
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30166108

"Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019" - 435 points and 289 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23477201

I want to add a huge caveat to the latter link: The top-voted comment is true - when only considering Wikipedia and similar sites (e.g. ones with similar missions and ones using permissive licenses for their content.) nend's response is also spot-on, in that it's a problem for other kinds of sites.
>There are easier ways to get laid.

Which are those? Unless you count paying for sex.
I'm interested to hear your take on this, as I suspect you're one of the few of us on HN actually qualified to have one.

I'm also curious (if you're comfortable answering), were you involved with "design and implementation contributions by a group of commercial and open source audio developers from across our industry."?
I don't think it's good idea to store cache in Git. Any file remains forever in the repository after once committed. Local/remote repository become unnecessary big.
I have no clue how these are and would be studied and proven, as a dude that just casually reads stuff on the webs and comes to my own hair-brained ideas; it seems completely possible that the necks originally evolved for a condition that could not be observed in the current world. Hypothetically, the high leaves theory could be based on a plant/tree that has since gone extinct. How would we know? We know the earth/climate and terrain where giraffes live now has changed significantly on evolutionary time scales.

The mating example could also evolve. Using the peacock example you mention, the feathers are a result of past mating preferences and behaviors. It's possible that the current state of affairs is a preference for song/dance/etc, so the males will become good at that. If the feathers get the way and are not important for mating, they will likely go away or change in time. My point being, mating behaviors evolve too and they must change first in order for the natural selection to occur over generations and thus change the anatomy. We can't assume every species is at some resting or steady state of evolution just because we humans decided to start studying everything, I'd completely expect that some species anatomically do not represent the current state of their mating preferences and are thus are initiating a fork in their code.
> Rebalancing doesn't really work. That's another thing Bogle showed us.

Wait, what? Rebalancing has worked very well in my backtesting, assuming the fairly generous trading fees I get, at least.

What are you referring to?
Multiplying the number of moving parts by 10x cannot reasonably be expected to lead to increased reliability or reduced cost.
It's still surprising to have any generated things there. E.g. you could make the same case for keeping built binaries in Git as well.

Is there a reason why that type of file couldn't be better place into an artifact repository, or just generated and consumed in CI as part of generating a final build output?
I think it's pretty unlikely that a war between nuclear powers would last long enough for a draft to become relevant. And if it somehow did, I'm not at all convinced that the US public would opt for sustained war over giving them whatever it is they want.
I've been switching a lot of generated files to being checked in (with CI verifying they haven't drifted from the source). The primary motivation has been performance. For example, in Rust code, it means I don't need to foist the code-gen process and all the dependencies needed for it on dependent crates. I've seen this play out similar in other build systems and circumstances. The key is the data needs to be independent of other factors (like the system doing the generation) and the rate of change of the code-gen source and generator has to be relatively low.
So the refinement of the statement might be "never, never move your allocation to 100 % of a single asset."

(But since you speak of a diverse basket, you probably know this already.)