skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not pissed off, I'm just engaged by your combination of intelligence and poor socialization.
Probably because people were using them to post/promote their pornography using terms they know people would search. Please find something more interesting to feign offense over.
Can this solve the global bee crisis: a thermosolar hive
The history of computing is filled with so many names, and odd or tangled stories, this is one that I was un-aware of, and is super interesting.

If you like these strange connections you should go and read about the Jacquard loom, that was using punch cards to control the patterns produced! It can be argued that "programmability" came before general purpose computing...
> You go through four or 6 interviews and then one of the 8 or so people you've interviewed with has a bad feeling about you and that seals the deal.

Then they get on Hacker News later that day and complain about how hard it is to find people and how hot the job market is right now.
Ask HN: Ranking dev bootcamps when hiring?
When you're hiring a developer, do you lump all of the coding academies in the same "basic development skills" level, or have you found superior results hiring out of certain ones? If the latter, which ones? Thanks.
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Windows 7 doesn't provide the Windows Runtime infrastructure to support sandboxed, remotely-maintained, universal apps. They'd have to write a new desktop program, and that's pretty unlikely.
Takeaways are the best part of HN comments. It's always interesting for me to see what stood out to other people versus myself. Why are they a cause for banning users? That seems like stifling intellectual discourse to me.
That wouldn't be good, either, since it would mean no quality control of the data going in.
So what makes something philosophical?
Yes...that passport looks great. Android on a BB Passport would fit my definition of a decent keyboard android phone. The wide format looks like a more natural layout.
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It's censorship, but so what? It's a private company. They're allowed to display or hide whatever they please.
The guys from LinusTechTips have used Unraid (a paid KVM+BTRFS based NAS+VM appliance) to do this with a 7 or 8 GPU machine. See 7 gamers one PC on YouTube. It seemed to be simple to set up, once you have configured the BIOS.
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Can a baptist preacher program in Java? He can't. His job is to speak.
I obviously don't speak for everyone's experience but...

I was always taught that if you had a college degree, you don't really have to pay your dues. One of the points of a degree was that you could skip a lot of that.

Of course, it never was true, but that's what I was told.
Really great keyboard, but I don't agree with the decision to replace San Fransisco with Roboto. The weight and position of the type is off on the keys, and it makes the keyboard feel less native than it should.
I just gave this a try, and I have to say, I'm impressed. I'm a very good touch typist on a keyboard, but I'm nothing special on a touchscreen. This definitely ups my accuracy, even in quick bursts (I realize it's not in the title, but the overall keyboard is much more responsive, it's not just the added functionality).
Italiano looks PG at worst.

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/italiano/

Kansas is weird.

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/kansas/
You probably have the skills now to get hired. You're not going to get hired at Google or Facebook or anyplace like that with their insane hiring practices...but there are a ton of other companies that would probably be glad to have you. Just be upfront about your experience, show them projects you've completed, be enthusiastic...find recruiters and start taking phone calls and see!
Ah, makes sense now. Thanks!

Now I also get your previous comment. I've read your => as arrows instead of "equal or greater".
> The serverless concept solves this problem, because it requires no DevOps to build and deploy applications at scale

This is wonderfully naive. A great goal, but hopelessly unrealistic. E.g. currently it is not handling data persistence at all, so for starters it's targeting "the easy bit", yet there's hardly any mention of things like logging, or what do to when their Consul cluster decides to start complaining because membership has gotten messed up (ever had a Consul node rejecting most messages as "suspect"? ever had the same node get registered twice? all kinds of fun stuff), how to analyse performance issues, networking problems etc.

It looks like an interesting platform, but anyone thinking this gets them out of understanding ops concerns will have tough times ahead..
Right, just saw this a minute ago on reddit. It seems like HN is just /r/Futurology, /r/TodayILearned, /r/Programming, and /r/Startups rolled into one.
Because they paid real competition to not compete and their opposition is a socialist?
Then I can understand why people seem to be finding what you call advocacy a bit grating. Because if it isn't a dictate, what exactly is the desired outcome?

Imagine this piece does its job and convinces a lot of people. "Indeed! We need more multicultural philosophy departments!" Now it's a policy debate. Which departments? Which coursework? Do we need to hire and fire to make this change? The question becomes: HOW WILL WE ALLOCATE RESOURCES DIFFERENTLY TO MAKE THIS CHANGE HAPPEN? Do we need to cut government funding from public schools that don't meet some percentage curriculum requirement?

The logical endpoint WOULD BE a dictate even if the op-ed is "just advocacy" right now.
If you think of each slide as a separate page, then having your scroll wheel jump you to a different page doesn't make sense.
Gazing in the night sky
The VSI (vertical speed indicator) is the "freefall indicator" of which you speak. :)

The problem is that when there's the pitot-static failure the VSI (generally) indicates by "sticking" wherever it was when the failure occurred.

