skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You'd pay the same tuition to go to a local school P/T though, total cost to complete is around $4k USD per year plus whatever you have to pay to a local testing center (here it was $60 per exam).

How it will be for total degree? According this [0], it will be £17,568. That is 16lacs INR, quite expensive.

[0] - http://www.openuniversity.edu/courses/qualifications/q36#fee...
> It's certainly possible, but I'd love to see stronger evidence for it.

If you indeed want strong evidence for it, I think there is a way to get it.

1. Read up on the movement to free Tibet, the current geopolitical situation in the Ukraine, and... hm, perhaps Wikileaks or Assange? Not sure on the last one, there may be a better topic. Bonus points for researching the boycott of Israeli products.

2. Gather up the most well-researched articles from well-respected scholars on each topic. Make a note of the most novel points-- things that, say, a layperson would be unlikely to know. On the other hand, make sure your novel points are based purely in fact and not speculation or opinion of the author.

You'll want equal number of novel points from each category.

Once you have a decent collection of novel "conversation starters," then for each post you make on HN randomly choose of one of your novel points. If it can be used sensibly as an analogy or reference in your post, make it. If not, don't.

As your nation-state bait starts to make its way into your posts, read the responses and measure what you get against what you got before you started the process. Ignore responses that merely point out that you chose a hot-button analogy, but count any that attempt to refute your novel points.

If you encounter regular refutations on a single one of your categories, that's something to keep an eye on. If you notice regular refutations of two of the categories, that's stronger confirmation that something is going on. And if you get refutations on all three topics, then congratulations! You've probably baited three nation-state disinformation campaigns into spending time and effort on your HN posts.

There is of course a shortcut. If, upon reading this, you feel that the risks of doing this clearly outweigh any potential benefits, then congratulations! Our social media tools are probably so easily and cheaply manipulated by state actors that we may as well go ahead and assume there are paid state actors posting on HN.
...So, if we're going to put on our evolutionary biology (AKA bullshit) hats, this allows your brain to abuse its 3d modeling circuitry (which is incredibly advanced) to figure out what people are looking at. I bet that "let's put a tiny force in and see what it pushes on" was way easier and higher-quality than some special thing dedicated solely to tracking people's attention. It's an amazing hack.
What kind of advice is that? Powershell script is so far off from bash/zsh, there's no good reason to convert everyone. Last time I tried writing Powershell script, it was so verbose and cryptic it wasn't funny.
I disagree with the innovation portion of your comment, but definitely, advertising is an extremely strong foundation of consistent steady growth / revenue. Whatever the economic forces at the time, Google will always continue to provide. With Apple on the other hand it's foundation currently depends on hit-driven successes requiring repeated 2 year cycle refresh purchases from it's customers to sustain it. The issues with this are evidently shown.

As to your comment on innovation, Apple has largely squandered it's source of foundational income cornering itself into a niche, such that though it may be extremely innovative in it's area (Apple has some amazing processor design for example), is fundamentally constrained by the limited pieces it has to work with.

Basically, instead of undergoing a necessary evolution like we've seen from the progression of Google -> Alphabet, Apple has failed to scale itself in a way where it can keep up. This by no means is meant as a sleight to any Apple employees though, as I know from first hand experience that some of the best and brightest people are working there. It's just a matter of how scaling works. Horizontal scaling allows for unlimited growth, whereas vertical scaling quickly reaches an asymptotic ceiling.
That's not a good parallel. The market capitalization of a company is more than you could sell the company for. It's less than you'd have to pay to buy the company.

But in this hypothetical attack, the complaint is that the "market capitalization" is more than you'd have to pay to buy out the network.
What's unique to JS is how short the shelf life of documentation is compared to the past. 15 years ago if you found a tutorial and it didn't work, it meant it was either many years old or you could install one java (etc) version prior and it'd work again. It seems like a lot of JS docs go obsolete within months if not weeks.
>fully decoded cell biology

Am I the only one thinking we are stepping into an area which is an act of God. And needs to be 1000000x careful with what we do. ( We already mess about with Food...... )
And I can CTRL+T multiple instances of my Familiar.

What would be great is a 'Master Familiar' which can be commanded to spawn clones of itslef pointing to different channels of content of my bidding.

"Hey PIP - cast a CNN, HBO, Family guy episode 3 and /r/videos channel" and four PIP boxes appear. I can toss them to wherever I want them to show up/organize them.
I've never been asked either but some companies care where you went to school.

However, it still matters outside the context of trying to get a job. If for some reason you want to transfer to a different school, if you don't have a regionally accredited degree many universities won't accept any of your credits.

