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>Most journalists in the USA receive basically zero scientific education.

First, you need a way to communicate to the reader that the journalist writing the article is a qualified science journalist. Then, to satisfy that, you need an appropriate curriculum and a governing body to manage the accreditation of science journalism programs. Then, to make that practical, you need to support certificate programs for journalists beginning their education with partial credentials.

Overall, this is hard, and it's not clear if there's real demand for qualified science journalists and the articles that they would, in theory, write, which means that nobody is agitating to create such an infrastructure.

Journalism, at least right now, is a little bit like baseball: a small fraction do very well, and most scrape by on a starvation wage. The common refrain is that the "glut" of people with science degrees should supply plenty of qualified science journalists, but most of them have lower-risk career opportunities, and people who go into science usually aren't the risk-avid sort. You're better off becoming a teacher, and in America, that's saying something.
Thank you for that. It instantly made the whole story even more funny. I love it :D
Nobody suggested they did. It's an example of non-reversible overreaction, as I'm sure you are aware.
It's cool that there is a mandate for it. I suppose I'm surprised they aren't close to achieving this already, or that it wouldn't happen on its own.

I was talking to my parents, who live in a very rural area of the U.S.—the nearest mailbox is a ten minute drive—and they said "we'd love an electric vehicle, but where would we charge it around here?" and we pulled up a map and there were something like two or three suitable charging stations within 20 miles, and many more within the range of a full charge.

That's why I'd assume that the busiest motorways in the EU would already have plenty of fast charging stations within a 60km drive. Maybe they already do, and this is more about adding additional bureaucracy. Or, more generously, maybe it's about those other clauses, like the payment system and displaying the prices and whatnot, and the bit in the headline was always expected to take care of itself.
One thing I should have added in my OP was that I only use maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of the flavor packets provided. Still provides plenty of flavor but helps cut down on the salt consumption.
Did you read all the emails and slack messages? I came away thinking: science is messy, this is overblown, I don't think they did anything wrong.
Thankfully, we only have so long. Also thankfully, we have so long!
On your last point, lithium ion battery packs are supposedly extremely recyclable, and it’s cheaper to recycle them than to make a new one, so it seems likely that they will be recycled.
Book Review: The Laws of Trading
I mean, is that supposed to be unreasonable? Sounds about right to me.
If being a smoker decreases your life expectancy by 10 years and you live 80 years, then if you're wasting 1/8 of your day on screens (2 hours/day if you don't count sleeping 8 hours) then it's sort of like smoking, if we equate wasting your life with not living at all.
Everyone is in agreement that the first known super spreader event was at that market. I don't really see how that's evidence one way or the other.
Ask HN: Favorite distributed systems engineering blog posts?
In my experience, there are a few companies that create and operate distributed systems which are simple, elegant, reliable, high performance, and maintainable.

And then there are most companies, where the distributed systems are the equivalent of sprawling spaghetti code. Bloated, slow, brittle, expensive, and always in need of excessive babysitting.

I've read lots of great blog posts from the former companies over the years, but I'd like to do a deep dive right now and read any that I've missed.

I figured it might help if I found an example of what I consider a good engineering blog is, and Discord came to mind: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-billions-of-messages
I've been working with Linux in one form or another for 30 years now! I almost can't believe it's been that long. Though I haven't used Slackware since the late 90's, I might take another look.
Prosperity gives access to more people. "Betterment of humanity" sounds like "human growth but by my own standards".

Prosperity is what's made it possible for anyone to survive and have varying levels of access to thriving. Humanity is moving forward and we're figuring things out.

Pointing at a big category of businesses to demonize them is not "betterment of humanity".
When it comes to completely fucked up applications of AI, China is decades ahead of the US.
This is a sensible strategy. Apple finally revealed their cards after 5+ years of rumours surrounding the Apple Vision Pro. Meta doesn't have the brand strength to launch a true high-end XR headset that can compete with the Vision Pro. Instead, they're trying to capture the lower end of the market.
I was just telling a co-worker literally yesterday that a few years of Slackware was the single most effective thing I did to learn Linux well.

I ran it on my desktop and an old (old in the early 2000s!) laptop with 32 MB of RAM, and learned a TON. It's the perfect generic "Linux" system, and you can take it in any direction you want, but you have to do it yourself.

Funny enough, I also got too busy and moved to Debian.
Hanson's idea (https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/gamble.html) of a betting market for science could be an interesting model for journalism. Probably easier said than done.
"Nate Silver has no relevant qualifications, experience or anything of merit to justify people taking onboard his opinion without a healthy dose of skepticism."

