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I think one question eludes everyone and I have often felt that the whole tech space just kind of skipped past it. What constitutes a master programmer?

Once I thought that there's no mastery in programming. That you just learn and kept of learning until you were ashes and bones. But that isn't true just as it isn't true for chefs, blacksmiths, painters, and other artists. If they have a certain standard where a practitioner becomes a "master" then so should programming.

I don't have a lot of experience/knowledge of how masters in other areas are judged but I see one common theme:

If you give a piece of rusted metal to a novice blacksmith, he wouldn't know what to do with it. Or even if he works it, it won't be something to be proud of. Give the same piece to a master and you won't believe what he makes of it.

Similarly, give an egg and some onions to a master chef and see what magic he brings.

Sure, knowledge about the trade matters and years of experience as well but if you strip all of that away, you'll see this steady confidence to be able to do anything (not bravado or foolhardiness) in their trade regardless of the resources and tools.

If we translate that to programming, we slowly realize that the toughest programmers are ones who can solve problems at every level, in any environment, under any condition. I am not saying that they are happy doing it (just as a blacksmith won't be happy working with rusty metal) but that they have the ability to just make things work and work in a good way.

All that may be very vague since its all just theory and I am basically thinking out loud but in these times when every one has the same access to the same information, I don't think it'd be a fair criteria to judge based on how many books you have read.

There's so much to be said on this to better classify the "mastery" of programming. In my opinion, masters of the trade are always rare. There are many who are close to this level of expertise but only a few you reach and surpass it.

Note: As I said, I am thinking out loud. I could be wrong and if so, feel free to point that out.
Can you elaborate? I am guessing you mean you can’t do dynamic imports?
It's not "nonsense" -- it's "woke praxis." By asserting this new understanding of language, woke activists are able to shape social reality. That's the point of the movement. So comments like this are a form of enacting that world. (And I suppose comments like mine are ways of pushing back against it.) Anyway, the wokies are correct about this very applied or pragmatic aspect of language.
You have to be solving for different requirements. If your original solution for a specific problem wasn't perfect (because of the nature of the problem, e.g. optimization), then your previous ability to "solve" the problem doesn't reveal anything about your level of mastery.

Or, to put it differently, progress needs to be measurable.
They don't care. Everyone is replaceable.
Chex Quest wasn't the only Doom promo, I recently learned about Kick soda Doom: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Kick_Attack! It was a one level promotional thing made for a mountain dew soda ripoff. It's really bad, lol.
We don’t. Power very very rarely fails, but when it has recently it’s been big infrastructures with flawed designs like the freezes in Texas, from what I’ve seen.
Agree with this totally, additionally if you are unsure if you will proceed with an idea with no users, getting something done and receiving feedback as fast as possible is better than doing it perfectly the first time.

That said at my last company after 12 months we hired a few engineers so we had to transition to requiring tests for new functionality. This was just to stop regressions and make sure we could continue moving quickly.
There’s an early chapter in Charlie and the Glass Elevator that feels like it was written by a racist 11 year old, with the idiot president making fun of every ethnicity in the most banal way possible.

I skipped it when reading the story to my children.
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Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. I know this topic is fraught but your comment here is a noticeable step in that direction ad we want to go exactly the opposite direction: curious conversation is not about smiting enemies or intensifying brawls.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For electronics, a ton of screws are of the poorest quality since they are only intended to be used once for assembly.

For your question about screwdriver fit, unfortunately that ends up being a judgement call. Be forewarned that for 'phillips' there are identical looking JIS screws [0], it takes a bit of experience to identify what driver to use. Some basic guidelines are, to use the biggest driver that will still bottom out at the tip in the screw, and if the product is of Japanese origin to use JIS drivers. It's very hard to measure, but with experience it isn't hard to tell what but a screw uses. Fit a good quality driver into the screw, and visually check if the flutes of the driver engage all the way to the end of the screen's flutes. Note that you need to use a good screwdriver here, I've seen the cheap screwdrivers ground at 15 degrees off of the correct angle.

And if you want all the specs on a particular screw, picking up an older copy of Machinery's Handbook will give you more detail than you were aware existed.

Although from your question, it seems like you are working with poor quality screwdrivers. Cheap screwdrivers make any screw feel like garbage and strip out stuff, it's worth it to invest in good ones. Surprisingly, harbor freight [1] has a set that I own and I would recommend over my Wera drivers, they are not bad at all. If you want to buy once and be done, Snap-On makes by far the best set [2],although keep on mind that $200 price tag will also need to be supplemented with another $50 Phillips #3 driver.

