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> Much of your experience was Caltech specific

I am sadly well aware of that. Caltech was known as unique at the time, I wonder what it is like 40 years later.

1. It was rarely necessary to look anything up. What was on the exam was reliably in the notes or in the assigned textbook. I don't recall ever memorizing things, and managed an A- average. My innate abilities were completely average there, and we all knew who the really smart ones were, like Hal Finney. What I did do to prepare, however, was ensure I attended every lecture and took comprehensive notes, make sure I could solve every homework problem, and every midterm problem (in trolling for the final). I did not look at prior year's stuff.

2. I didn't attend grad school, so can't comment there. But I did match wits with Masters engineers at Boeing, and would wind up fixing their work, too, though far more rarely. That group eventually offered me a position, though they had a Masters as a requirement.

Measure theory wasn't taught, at least in the undergrad courses I took. Neither was the theory of distributions.

> Can assure you Caltech's approach is not the norm.

So I found out later :-(
> that accurately reflect the current ethical landscape, instead of the ethical landscape of software in the 1990s and 2000s

This seems like it provides exactly the reason why we shouldn't have such a thing. What is the ethical landscape of the 2040s going to look like compared to today?
How does one get their projects from 0 to 1 (or even get beta users) if all of their socials have <10 karma. All of my previous HN threads were basically me trying to shill my projects, but no one viewed it or commented (along with my posts on twitter, reddit, and discord). How can someone like myself properly market on social media without paying to market?
Can you provide a source to the contrary? I’m fairly certain it’s still in place.
I think it is pretty clear which goals are clear and well defined... vs opaque goals with poor-definitions.

And I think it is clear to say that "clear and well defined goals" are easier to achieve and measure against. "Run a mile" can be measured as "running as far as you can, and if you don't reach a mile, measuring where you stopped" for example. And you can track your progress as you get more endurance.

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I don't think everyone should have the same goals. But I think that whatever goals you do have, should be clear and easily turned into a metric that can track progress.
Why? I haven't even written out a full proposal so you can't know that. It's quite easy to think of some schemes which work the other way. The rich are the largest consumers of useless crap.
Ask HN: Is there any worthwhile management training out there?
Hi HN,

I recently made the move from technical lead to full-blown engineering manager about 6 months ago. I was aware at the time that I’d be using a different set of skills than what I was used to when I was doing technical work. That being said, I picked up some of my technical skills and knowledge by attending some quality trainings, online courses, etc, so I know those kinds of things are out there for technical topics.

Are there any good/quality training courses or learning paths for engineering managers out there that you would recommend? A lot of the things I’ve been exposed to so far are pretty “fluffy”, so I’m hoping to find some good resources that will aid me in building the skills I need to help my team succeed.
All the licenses that you mentioned qualify as both Open Source and Free Software. A license doesn't have to be viral (copyleft) in order to be free.

See: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html and https://opensource.org/licenses
>A tech company is one of the softest and least demanding jobs in all of human history

Then why is there so much burnout and is that not a form of harm?
And digital artists aren't still pretty low on your ranking?

I don't know, after all the predictions about self-driving cars, I'm cautious. Especially considering that back then, it almost seemed obvious that we'd have self-driving cars by now. Cars were certainly capable of driving themselves back in 2016, it just seemed like we needed to iron out a few kinks. How long could that possibly take?

Now, I have no idea when it'll happen.

I'm not necessarily saying that it'll take AI forever to do what humans can do. Rather, I think its very hard to make good predictions with all the hype slightly deceptive marketing.
Yes, that's exactly what happened. He wasn't wrong because people didn't listen to him; he was wrong because his advice is idiotic and listening to him and people like him ruined thousands of lives.
And I read their press release and quoted their entire "Sanction Implications" section, and it basically says you can't use Tornado if you're a US person or dealing with US assets and you can't use it if you're dealing with someone on OFAC's sanction list.

