skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Nothing about that reason has any bearing on whether you will be any good at it. Passion provides motivation to gain skill but it's not the only thing that can provide motivation. It's not even the only reliable motivator. Having a better career or pay can also be pretty reliable motivator.
How long and how expensive is it to wire $10,000,000 from Nigeria to South Korea? With USDC, it takes seconds and costs about 2 cents.
We can keep playing this shallow-deep thinking game: are you trying to say China is using 100% renewable energy everywhere and has no need for lower energy costs for the rest of their population? And surely that energy could be used for other things, except it's not right now because getting paid for mining/processing transactions in a Ponzi-Pyramid scheme is far more profitable than other uses.
I think there's a few things going on. I think it's reasonable to assume that not all people who want to be able to program at a sufficient level to derive a living salary on will be able to. I don't know what the percentage is, but something exists, and we need to be aware of that. (I personally assume that 75% of people with a GED or equivalent can be eventually coached into some sort of useful position. I have no evidence for this, but that's just how I view the world. My office-mates like to call me an optimist).

The other is that ya, coaching and training is hard. There's a post somewhere else in thread about some guy hating his job cause he needs to coach up new bootcamp hires for like a year or something to get fully up to speed.

Let's not lie to ourselves about how long "eventually" (in eventually get good) is. I just took a quick look at my province's college of trades, and they quote 6000 hours (5280 hours on work and 720 hours in school) of apprenticeship/training before being considered "competent" at welding. If you go look at a bunch of the more technical "blue collar" jobs or trades (like mechanical draftsman, HVAC technician, etc), you all see numbers around that mark. Now, there's surely some fudgery going on. Very likely by the last year of their apprenticeships, you'll have many apprentices that are infact ready to just be done and are just logging hours for the book... but still, I think its a relevant guide. Even at half the length, you're talking roughly a year to a year and a half (which matches up well with other poster's experience coincidentally...) to train up.

Seems like the bootcamps might be a good subsitute for the "in class" portion of these apprenticeship programs, but nothing more.
Reminds me of that hoarders house in the US, that was so infested with cockroaches the fire department built a fire pit around it and burned it to the ground.
I think the impractical goal of free software at any cost has hurt Linux. It's radical and it's a type of gatekeeping around here. There is always a post about Linux tech / adoption that deserves praise and some Stallman acolyte will chime in to remind us it's not a real accomplishment.

This is turning into a rant but has anyone checked out the approved distros on FSF? Many popular distros do not make the cut not because they include nonfree software but make it a little too easy to acquire nonfree software.
What changes should be made at the FAA (or international equivalents)? Clearly they weren't able to do their job of ensuring the aircraft were safe. They must share some of the responsibility, but how could we improve them?
Didn't get what "multi person pose estimation" was.

This picture helped: https://paperswithcode.com/media/thumbnails/task/task-000000...

"Multi-person pose estimation is the task of estimating the pose of multiple people in one frame."
It might unify development more. Now all developers (Linux, Windows, Chrome, Mac) have access to the same command line tools.
How many times you come across a unique problem? Even when I come across a solution on my own, many times I find on stackoverflow or GitHub better designed solutions which address the corner cases which I didn't even think of.
It sounds like you’d have to be in the 1% before this could be something you can casually afford.

At least is still sounds pretty crazy to me.
You are describing classic branch-and-merge. “Here’s my branch that I created offline.”

“Sorry, there are merge conflicts, please resolve them before resubmitting,” or, “I resolved them without consulting you.”
DO is a major source of spam. Hetzner is closely behind. OVH is third.

We are now flagging all mail coming from their IP space as junk, but without blocking it, because there are (very) occasional legit senders there.
That probably has a lot to do with it. It's hard to maintain enthusiasm over the years if it isn't being returned. I think the lack of passion from the students is more about the voluntary nature of the football team than anything inherent to the jocks.
It's the next housing bubble the financial industrial and VC complex have tied to - with a splash of bad actors enjoying it heavily as well.
I believe the stats mentioned are from Tinder data where everything but looks has little to no influence. Given that most people aren't outliers regarding money, power, intelligence or artistic talent, that probably don't play as large a role in the general population either.
That's what nightmares are made of
>are you trying to say China is using 100% renewable energy everywhere and has no need for lower energy costs for the rest of their population?

No? I'm saying most of Bitcoin mining is done using renewable energy. Most of which is excess capacity that would have been wasted anyway.

>And surely that energy could be used for other things, except it's not right now because getting paid for mining/processing transactions in a Ponzi-Pyramid scheme is far more profitable than other uses.