Or, if you don't need to access screws down deep wells of plastic and can use them, the Bosch replacement bits for impact drivers commonly available at hardware stores are fairly decent, although they aren't as good as the Harbor Freight Icon set linked as the cheaper option. This is one thing where quality costs, and you need to determine if you want/need that quality. But if every screw is feeling soft and stripping, it is almost certainly your drivers.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Hozan-JIS-4-JIS-Screwdriver-3rd/dp/B0...
(I don't have experience with this particular set, I have a Vessel set that is OK but not good}

[1] https://www.harborfreight.com/professional-mechanics-screwdr...

[2] https://shop.snapon.com/product/Instinct-Soft-Handle/8-pc-In...
Noya co-founder here. Thanks for giving it a try and sorry about the refreshing problem. We're aware of an issue with Firefox and also the app refreshing unexpectedly in general. Working on a fix for this, aiming for within the next day.
The fiasco with Replika pulling functionality on their erotic texting AI and the resulting psychological effect it had on it's users also worrying. A non-insignificant portion of people already feel disconnected from society and have few intimate relationships. It's clear some people will jump at the chance to develop a relationship with an AI partner if it offers some sort of feeling of intimacy.

Not to say it's all bad-- one case I recall was someone saying they liked talking to someone in that way since they were older and their wife died, and they weren't able to socialize. So there are multiple sides to this
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar.

more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34854743
I believe that’s how people perceive it. The imbalance of power and the sense of injustice. But a lot of times those people conquered by the more powerful group just committed an atrocity to get that land. But it was more evenly matched? It’s bizarre.
In this post and the comic it links to there is an awful lot of beating around the bush about who precisely the people are that are grifting stoicism in the variety of ways presented. Why not name names? Does anyone know who they are talking about?

I looked up the "bomber pilot in Vietnam who kept a copy of Epictetus in the plane" and it appears to be James Stockdale who was apparently a prisoner of war on Vietnam for many years -- which actually does sound like a situation Stoic philosophy would be useful in. Very different than the strawman presented in the comic: "I always carry a copy of Epictetus's work while I'm bombing villages, so I can use his wisdom to make their screams not affect me".
what is the advantage of using unlogged over temp tables for you?
I don't know why this is always said here, sure there are layoffs in some huge tech companies. But thats it. At least in Germany, my LinkedIn still gets mutliple messages per Day and my Salary is looking good.
This doesn't sound right to me. The modern Democratic party isn't very fond of mass deregulation, balanced budget drives, or quantitative tightening, which is pretty much Carter's economic legacy. And while Carter's very socially left wing now, I doubt he supported, say, gay marriage, when he was president.
>>Remote makes upskilling, onboarding and knowledge transfer much less likely and harder.

Remote works great for people who are individualistic and in general can make do without peer access and a social stack rank. For people who in general have low discipline score with regards to anything in life, Remote can be brutal on the long run.

I've seen a fair bit of people get obese, unhealthy and poorer in the remote era. The absolute worse thing that can happen to people with discipline issue is isolation. When no one's watching, and without the much needed feedback, these people easily shift to their default mode and struggle there.
Yes, pretty much. But even machinists age and some of them move into managed facilities and then they have to leave their gear behind. It is super sad when it happens. And of course they really die as well...

I know a fairly large number of hobby machinists and some of them are quite advanced in age. They still turn out quality work, doing stuff that they love. But you can tell that in some of these cases the writing is on the wall and they'll stretch it as long as they can.
> BMI characterized 26% of the subjects as obese, while DXA indicated that 64% of them were obese. 39% of the subjects were classified as non-obese by BMI, but were found to be obese by DXA. BMI misclassified 25% men and 48% women.

Just goes to show how unreliable BMI is… oh wait
That's the (hard) problem of qualia. You can't say for sure that ChatGPT doesn't experience anything. And I can't say for sure that you do, either. It's trivial to dismiss it on the basis of "well obviously it's like that"—far more difficult is to say something about why it's not like that.

I think consciousness has to be the product of an algorithmic process. I think this process can be summed up as "prediction". I don't think there's some secret quantum/soul/magic aspect to it. Which is why I think it's plausible that transformer models may capture some aspect of what we refer to as consciousness, though I don't quite buy it at a gut level.

You say that "it's not even comparable to the experience of a simple invertebrate," but that's just you writing down what your gut is telling you. What is the experience of a simple invertebrate like, exactly?
Yeah, it smells too much like the Golden Visas are being used as a scapegoat, to make it seem like the government is Doing Something. I agree that GVs are probably a net negative for a local economy, but I doubt they contribute significantly to housing unaffordability.
The hurdles you mention are nothing compared to lack of ID. Lack of ID is the #1 obstacle to homeless people, especially anyone on the street whose stuff is regularly lost or stolen.

Especially if someone is from out-of-state, good luck rebuilding that cache of ID again. It requires nominal payments and some sort of starting point of documentation. Sometimes it's chicken-and-egg with the DMV.

The first step usually involves procuring a birth certificate from the correct jurisdiction. Good luck if you're an immigrant from, say, a small village in Latin America.