Which seems to leave a lot of transactions, like a non-sanctioned non-American paying another non-sanctioned non-American for something with mixed crypto entirely off of US soil. The sanction doesn't appear to apply against that.
I was there for it, but I don't recall it being THAT bad and I jumped to Chrome as soon as it hit the scene. It was only once there was an alternative to compare it too that it was obvious how bad IE was.
I think a fine compromise would be simply disclosing the expected lifetime of the wear parts when you purchase the printer. Epson could say "the lifetime of the ink pads is around 100,000 pages" (or whatever).
I understand the reason for the change, but thanks for mentioning the original title in the comment. I think it's really funny.
>The point is that you can't know. That's the purpose of a money laundering operation.

Wrong. You can in fact know, because it has auditing tools which allow one to disclose transactions exactly for AML reasons.

At least put in some research before you engage in a discussion where it becomes apparent that you clearly lack the knowledge to participate in a fruitful discussion. Making factually incorrect statements like yours as if they were facts is misleading a lot of people.
Twilio does not use SMS 2FA for access to internal systems. It's all either Yubikey or TOTP apps. I believe SMS 2FA was disabled several years ago.

So, really, Twilio employees should be trained that the company will never send SMSes to employees for these sorts of purposes. But it only takes a few people to get fooled when their guard is down.

That's the difficult thing about defending against security-related attacks: the defender needs to be perfect 100% of the time, but the attacker only needs to get lucky once.

(Disclosure: I'm a former employee who has been getting these phishing texts, the most recent of which was yesterday... not that I have access to any systems anymore. I guess they are going off leaked employee lists that are at least 5 months out of date.)
Consumer inkjet printers are a giant scam. Buying them is a fool's purchase and servicing them a fool's errand.

If you need a printer for documents, get something that runs on powder toner, like a color LED.

If you want to print photos, send out for it; it will be cheaper anyway.
A content model is not a design system (2021)
Why does anybody care about anything? It’s certainly not life or death for me; I guess I feel like it’s an unnecessary restriction of what “open source” could (and maybe even ought to) mean.

I’m not desperate to be perceived any way in the OSS community; I do plenty of work on projects that satisfy the OSI’s definition, and that will never change. But I also don’t see why the work I do, which I do for the public and not for corporations, which is open in the most literal sense of the word, can’t be rightfully called open source.
Tens of thousands isn't a large enough number to be reassuring. I use an Ecotank 4500, and because of the nature of my work buy paper five reams at a time. So far I have 13k sheets on the clock. If the printer fails at 20-30k, I'm going to be seriously annoyed. Fortunately it seems that aftermarket waste ink collectors exist, though there is always a concern that Epson might shut these down with legal or technical measures. However this doesn't address a major concern: I bought this printer for availability. Cheaper running costs are important, of course, but what really matters to me is that it should not suddenly refuse to work. Yes, I have another printer on a different site, but I don't want to have to trog over there late at night because some damn fool has (a) not designed for maintenance; (b) put in a misleading error message; and (c) not designed in a warning of the lines of "this printer will cease to function after approximately 5000 more sheets.
I think this just shows the pointlessness of the junk pictures on posts, like the ones Medium apparently requires.

Now that pictures are cheap ven NYT articles are stuffed with photos that don’t add to the article.
agreed, though Qi wireless charging will increasingly make it easier
If you only have 20 guys and a corrupted filesystem is one of your potential problems, you're doing it wrong. That's why people have switched to cloud services - You pay for the ability to flatten your systems, and if you've not architected with the ability to flatten your systems, you're gonna be SOL in those situations.

Ultimately, you're resilient for what you prepare for. There's a lot of tradeoffs in spend. I get that that's an example and probably not a real pressing concern, but the point is: You shouldn't have everyone trained in everything. You should have escalation paths for everything non-obvious. You should also train your people better.
> The short answer is that they don't really. UK retail banking is notoriously low margin, and all of the major banks struggle to make anything from their consumer businesses.