Compared to who? Many of the people who supposedly do have the qualifications to discuss covid's origin appear to have been corrupted by career/financial incentives and political biases.
My company is kind of unique and I just urge you to throughly research the company, culture, and situation. I'm a hybrid product/engineering manager, while everyone else is strictly product manager with engineering counterparts.

Long story short, this company is in the middle of being cleaned up by private equity. It used to be a cost center, and has never made money in its history. In my opinion, engineers were allowed to do whatever they wanted with no oversight. There were some god-awful, appalling business and engineering practices here.

Honestly, I didn't really absorb all the red flags. I was more enamored with the idea of a career change and trying something different. I think I was particularly targeted for the role because I was previously an engineering manager. My product is universally hated and had been left for dead. I've had to milk everything I can from one real engineer and several data/business analysts to get it resurrected. Part of that is mentoring the DA/BAs how to do basic git branches and commits while butting heads with the engineer to get him to stop doing psychotic things. Just this morning we got into it because I stopped allowing direct pushes to master.

Honestly, this situation is such depressing, pain in the ass, but the moments where I get to be a real PM has been pretty fun. Just listening to customers and relaying what we're doing different has been rewarding.
So the tagged posts were intentionally hidden, then.
> The evidence they had was of such low quality that no solid conclusions could be made from it.

OK, fine. If I grant this (I don't, but let's run with it...), it means the following is also true: we mandated something based on such low-quality evidence that no solid conclusions could be made from it.
Consider the knowledge quality gradient. Ordered high to low.

1) see it yourself.

2) heard it from a friend.

3) bullshit.
As long as the business model of journalism is running on fumes, there isn't going to be a renaissance in journalism quality. Truth-seeking is time-consuming and will always be inherently trading off against other local incentives, like writing quickly, writing exciting things, and writing things that your audience will like. If almost all journalists have to bust their ass just to survive, a truth-seeking culture won't thrive.

I think there are three main ways I can see things getting better:

1. Governments and academia have lots of money, but the money gets fed into a system of incentives that make academics not that good at either truth-seeking or popularizing their own work. This could change.

2. There is a large population of smart people who collectively can do a lot of truth-seeking and writing in their spare time, without needing to make money from it. However, right now there's not a particularly coherent way that those people can work together and produce collective information that is as easy to find and understand as mainstream media outlets. Improving technology to let amateurs work together and aggregate their opinions could be powerful.

3. The funding model for journalism could continue to evolve so that people who choose to do so can more directly fund truth-seeking journalism. Crowdfunding and self-publishing platforms are in this direction. This seems to me like it's already working fairly well in some cases to fund people's work, but then the attention market is not great at highlighting the more reliable voices, which is similar to the problem in point #2.
Sadly this teacher can't teach anymore but these parents can still parent. I wonder what happens if somebody makes some deep fake porn of these parents, will they divorce from their spouses, no longer be accepted in their communities? What if everybody's deep fakes are made so that everybody gets the same treatment; would that make people sink in that this is just it, just something that can happen to anybody without any fault of their own?
Please explain what you mean. It sounds like you have an important point that can only be found if people sit and carefully read several pages. Important points deserve to be stated more plainly.
> I’m sorry to tell you, but there is no one in the halls of US power steering the ship away from the worst outcomes of climate change

The folks who went hard on globalism since the 1990s certainly are. There were (and still are) a lot of politicians on both sides who support unchecked globalization, the ecological and human consequences be damned.

This is the cause of Climate Change, not the US, which is ramping down. If China had to meet the same absurd standards as the US and Europe we would be hitting climate goals no problem.
Wow! 75 floppies! That sounds like a lot! Was that Slackware 1.x? 2.x? And this sounds like a very interesting story: can you elaborate on any architecture details, equipment, getting other ISPs to peer?
quest 2 is the most interesting gadget i got the past decade. honestly space rockets are ok at current tech , but too much work just to see the blue planet from above, everything else looks pretty much the same as a clear night sky
Colleges really need to upgrade STEM requirements for liberal arts.

At my alma, science/engineering required 18 arts credits while arts required only 6 science/math credits.
That ship has sailed. “Tech” is simply a positioning or branding term.

Meta and Amazon are businesses that depend on developing technology (so are true tech companies as much as NVIDIA or Apple) but nowadays “tech” merely means at best “online”. Most so-called “tech” companies don’t actually develop any technology at all, often being less technical than a non-“tech” company like, say, State Farm.

The term has become so denatured that a new term, “deep tech” has been coined to mean what “technology company” used to mean.
Any authoritarian regime would love a populace with such self-absorbed opinions devoid of any regard for consequences in the long run.

Awareness of events with geopolitical consequences might not immediately affect your diet or whatever you "truly" care about. It sure as hell is a world of difference when it comes to making judgements that span more than a couple weeks.