"Speed" means a different thing to a pilot than it does to a non-pilot. Groundspeed is irrelevant (aerodynamically), airspeed is everything. To sense "overspeed" you have to know airspeed. And since airspeed is a measure of the movement of the aircraft relative to the medium it's moving through (air), there has to be a system to measure that movement. That system is the pitot-static system. The pitot tube sticks into the uninterrupted airflow, usually on the wing somewhere, the static port sits where the air is calm, usually on the fuselage. The airspeed indicator in particular relies on the differential between the two inputs to determine airspeed.

Here's the best non-pilot friendly article I could find that explains what happens when the pitot-static system fails:
http://www.boldmethod.com/learn-to-fly/systems/airspeed-indi...

I'm a former pilot, PPL with a few IFR lessons, and I'm pretty rusty on this stuff so while I'm pretty sure I'm accurate here YMMV. :)
I think you are on the right path. If you enjoy playing with bits, and do so in your spare time, you will get better. I would guess that about 50% of the folks who took CS did so not out of interest, but because they thought it was the "right" career. You will surely have an edge on those folks.
Come up with projects you can build for yourself. Soon you be so good, folks will want to hire you.
I never had a contracting job that requires me to stay late, just 8 hours a day. I would have billed 1/4th more day if I had to stay 2 more hours.
I think that's in the same category.

Sadly, I have an affliction where I can resist no opportunity to pun. Or dad joke.

It's a problem.
You're absolutely right about someone taking a chance. At 17 I basically walked into a woodworking shop, spoke with the owner and told him how passionate I was about working with my hands and showed him some things I had made. We talked hand-tools and he hired me to sweep the floors, deal with the scrap and sawdust and do the rough mill work.

I had no intention of going to college so I took my GED and quit school.

At 17 I was still living at home and, at that, age it was not odd or stressful to myself or my parents. I also didn't need much money so making minimum wage was not an issue. I didn't even own a car at first. I rode my bike everywhere and got rides with co-workers when the weather was really bad.

By the time I needed more money I had experience and was making more because of it. I was also attending community college at night because 2.5 years of working in a trade made me realize that college might be a good idea.

Another trick is to not waste too much time on school if you don't intend to go to college.
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Is this a matter of, "And now they'll change those patterns", or is this something that can be generalized regardless of how the fakes change their posting styles? The last lines of the article suggests to me that the answer is something like: This isn't going to work out in the world, only in the lab.
Nikola Motor Company wants to be the Tesla of trucking
From the LinkedIn we can find out the author has established the company called "Lever OS" [1], so it looks like a startup product.

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?company=Lever+OS&trk=prof...
I disagree. What makes you think that the best and brightest don't go to college and do a PhD? Not everybody wants to make as much money as possible as soon as possible.
Definitely a sensible thing to do.

The best way to go about it is to do cool projects, and release them online. That way you have something to point to to demonstrate your ability.

Not all companies will take this as evidence of your ability, but the ones you want to work for will.

Good luck!
rng-tools includes a command for testing random number generator output. I tried this with a FreeBSD port from https://github.com/waitman/rngtest

Results aren't great:

rngtest: bits received from input: 300032
rngtest: FIPS 140-2 successes: 0
rngtest: FIPS 140-2 failures: 15
rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Monobit: 15
rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Poker: 15
rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Runs: 15
rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Long run: 0
rngtest: FIPS 140-2(2001-10-10) Continuous run: 0
rngtest: input channel speed: (min=236.690; avg=245.396; max=251.742)bits/s
Yeah, I'm always amused when large corps complain about missing workforce and about needing 50.000 software developers in Germany. But if you went looking they either don't want developers but PhD's who've heard of C++ or much worse just cheap labor. The latest was Volkswagen making news right after the software scandal that they're planning to hire 38.000 developers. No idea what tasks they want to put that many developers on and I'm not sure if I should be scared or skeptical.
I have several nephews that are between 18-23 age. It's pretty surprising the amount of opportunity they have to get into the workplace and just are not motivated.

Getting into a skilled trade is a great career path. I have a co-worker whose son went to vo-tech for welding, got hired by one of the largest construction companies (they're building the USA Bank Stadium in Minneapolis) and is now making close to 50K, with no kids and he's not married, so he's pretty set.

When I talk with my nephews, they complain they're broke and can't move out from their families house, but don't want to go to a coding boot camp, or go to a Vo-Tech and learn a trade. They just don't see either as a very "glamorous" career, so they reject it out of hand - which is puzzling. So they work several part time jobs, live at home and have no "launch date" to either go to a 4 year school, or get into something that would give them a solid career path.

