skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the founder of Ruby online school, not giving a link for two reasons: 1) the name of the school doesn't matter too much 2) it's in Russian anyway.

So what I found is that students find jobs pretty quick. Some of them after 2-3 months from the ground up, from nothing! Absolute beginners! (the entire course is for 6 months, 100 hours of video).

I was thinking why is that, because here is some quotes from reddit:

1) "why is it still so damn hard to get your first job?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6zxrzt/t...

2) lots of interviews, no offers

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/4s9foi/l...

3) "I graduated from GA Tech.. looking for entry level... position for over 6months but still nothing."

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6ypimg/r...

But in Russia it's different (99% of my students are physically located in Russia, I'm in US). There is huge demand for web developers. You can jump on the train after couple of months. Why it's so different than US?

And I found explanation: there is no Russian-speaking cheap labour that can write code. Companies in Russia need Russian developers only because English isn't number 1 (or number 2) language in the country. For US (and English-speaking market) it's the opposite: lots of English-speaking cheap labour, while locals are struggling to pay their bills and asking for more $$$.

$30/hour for any US-based programmer is not a big deal, but for some countries it's a huge deal. So countries like India, China, Russia, Ukraine all contribute to that. For companies it's easier to hire someone from these countries with experience, rather than finding local for the same money without experience.

So the bar is pretty high if we're talking about US. If you're based in Russia, it's probably the best time ever to become web apps developer, especially FOSS webdev: sanctions force government to switch to open source solutions and demand is damn high.

I'm also author of the book about Ruby for absolute beginners, if you're interested https://leanpub.com/rubyisforfun
Another way that I like to express that is "create a desert of profitability around you". I once had a strategy professor define the Google business model somewhat like that, where "Google tries to make every other business around it free or irrelevant"…A desert of profitability shifts consumers to you, and keeps competitors away.

Google seems to be doing this with YouTube and 10 minute online video commentary.
About 16 years ago I was playing in a ping pong tournament, where the forfeit for losing would be you had to allow the winner to take three shots at your bare stomach.

I remember many of the guys who lost had rather large purple welts on their stomachs, akin to a paintball wound.

This wasn’t professional level either. This was a bunch of Australian teenagers having fun in the evenings.
I think this has a lot to do with perceived value and complexity from the side of the developer.

For me: I don't know the first thing about law and the perceived value of building something in that space is low compared with, for example, healthcare, where I feel like a lot of people can more easily see the benefits on real people.

I think if you can clearly define the areas where either the perceived value (for the developer) is really high or the perceived complexity is relatively low, that's where you'll see the next developments in this space.

I'd be curious to know where you think these areas are.
I didn't technically disagree, I merely asked for clarification of a statement. The only answer was a downvote.

Edit: I'm not vegan because I'm lazy and love bacon cheeseburgers, etc. Beyond Meat and their ilk are helping to address the last part and I'm excited for it.
Don't know if it is you specifically, but anvil.works comes up in these contexts a lot so for once I'm going to give you some feedback: anvil.works is not the same thing.

You have some nice looking tooling, but you insist on hosting the result and locking the user into paying rent to use something they built. Your on-prem is locked behind "if you have to ask you can't afford it".

You'd have more interest from people like me if I could just buy or subscribe to your tool and know that even if we eventually drop the subscription the application I produced would still be usable.

But I suspect that your goal isn't to convince people like me, but catch people reading this who might be more amenable to your terms.
If you were like me, you probably asked for it “medium rare”. That doesn’t really work with Impossibles, they need to be cooked “well done” to get that crust and avoid being mushy.

[edit] lol... okay next post contradicts my report... well anyway don’t expect the temps and results to exactly map would be my takeaway
Why doctors are worried about the Apple Watch EKG
gos-sip
The one big problem for me is that nearly every "veggie" dish I've ever known would be IMPROVED with meat in my very personal opinion. Is there any meal/food that tastes worse with a dead animal added?
The question you're replying to isn't the one being asked. Also, per the article, the current iteration of the Impossible Burger is no longer wheat-based.
The tricky part I'm guessing is doing it safely without collateral damage, especially in a crowded area like an airport.