Living in a state of relative decadence, when circumstances allow for life to become seemingy routine and change a scarcity precipitates times when that is very different.
Not a perfect movie, but quite a trip!
Well, now they can have chatGPT save them so much time that they can do quality research, right?
I think a better comparison would be to big oil, steel and manufacturing in the early 1900s. Big tech has its problems but provides significant tangible benefits to people and the world. Tobacco is purely a negative, not innovative, and relies on the chemical addictive properties of a plant to offer a needless service.
Do you know what had the largest impact on suicide rates of teens in recent years? Them returning to schools after covid. Could it be that things can, at the same time, have both positive and negative effects on people?
> The tech industry is male dominated. And while people's sex/gender shouldn't matter, after a while one can't help but notice. Lately I've been wondering about the prominent female software engineers, programmers or startup founders that are out there and I realised that I know of none.

From a personal experience, back in 2002 I have had the honor to share team projects with some great minds during my university years, all of them were incredible problem solvers.

Those girls were out of our Computer Science league, so to speak; they were straight 'A's or '4's as we were graded at my uni, with incredible minds solving problems in no time, whereas the rest of the classroom would extend our deadline so we can deliver something even half-baked.

I would love being around them to learn so much, how to organize a project, how to take notes, how to learn to listen, and so forth...only to see them sadly changing major before the end of the first semester...EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM!

We would panic and ask them what happened, whether was someone that cause them pain or anxiety and felt threatened that had to change major.

Their answer, ALL OF THEM, was the same: "this is so stressful that I cannot think of myself handling this non-stop task of meeting the deadlines every week or so, plus the mandatory task of learning new techie things every day or so! Not to mention the headaches of thinking non-stop to figure things out; as a woman I already think non-stop, but things that are important to me, not to a computer!".

I still think about it and occasionally we discuss this with old co-students / friends of mine and we express our sadness for losing such great minds from the Computer Science field.

I'm sure you can become the source of inspiration of other young minds that are hesitant to give it a try.
Descent.
You and the author are both lumping all of Big Tech in together with Big Attention-Exploitation.

The latter is the subset to which people’s ire should be directed.
> Look at John deere to see how fun tractors can be

Does John Deere have a global monopoly? Resisting modernisation because John Deere are dicks is textbook misdirection.

(Out of the top-ten selling tractors in India, John Deere has one—the 5510–on the list.)
Not a great analogy. It doesn't matter how big the rube goldberg machine is if there was only one input to begin with, it would still trace back to that input. The problem with climate is that there are billions of inputs spanning centuries. Trying to assign blame is a waste of time anyway, time that we don't have.
Journalists these days are generally not hired for their incredulity. They're hired based on a track record of not deviating from their employer's political and financial priorities, regardless of the evidence. These are businesses, not public services. They owe their existence to dishonest and manipulative presentations of the qualities of third-party products that they sandwich between their own content.

Lets go back to the days where media outlets were open about their editorial stances, rather than hiding them behind a veil of white-coated objectivity. Propagandists should stop pretending to be doctors, and just be honest propagandists.

Putting it all on Democrats isn't completely fair, although I get how bitter Silver is that they sanctified him when he told them what they wanted to hear and condemned him when the data pointed the other way. It could have just as easily been the Republicans in control of those institutions now if the party weren't so hostile to minorities.

That hostility cut them off from dominance of the nonprofit sector, which serves to convert the money of governments (i.e. the will of elected officials) and oligarchs into media messages. They're stuck with thinktanks and veteran's organizations, although they sometimes find openings in patient's rights nonprofits (run by pharmaceutical companies.)
I agree with your prescriptions, but worry the point might've slipped by.

> READ the papers

The point of my original comment is that most journalists don't have the educational background required to do this. And everything else flows downstream of that problem.
I don't know how you do it, but I'm actually fascinated by it. I like watching Diablo players rant on YouTube, but for me the game pretty much ends after the campaign too. I wish it didn't because I find the campaigns great. Even just exploring the map and all the different atmospheric elements. It just feels too short.

I don't want to optimize my character. One thing I loved about D3 was that the entire skill tree was accessible to you. In D4 that's true right up until around 50 when it becomes cost prohibitive to respec.
If applebees goes out of business, a vacancy opens. For a new business - ideally one that can pay its workers. Short term, sure it’s “bad” for businesses to close. Long term, as long as it’s not happening en-mass, it’s a good thing
Personally, I think his storytelling is poor, but it's not the worst. 5th percentile for plotting, say. But he plumbs new depths with his prose.

I am not above reading trash, and you often have to accept crappy writing in genre fiction. My wife reads the trashiest pulp romance there is. But even considering the low-grade prose in our diet, Dan Brown's writing is worse by an order of magnitude.

