skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just so you know, I believe HN generally frowns upon user-imposed line breaks when not strictly necessary because it hurts readability for mobile users. Not a huge deal, but you might want to keep it in mind since you seem to put a lot of thought into your comments.

I'm curious: unlike with the mortgage bubble, student loan debt is non-dischargable-- even bankruptcy won't wipe it clean. And if you default on it, they'll eventually start taking a percentage from your paychecks before they're even deposited in your bank account. Doesn't this mean that the government is eventually going to get its due from pretty much every student, unless the student literally spends their entire life making no money/only under-the-table income?
Personally I'd be more concerned about the students who will never escape their constantly-increasing debt than I am about the US government, which will probably come out ahead no matter what here since a good portion of students pay back their loans + high interest. Aren't we guaranteeing loan profits for the US government on the backs of the future retirement accounts and savings accounts of the middle class?

Then again, enough of the US already lives in poverty that I'm not convinced that this is any worse than the situation we've had for the past 50 years. Depressing, yes. But different, maybe not.
Stop trying to make it a race and gender issue. It helps no one but the rentier class to further divide the people they are extracting profit from.

What wealth 'class' you are born into has by far the biggest effect on your chance of success.
While in Spanish colegio is the equivalent of high school.
How many mutations before stem cells go kaput?
Well that was fast: “Fire and Fury” dives in Amazon sales ranks
All comments I read in here paint a negative picture of Magic Leap which to me creates a desire to bet against the herds.
It's hard to fault Lego for using fossil fuels to make their ABS bricks. The bricks just don't get thrown out and they are kept out of landfills and held onto for decades. I'm sure by 2030 they'll find sustainable precursors for their ABS production line.
Salary and Benefits Negotiation for News Nerds
> "Do you want poor, unskilled, uneducated customers, vendors, employees, neighbors, and fellow citizens? Or skilled, prosperous, educated ones?"
Certainly, the keyword here being "blindly".
Whenever I read about this experiment, I think about Theodore Sturgeon's "Microcosmic God", and experience a moment of profound disappointment:

https://tinyurl.com/microcosmicgod

I won't spoil it for you. It's still a great bedtime read.
https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/LEGO-Creative-Supplement-10693

This looks pretty basic.
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Our goal is to develop brain-machine interfaces so useful and so safe that ordinary people will choose to get them like they get a smartphone. Neuralink's aim is to bring humans and machines closer so software forms a true extension of ourselves, rather than something separate we interact with slowly and awkwardly.

We are hiring for a fairly diverse set of technical backgrounds. There is a ton of software to write ranging from firmware to surgical robotics control to an experiment management web app. Experience with C++ for robotics is especially desirable. Culturally, we place a premium on diligence, care and thoroughness rather than trying out every latest cool framework.

If you are up for the challenge check out our website: https://neuralink.com
But now Uber is responsible for purchasing the vehicles and the maintenance on them.
Pretty sure that's never actually been a thing.
Mr. Tavi and the Autonomous Cat
The analysis I linked above calculated the net earnings after all expenses as being ~$13/hr on average (and included all registration and insurance costs as well as the AAA figure in expenses). That would mean higher hourly earnings for part-time drivers in big cities (who often only work Friday/Saturday nights).
This is the UK government we’re talking about, the same government with representatives who think “real people don’t need end-to-end encryption” and that “we should get people who understand the necessary hashtags [sic]” to implement back doors.

So more likely than not, the people calling for regulations on bitcoin have little to no understanding of its basic properties.
I really like Lisp-based and multi-paradigm languages for teaching because you both want to span as much of CS as possible in a single language, and you eventually want to implement languages and compilers as part of the curriculum. The former requires multi-paradigm, the latter requires good metaprogramming and homoiconicity. You also want the ability to get low-level to talk about the assembly code (or LLVM IR), function pointers, and handling of memory allocations.

Python is good in the multi-paradigm sense but it abstracts too much away. C++ gets in the way of learning the higher level concepts. Scheme is great for teaching but not really used. I think Julia sits comfy in the middle and can be a great teaching language once its tooling evolves more. It's the only language I know of where some people are writing lazy functional code with metaprogramming, others are writing high-level scripting language vectorized code, while others are writing inline LLVM and controlling stack vs heap allocations, and it all makes sense. I wouldn't use it in a first programmer's course quite yet because the books and tooling need a little bit more, but in a few years I see it as a great option for a university to choose than can span multiple courses, from beginning programming all the way to the algorithms courses and HPC.
Are you really suggesting that illiteracy is not a barrier to success in the modern workforce? Anecdotally, how many of your successful colleagues are unable to read?
Not all knowledge is logic or maths.
As soon as there's a committee it's almost certainly going to be philanthropy rather than art. The presumption is that you have excellent taste and exercise Steve Jobs-esque tyrannical control over the aesthetics.
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We are looking to expand our .NET team. We have multiple project, ranging from greenfield .NET Core 2 project to extending business critical software written mainly in .NET 4.5

You can email me personally with a CV/Resume at robert.sandu@clarisoft.com.
What?? No.