Accreditation is kind of a mess in the US. Regional is the golden standard. National is kind of a joke and if your school is nationally accredited it might not be good enough to transfer to a better school (really depends on the school some of them will take your credits).

The worst part is that many networks of universities create their own accreditation organizations with names that sound similar to the real ones.

From my experience, regional accredited schools can still be absolute shit, but for some reason its the most respected credential a school can have.
I think what you did is rolled back a layer of abstraction your brain created for you. Sure, your eyeballs are high-sampling-frequency tongues swimming in a sea of light. But the brain processes those raw sensory readings, fuses them with a bunch of other things, and presents it as a view of the world, and then to simplify things, it tells itself that this is the world.

I'm actually super-interested in ways of building those layers of abstractions. Consider tool use. If you've used any tool a lot, you know the feeling of it becoming an extension of yourself. Proficient drivers don't think about moving the keyboard or turning the wheels, they just sort of are the car and will themselves to move where they want to go. As I type this comment, I don't think about my fingers pounding on the keyboard, I just will the words to appear on screen. The brain is good at papering over the mechanics of interacting with the world, and I think it's entirely feasible to start incorporating new senses if our devices can be designed around this purpose, instead of relying on explicitly displaying data for our eyes.
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The product LinkedIn is offering is the social network itself. Enterprise companies pay for access to LinkedIn's users.

Github on the other hand has actual useful software that is separate from their user base.

I don't think they are comparable.
I do not believe that it's the case that a county official could hold an official meeting at a Klan rally.

I can't tell if we agree about that, but it's the only thing I'm in this subthread to say.
Cheese! It's hard to find a place that will make a pizza with good Emmental or Ricotta.
The article reminded me that the first time I heard of that was when I saw the movie "The wolf of wall Street".

https://youtu.be/90Xx7PAiqY8
> You don't have permission to access /wp/tales-from-the-xenix-crypt/ on this server.

Not very friendly at all.
> I've had people tell me that reading about the "microbiome" is really distressing, since afterwards they feel like they have some alien infestation in their bodies- as though they were full of bugs. On one level they learned a new thing, that healthy human bodies contain lots of various microorganisms, but some part of their psyche still maintained that any such creatures must be pathological.

We also all maintain the perception of "wholeness" of our body. But at the level of microbiome, it's just bunch of cells mixing with another bunch of cells, with different DNA. It's all one large bag of smart sand. It's another realization that may be hard for some people to handle.
“If you're happy working where you are, and you don't have any ambition to do anything else, you're probably going to get paid less and work more if you leave for a startup. If getting paid less and working more is unappealing to you, then I would recommend staying where you are!”

There's another option. You can pick a job that isn't a startup, that makes you hate your life, and phone it in every day just to get by. You save your energy and grind away at night on your own company. I say "company" instead of startup because I don't think venture capital is the right thing to pursue for a single founder doing this.

Just have a goal to build a product that has at least 1000 customers paying $10/mon so you can quit your dayjob. The hatred of your dayjob will fuel your motivation to work at night.

A startup is much riskier than taking this approach. You put in 60 hours a week at a startup and even in the very unlikely scenario it pays off and the startup becomes huge - at most you have a 1% stake and become a millionaire. You become a millionaire way easier working on your own project.

So my philosophy is to get a job you hate - work to build the future you want yourself - never let anyone else exploit you to the point where the only way you become a millionaire is if they become a billionaire.
Agreed on Vox and Fox. The thing I find most stunning when people bring Fox up is they still think it’s 2008 it seems. Fox News isn’t bad, Fox Opinion isn’t good, but it’s more fair than it was... largely because GOP-Actual doesn’t like and didn’t want Trump.

I suppose it’s a bit funny to me that Vox articles often make it to the front page of HN, but FoxNews just don’t. But yea, Vox is worse.
Most large scale pizza places will have trays full of pizza dough already prepared and sized for a single pizza. This is what I was referring to. Some places have a large roll/ball that they cut off of to make their individual pizzas. I've not found a place that offers them already flattened into a pizza shape, they're usually in a ball.
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Trump has two Twitter accounts, right? His private one and the @POTUS one?

Wouldn't it make sense to argue that the channel through which he has no right to block anyone is the potus one?

Also, you can practically Tweet at someone, even if they've blocked you by @-ing them.
> devs don't really know / care about running things in production

I disagree with this entirely. Devs _you have workd with_ might not have cared but it doesn't make the statement universally true. As a counter argument, some of the best software developers I've worked with were also very good at operating and debugging production software and the reverse has also been true.