I'd also like to point out, its always been tough for young kids to get into the job market without college degrees. Even if you were learning a trade, it took years to go from apprentice to journeyman to master. Even when I was in college (mid aughts) I had many friends who didn't go to college and couldn't get a whiff of stable corporate gig. They would always go interview and the guy would say, "You have a great resume, you'd probably do well here, but you need a 4 year degree. Go get your degree and I'll hire you immediately." They were relegated to jumping around between small mom and pop shops that didn't have the stability of a larger corporation. Every couple of years they were on the move.
> I don't understand the confusion on what Apple's next big thing is, they've laid it out time and again. [...] It's the same thing OpenAI, HARC, and other groups are working on: creating revolutionary intelligent assistants and possibly achieving strong AI.

I hope so, but given they released Siri in 2011, and only minimally improved on it since, it doesn't look like they're giving the field much attention. It doesn't look Apple takes it very seriously, and in the meantime Google & Microsoft have released their own superior versions.
It isn't US Army tech, it is mostly Israeli army tech that was developed to manage the Palestinian population in Gaza and the West Bank.
I am in the exact same boat. My laptop is Xubuntu and my work computer is as well. My home gaming rig is Windows 10 because Linux just doesn't compete yet with the proprietary optimizations that the hardware manufacturers and game developers use on the platform. Also my wireless card doesn't have Linux support but I would throw that in the trash the moment Linux gaming can even get to 80-90% of the Windows gaming performance.

If this were Slashdot we couldn't even have the discussion without being swamped by fanboys claiming completely false things about Linux gaming. I've been trying over and over again for about 15 years playing all different types of games on different types of hardware and roughly speaking I would say an average of 20-50% performance hit on 3D rendered games but it is getting much MUCH better.

It does work but I didn't spend the, honestly, stupid amount of money on my home PC to have it perform worse than it can just based on the software I choose.

There's a billion reasons why this is the case so saying one specific thing or manufacturer is going to fix it but AMD pushing support is a wonderful thing. I can't wait until I can finally get rid of Windows completely.

Really what I would love is a gaming focused Linux distro that actually works.
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It's funny how Google takes so good care of their own ecosystem users. https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Gboard
> I'd be curious about pre-recession numbers of high school grad employment vs. now, post-recession.

Don't forget automation, which is behind a lot of the discrepancy between recovered business sales/overall production figures while the jobs numbers lag behind. Automation means fewer employees getting more work done.

> I also think it's a tremendous disadvantage to say "Oh yeah, vocational school can get to you an associate's or a college degree" because at some point we have GOT to stop acting like a college degree is the be-all-end-all.

This times a THOUSAND, I know plenty of people who make really good money and left their vocational schools with useful, in-demand skills and practically no debt. (I'm a little jealous TBH, though I still prefer my desk job.)
Speaking of, if you've watched last week's Silicon Valley episode and are in the valley, is it really true that recruiters send you gift baskets just to lure you to an interview?
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Of course he's been single for 2 million years... it's not like he could go out and paint the town with the door closed.
When I was in college I got the impression that professional (i.e. US academic) philosophy had standards of rigor, such that areas more generally considered philosophy -- French existentialism, for example -- weren't so in their domain. It seemed that some wanted to make a distinction between philosophy, psychology, and literary theory/critique.

I've got no opinions either way, but it sounds like someone needs to define what is meant by "philosophy."
I thought our numbers were of Arabic origin?
Why do startups fail
No one wants to start in the mail room, because no one favors internal promotions to substantially different jobs over hiring someone with credentials from the outside anymore. So, starting in the mail room means staying in the mail room, and it means pay and working conditions which make it much harder to get better jobs than if you'd done what was necessary to qualify for higher-status work without bothering with the mail room.

There's some exceptions, sure, but the working culture where starting in the mail room worked (to the extent it did: note that it was, even when most viable, already a notable exception, not a norm) basically no longer exists.
> teaching in most schools is babysitting.

[Citation Needed]

...but seriously, if you think most teaching is babysitting, you have a woefully narrow view of what goes on in classrooms.
People either don't know about or really don't want to do a lot of jobs.
Example, good friend of mine started mopping blood in a hospital, working his way up (making good money too!), he has been able to pay for school and live a good life..
The jobs are out there, they just require you to find them ( and sometimes also require that you have the stomach for it ).
There's 3 vendors working on this.

A (older) video of one of them in action, blocking an incoming RPG headed towards a Humvee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_yz_ONZltA
> How are you expecting to find a job when you don't apply?