A bullet or other kinetic object could do damage if it falls back down to earth. A directed energy/RF weapon could possibly fry other electronics in aircraft nearby as well.
I don't know where you're getting your information, but it's not correct.
Amazon’s “recommendations,” complication and clutter are a mess. They are not a desirable feature for me. They also often don’t have the best prices. I still use them a lot, but feel ripped off by Prime. I have an Alexa, but wish I didn’t. Walmart’s online is good, uncluttered, low priced, and if you’re pissed, you can get in your car and physically return it immediately for a refund. I use it when I can, to try to dollar vote against Amazon.
It's not just privacy that appealing about Grin, it's designed to scale based on usage. Grin is designed so that its network doesn’t get dragged to a standstill when transaction volume increases. This was the core issue in the Bitcoin block-size debate: there were more transactions than could fit into a 1Mb block. As long as there’s a restrictive block size limit, there will be a capacity issue. A dirty little secret is that to get around scalability issues, almost all payment processors and exchanges do off-chain transactions. Which begs the question: why bother using a cryptocurrency with blockchain? It’s a slippery slope. Increasing usage will of course increase transaction volume. To ensure that a block size can continue to accommodate volume increases, you have to streamlining each block by trimming transactions. MimbleWimble/Grin maintains that if an output spends an input, you no longer have to keep them because they cancel each other out. This greatly cuts down the amount of data you have to store and process. The only data that nodes keep is unspent outputs and block headers. Instead of thinking of blockchain capacity in terms of number of transactions, MimbleWimble/Grin is designed to grow with the number of users using cut-through. The streamlined blocks make growth sustainable over time as the transaction data set does not continue to get bigger. This increases privacy since transaction data gets removed and it also enables fungibility. That's the scalability answer Grin brings, in addition to privacy by default.
Hmmm, can Lazarus be used to build a "GUI browser"? For example, can one send a "create button" command or tag to it and have it draw one dynamically? What about new panels and forms? How "meta" can its GUI engine be at run-time.
Don't they already shoot Canada geese at airports because they're such a nuisance? I imagine a similar tactic could be used for drones
Not only the mundane, but the amount of decision making involved. You cant spend too much time and energy on decisions. Most people dont like making decisions. There are many kind of decisions. If you grow big enough, the well being of your employees depends on your decisions. Most cant handle that.

Entrepreneurship is as glamorous as being a doctor at the emergency room.
This I would like to see. Do you have the code somewhere right now or do you plan to release it with the article?
Use of force is a separate problem from the development of weapons. I don't really have a problem with startups doing weapons development - someone is going to do it, and I have a hard time seeing how the world would be better if China or Russia took the lead on this.
As a meat eater, this is the main reason why I am interested in artificial meat production. The whole "living beings" argument isn't very convincing, but that's just my opinion.
That’s all irrelevant to my point; I didn’t say bitcoin was being attacked. The “saving our asses” comment was that if the executive branch telling the fed how to monetary policy represents an attack then the private nature of the federal reserve represents a defense, one that’s working, or colloquially “saving our asses.” This effective structure is one bitcoin maximalists decry, and yet, it continues to work effectively. Further it’s not a stretch to attach that idea to Satoshi given the content of the genesis block. It’s not an ad hominem attack to suggest someone is wrong — even that someone’s entire thesis is wrong — the definition is to attack the attributes of someone instead of their argument, I’m refuting their argument.

It doesn’t matter who Satoshi is, I don’t need to know to opine on their ideas. That private entities practice consensus is fine (after all isn’t that just any human interaction?) and further I have no problem with consensus just the sheer wastefulness and intentional anti-efficiency of bitcoin as-is, the fact it’s waste isn’t sufficient to prevent an attack, it’s fiscal policy (inflation is fine, you’re not supposed to hold currencies) and the idea that somehow bitcoins dreadful wealth inequality will save us from the present dreadful wealth inequality. Not to mention the idea we should just defer monetary policy to a bunch of developers who hack on protocol instead of a group of trained economists. Or the idea of scarcity when anyone can and does fork coins to double the number outstanding every few weeks. Or it’s user hostility. Or it’s defenselessness to market manipulation. History won’t look kindly on this mess in a few years.
IBM reveals an entire standalone quantum computer at CES
Thanks for the helpful explanation (TIL a new meme :)). I guess it seems the problem is the commenter using inconsistent subjects, i.e. it would make sense (even without punctuation, or knowing the meme) had it been phrased as:

> Charge for your users' locations! Charge users to change/auto-rotate their numbers! It's free real estate!
Problem is many companies work off this legacy system and won't hire you without a degree.
No engineering degree, no law degree, no doctor degree, no degree at all? No thanks.
Of course I'm not saying there are other ways, but its very naive to think that you can get anywhere without one.
Not only that, the "legacy university system" is a system that's big on research and has invented things like the very Internet you used to type this comment. Autonomous vehicles were an early university project funded by DARPA before they even reached the mainstream public. In fact, most modern products are the result of university research. Its not so much the university as it is the cost of university.
Even as an independent that leans a bit right, I love Ron Wyden. I feel the US would be a much better country with a congress full of his type (even if not his ideas).
Probably good to understand what the problem actually is. I don't think _everybody_ involved isn't smart.
Super exited to see the project get out of incubation. It's an amazing tool.
Definitely! I'm a vegetarian (not vegan) and I don't like Impossible Burger. It is just too "real". They use beets to make the burger red and "juicier". My local burger place offers Impossible Burger as an option, but they charge an extra $4 over a beef burger. I like Beyond Meat a lot, though.
Is 2019 the year the world falls apart?
Quite true, my comment was more against the typical HN remark that "developers" only use GNU/Linux, as if the software for the two biggest desktop environments would appear out of thin air.
FWIW LCL (Lazarus' framework) emulates the Windows behavior (there are even some reimplementations of Windows functions in non-Windows platforms to assist with that) since the API "descends" from Delphi's VCL which is Windows-only (and IMO it makes perfect sense that if you need to emulate some OS's behavior to focus on the most popular one).