I also don't buy that the two are a different mindset (at least in the domains I work in and care about). In my experience the very best people (whether they're working "dev" or "ops" roles or something in the middle care about the entire development and deployment lifecycle of the software they work on. Building a good experience in software includes thinking about reliability and availability and planning a reliable and performant deployment also requires that to be thought of in the application layer at some point.
That's cool, and will keep it in mind for the next time I work on a node project.

Looks like it works by having the typescript compiler generate experimental annotations in the output javascript, and reading it using a polyfill for the proposed ES7 reflection api. On one hand, yeay looks like proper runtime reflection is coming! On the other hand, it doesn't sound fully baked yet... <insert here a general grumble about how everything in the JS ecosystem is in this state>
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Bitmaps.

Size just never matters much. Bitmaps, as long as they are not too big just work. And, depending on content, are not even all that heavy.

Some presentations warrant the spiffy things PP and similar can do.

Many don't.

For some time now, I have archived software demonstrations as a series of screen captures too. Sometimes things break, and it is a nice fallback. Have totally ended up needing it too. (Enterprise apps failing badly)

Also a nice review tool.

"Here is what will happen..." Flip through them, annotate, done.

Just pile them into a directory, tweak names for display order, done.

Paint.net does just about all the quick, "communicate it" things needed. It is just too easy to drop images, text, graphics onto layers, shuffle, save, next.

As far as actual tools go:

I have used Presi.com a few times. Lots of fun! Easy. If you need some sparkle, that tool makes communicating big concepts graphically, very easy.

Very enjoyable program. For the right crowd, the high motion, graphical style is compelling.
Hey thanks, I'm really enjoying this series. It's nice to read a clear approach after the many revisions to the C++ standard.

Keen to see more on the QtQuick/QML stuff. I keep reading things about how great it is but never had the time to get into it.

For your "good-to-know topics" perhaps a brief direction for deploying applications? Bonus points for mobile deployment.
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Focus the center of your visual attention on something for a few minutes, and you will indeed stop seeing. In reality you think you are seeing continuously because your brain timeshifts your consciousness during your eyeball's saccades.
Bit of an aside, but; I recently was talking to a engineering lead at Rolls Royce and asked why it seems like Silicon Valley is coming in and eating car manufacturers lunch on autopilot/auto-assist/driver-assist and he said they aren't really, none of them are very far along compared to the car companies. It's to do with the car companies engineering with an eye to redundant systems that all play harmoniously with each other rather than just tacking LIDAR onto a car and using TensorFlow to do image recognition.

He pointed me to GeorgeHotz YouTube channel who developed in the open for CommaAI (now shut down), this company got 8m in funding (small cheese to a VC, but still showed there was interest in the project) and he was just googling answers and training his model on one single video he downloaded of the internet.

The 'play loose and fast' with the rules approach won't fly with self-driving and the car companies are looking to build something that works in the field with as close to imperceptible failures as can be realistically allowed.

The incumbents are building it right, but slow. And I would much prefer that approach if it leads to increased safety
Ah. So you mean "packaging-related features", not "packaging related features"?
How is that different than the active safety features on any other car? E.g. most cars already have an optional package to detect other cars in your blind spots, keep you centered in your lane, etc.
The remarkable consensus behind IBM's purchase of Red Hat, you mean? Seems like their highly paid lawyers were down with it.

Again, it's just stunning the extent to which this FUD hasn't changed at all over a quarter century.
OK, but why does LinkedIn scan extensions?
Because engineers have little incentive to lie, while salespeople have a very strong incentive to do so, maybe?
Historical difference in style and preferences. GNU’s Not UNIX and all that Jazz, so they have different conventions, some of which would not translate to a man page that well. Plus Texinfo is a tool for generating multiple output formats from a single source.

Typically (unless this changed at some point) the info pages are the canonical reference for GNU projects and the man pages are to accommodate Unix hackers.[1]

[1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Man-Pages
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The first twitter reply: "Avinash Lakshman is the author on both"
I think I'm the only person who's noticed that these free private repos are 2nd tier, with features removed; the marketing glosses over that.
The showstopper for me is FaceID. I won’t buy a device where that is the only biometric AuthN solution available. If/when my 7plus dies, I’ll buy an 8plus, either new or used.

I won’t buy anything newer than an 8, until such time as they give me fingerprint ID back in some form.

Hard stop.
I assume Fusion can't be used for scaling up and down energy output ( So even if it is baseload it is a constant value ), so we will need some form of Energy Storage to make full use of it?

I imagine with AI, Data Science, Robotics, means Manufacturing will move from overseas to local? We can already 3D Print most parts. We cant already do Multi Floor Plant Farming, Currently it is mostly an electricity issues, if that becomes cheap enough we could do Plant based meat based on it. So every nation on earth will become self sustainable by default?