And who are you decide how people spend their energy? How many quants do we pay to burn their brains in coming up with strats to create positive alpha because it's far more profitable than solving whatever "important issue" you care about. If you have an issue with how the free market allocates its resources maybe you're the one that is wrong, because people are paying money to show you that you are wrong.
But they didn't update their experimental parameters after examining the data and results. They reported the results of their original study, found an interesting pattern, revisited the raw data to explore why this pattern might arise, and discussed the implications. As you point out, the natural next step would be to design a followup study that does control for the effect of knowing if auditions are blinded upon applicant quality. They're allowed and even obligated to discuss this "useless non-information," as you inaccurately describe it, in their paper. That's science.

That coin-flip prediction example seems incomplete to me. Here's how I would extend it to relate to the topic at hand: you ask a researcher to predict the distribution of heads and tails for a specific coin, which is secretly a trick coin with heads on both sides. The scientist trains a prediction algorithm on thousands of coin-flips performed on many randomly selected coins in the wild. Upon testing your coin, they find that 100% of the outcomes are heads, statistically very different from the training data (as confirmed by the appropriate statistical methods). You seem to advocate an uncritical reporting of this result, with no allowance for discussing possible explanations beyond the strict study flow of "predict 50% ± X% heads, flip coin N times, observe 100% heads, report result, end of story". A responsible scientist would discuss possible explanations for the anomalous result, including biased instrumentation, biased training data, biased sampling, uncontrolled variables, and so on.

Uncritically collecting data, grinding through statistical tests, and reporting p-values/effect sizes/confidence intervals is not science. Researchers are fully expected to interpret their results in the greater context of their field, while of course maintaining statistical rigour, which is necessary but not sufficient to do good science.
I predict that MS will be the ones to finally bring about a Linux desktop with mass market adoption. They'll do it by making it look like Windows, act like Windows, work with Windows files, and run Windows apps through emulation or virtualization.

It's pretty brilliant, really, because it solves both problems: the user doesn't have to change anything and the IT department gets the open source foundation they want.
Linux never really had a traditional roadmap, it just is the sum of all contributions, mediated by what subsystem maintainers and Linus will accept for merging. So sure, Microsoft devs will influence Linux development just like the other big contributors. Google, Oracle, RedHat, Intel, et.c.
Do you experience timeouts and failures in https://dev.missilesys.com/?
Do you think it is intentional?
Dismissing someone as “not serious” because of their reasons for following a particular career path says a lot more about the person doing the dismissing than those being dismissed.

By the parent’s criteria, I am “not serious”. My record on OSS and early work at companies which were acquired or have outsized valuations suggests the parent is 100% wrong, however.
for a definition to be useful it needs to be as narrow as possible, otherwise declaring any form of argument you don't like as trolling would be...
If you don't mind me asking, what is the ratio of mentors : grads where you work?

What do you think is an acceptable ratio?
That is literally what the article is arguing, and it's something I've seen often enough to be convinced about.
Completely agree, I would like to blame it on this dichotomy of "frontend and backend development".

Most of the bootcampers did three months of "frontend" work and are oblivious to what goes underneath in the murky world of business logic and services.

Until they have been able to demonstrate they are confident in:

* Presenting data to a user

* Validating inputs

* Making correct requests and understanding the interactions of an API (whether its REST, RPC, programmatic, internal)

* Processing requests

* Persistance and access of data

* Basic security

* Be able to document and explain all areas to a basic level.

* Debug and provide a root cause analysis.

Then they will remain a junior developer and I think that will be many of these bootcampers fate, as they are either unwilling or incapable of doing work outside their comfort zone.
Article says that a direct implication of "My Body, My Choice" is: Draft registration, mandatory jury service, and all other forms of mandatory service should be abolished

Can we go even further with that?

I mean, couldn't we say that the orders of a police officer to an innocent bystander to leave a crime scene violate "My Body, My Choice" since their commands require the person's body to be in a particular place against their choice?

And what about school truancy laws? If "My Body, My Choice" applies to a young woman's reproductive choices, shouldn't it also apply to her choice to remain outside of any particular schoolyard? Shouldn't it also, at the very least, apply to school uniform regulations?
I just moved to germany and routinely people in my local super market come with a few dozen empty plastic bottle for the crusher, maybe it is a regional thing (saarland here)
Did they have a word for the intellectually dishonest practice of just making stuff up to support one's argument?
Well, this comment casts a lot of light on why you behave the way you do generally on HN. I will offer my opinion that it's a pattern of behavior that comes with an inherent set of problems.

If you aren't going to pay any attention whatsoever to social details, such as whether or not you have ever spoken to this particular person before, it's generally a best practice to refrain from any kind of personal commentary at all concerning their behavior. Behavior is influenced by context and you are making no effort whatsoever to understand context at all, so your opinions about such things are going to tend to be uninformed opinions that go bad places.
This is largely true in any field.
I don’t think that’s necessarily bad though. Learn all these things when you are 23~ish
Bees are some of the most fascinating creatures around. I feel like we know close to nothing about how they live and communicate.
Agreed. Thus my own snark: https://twitter.com/inlined/status/1093688565207261185
> When did we switch from "live and let live" to "the state should give me a girlfriend"?

