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RIGA chair factory tour >> https://youtu.be/IndP2IKXTP0

Very common, although many of the students don't take them (none of the girls as I recall). I took 'wood shop' in 8th grade, and there were shop classes (as well as 'auto shop') at my high school.

True, but let's consider the next age group up from 17, ... graduate students earn less than that, don't get paid overtime, and will have to search for a new job in a few years.

I think this is fairly recently normalized (although not the norm) in the US, the trajectory being facilitated by big box Costco stores where people buy their food in bulk for 'cost-savings' and then have an extra fridge or freezer, the next step being to buy a generator.

Many of my aunts and uncles grew up in Appalachia without indoor plumbing or electricity for most of their childhood. A cellar is more important than a generator, as the cellar doesn't require refueling and it also doubles as a shelter when there is a tornado warning.

so savvy that they coined the term "Dependency Injection" as some magical software architectural pattern...

What happens if you ask "the guy" to paint a picture of mickey mouse?

what exactly is a flat region in high gravity?

Yeah, I'm surprised and relieved that they haven't set off to write their own OS.

This is actually great for my self-confidence as now I don't get the job offer due to stronger competition instead of just having poor interview skills.

That tree format (using parentheses) is also known as Newick format >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newick_format

But you can also simply store the tree structure as a single array of ints (or longs) ... each node in the tree corresponds to a unique index position, and the value at that position is the index position of the node's parent (or it's own position if it's a top level node) ... good stuff.

You should probably mention that embeddings are just a renaming of text vectors, aka vector space model, which have probably been used since before neural networks.

Improving efficiency in a system generally reduces it's resilience, so improving efficiency is definitely not always a good thing.

It's a general rule in operations management that you never run at more than 80% of your productive capacity. The extra 20% 'slack' is there to be used to ensure your throughput remains steady.

yeah, unfortunately it matters to the recruiter

Like when a state considers itself a global superpower but hasn't had any notable impact on an unremarkably sized rock orbiting an average sized star in a barely noticeable galaxy?

"checkout project, reformat all source files, commit"

Additionally, reading through other people's code is educational and it also builds self-esteem.

There has been a lot of research, and civil engineering presumably, to manage crowds for the Hajj pilgrimage at Mecca.

" the wise will laugh at me, but the foolish will understand "

>> federal employees are much more likely to return

Not necessarily. It's generally understood that federal employees accept a lower salary in exchange for career stability. If a career as a federal employee now has higher risk then at least some people will be expecting a higher salary.

related discussion from yesterday >> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061481

I wonder if the former employees' salary expectations have changed.

>> that speed has resulted in complications, including firing people agencies actually want to keep.

No shit, Sherlock. If the agencies didn't want to keep them they wouldn't be there.

Also, 'probationary' employees are most likely to be new hires, which the agency has actively invested time and money into recruiting and hiring.

They are probably also younger and have more voting years ahead of them :)

if you think you own everything then there are no external threats

autocomplete in IDEs was better fifteen years ago, in my opinion

Not sure if this has the same root cause, but some websites 'break' with Firefox translate, as if the visible text in an HTML element is somehow being used as an identifier in the website's application logic.

Do you think people should be paid more or less if they are making everybody's lives harder with bad decisions?

Can you run a search for my friend, Bobby Drop Tables?

>> it's overwhelmingly people repeating the same falsehoods that might, at best, have a kernel of truth, but have been blown out of proportion to the point of just being not-true.

That describes basically all posts about AI, so let's all join in and start flagging any HN post about AI.