How is Economy going to change with much less trading?
So for cryptocurrencies to be the "better solution" you just need your entire country to have a total meltdown lasting multiple years?
Yet everyone uses the roads, schools, and safety paid for by everyone to ultimately get to their advantaged economic position. Healthcare is a public effort just like any of the above, and no one should suffer unequally due to class favoritism being built into public efforts. We shouldn't compromise with people who lack the humanity to see this.
I completely disagree, VR will fail like 3D TVs.
> What works for companies doesn't work for cryptocurrencies. Companies have actual assets and cash flows, while cryptos do not.

This isn't actually relevant. Calculating market cap based on current trading price is equally valid for company stocks and cryptocurrencies. The divide is not between "companies" for which market capitalization is good and "cryptocurrencies" for which market capitalization is misleading, it is between objects for which the market capitalization is a reliable guide to the object's value and other objects for which it isn't.

You can judge the reliability of a market capitalization figure by looking at the trading volume of the object. If something has a market capitalization of $10,000,000 and sees $40,000 of trade per day, then you can reliably trade at the value reflected by the $10,000,000 market cap figure as long as the amount you're trading isn't significant compared to the background trading volume of $40,000 per day. If you try to trade $60,000 "worth" of whatevers, you'll crash or spike the price with your 150% increase in trading volume.

If something else has a $10,000,000,000 market cap and $40,000 of trade per day, then... you can trade at the value reflected by the market cap as long as you don't have a significant impact on the background trading volume of $40,000 per day. It doesn't matter that the market cap is a thousand times higher; it doesn't matter whether one of the things is company stock and the other thing is a cryptocurrency; what matters is whether you disturbed the normal trading volume, whatever that volume was.

Note that penny stocks see wild, spurious swings in their market capitalization all the time. That is because of their low trading volumes. It's not because Apple is a company and Shifty Joe's Investment Scam LLC isn't -- they're both companies.
It's funny to think people trust 3rd party to hold their proprietary source code which could be your biggest IP. I'm hosting my own Gitea for business related codes.
The brain fills in what it expects in your peripheral vision. For example, you can see colors in your peripheral vision, but it is only an illusion made in the brain.
Is there a difference in the features between GitLab's free public vs. private repos? On GitHub, there is, but the blog post glosses over that.
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The sharpness drops away really fast, so you can really imagine the actual focused FOV as a narrow beam when projected. Also, you don't really just "stare" at something, unless it's far away. For objects of interest that are larger than 1-2 degrees in your FOV, your eyes will have to move a lot, really fast, to continuously scan it. You don't notice your own eyes moving, though. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade.

(Also, what you "see" is in large parts made up by fusing the "real" visual input with knowledge and expectations you have in your head.)
I use Read Aloud Firefox extension to listen to blog posts.
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The author paints a picture of a world of absolutes, of only black and white. I tend to see from experience that a vast grey area exists in the definition of what it means to “innovate”.

Instead of putting down and sneering at Alphabet’s attempt to build and create, why not try to offer some constructive feedback instead if you believe what they’re doing really is so flawed. This pessimism and cynicism that seems to emanate towards those who attempt to take risks and try new things always has greatly perplexed me.
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As an aside, I always thought that Polonius’ advice to Leartes is excellent, and certainly did not read it the way Vonnegut implies.
And, do they need to do it or are they just data mining?
"In the World Health Organization's rankings of healthcare system performance among 191 member nations published in 2000, Canada ranked 30th and the U.S. 37th, while the overall health of Canadians was ranked 35th and Americans 72nd" [1]

So despite this problem, the Canadian health care system still manages to be superior to the US system. Perhaps in the field of health care, "top talent" is not as pressing a question as is often implied.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_healthcare_s...
If it needs around the same humidity levels as Japan, then bamboo might be good in places like Florida, Louisiana, and Houston at least.
Constant current for a single blue LED is a little nuts to me, but you’re probably right and it made financial sense somehow.
Looks like they are trying to block spiders and protect its users
> It also ships a recent version if zsh.

Recent compared to bash maybe. 10.14's zsh is two years old.
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Who is going to stop them? I'm sure the data is worth >0 to them (or someone)
I'm pretty sure commai is not shut down. A review video was posted recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-52xEXhjXmY
The repo says "A look at how LinkedIn spies on its users"

I'm not convinced this is LinkedIn spying on users... rather, it's them protecting its users from the spammy people using these extensions. There's not a single extensions on that list that doesn't result in someone getting an unsolicited email.
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