I do wonder why the VCs wanted into this market at all

intense competition snuffed out the margins of retail banking 30 years ago

and the "legacy" (read: profitable) banks are more that capable of putting together a shiny looking app
Sorry, relevancy?
There's a guy who did a book like this: http://yong321.freeshell.org/lsw/

preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Learning_Spanish_Words_...

It's just a bunch of vocabulary paired with etymology notes and observations/sounds-likes to make the vocabulary memorable.
A US fire marshal is likely to require compliance with NFPA 664 Standard for the Prevention of Fires and Explosions in Wood Processing and Woodworking Facilities

https://www.nfpa.org/codes-and-standards/all-codes-and-stand...

Among other requirements.
> Email is a major productivity advance that gives a low-friction way of communicating for mutual gain? Well, now we're drowning in spam and phishing attempts and people won't read random unsolicited messages—if they even make it pass the automated filters.

Actually, in my experience, and the experience of most of the people in my life, email is a valuable tool that we consistently use, and rarely have any problems with. Spam is a minor inconvenience , at most. (And certainly less of one than the overwhelming number of ads on Facebook.) Phishing is almost non-existent, and very easy to ignore when it pops up a couple of times a year.

In fact, without email, I think the internet would be pretty horrible.

People love to criticize email, but it's actually quite great. It's distributed, low cost, easy to use, and nearly universal. It has mature tools that make the obvious problems (such as spam) not really a problem. And most email senders actually make it easy to unsubscribe. I regularly subscribe/unsubscribe to email lists -- and it's nice having control over what comes into my email inbox.

Email, frankly, is what more of the internet should be like...!
Considering the ease with which credit cards can be obtained, and all the incentives that often come with them, I would argue that argument doesn't nearly carry as much weight here as it would in other cases.
Of course they are different. The compact version lasted until ‘97 and is still one of the best selling trucks of all time. The Ford Maverick fits into the compact, inexpensive pickup slot and is doing very well. I’m not saying it would have to be Hilux branded but fill the gap for a compact, economical, bombproof pickup.

Your original comment was that it wouldn’t sell well. Ford Maverick sales indicate that would not be the case.
> How do you convince merchants to accept your card (and potentially additional payment processing terminals) when none of the merchants customers have the card. And in the inverse, how you get a bank to invest in integrating with your network, when no merchants accept your card?

In Russia banks and merchants were convinced to use the national payment system basically overnight.
What you're looking for is isolation.

In a classic forking webserver, you get isolation from the OS; if your request panics, let that process die, and the main process will respawn it; further requests are isolated from the failure (although, if the request paniced after writing broken shared state outside the isolated process, who knows if further requests will work). If the part that paniced isn't isolated, you really should propagate the panic until the panicing part is isolated. But maybe that's the OTP/Erlang talking ;)
Barbara Liskov, the Architect of Modern Algorithms
PGPP – Pretty Good Phone Privacy
Mentorship is worth much more than any of those training courses. If you can't find one internally, your city might have a meetup for engineers-turned-managers to discuss their issues.
> Libertarianism requires someone empowered to use force.

As I said.

> The idea of multiple competing law enforcement apparatus within the same jurisdiction is not just theoretical wankery, either; it's actually been tried. Most notably in the Icelandic Commonwealth, which endured for 300 years.