How are you going to apply to a job if there aren't any to apply to ?
I do it primarily for fun but I'd be open to the opportunity of finding a job on the site. Never really thought about it and as such wouldn't go out of my way to look for a job via the site however if I some how came across a decent looking job then why not?
" think it's interesting to consider the real possibility of a future where code-reading is a mainstream skill, and where writing is considered a specialisation. And where code writing is done with the expectation of serving the reader."

Yeah, I can understand that as a good point. Still, as a person who was teaching Lit at a university for 8 years of my life, the idea that writing is the mantle of a special class and that reading is enough for the masses seems

Writing (code / music / language) is easy enough that I'm not understanding why you wouldn't teach it to folks even if they can't do it at the same level as the texts they are capable of reading.

Anyhow, best of luck with your ukulele experiments :D
A lot of apps pay attention to the name you run them as—for instance, making sure the correct name is reported when you list the command line switches. But this is definitely the most extreme case I'm aware of.
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I'd put it the other way around. Philosophy is a Greek word, and the collection of subjects it encompasses is part of a tradition inherited from the Greeks (as similar think applies to Religion and the Romans).

However, other people do have the same concerns, though they might package it differently. So logic is hard to escape and was studied everywhere, but whether it was studied alongside Grammar, Metaphysics or Mathematics -- well that could vary a bit.
' “Dozens of threats were launched at these platforms, many of which would have been lethal to these vehicles. Trophy engaged those threats and defeated them in all cases with no collateral injury and no danger to the dismounts and no false engagement,” the DRS official said.'

The RPG-7 travels at a maximum velocity of 295 m/s. Fired from 200 meters and assuming linear acceleration, that means you'd have roughly 1-2 seconds to identify it, calculate trajectory and fire the interceptor.

Compare this to intercepting an ICBM, which travels at a maximum (re-entry) velocity of 7,000 m/s. Fired from several thousand miles, you'd have about 30 minutes to identify it, calculate trajectory and fire the interceptor.
As a side note, I slid out of my first weekend in college,and ended up first getting an Electrical Journeyman's license at age 31. Then work dried up in FL, and I went back to school and picked up a computer engineering degree at 36. I missed the fast track, but I have had a lot of fun.
I was never given the opportunity to try machine-shop, or woodworking in highschool, those classes were already removed from schooling around the time I got there. But it would have been a nice path for me to get a AWS certification in welding. I'm surprised that these have been removed from curriculum, there is a pretty high value in these classes in terms of exposure and training for skilled work... Hopefully it is brought back at some point with the explosion of interest DIY, it would be cool to see an engineering course that offers exposure to different fields (mechanical // chemical // fabrication // failure identification). Which in turn would really drive interest into engineering not as a "major" but as an ideological mindset.

I think I'm starting to ramble...
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From an extremely cursory look, the Wikipedia page on the system in question ("Trophy") is way more informative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy_%28countermeasure%29.
Those entry-level jobs have largely been automated by people like you and me.
If you are young and cheap, you can get hired somewhere regardless of your actual skill level. After you prove yourself and acquire some experience, step up to a better paying gig elsewhere :)
> All the web browsers used their default configuration, without any add-ons or toolbars installed.

My raw, untested guess is that using Firefox with some strict adblocking/flashblocking etc. tools might reduce its power usage due to less HTTP requests, less CPU/GPU time wasted (though OTOH the add-ons may increase the CPU load to do their job, so it's non-obvious).
Yes, this is a plausible goal. Ten years from now, only the most specialized of employers will care what your degree was in -- they should be looking at the experience you've obtained.

Python is an excellent gateway drug. Try contributing to a project written in it. For example, you could start a pelican blog and then extend pelican in some interesting direction.

Try some freelance projects for pay, too. Here's a freebie idea: lots of small businesses around you have complicated calculations to make that, right now, they do on paper. A local heating oil delivery company has a formula for when they need to schedule deliveries based on local temperatures, tank size, mostly-predictable seasonal adjustments and individual history. Go and talk to them about how they do this, and offer to write a tool for them that does the calculations. Then extend the basic idea: there are similar requirements for all sorts of service companies. Maybe you want to offer it as a service on the web.
I agree. Lots of my friends have gotten degrees, but many spent five or six years in college for various reasons. So, they didn't graduate until 23 or 24.
My concerns were indeed assuaged. Generally I am overly cautious but I trust Google enough when they say the data isn't transmitted to them.
Something inbound to a ship that doesn't support aircraft can be assumed hostile meriting a violent response with reasonable safety.

The same assumption cannot be made of objects inbound to a tank passing through a village with playful children.
It's a tough job market for anyone who can't differentiate their skills from the pack. That's not a big, it's the feature that incentivizes people to skill up.
That must be were my motivation was hiding since last week...
Being poor is very expensive. Always has been.
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