There are whole services and ministries that help people with obtaining ID. I really appreciated that fact. If you're an addict or mentally ill or raised in poverty or abuse, you're gonna have trouble calmly navigating bureaucracies, for sure. It helps to have a tour guide alongside who can coach you through it.
I think at the very least it casts doubt on the validity of classifying their situation as "homelessness", which strongly suggests that all they require to be ok again is shelter.
We haven't changed anything about how we edit titles or URLs—all these practices have been stable for many years. So if you've noticed weirder changes lately, it must just be luck of the draw.

I obviously got this change wrong since people hated it so much - but no one much liked the original URL either (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34850937). If there's a better article, we can change it again.
No. Elite relied very heavily on being able to reprogram the video chip on the fly at different scanlines to produce custom modes. If you don't have the exact same video arrangement there is almost no chance that it will run unmodified.
It's wonderful how in all of these comments from different experts in our craft, there really is a large overlap in what we are all saying. So I'll add this advice to the pile: read what everyone is saying here, notice the common threads, and take those closest to heart.
That was not my intention at all.

I thought clearly stating that I thought TFA was a messed up situation made that clear.

I think both things are not good.
What do you mean? They pay rent. They pay for food. They shop locally. They are basically tourist. They are the easiest money to earn.
Almost every time, that sort of phenomenon occurs because people's consumption patterns aren't nearly as unique as they think they are.
You’re going off about a lot of stuff but all I’m saying is that if even 100% of all trans people loudly proclaimed they wanted to be against the Harry Potter game they probably wouldn’t accomplish shit just because they’re such a small population. I mean literally we have laws being passed in some states to ban all of 2 trans kids (in the entire state) from participating in sports. It’s not like they can do anything to defend themselves here.
I'm not sure what your point is. The quote is from My Philosophical Development, and the chapter it's from, Some Replies to Criticism, is worth a read.

https://archive.org/details/myphilosophicald0000russ/page/21... (must be 'borrowed' to read)

There's a whole other chapter on Wittgenstein, The Impact of Wittgenstein.

https://archive.org/details/myphilosophicald0000russ/page/11...
It was also a crap metric 50 years ago, and the metric being consistent is what matters.
There is strong relationship between increased leptin and increased percent body fat, and no relationship between insulin and percent body fat. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals for mean.

And

BMI significantly underestimates prevalence of obesity when compared to DXA direct measurement of percent body fat. Currently, no other blood test or biomarker has been correlated with the rate of obesity. The use of both DXA and leptin levels offers the opportunity for more precise characterization of adiposity and better management of obesity.

Finally

The use of leptin levels further improves precision of BMI adjustment, whereas insulin levels do not. With 91% of our patients with high leptin levels being women, our data confirm the greater effectiveness of BMI adjustment with leptin levels in women, attributable to a higher prevalence of hyperleptinemia among women. As significant lowering of leptin impacts long term weight control [31], [32], the idea of incorporating leptin adjustments into a more accurate diagnosis of obesity should be seriously considered. Further studies should be conducted for leptin measurements as a potentially useful tool in the management of obesity.
Worth noting that Brzezinski repeatedly denied making that quote, and the author admitted to fabricating parts of the article.
Not the point. Ehlich was free to choose the metals, so the fact that this particular choice wasn't in his favor doesn't make him look good. These were presumably the best bet he thought he could make.
> Scott Orson Card

It's "Orson Scott Card."
I don't think homophobic literally means 'afraid of gay people'. In common use it is more often synonymous with 'gay hating'
Whereas you can see the sheer quality drop with overwatch 2. Looks like a pre alpha release.
Core-JS is holding the internet hostage?
> The game is notable for the fact that it was the first game CD-ROM to be released inside a cereal box. Sales of Chex cereal increased by 295% in incremental volume over base and 48% in volume share during this promotion.[1] Much of the manufacturing cost of the CDs was paid for by America Online. AOL was allowed to include its dial-up online service client on the disc in exchange for this contribution.

If you weren't around then this may be hard to believe but I cannot overstate how ubiquitous was the distribution of AOL CD-ROMs. They were everywhere. It felt like you couldn't open a magazine without one falling out. You'd stumble upon them on the sidewalk. AOL must have stamped a billion of the damn things. (Edit: I was afraid I might be exaggerating but apparently it really may have been a billion. https://www.vox.com/2015/5/12/8594049/aol-free-trial-cds)

About 5 years ago I was pacing the Knoxville marathon and toward the end it was just me and a college student, maybe she was twenty, and somehow I brought up AOL. She'd never heard of it. She'd never heard of CD-ROMs. I was like, so there was this movie called You've Got Mail[1]. She hadn't heard of that either. I felt really old.