It makes no difference. What matters is the ENERGY. Not the atoms.

We have absolutely no shortage of atoms, we have an unlimited supply of those.

What matter is the energy inherent in the oil. And I see absolutely nothing in this press release about where the energy comes from.
In my opinion C++ and C are rather good choices for a first language.
There is significantly less 'magic' going on behind the scenes and the language design choices generally have sane explanations.

For example, the standard library does not have access to language features hidden from users.
This rabbit hole goes deep... In Castillian Spanish "colegio" is often used for primary school, but sometimes as a placeholder name for any kind of compulsory education from preschool up to high school (sometimes in the shortened form "cole").
Every state in the union requires you to register your vehicles in the state they're in. You're not going to be able to register the cars in Deleware or South Dakota and have them driving in California.
No they don't. They need those sweet grants and donations, and butts in seats justifies their presence.
How I discovered Instagram's upcoming video calling feature on iOS
>I work with a lot of engineers of all backgrounds, and no group has been without bad apples.

Indeed. So it's only natural that the demographic that represents the vast majority of the candidate pool is also going to represent the vast majority of false positives. Where is all the outrage over white and asian males who can't code their way out of a wet paper bag yet some how keep getting jobs?
Hiring managers literally need to employ silly openers like fizzbuzz because these unqualified candidates keep getting opportunities presented to them by recruiters!

>The argument is that there is explicit discrimination in the hiring and promotion process which comes at the cost of equal opportunity.

The numbers don't bear this out though. Companies don't purposely hire unqualified candidates for the sake of diversity. Is it equal opportunity when referrals get interviewed, how about the graduates who come from a handful of universities? Recruiting pipelines are just that, restricted channels to a specific segment of candidates.
I can't find a source right now, but that refers to his work with Nick and Paul in that famous paper, and as far as I can remember he did code it himself in its first version (whether that was included in the NRL contract is something else).
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send me a link when you're finished
I don't want to diminish your testimony which I have no doubt is made with honesty, but there are always two sides to a coin, and sometimes we're too enthusiastic and hopeful to assess the benefit/risk balance with pragmatism. And this can also happen to physicians as well IE wanting to try out a new protocol/technique, boost some statistics over something, having a "nice" case etc.

I simply feel that the world is way less deliberately malign that we picture it to be (especially when we're its victim).
That's my problem - these studies all assume that Uber and Lyft are competing against real jobs. The reality is that they are competing with jobs that are far worse and winning as a result. The Uber drivers I've talked to are glad to not being working at CVS or Burger King.

The real question is how does the richest nation in history think it is OK to pay adults a sub-living wage to do degrading menial labor so that a small number of people can be incredibly wealthy.
>you both want to span as much of CS as possible in a single language

Why?
Teaching different languages for different kind of requirements make much more sense.
Cofounder of Cloudrun here.

Cloudrun is a SaaS platform for the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. WRF is by far the most widely used numerical weather prediction model, but it currently requires access to supercomputers and domain expertise. Our goal is to make custom weather prediction possible for those without access to these resources.

This is our first MVP and we're working on making it more accessible for non-modelers. We greatly appreciate any feedback on how to make this service easier to use!
That and a ginormous exit package.
Could your language affect your ability to save?

https://www.ted.com/talks/keith_chen_could_your_language_aff...
No, and I don't think that's what's sought.

I think what we're looking for is that it's just another attribute, no different from whether the person has blue or green or brown eyes, or what style shoes they're wearing.

In a conversation with my boss the other day, a newly-hired AWS engineer came up. I've met him just once, and helped him get situated because his desk is near my team. I realized that although I'd interacted with him to that degree, I had absolutely no recollection of what his race was (describing him was a logical part of that conversation). I think this is what's sought.
In repeat games your friend's strategy might actually be counterproductive, assuming he's playing against people that are rational enough to figure out that he always starts offering a draw round about the time he expects to lose, but not so good at chess that they sometimes don't sometimes miss opportunities for a quick checkmate...