Libertarianism doesn't specify the form of government, just the role of government.
they have $100M in revenue up from $85M in 2021 and three profitable years before 2022, so no, no one is getting ripped off.
Not every website is a banking website.
Malcolm Gladwell opposes WFH while he works from his couch for the last 20 years
> you can download their Linux builds on their website (after making an account, etc, etc)

Well here's your next point of failure. Archive that stuff.
It seems pretty analogous to an air filter or oil filter to me. You do eventually have to replace these. It's a consumable part that is required for the product to function. The differences seem to be that a) the lifetime of the ink pad is not told to you and b) you can't replace the consumable yourself.
Young people and renters are also constituents, as are homeless people.
>The images just need to get across a vibe

I can't speak for everyone, but with my own experience of reading (at least partially) a dozen or two technical articles almost every day for many years, pointless media is a hallmark of low quality. these days, I just immediately bail with Ctrl+W as soon as I encounter a twitter-pop-culture meme/gif in the header or anywhere near the top. sure, it does mean I skip the 5 out of 100 that were worth reading, I save a lot of time by skipping the 95 out of 100 that weren't.
Isotype (picture language)
US Sanctions Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash Used by North Korean Hackers
UCG and their Zulip are a good place for thorny "is this UB" questions, yeah. We're thin on documentation indeed. First need to figure out all the rules, then find enough people to write all the educational material to teach them to everyone else. ;)
> Half of europe was still transitioning to a market economy

Sure, but not, oh, Sweden.
Yes, gas or NG power plants can be much more efficient than a gas car that has to handle a wide range of RPMs and loads in a wide range of environmental conditions.

So yes a gas or NG power plant providing power to an EV can be radically more efficient than a gas car. Doubly so since gas is spent delivering gas.

However a small generator is not particularly more efficient then a car, so it's silly to power an EV from a small generator.
IMO, Using AI for image generation is the trend, whether we like it or not. But for me, as a software engineer, I still insist on creating pictures for my own blogs or presentations, etc.

I'm not a painter, of course I paint badly. But I find that it is not so difficult to create a picture that expresses my ideas. Mostly I try to use https://excalidraw.com/ for sketching hand-drawn, and find the free stock pictures from https://www.freepik.com/.

I think this is another joy of creation, like programming :-)
I would add to "what I've learned" that DALL-E 2 will start to be used to generate real ideas for real world 3d objects.

Here are cups rendered in the style of a famous architect.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/w7buyx/a_coffee_cup...

Dalle 2's influence will be felt outside the graphic artist realm too.
Stores don't install 300kW L3 chargers, they install 10kW L2 chargers. They don't want customers charging in 10 minutes, they want customers plugged in for an hour or three.

Tesla calls them "Destination Chargers" in contrast the superchargers that you use in the middle of your trip.
By that token, we shouldn’t have open source at all, even in the OSI’s approved form. After all, it’s a direct product of a historical ethical landscape, one that shaped our current landscape.
I think that's exactly the grandparent's point: any mitigation that relies on making 100% of people 100% perfect, 100% of the time, is not going to be effective.
Beyond health reasons, you also aren’t going to get the same aesthetic outcomes if you only work out on weekends.
So you believe that there are certain people that the OFAC wants to arrest but can't, because those people haven't committed a crime / aren't criminals.

So they make up a law that will basically force people to chose between losing their life savings or breaking the law. Some people will rightfully ignore the law and recover their money. The OFAC can now arrest those people...

I mean it's not impossible but I find it hard to believe that the OFAC would be that morally bankrupt.
This one -- its first occurrence was in '96, several years before Google-the-company was founded.

https://www.floc2022.org/history
I don't think you can get much smaller than a USB C flash drive, and then might as well put the whole dataset on it.

I think you want multiple APKs as part of the database (or databases, so each phone isn't required to contain the full dataset, and the total dataset can be larger than the size of a typical phone storage)

The most basic APK should only consern itself with sharing the database via adhoc wifi, USB flash drive, or perhaps direct phone-to-phone USB connection. It shouldn't even do indexing, or viewing of advanced files. Nothing more than what you need to propergating the databases and allowing the user to install more APKs with the more advanced indexing/viewing tools, which can then be used to find even more useful APKs like calculators and programming environments.

