skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say you could learn to build sites like facebook or google, understand how the internet works (which has a huge influence on people's lives) or learn how forces bend metal and how to calculate some break even point. Most people wouldn't choose the latter...
My takeaway from this was to learn more about Literate Haskell. As somebody points out a Blockchain without a consensus mechanism is simply a linked list ie this is not really about pushing the envelope of Blockchain tech.
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>change a lifestyle and sell myself much better.

What is this magic?! Please enlighten. I, like many IT folks, loathe sales. As such I can not sell myself out of a paper bag. Do you have any resources to help in this matter?
I think they mean all the other content providers, besides Netflix, whose content is on Giphy.
I "left" IT to travel for a year. When I resettled in another country I took different jobs (waiter, bartender, air traffic controller trainee). Software development was always my passion so I got involved with a lot of social causes by building and hosting websites and forums for them. Which eventually led me back to working in IT.

I'm not sure what your symptoms are but if this is a degenerative brain disease you may wish to use that time to visit family, friends, and experience new things.
I've been an assistant on 1st to 3rd year bachelors courses in CS in the Netherlands (basic OOP, Software Architecture and Algorithmics like courses) and probably seen many of the types of copying and forgery. I can concur that most students don't really understand but just regurgitate what has been said even at Academic levels.
On some Examples of what i've seen which sometimes leads to the types of interns you give:

- 1-on-1 copy paste, change the name: Easily caught by looking, no need for anything else. These will fail.

- mostly copy/past, changing names some locations: Easily caught by letting them explain the workings of their code, they will always fail. I've had one lazy student who could easily explain while copying but was just lazy out of hundereds. These can slip through if the course is understaffed or badly designed.

- Hand written assignments: Mostly parallel working when individual required, I'm not agains cooperation but mostly you could see that one student got the exercise right and the other just copied him/her and usually lacks details which are in the other assignment. It is very noticeable if they copied it due to similar layout and textual form. If the assignment is too simple this is harder to detect, but quite easy in algorithmics courses. These are far harder to detect and prevent, though individual checkups (at random) are a good way to test the true knowledge acquired. Needs lots of staff which is never there since 'budget cuts'.

The biggest problems are the group assignments as noted in other posts. They are hell to get rid of people as failing one usually means failing all even when some didn't perform. The usual trick to get it right is to either fail the entire group and give them an individual assignment to filter out the incompetent or to do the same thing on an individual basis. The problem is that you actually have tangible evidence otherwise it is very difficult, though commit logs is a start.
The people who should fail and get through are at least some of the 95% you mention.

The 5/100 ratio is not odd/off in my perspective. You describe the top 5-10% (which are good and you want at your company) vs the next 30-40% which are average and simply make things work but lack initiative or knowledge vs the rest which should look for another job since these applications usually contain at least some amount of incompatible applicants.

Consider that if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys so that also might be the problem.

ps: IT-managers without proper IT knowledge (and yes I mean the basics) are the same thing as a CEO who is unable to speak in public: Nice decorations on the office floor but utterly useless in practice.
Right? The author seems to take the matrix way too seriously. You're not Morpheus trying to convince everyone to see the truth of the currency savior. You're just a little over enthusiastic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14441025
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Of the 8 reasons you listed why Al is allegedly superior, 7 are reasons that it's actually the lower-grade product and the 8th (drop resistance) is simply incorrect. To a first approximation, overall acceleration doesn't kill glass or batteries, it's the uneven application of force that kills them. I'd imagine that increasing the rigidity of the frame improves drop resistance a great deal.
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That is absolutely fine. If you are going into a negotiation with the mindset that you MUST get a deal then you have already given up much of your bargaining power. The key to success here is having a good selection of backup options in case some of them fail.
>> It's currently hard for most people to get high-performance code out of a Prolog for average problem in programming.

Hi nick.

To my experience, this is not at all the case. Prolog was "slow" in the '70s, when nothing was as fast as C. Nowadays, it's not just the case anymore. Try a modern Prolog compiler like YAC, with tabling and everything.

What kind of high-performance code were you trying to write, that didn't go as fast as you like? If it's something interesting I'm all for helping out.
Good!

Something was obviously very wrong before when Microsoft left out Thunderbolt on high-end machines for "non-technical reasons".
> It doesn't seem premium Android phones have something spectacular to differentiate. Sure, you can spice up the camera, make the body more glossy, and add a beautiful screen.

... you so realize that your hot take is the minority opinion, right? The vast majority of customers consistently choose phones based on hardware features.