I'd be disappointed if an AI chess computer invariably let me know that I had a better path to winning the game than it did.
I beleive UCI switched to using Python for most CS courses. Previously they were using Java and I’m sure C++ prior to that.
You can create custom alerters: https://github.com/Netflix/security_monkey/blob/develop/docs.... This allows you to have custom logic for items in your environment.
I visited Iceland for 2 weeks in April of 2016 (doing the ring road). Without exception, everyone we met spoke great English. One day we were eating dinner in a small cafe in the north part of the island. Our server's English was so perfect we were convinced he grew up somewhere in the US. He informed us that he had never left his village and had just picked it up from American TV, movies, etc. Amazing.
At Google this is not the case. New employees are barred from interviewing for the first 6 to 12 months of employment. Afterwards they attend several training lectures, and shadow multiple interviews before becoming eligible to interview on their own.
I appreciate the thought. However i do think that it has ultimately made germany as a whole a better country, so i don't entirely agree. Then again i also don't wholly disagree. There are plenty situations and cases where children absolutely should not suffer for parents' sins. I think it must be considered in each case, and especially so if the children derived benefits from the sins.
Mostly because Apple has legions of fanatics which are well established here. Apple gets criticism, you just don't get to see it unless you change your prefs to show flagged/dead posts.

It's ironic, because Apple fans were painted as carrying the sledge hammer of inconvenient truth, not acting like the grey drones who oppress all differences of opinion in the 1984 commercial.
C++ has all this "language-specific" overhead that you kind of have to wade through before you can get to doing anything really productive. Python is easy to use and be productive with out of the box, has a complete feature set, doesn't require manual memory management and has far more expressive errors.

It really depends on the emphasis of an intro programming course. If the goal is to cover the basic control structures of a higher level language (conditionals, loops, switch statements, functions) and the fundamentals of object oriented programming, and get into some basic algorithms and data structures, then Python probably has less baggage and is more terse and expressive than something like C++.
> unlike with the mortgage bubble, student loan debt is non-dischargable-- even bankruptcy won't wipe it clean.

Student loan debt is not non-dischargeable, though it's harder to discharge in bankruptcy than general unsecured debt (and much harder to get out of than mortgage debt, which can often be escaped without bankruptcy.)
Peloton and the Importance of Predicates for Hardware Startups
> Imagine a world where all employers put no stock in degrees, but instead took upon themselves the laborious task of evaluating every potential candidate's skill in any given area such as math, persuasive writing, and so on.

The cost of hiring this employee goes way up. There would be a huge gauntlet of (non-standard!) tests to try and figure out who knows what. (We are already approaching that point, but degrees serve as a first level filter.)

Students would then pay for prep courses to pass these employment tests.

At some point you have a 2 year tech school. The best of students who want to be more well rounded, and get the best jobs, would end up going to an institution that looks a lot like a modern university.

The difference is that a student who is 100% dedicated to self learning could do it all on their own, which is a net win, but I suspect that for the majority, things would not change too much.

> How many people would invest the money and time to learn for knowledge's sake?

MOOCs are incredibly popular. Some of the most popular YouTube channels are educational. People give to the patreons of these creators.
I don't think college campuses have a reputation for violent crime, though. I think the point is that maybe the students are ruining their own lives through drug abuse, but they aren't robbing/killing/maiming others.

Considering how safe I'd feel on a college campus at 2am on a Friday night compared to a rundown section of town, I'm tempted to believe that college does keep kids away from the worst of violent crime. I can't find any studies on the subject, unfortunately.
Why? What difference does it make? We don't have a shortage of atoms.

From your reply and others I can see why they did this. People actually believe it makes a difference.

The environment is doomed. I'm sorry, but if people can't even tell the difference between something that helps the environment, and something that makes no difference, then I don't see how we'll ever make things better.
Its not mentioned in the article but almost all the doctors I have spoken to seem to have needed to do ridiculous shifts as junior doctors straight out of university. You are doing a highly skilled job under extreme conditions. Most say they get used to it, but still, it doesn't sound like the best idea.
25 bucks is pretty rich for just kicking around in a museum for a little while. Understand they need more funding but think they would do better with a lower price that doesn't result in turn aways (or never shows). And certainly taking a $20 out of your wallet just hurts less psychologically than having to fish out another bill as well.
I don't see anything in the article to indicate that governments (multiple) have overestimated anything.

Which governments? What were their estimates exactly?

This article just throws some factoids together to form paragraphs - not making any coherent points in the process.

The article concludes with this:
Governments are right to fret about training future workers

Who is fretting? What does that even mean?