Hey, if the state (that is: the people that pay taxes) should give you free food, housing, education, health care etc - why stop at romance?
“To watch out for programs being created in situations where where the arrogance is so strong and the power differential is so intense that evidence can be ignored.”

~historian Michael Vann
USD$35 single-board x86 computer
I do a significant part of my grocery shopping in a co-op that is set up for you to take in your own package. I take jars and plastic bottles, weight them before using them in the shop, fill them up with sugar, flour, pasta, oil, soap, etc. I haven't noticed it taking any longer than a regular shop run, other than needing the foresight to prepare the bags of jars before hand and the need to go by car which is already kind of a given here.
All that might very well be true, but I was responding to your assertion that "The JVM ... can even run Python code (Jython) faster than CPython".
Thoughts?
Isn’t it interesting that many of the real world examples of artificial intelligence companions are female (Siri, Cortana, Alexa, Sofia), while Hal, who predates them all is male?
Staring at somebody’s face for ten minutes may give you nightmares
No. Im staring the facts straight in the face[] and I don't understand the implicit point you are trying to make.

Approx. 75% of BTC mining is done with renewables. That leaves a carbon footprint of

207.75 kg / transaction

This is so completely beyond fucked. (Older sources on google state 450+ kg/transaction but that's not really truthful given current price points)

[] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
The White Ship
Got it, thanks. How do you define 'the chosen representation can't communicate links in its body'?
I think you might be overemphasising the view of a rather small minority there.
Thanks for this a lot, I was just asking about possibility of corporate secret management with keybase. First time I hear about encrypted repos but I was considering using team storage just to keep corporate secretes in a file system.

Currently I use Gitlab on premise and I put secrets on the repository in a pass format. GitLab runner has single secret, to access the password store. This is clearly different then OP's context in which he wants to utilize everything in cloud.

While this works great and devs can read secrets on any OS, I was considering alternatives for easier on-boarding and additional features. I looked into all kind of secret sharing stuff for teams, both commercial and FOSS, but for some reason I don't "feel it". Vault feels like designed more for machines then humans. Commercial ones seem prohibitively expensive plus not feeling great using cloud for secret management (or anything non-trivial for that matter - I could go with status page maybe). So far Psono looks most promising in FOSS world.

In this case, one could use 2 job servers - one that is used only for sensitive things like deployments, and another one for other stuff, in this case build. This could be 2 Gitlab runners (the ci yaml file itself doesnt require changes) for example so build happens on Gitlab.com infrastructure and the deployment happens on the runner tagged something like self-destruct. If you think about it, is it enough that this is PI in your kitchen ? - if accessible from outside it can be hacked, so this probably needs to be deploy and terminate myself scenario to minimize exposure even further - perhaps one day also in cloud, lets call it proton-runner (it would still require leap of faith to some measure).
Why Are 96M Black Balls on This Reservoir? [video]
A trade vehicle for what though? You're not buying equity or rights to future cash flows. Your investment doesn't reflect the success of the underlying company nor does it even reflect the popularity of the service ("the more people use it the more valuable it will be" argument hasn't been true for any of the increases/dips in price). You're essentially just trading on investor sentiment within unregulated markets with zero consumer protection. Can you make a profit? Sure, but you're not "investing" in startups, you're giving them money.
Visual appearance is indisputably part of the orchestral experience, otherwise they'd play out of sight (to reduce distractions from the audience) in comfortable clothing.
Lel zircon will never replace Linux, Google is acting retarded here, they have not the ressources to make zircon competitive with Linux.
> They give you the minimal viable education to do the job

I think they given you the minimum viable education to be employed as a junior dev at some companies - which is a far cry from how bootcamps advertise themselves.
Its a valid strategy, especially when you are dealing with disease or some insects. It provides a bit of a training opportunity and sometimes there just isn't any hope.

If for some odd reason, you are doing thing yourself (why?!), do remember the order: dig trench -> fill trench -> ignite trench -> ignite structure. Do the order of the last two step wrong can result in a very scary video on YouTube. Do not have squeamish people there with you. Keep plenty of firefighting gear near.
PE teachers should be more like math team coaches
This is a byproduct of the (in my view, very positive) tradition in programming of not requiring a college degree. It offers the political class an easy message for dealing with the ramifications of the jobs exodus in places like Appalachia. Nobody would suggest, for example, training people up as doctors or lawyers or accountants to be a solution to that problem. The degree requirements are a signal: “this is not for everyone.” With programming, politicians have gotten this idea that because there are no formal educational requirements, programming and “tech” jobs are an avenue for employing the large numbers of economically displaced. But of course, programming is hard. Most people don’t have the analytical/mathematical mindset necessary to be even competent programmers. All of these coding boot camps and public programs just capitalize on this misconception and wishful thinking.
As of now, Microsoft is only including Linux to get developers to start using windows for development of cloud apps and services. So Linux in windows, presently, is just the kernel and other essentials, that enable developers to develop and test command line applications.