You might actually want to do multiple independent versions of the core APKs, so if there are bugs which make one fail in the wild, the fittest version will survive. One should target really old android version so they work on the oldest android devices. Another should target the newest android sdk to give it the best chance of working into the future. And maybe a few middle ground options.
The USG can print money, more or less, so it has no need of tax revenue from Bitcoin. Federal taxes exist mainly to balance out (most of) the enormous amounts spent by the federal government and, to a lesser extent, to (dis)incentivize various things.
Even if you did get "subscribers", monetizing subscribers is hard. Currently Axios generates $100M in revenue a year.
AI can be overblown and it can also be magical.

This was true for state of the art in 2010: https://xkcd.com/1425/ today you have a free phone app that does both. Of course it also classifies a spoon as a large breasted robin which is why you need a human in the loop. It's even truer in programming.
Time to make a “Netflix Graveyard” web site?
This is good. It's the first decent post I've seen about this instead of someone either giving advice so vague as to be useless, or sneeringly dismissing the value of memorization in mathematics. Actionable advice.

I tried SRS a while ago while working my way through a math textbook, but I got bored by the process. I might give it another go with the tips in here.
Just buy a brother printer.
I like them too but my gripe is they claim BRAW is an "open and license-free standard" when (as far as I can tell) it's undocumented, supported only via closed binary blobs and distributed under a very non-free license.
Oh nice! Looks like it was mostly used as a marketing tool which is a use case we're considering. Do you happen to know more about them?
EURion constellation – You physically cannot photocopy or Photoshop money
We do not support iOS yet but yes, the plan is to use the simulator.
I agree with most of what you said, but just note that TOTP does not protect against this sort of attack. Only U2F/FIDO2 does.
>look at all the computer and other consumer grade that is thrown away with no failed wear items

One of my hobbies is rescuing these devices from E-Waste, so I'm acutely aware of them. The huge difference is that these devices are usually pretty out-of-date.

Sure, that first generation iPad that went into an otterbox on day one is just fine, mechanically. But can a normal person use it to do much of anything useful? The youtube app doesn't work. Safari won't load any webpages. The app store loads, but most apps (even compatible ones!) won't install.

Not even just things being "too slow", they can't speak modern protocols.

Printers haven't changed that much. When's the last time there was a change to PostScript that made old printers not just obsolete, but unusable?
Even the professional Epson SureColor 800 ($1200+) have that problem. When you have to buy five of them to keep up with your businesses' workflow (one of my clients), it starts to cost money one cannot spend.
I came here to whine about Apple Code signing, and how this seems like a terrible thing to reproduce, until I realized this breaks free of Apple, and is hopefully much more sane! Well done!
It's recommended to use Show HN for projects you create
I've chosen to specialize in Clojure and it hasn't been difficult at all, in fact in a lot of ways it has been easier. I was already a senior dev when I started with Clojure, but having Clojure experience on top of that has made me a very valuable commodity on the (admittedly smallish) Clojure job market.

It's a trade-off of course, there are fewer job openings, but Clojure isn't that niche, and everyone is aware that it is more difficult to recruit from the small pool of Clojure developers or those willing to learn. So when they find someone with seniority and experience putting Clojure into production they will court you pretty aggressively.
Sure, if you can prove revenue, income or assets. Same process for someone with good credit in the US - except we don't shut the doors on people who haven't got a fucking credit card like some sort of racket.
Heck, you don't really need tractors, these can be substituted with manpower. They're a nice to have more than a must.

What you will need, however, is someone to maintain waterways and water treatment facilities, and the necessary components. Can't count on rainfall being sufficient or wells being clean.
This comes with maintaining the power supply and electronic components thereof.
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NQP is also a similar project from the Perl world, a subset of the language that's simpler to implement and has clearer edge-cases.
> I would expect that they will be fined in the multi-millions of dollars for this breach.

By whom? Most breaches do not involve fines of any sort.
:D I'm not sure it's popular: it's controversial with parents, in general. But I think it's a good thing, overall.

I do think most programs implementing it end up taking out a little too much rote and algorithms.