1. 1998 movie where AOL is a plot element. If you're up for a romcom that's a nice time capsule of the late 90s, you could do worse. Also has PowerBook G3s and the sound of modems.
As a renter of a home with a ground loop buried heat pump in Wisconsin I was very disappointed in winter. It was cold inside and there was no way to keep it warm. I wouldn't rent another house with a heat pump.
It's the publishers desire to make money, that's it. I'd rather they kept he original text and add an advisory at beginning. It's insulting for those of us that read it and even realized back then they weren't so great.
This is exactly why my advice to CS students always is – find a job writing business software. You can pursue your passions on the side, contribute to open source, volunteer or do whatever else you want, but hold on to that stable, "boring" 9-5 job like your life depends on it. Ten or twenty years later you are going to look back and thank yourself for going down this path while your peers who chased more flashy jobs are abused, burned out and have lost all passion for the art.
Oops indeed not totally awake yet
> and they can definitely show defiance.

Large training sets of text are going to include entries where requests are refused, no?

I feel kinda like this is an incredibly elaborate case of coding a function to return a random bool and anthropomorphizing it when you get 'false'.
I have got a few images that I used for a talk. These were an early iteration of the tech (Deep Resolve Sharp) and not what we use now (Deep Resolve Sharp, but also Deep Resolve Boost, which also adds signal in the k-space domain).

Siemens have a mass on on it, but I don’t believe the marking really conveys how good it is. They also talk up the speed side of things, while I have gone for a bit of speed but mainly higher resolution. I’m not even sure how to talk about resolution anymore. Is it the voxel size acquired, or what the end result produces? It’s smoke and mirrors but whatever you call it, the end result is great. We are also accelerating scans more than the Siemens examples (they seem to use 2 or 3x a lot. We go minimum 4, and as much as 8). We use higher resolution than most of their examples too.

https://marketing.webassets.siemens-healthineers.com/2f18155...

https://www.siemens-healthineers.com/magnetic-resonance-imag...
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I upload my csv file, and it seems still uses a fixed meta which is not from my data...quit confusing.

people don't want to pre-config the meta before uploading a csv file
That article also says the total number of residency permits issued under the program was 11,628. The idea that 12k foreigners have caused (or even significantly contributed to) Portugal's housing unaffordability doesn't really pass the smell test.

Picking on the portion of those that went to Chinese nationals is just an irrelevant detail.
I certainly don't re-read every book I have over and over again. Mostly they're decoration.

The replies about burning them are incredible when my post only said I'm less likely to keep picking the book up.
I live in Brooklyn and I just say I'm going to Manhattan if I am going to Manhattan.
> social media has become an essential part of our daily lives

No. Too many people mistake social media for a daily life. Essential means something you can’t live without. That doesn’t describe social media.
Both groups can have a crisis of identity? Conservative women aren't looked upon very positively in popular culture, this isn't much of a reach.
Regular ALDI shoppers like myself understand the selection is limited but in return you get decent quality for a great discount. It's all stuff made by major manufacturers and relabeled with Aldi branding.

If you're baking cookies do you really need 8 brands of sugar? The core product line is simple, consistent and everything a typical household needs.

The one time buys and special deals make it a bit more like Costco in that respect, and some shoppers love that treasure hunt.
This is something I have been considering as I work on firestarter [0] which is a going to be an open source starting point for building a SaaS.

I decided tests are a good thing to have, and especially when already set up and you can easily add more by following the pattern.

I prefer unit tests that are narrow in scope and avoid IO interactions (for example databases)

Of course anyone using my framework can ignore the tests if they desire. But my gut feeling is tests save you time in the short run as well as long run.

[0] https://github.com/mcapodici/firestarter
Chop wood. Carry water.
I remember the St. Louis Six Flags Batman The Ride and I was too big to fit into it. I dieted and exercised until I lost a lot of weight so I could fit into it. Most of these rides are made for teenagers and are thus smaller than the adult sizes.
There are almost certainly blacksmiths in your country, most of them have concentrated on either farrier (horseshoing) or ornamental work. Blacksmithing is still a very common way to do architectural work, think railings or decorative ironwork for buildings. It is sadly a dying trade, those 2 paths above are basically the only ways to make money in the trade besides custom knife making, which is more of a separate trade anyway.

Farrier work is still needed, since factories can't stamp out horseshoes that exactly fit the horse's foot, so a blacksmith needs to custom match the shoe to the hoof.

I'm curious why you say it is a risk to your back? Farriers can definitely get injured, I know a few who have had broken ribs, but I've never heard of that having back issues. Is there a risk I'm not aware of?
Lab-grown diamonds fall in price and rise in availability
But then you just become a master of solving those specific problems rather than a master of programming in the larger sense.
It's actually such an old practice that historians of Rome read ancient texts on the assumption that they have been edited/revised/embellished multiple times.

It really puts into content the people in this thread saying this is the end of free society.
No, whether average refers to mean or median depends on the context.