This sloppy journalism merely plays the good old tune of 'government isn't doing the right thing' (a form of 'someone else is at fault'). It'd do more good to look in the mirror and ask if you're doing a good job and start from there. Don't worry about governments, start with yourself. In the case of journalism, start with doing some research, coming up with a stance, having arguments from multiple sides and then presenting them in a compelling manner.
In Wales the Welsh language has had a massive revival. It's taught in schools, and a basic understanding is very common amongst younger generations.
The most important quote:

"In general, those with greater talent had a higher probability of increasing their success by exploiting the possibilities offered by luck. Also, the most successful agents were mostly at least average in talent. So talent mattered."
How flashing lights, pink noise might banish Alzheimer’s, improve memory
I meant a net worth of at least $1MM.
I take your point but, prior to Dunblane, I believe there was one death and 4 injuries in school shootings. All with shotguns.

I have a suspicion that the handgun ban and the lack of subsequent school shootings might not be completely causal.

BTW that's not to suggest that the ban was wrong. I was entirely supportive and still am. I think the UK's approach to guns is laudable and should be encouraged elsewhere.
"Driving for Uber/Lyft/etc is not a full time job, and was not intended to be a full time job."

It absolutely is, and the way their incentives are structured, they clearly do mean it to be.
Absolutely! Just like how private malls have been ruled in some jurisdictions to be a sort of public space despite being privately-owned, I think it's important to recognize that the sheer size of some social media sites, combined with the dominant network effects, makes them something like virtual public spaces.

The alternative is that we end up with a future where more and more of life becomes privately owned and we end up either in online 'company towns' for our social interactions, or else we end up exiled to virtual ghettos where we are unable to interact with others if we go against whatever the dominant ideology happens to be.
Has the ABS for the usual non-flexible bricks changed in a documented way over the years? White bricks from the 1980s get yellowish, but white bricks from the 1990s don't. Current bricks seem shinier and have a bit different feel than bricks from the 1990s (even ones that aren't particularly worn).
You fail to justify why C++ conveys an idea of "how computers work" better than assembly, or machine code, or learning the basics of transistors, capacitors, signals etc. Why does C++ have the "right amount" of abstraction, when it sweeps under the rug a vast body of physics and EE?
> Mueller directly states the he doesn't believe any of this affected the election.

please cite this because that sounds like an extraordinary claim.
Where in the Uber app can drivers even attempt to negotiate their rates with Uber?
Or luck is required, but not sufficient for success. You also have to put in the hard work and be smart.

Put another way, you can't win if you never get to play the game.

The world no doubt has a bunch of self starting geniuses who are trapped in poverty in some third world country and will never amount to anything. It's an enormous waste of an incredibly rare resource.
Whoa... (UCLA c/o 2010, Bioengineering) UCLA used to use C# in the PIC10A series. I didn't take too many classes in these series, but did audit some while I was deciding as a non-CS major how technical to become. Personally, I think it's fine for the Math Department to use Python - there's plenty of opportunities to do the lower level stuff or unmanaged stuff in other classes at UCLA.

For CS/CSE and engineering majors we take the CS31 (intro to CS)/32 (data structures and algorithms)/33 (operating systems) series - these primarily use C++ (if not C, assembly, etc.)
You've brought up a lot of seemingly good points, but I feel you've conflated a lot of things here.

First, I think we need to shift the discussion back to the first world. That was what the article was written about. Third world issues are outside the scope of the discussion. At least in the context of the comment you are replying to. Success is going to mean something different when you're country literally doesn't have food. No one is arguing starving children in Bangladesh should be able to be the next CEO of Google.

Second, I think you overestimate the extent to which issues like, "mom doing drugs" effect the general population in the first world. I would argue that the majority of unsuccessful people in the first world have not been effected by anything worse than the standard issues which arise from being raised in an impoverished/educationally lacking family environment.
I don't have a lot of love for MS today, but you'd be hard-pressed to compare the MS of today to the MS of the early 90s. Find some developer magazines from that time and check out their ads - they were still scrambling to grab market share in areas other than DOS/Windows for client PCs, and had a lot of competition in the form of Borland, Lotus, Novell, and Oracle, as well as smaller fish like Watcom, Gupta Technologies, Fox Software, etc.
I live in Singapore and I disagree. I take cabs everyday (atleast 2) and here's what I've found:

Regular cabs are often more expensive here (from personal experience) because they're metered (especially if you get stuck in a jam). Often, the drivers don't stop for you or reject your destination if it doesn't suit them. There is no standardization in payment either with some cabbies taking cards and some refusing to and only accepting cash.
Cuban sonic attack mystery solved? [pdf]
Slow Thought: A Manifesto
I'd be really curious to see a study of the performance of CS majors in later classes by paradigm of the language taught in CS1 (i.e. imperative/OOP vs functional). I've been trying to keep my eye out for a while, but haven't really found anything that answers this specifically.