> But the software is just another commodity that would be available for 1/3rd the price. That's why Google Pixel would always feel exorbitant even when the price is almost close to Apple iPhone.

Google's phones always launch with the cutting edge version of Android and receives consistent updates. Isn't that the experience exclusivity you're clamoring for?
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The reason climate change is dangerous is that it threatens food supplies and homes of millions of people.

But the reason people starve or go homeless is not due to scarcity of food or land.

Problems created by people of fairness, justice and equality of opportunity are more immediate threats to human dignity and welfare. People are currently killed, tortured, and abused because of that. Human/civil rights are in no good shape globally, and even here in the US we aren't doing so well.

Climate change is a problem but it has become a run away train of political and bureaucratic inertia, just like the war on poverty and the war on drugs, but even more exaggerated.

While we talk about climate change--high-and-mighty from the comforts of well-paying gigs--causing people to starve or go homeless, there are real people right now In this world who are starving, dying, or homeless with little to no hope.
Being a carpenter might involve handling tools that are potentially dangerous if handled without one's full attention. So, may I suggest that one avoid such endeavours unless one is able to fully focus on the job at hand.
Check out The Interview Guys- that site was invaluable for me earlier this year when I pulled myself together and left my horrid horrid horrid OldJob. I had a lot of good resources for putting together a great resume but up until I found that site I hadn't found anywhere that laid out exactly what to do in an interview.
An interesting quote about using data to tailor their original content:

"And so, using the data to make funding decisions is a different game than using the data to tune the story, which we don’t do."

So, he's saying they won't allow data to influence a script once written, but they won't buy or fund that script if it doesn't fit the data. I'm pretty sure two things tend to the same outcome. In ML, you'd be accused of letting the model train on the validation set. Bad stats.
'Modernizing' copyright law somehow never involves scaling back its ridiculous terms and scope.

But remember, piracy is wrong - keep paying for movies and software, and see the laws your money will buy.
That data is floating around since a long time, I've build https://www.replacedbyrobot.info/ like over one or two years ago, I think. ;)
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Jitsi Meet works great for us.

Integrated with the company VOIP system = bliss

Happy to answer questions!
Maybe try blinkist.com?

It even has 'On Intelligence' in its listing.
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The descriptions are slim and there's no screenshots of the product in use, why would someone click 'Go' on a paid plan after seeing barely any information?
You can use this argument for almost any SaaS and it simply does not make a sense.

They have competitors but maybe they are better with marketing, fault tolerance and so forth ? Considering conferencing takes time, free might get more expensive.
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Just saw that; aaaaaaanddd it all becomes irrelevant oh so quickly :-/
Too many layers of oxymorons for my taste.
Open Source. Twilio. Plans and pricing.

I'm yet to see a solid, usable and mature FOSS WebRTC implementation, hubl.in is a good candidate though.
Sorry but isn't two or three cheating? These are not valid ways to connect Lego are they?
Exactly!

In the past I've had a flimsy RAM module in a macbook Pro and it was a real pain.
Everything appeared to work just fine, but on stressing the RAM with a lot of virtual machines the host would crash.
That was not the main issue, but took some time to diagnose as I was also running beta virtualisation software and was tempted to blame the change instead of the hardware.

Copying virtual machines from one disk to another did end up corrupting the data.
That was painful to find out.
The world is a bit larger than some american cities.
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Being able to classify things and being able to pretend to be one of those things are not the same.

An oversimplified example: Being able to recognise someone and being able to draw a picture of their face (or pretending to be them) are not the same.
Agree, i wrote a little about it here https://medium.com/black-n-white/the-problem-with-problems-4...

The problem is to find the real problems to solve hiding under the obvious solutions.
I don't know that I'd go that far.

It was quite good when it was released and did essentially one thing: managing your music library.

When it branched out to podcasts, movies, television shows, educational courses, app-management, mobile-in, and etc. is when quality tanked.

Perhaps I'm behind but last I checked iTunes was still encoding information such as the episode number as the "track number", reflecting it's musical roots.
"an" in front of "h-" is fine, although it's dying out. You'll usually see it where the first syllable of the "h-" word is unstressed.
what kind of projects do you do? Could you also link to the slack channels, if that is okay?
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Oh man, having read this now every obsessive like me is going to be hand-adding every bill they ever get from now on. Adding up numbers is just about the only thing you'd think you could rely on even the most dunderheaded computer system to get right :(
>At most schools with C.S. majors, they have alternative majors for people who don't want to do the intensive Maths and Sciences and they're usually called something like "Information Systems" or "Computers for Business" or similar.