I'd rather gargle diarrhoea than read his shit again.

I'd rather attend a school play.

I have ADHD, but I once spent a day looking at a wall rather than allow his tepid faeces into my person.

He passes the turing test: machines cannot write that badly. His word choice smells like burning tyres, his sentence structure is like a drunk driver in a car park. He's a phenomenon.
The answer to your question is that you are exaggerating the extent to which the world's manufacturing done in China.
I think you succinctly summed up the Crux of it. The kind of begs the question of what information is relevant. When I apply for a job, I certainly don't tell the recruiter the minimum salary I would accept. When I negotiate for a house, I don't tell them my maximum theoretical offer. These information asymmetries obviously benefit me at their expense.

When I buy a 20 cent bolt for my car, I don't tell them that it's worth $20,000 to me because my car won't run without it
> One of the few books I deeply regret buying.

For me it was Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged, and I begrudged every single penny of the 50 pence I paid for it in the Oxfam bookshop on Byres Road.

It's the only book I've ever intentionally destroyed, too. I soaked it in waste Citroën hydraulic fluid, and took it out to the gravelly yard behind my flat, and burnt it. I couldn't bear the thought of anyone without the intellectual rigour to see it for what it is getting their hands on it.
That explanation makes quite the leap from "personal ethics are an opinion" to "professional ethics are facts".

Everything that comes after that seems just to explain why professional ethics are crucial, but I'm still missing where the opinions of a bunch of people suddenly become a fact.
> I am well aware that the idea of there being professional licensing of software developers is wildly unpopular among programmers.

That's an issue.

LeetCode tests are often formed to bias towards styles and solutions favored by the testers.

For example, a company may want all their engineers to have a particular approach to recursion, so they test for that approach.

The issue with professional testing, is that it can encompass completely inappropriate tests. For example, I took calculus, and have almost never used it, in my work (over 30 years). I think the closest I got was playing with matrix math and B-splines.

But I guarantee that a "professional programmer" test would have calculus, because "Everybody should know it."

Same with btree stuff (again, in thirty+ years, I have never had occasion to use these).

But I do all sorts of async stuff, and a lot of UX stuff. I'll bet they don't get tested. Maybe everybody should know what a ring buffer is.

That said, ethics don't need that kind of stuff, and I'm all for ethics, but I think the managers need it, a hell of a lot more than the engineers.

Sure. That'll happen ...
I mean, those were by and large fixed function devices and while phone calls are certainly a form of communication they aren't really networked devices. And... while it was technically possible to update the software on them, most people never did.

There were only a scant handful of years where there even existed phones where this could matter... but now this same mentality is being applied to every new category of device--all of which acting as general computing devices--based on these precedents.
In this usage, salt is anything but lacking. Americans do know what cheddar actually is and indeed make a shitload of it in a wide range of qualities. Tillamook out of Oregon and Cabot out of Vermont are commonly available and pretty good.
He might be referring to system services that manage hardware devices .etc BatteryService .rtc
Why would FB give up to an unreleased, unproven product? Apple goes for their ecosystem anyway. It s more likely there is a shortage of cheap components and they are focusing on what's most likely to sell
Both those ideas (a,b) are look to be vindicated. It does look like an engineered bio-weapon and there is a lot of circumstantial evidence to support that conclusion. And whether the people pointing to a lab leak were also demanding a national security response or opposing one, that is what happened, i.e., it was a national security response (big pharma white labeling and providing distribution for DoD subcontractors product). Simple as.
The base game made me say "wow" out loud in several key parts, specifically the first time seeing Giant's Deep and falling into the center of Brittle Hollow.

Echoes of the Eye did the same thing the first time I walked into the main environment and looked up.
Gonna risk the downvotes and qualify that I am a parent who keeps social media away from my kids: what big tech is peddling is IMHO not on the level of addiction, carcinogenicity and all cause mortality as smoking. It's up to me to raise a mentally resilient kid, part of which is limiting their screen time, but it is not something I cut out altogether. It's not like I have some special parenting power to protect their lung epithelia.
> API seems to be down, please try again later.

Great show.
around 10 times the price of other developed countries?
> You like what you like!

I have found I have a personal star-handicapper.

For science fiction, what I watch can dip down to 2-star shows.

For a romantic comedy, I probably need 4 or 5 stars.

Drama needs 5 stars.

For documentaries, having a slew of 5-star important, well-done, insightful movies means little. I still rarely watch them.
You can also refer to “they” as the ones who now have access to more accurate information about their health, or weather, sex education, math, science, etc. There are 8 billion people in this world, surely there are a wide spectrum of experiences being lived.