The end result is obviously that under Windows things work great, under X11/Linux with the Qt (i think both 4 and 5 are supported nowadays) and Gtk2 being generally fine as they mostly behave like Windows (especially Qt) and the worst being Mac support since it is so different from Windows (that and the Mac backend was originally written using Carbon as that was easier to interface with FreePascal and still to this day is the most robust backend for Mac, although in reality both the Carbon and Cocoa backends aren't that great). And of course the programs despite using native widgets, still look like Windows programs on a Mac dress ([0] is an old screenshot from my 3D world editor compiled under Mac, the Windows-isms are clear). You can obviously try to make things look more Mac-y (and i did try a bit) but you need to do so much (and in a different branch since some changes can be very invasive) that IMO isn't worth the effort unless you really want to get that "Mac look" (but be prepared for a lot of custom code and changes to bypass LCL).

[0] https://i.imgur.com/CMaKlZg.png
> Then again, i don't know any EU country where an accused can bail themselves out of jail till the court case.

While some other countries have cash deposits as part of bail, the US and the Phillipines appear to be the only countries with widespread commercial bail bonds system.
I am not getting this. Highly processed foods are the source of all problems and people cheer up for synthetic food!
Twitter's API still spews enough metadata to reveal where you lived, worked
Heathens hold religious services rooted in Norse paganism on aircraft carrier
Does Heathrow bear a resposibility to prove anything to you or any other random person on the internet? You seem to be insinuating some conspiracy by asking vague questions.
They made two arrests for Gatwick.
> Knocking a slow moving object out of the sky is literally not rocket science.

No, but it's not a matter of some yahoos with a gun shooting them: https://twitter.com/sommervilletv/status/1080724993238069249
Doordash substitutes tips for the driver delivery pay
This observation is the central topic explored by Dream Teams, which I'm currently almost done reading.

I'm not sure if I'd recommend it, though; I like the writing style but your blurb contains a solid 50-60% of the book's insight.
They were not all of their drones, because reports were coming in before the police had launched any drones.

Among the people reporting drone sightings before the police turned up at Gatwick were pilots
Agreed. We call that team "operations research" and they are all PhDs. The ML devs build the pipelines and deal with engineering concerns around having/moving/securing lots of data.
While I've read the various arguments over the last year or so about how Sears really wasn't terribly mismanaged by Eddie Lambert, the dingus who bought it and K-Mart in the mid-2000s, I continue to believe that he bears a huge share of responsibility for the company's collapse.

Yes, brick-and-mortar retail is in trouble. Yes, all department stores are in various stages of decline. But Sears fell very hard and very fast, and made uniquely terrible decisions like "we don't need to invest in infrastructure and upkeep because we have a great loyalty program" and "our various departments will do better if we make them fight one another for ever-decreasing resources" and "hey, we'll make some quick short-term profit if we sell off our world-famous captive brands like Kenmore, Craftsman, and Diehard that have literally brought people into our stores for decades."

Sears should really be in at least as good shape as competitors like Dillard's, Nordstrom's, Best Buy, or even Macy's -- the latter of which is arguably not in good shape, but for all their faults, they haven't been doing the corporate equivalent of bashing themselves in the face with a big rock for ten years.
What if you don't care about "make it"? I'm in several bands, and I'm quite content to play to a small audience of friends, or even just for ourselves. We play for the love of the music.
I think the reasons are basically the same as why companies like Kodak and Polaroid could not capitalize on digital photography. covered in the book "the innovator's dilemma"
The problem is presumably making sure you don't damage anything else on the ground while you're at it, and proving that the everyone's satisfaction.
The description talks a lot about commercial uses. Are there problems that the quantum computers of today are actually better at solving than traditional computers? I realize that for many things they're better in a theoretical big-O sense, but does that translate to better wall-clock speed? Presumably you could get a lot of AWS computing for the same cost as one of these.
It will happen if you vote blue. The first wave of it was 10 year of payments and then debt forgiveness.
apparently amazon can't even replicate it in their own Amazon Book stores. QR codes just to get prices? really?
Sorry, didn't mean to offend unicycle riders and jugglers. It was just an analogy about having to "juggle" (coordinate) many tricky activities at the same time.
IPFS is a bit different than gaia.

The following are some functionalities unique to gaia, without the unpredictable lookup performances associated with ipfs.