My undergrad degree was a BS in Computer Information Systems, and I still had a ton of math. The main change from CS to my degree was replacing the higher end maths like Calc2+ and Physics2+ with business oriented courses like finance and economics.

I graduated from undergrad in 1999 and I think since that time colleges have tried to make CS more 'friendly' to non-geeks. This has unfortunately meant lowering the math requirement.
It's easier to see the bubble with the original data
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_322.10.a...

Interestingly there is also a giant bubble at 1985-86 which wasn't match until around 2010.
Looking at
http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1982/ shows a couple of noteworthy events (Tron and the commodore 64).

Perhaps another reason for low numbers is the difficulty in the major HN has two posts on the front page about it today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14438601
And
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14442410

Perhaps the difficulty combined with the ability to more easily detect cheating/being easier to cheat in the classes are contributing to a slower than desired growth. Given that when plotted out computer science appears to be one growing faster than many others suggests that it isn't that few people major, it's that the science is new and barriers to entry are high? (Annecdotally I know my college had additional barriers to pursuing CS focused on pre-reqs and grades, it's possible a lack of quality CS teachers is causing this as it is so new.)
"more than I need, less than I deserve"

But seriously, I think that it's better to not answer this question, at least not with a hard number. The only reason they ask you is because they are trying to gauge if they can get away with paying you [current salary]+x%, where this number is less than their standard salary for the position. Instead, say something like "it's not directly comparable because [reasons], so let's focus on what will be my responsabilities and what will be an adecuate compensation for them".
Do you think the guy that designs their web site and the guy that works on phone security are even remotely related?
You might have something there - I've seen quite a few people over the years try and move from a technical role to a managerial role fail because they can't cope with not being allowed to focus on something to the exclusion of other items.
> What version/flavour of Android

I hope they offer a Windows 10 option in the future. Full Windows 10 on ARM with x86 Win32 emulation offers capability not available on Android or iOS. Being able to run Win32 software on the device would be very useful for a lot of people.
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Presumably text-to-speech systems have signatures. For example how many milliseconds they need to pronounce each syllable of a particular word, say "watermelon". If the timings match for a whole sentence, this machine would probably be able to recognize that... an easy defeat would be a TTS engine that adds random milliseconds to each syllable.
I guess it's pretty common. One of my old coworkers was promoted to a mostly management position, this guy couldn't figure out how to print something out in Python without calling a colleague.
You should disabuse yourself of this notion, a lot of mature projects don't get updates because they don't have (known) bugs or are feature complete.
I am not sure what protocol is being promoted here. If this is based on some random thing they cooked up themselves then they are part of the problem...
bad analogy though. AI is far more important both as solutions and trouble than almost any other field. Many times bigger than climate change which might displace us but can be dwalt with.
Ugh, that is way harder to read than html`<h1>oh hai ${name}</h1>`. They both work without compilation, and they can both compile to the same code anyway. Maybe you can get used to hyper, but ES6 tagged template literals are much easier on the eyes.
It is a common theme -- the first time big ideas are tried they often fizzle. The second time, usually after 10+ years, is when the kinks get worked out, underlying technology needs are better understood and the tech can expand (or explode) in the consumer markets. AI, video calls (AT&T -> skype), GUIs, digital cameras, etc.

I hope recent bio boom will return in 10-15 years with real breakthroughs (as is, visible and useful to an average person).
Yes, for most people CS == IT. And IT doesn't sound very exciting.

Also, in the end, big companies like Google and Facebook are IT companies, or advertisement companies, and they are after your private data. I guess most people would rather choose a more noble goal in life.

And finally, tools created by big companies such as Google docs perform worse than wordprocessors of the 90s. Yes, they allow collaboration now, but still, they are perceived as slow. In people's minds, IT is not progressing much.
Sorry to hear that.

Personally, if I ever get to leave IT before retirement, I plan to equip a workshop and start making electric guitars. It connects various craftsmanship skills with some engineering and art. And the best part is, end product is a instrument.

Unfortunately, this is not the best career choice where I live in (Eastern Europe). Although if you are good, you could make a living out of it. At least I would have better website then the competition :) Backup plan is to build modern/minimalistic furniture where there is no guitar orders.

Another direction would be to create a hub for amateur craftsmen. Well equipped workshop where you can rent a space to make things on your own, or take a course.