P.S : By windows, I mean the Microsoft cloud ecosystem, not windows OS per se.
Anecdotally I know of one very popular application that has a bug in their SHA-1 implementation causing it to effectively only perform a single round.
My experience with code bootcamp trained developers is positive, due to the follow reasons:

- Most of them have engineering background: electrical engineering, civil engineering, petroleum engineering.

- Since they lack formal education in IT, they have to train twice as hard, which our company encourages (2 months of probation = 2 months of training, it's almost impossible to find developer with Scala experience around here anyway).

- We work with the Bootcamp to improve their program: giving reference to 'hard', 'theoretical' books such as Algorithms & Datastructure or Database Design and cutting down some unnecessary parts.

- Most importantly, we strongly prefer people who switched to IT because they actually love programming, not just looking for higher wage.*

* It may sound weird but actually many people here didn't picked their university by themselves but by the guidance of their parent, so they might study something else than their favourite.
You don't need a CS degree to see that it's simple. The Uber app has only a few basic functions:

Get the user's GPS location.

Get the GPS locations of nearby cars.

Pick the closest car.

Collect payment.

Send a dispatch message to the driver.

That's all there is to it!
Right, and for as long as tether is able to buy back usdt for $1 it is incorrect to say tether is collapsing.
how will they eject these suckers from the payload module?

Maybe put it in a spin and just let them go? (in a controlled release)
So you think you can code because you're a natural born genius with a special intelligence that other plebs don't have, and they will never catch up to you no matter how hard they try because their brains just ain't made right? That's not self serving and egotistic at all.
Following the methods of the paper I already see a huge flaw.

They calculated energy per coin using hashpower from 2016-2018, ignoring all mining and coins from 2009-2016. Basically cherry picking their data and ignoring all the coins that were minted with lower hash power.
MCAS isn't even active during take-off: as long as the flaps are extended, it does not activate.
I deleted a previous response, now I understand better what you meant.

In my humble opinion, it doesn't work. Cooperatives tend to bureaucratic, obsolete, monopolistic forms of rent seeking and then comes some uber and eat them. But that's just like my opinion, really.
The job server could run in cloud with remote attestation.
Very well written article.

If I may add to this, the vāda usually composes of 3 parts.
1. Purva paksha.
2. Khandana
3. Uttara paksha.

Purva paksha which literally translates prior view is when the debater should talk from the opponent's perspective. This has to be confirmed by the opponent, which proves that the debater has understood the opponent's view point.

Then comes khandana, which is the actual opposing view point that the debater puts forward refuting the view point of the opponent.

The last is Uttara paksha, the opinion of the debater. (Or siddhānta as mentioned in this article)
The first pint was referring to the comment stating that the service, when live, will generate a load of money. Maybe it will, maybe not. I can't tell. But it will for sure have to, simply due to the fact that putting the service up is extremely expensive.

Long term stories are great. And yes, everything that makes the world a better place is welcome. But considering the state of things in less developed countries, I assume space born Wifi is not the top priority. But hey, if investors are buying into I won't complain.

The whole service is planned to have around 12k satellites (another comment, did check primary sources myself yet). So still way to go.

Regarding finances, as SpaceX is a private company reliable numbers are hard to come by. All I have is what little went public a couple of years ago, benchmark numbers from other launch companies and the public parts NASA contracts. But I should have been more precise: my cash and profitability remark concerned their operative launch business excl. NASA dev contracts and the like. I suspect that their development is financed by external funding while their government contracts are cross-financing their low commercial launch costs. Nothing wrong with that as everybody else in that industry is doing the same thing. Everybody else isn't SpaceX, so.

Just one last thing, I am happy to discuss SpaceX. Because new facts and view points are how we develop. Implying that I call people I don't know liars and that I am full of conspiracy theories is not helping in that regard. Just saying.
> How come this statement is simply reversed nowadays AND people don't make an effort to change it.

They do.

https://www.kaporcapital.com/
https://socialenterpriseinstitute.co/
https://bcorporation.net/

In the "Lab rats"[1] Dan Lyons tried to give a perspective on the "new kind of capitalism" after he gave a perspective on the current state of the Silicon Valley capitalism. Links above are from his book.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Lab-Rats-Silicon-Valley-Miserable/dp/...