With gaia, you can control where the data is stored, on your own server, a cloud hosting provider of your choice, etc.

Data is read write.

Writes permissions can be delegated.

Gaia can be used with an API where developers, like the developers of Graphite, can build applications on top of it without explicitly dealing with a blockchain using traditional knowledge of javascript or other front end languages and frameworks.

Listing permissions can be delegated.

Data is globally addressable.

It supports multiple backends natively, which supports users choosing where their data is hosted.

In IPFS, data may be initially hosted on just your server, but duplicated elsewhere when a call is made to it.

Like IPFS, it does not need a cryptocurrency to work, and space is reclaimed when data is deleted.

That being said, IPFS is very popular. We are working on ipfs drivers for gaia along with others. For now, we have prioritized drivers for cloud hosting providers to help users gain more control of where their data is stored and hosted.
And to add to my other comment, Yes: It really is astonishing that Sears did not see the clear analogues between the internet and its traditional catalog sales. But then they'd (as you pointed out) decided to reduce costs a few years earlier by discontinuing their general catalog. Had they kept the catalog it's entirely possible someone would have said "Hey, this internet thing looks popular, how about we put a copy of our catalog up there?"

I'd love to know what their thinking was in the late 90's. I can imagine that management for brick & mortar stores might have pushed back on making inroads on the internet out of fear it would cannibalize their sales, and blocked it internally. Or it could simply have been inertia and a blind spot against noticing that "internet" wasn't a flash in the pan fad.
Regarding Sears vs Amazon. Clayton Christensen wrote an entire book, now a classic, on why the incumbent is not the leader in the next go around.
I used to think that, but the thing is "non-vegan textures" is by definition a superset of "vegan textures" anyway. At the moment it's a strict superset so why not make the sets equal?
Honestly, it seems like you’re trying to determine who has a “genuine” want to move vs. fantasizing. This is a pointless pursuit, it’s impossible to know what is anyone else’s head.

If you want to nitpick the Pew’s polling, go find or make something better.
If you've got a solid software resume under you already, I'm not sure a CS degree will open any new doors for you, or teach you much that you haven't already learned. Most employers (that you'd want to work for) only care about a degree if you don't have work experience.
Probably, though eliminating cash bail would address this particular problem and is a good idea anyway.
In some alternate universe, we're all using Sears Web Services and no one has heard of Amazon.
I'm still young but this has always been my question as well. When is tech going to grow up and recognize experience as an asset? Beyond of course putting "10 years of Julia 1.0 experience" as a requirement to be hired in a junior level position.
So what you're saying is, you need to have an idea of the market fit for your product.
"Ask some MIT students to come up with a solution over a weekend and I bet they would deliver. Knocking a slow moving object out of the sky is literally not rocket science."

It gets a little more complicated in the real world if you don't want to shoot down the wrong flying objects and also not kill people on the ground.
The thing is, it depends on your perspective. Local to America, yes there is a vanishing middle class.

Globally, yes there is a lift out of poverty.

Ideally we would see a global lift out of poverty without any local negative impacts re middle/upper classes - everybody rising to the same level instead of some rising and some falling. It's also a lot easier to rise out of poverty when it takes relatively little advancement, and easier to fall into poverty when it takes relatively little loss.

I think that aspect of things is often overlooked - poverty doesn't mean the same thing everywhere, and middle class doesn't mean the same thing everywhere. Some areas are rising, but some are falling - as a sum, things are rising.

It's the same thing as global warming - yeah, some areas are getting colder instead of warmer and this is pointed to as being evidence of global warming == false, but global warming refers to on average across the whole globe not just a single region.

People tend to conflate their local with the global, sometimes because they just miss it and sometimes deliberately.
Buying Amazon in the 90s is analogous to buying Berkshire in the 70s. It would have taken a prescient and outsized allocation decision which, ex ante, would have been difficult to justify.
I kind of struggle to understand how there isn't enough equipment and electrical engineering expertise on site at a modern airport to pinpoint these drones really quickly - especially at Heathrow.

Even a small drone surely makes a ton of radio noise just from its motors, no?
In the early days of Amazon their book recommendations were much better than any other online source I knew of. I would often visit their product pages to find new books to checkout at the library. At one point I bought some books I didn't really need because I felt guilty about always using the site without buying anything.

These days I find the recommendations pretty useless and have a slightly different opinion of buying products there just to help out the company.
and then they released them
That will push college prices even higher.
Walmart is following this exact strategy right now.

How are they doing?
I wonder if you could use this for a battery free controller. If you can detect the orientation of thumbsticks on the controller, or whether or not buttons are being depressed, it seems you could have a simple and cheap device for a controller.
That is why violent solutions are sometimes the only possibility. There are times my values can be different from someone else, and times that different value system cannot be allowed to exist in the world.