As you can see, I would pursue something related to making things as that's something I really love, and I'm doing as a hobby (IT takes a lot of time though). So, my advice would be to find something you love and see if you can make a living out of it.

Good luck!
My intuition says that it's very difficult to get a phone to impact glass-first and that 99% of all drops are going to see it dance on the corners, if only for an invisible fraction of a second, before flopping/sliding down on the glass. My intuition also says that those corner impacts are going to be a much greater threat to the hardened glass than the final face-first flop/slide.

The universe doesn't necessarily obey my intuition, of course, but since it differs quite dramatically from yours I thought I'd mention that there's an alternative model of the problem which supports the actions Essential Products is taking.
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Just to note, @martamoreno did mention that once conventional medicine has exhausted its options to then try alternatives. I don't know whether it was meant as tacit approval of those methods but it was merely suggested that there are alternatives (though in my opinion I would have mentioned that they are alternatives in name and not intended to equivocate them to conventional medicine.)
If my competitor offers a widget on Amazon for $X and I offer it on Amazon for $X-1, I will capture ~100% of that market and the competitor will capture ~0%.

The internet's winner-take-all effect has both benefits and drawbacks for us consumers.
I think we can do this just fine by ourselves actually. Everything neural nets has produced so far is distinctively non human. From the generated images and speech to how they play Go oddly or navigate a 3d world poorly.
If I can, to the ranch with the family, breeding plants and apiculture.

If I can't... depend in function of my physical condition. Repairing cars, welding, industrial agriculture, photography lab or making photos... Or simply one mill and make pieces.

If you can choose, be yourself, live, one Shabbatical year can be a good election.

I'm sorry Jerry I hope it is nothing. My best wishes.
Trying this for the last time, I feel it was just not well received during the weekend, but I'll call it off if it doesn't go anywhere today.
And the sticker shock with the pricing https://www.peer5.com/pricing
> No one cares about CPU performance.

I think you'd care if you're running full Windows 10 for ARM on it. That would function as a laptop replacement and in the desktop usage scenario you'd care about performance.
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How does Jitsi Meet compare to https://talky.io/ concerning stability, UX, ease of use etc?
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Our main selling point over our competitors is that we're completely customizable. You can either make it a corporate social network that is more user-friendly than Yammer/Chatter/connections.... or you can use it for your daily life (family, friends, students, neigborhood...) and what is great is that we do NEVER sell or share your data and you'll never see any ad on Whaller.
As far as I can tell these are old school phone-in conference rooms, so there's no protocol to speak of. You set it up using the system and then call the conference room from any phone.
> to how they play Go oddly

I think you misspelled "better" there.
People don't realize how frequent it could be because most of the time you don't see any of the consequences.

Here's a "funny" consequence of bit flips: bit squatting.

It's about exploiting a bit flip before a DNS query: you register the proper DNS domain and you wait for machines to wrongly contact you because they got the name wrong.

http://dinaburg.org/bitsquatting.html
http://dinaburg.org/data/DC19_Dinaburg_Presentation.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ8s1JwtNas

Just saw this was already posted below...
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As important/capable, I don't agree on that. But I object removing nature/animals/habitat because of a lack of those. Not as important are capable does not mean we should act this way. Slippery slope fallacy: you might as well remove all non-important/capable humans.

Stop making more humans, we really don't need more humans on this planet, in my opinion more humans are making things worse, not better. And if you need more humans for your pension (or other financial/workforce/... requirements), your system is flawed, and it will break when the planet can no-longer support your exponential system. And then you have 2 problem: the planet and your pension.
OK, but real success in sales takes enormous talent, skills, and experience.

There are many different job-roles out there and it is hard to find out what these roles even are. It takes time for people, especially freshly graduated students and career changers, to find their niche. At some point almost everyone gets themselves into situations where they're not competent and then realize they need to either make a switch or get focused.

Rather than viewing such career-exploration failures as "fraud", as some are apt to do here, it is better for employers to take a more active role in developing talent and recognize that early career folks are going to be hit-or-miss.
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Who would make such potential products/technologies irrelevant if they have no competitor? If you were generations ahead of the closer competitor, with no threat in sight, seems like you would do exactly as suggested, release new generation processors, with very minor upgrades, taking advantage of those who upgrade every time. Sell everyone three extra i7's before you sell them an i9. Without competition, they control the rate.

I think their taking advantage of the lack of competition is also supported by the fact that intel sliced the price in half on several of their mainstream processors in response to the Ryzens release.
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