skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a hiring manager, I fully agree. All our job postings say "CS degree required". But if you have experience and a good resume it absolutely doesn't matter.

It matter a lot more for juniors who lack any sort of experience. I think it make good sense for young people to get a degree but it makes less sense for seasoned professionals to go back and get one.

If you don't have a degree but have experience, don't let the degree requirement stop you from applying.
Is GQL a new name for Cypher?
The stories I heard about the expansion that was anticipating growth that never came was all about long-haul fiber: Fiber between cities and across the country. Some of that, one could speculate, was because these long haul fibers were being sold to businesses, who were paying ~$100/mbps, but the residential endpoints were still very slow (1.5Mbps DSL was blazing fast in 1998, if you could even get it), because the telcos were holding onto their in-ground copper investment.
The Case for Never Selling Your Company (2014)
Using Unsupervised AI to detect threats to your network in real time
Ya, who cares how many people this decision kills. It doesn't affect you, right?
> I would have done a lot better having one even though I got by without it. Also, my career path was ridiculous and is entirely non-replicable.

I don't know. I have to say "me too" here and I've encountered enough of us over the years that I think it's just a big lie. There are a certain number of high paying companies that perhaps overvalue a college education and algorithmic competence.

But overall I think about half of the colleagues I've worked with either had no degrees or had degrees that didn't do them any favors in this career. Our career paths are certainly replicable.

In fact, I'm always impressed by the people I meet that don't have the education but have incredibly strong CS fundamentals.
basic mech setup is a high drain battery connected to a coil with a wick through a high current switch. no rocket science here.
Caesarean babies have different gut bacteria, microbiome study finds
What's interesting is that my home built in the early 1970s apparyently had all electric heating since they believed they would be getting cheap nuclear power soon. When a storm took out power for a more than a week, the entire block installed natural gas heating/boilers.

So I'm a bit skeptical if making long term planning betting on renewables replacing the bulk of hour heating & cooking power.

It seems the city is thinking the same way:

> City leaders also voted to require new buildings be equipped for all-electric operation, even if they continue to rely on other sources of energy in the near term.

A lot of people perfer gas for stove cooking, but maybe new electric & induction stoves are just as good?

Anyway, I would thing the cost of wiring for electric appliences is low (just a few 240V circuits) while running gas lines is more expensive anyway so I would be suprised if a significant portion of new construction was putting in more gas appliences besides water heaters & HVAC.
>Multiple parts of the USSR actually did.

Yes but not like in Ukraine.
>If you don't have a degree but have experience, don't let the degree requirement stop you from applying.

Then don't list it as a requirement..?
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No I mean it is not viable in any way if you leave the bubble of US cities which account for a small percentage of the total area. Rural US is struggling just to make school buses work. The distances are too great and the people too few to ever support public transit. Any tax on fuel/cars screws rural areas who have no other choice.
I think you're less likely to run into those issues if all you're doing is building web apps and the like.
I'm asking purely out of curiosity - what was the content of such a large JSON object?
> We may be entering a time of ‘subscription fatigue.'”

Also know as... not wanting to spend three times as much? lol.
>harmful

Need a citation here. I've read the literature and the current consensus (as far as I'm aware) is "we don't know what the harms are". There is a study which suggest that nicotine may increase cancer risk in mice, though it is not a direct cause and even then the study was inconclusive.

Your link is a chart which shows relative lethal doses of substances. Nicotine requires a "very high" dose, not one you would ever get in practice. Not sure what point you were trying to make with that.
> Unlike with cigarettes, black market production of e-cigarettes sounds unlikely.

Wait, isn't that exactly the problem that's lead to what's happened here? Unregulated THC cartridges causing health issues in states where marijuana is still illegal?
And once again, you aren’t a potential customer. Do you really think that streaming companies are going to live an die by the people who want to use VLC?
Here's why IBM says quantum supremacy is not relevant

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-supremacy-is-coming-h...

From the article

Quantum supremacy, we don’t use [the term] at all, said Robert Sutor, the executive in charge of

IBM’s quantum computing strategy. We don’t care about it at all.

The article also mentions practical considerations such as "quantum advantage", fault tolerance, and other initiatives competing with IbM.

Relevant

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_supremacy

https://medium.com/@jackkrupansky/what-is-quantum-advantage-...
I guess no pre-ordering, the link is broken:
https://www.manning.com/books/modern-c
Yes, agreed, the only thing that will really cause organizations to go through the trouble of an in depth audit is regulations with some teeth.
Oddly enough this year was excellent for King Salmon in California, one of our best years ever in fact (going back 50+ years). We suspect it was primarily due to the drought tapering off, so the rivers/lakes were more full than usual. Salmon are r selected, so large fluctuations in the population are expected. In contrast the drought years were really really poor.
You should really check out woven.com (calendly meets google calendar meets doodle). One of the most under-hyped startups in the productivity space this year.

It's been a gamechanger for blocking off parts of my calendar while creating "templates" for different styles of meetings that are only available at certain days/times (for example: client calls, board meetings, or coffee meetings).

It's completely changed how I organize my time and one of the main levers for me doubling my productivity this year.
Yes and no.

The face value of the bond is what you will receive at maturity. When the bond trades in the intermediate term, its price is determined by prevailing and expected interest rates.
They wouldn't put that in the front-end allowing you to block it. It's all in the back-end using third-party services such as Guardian Analytics. Dislcaimer: I briefly worked as a software consultant in the finance industry, that is one of (I'm sure) many out there. You don't want to expose third parties you use for parts of your online banking process. I assume bigger banks homebrew it all.
The point is that in aggregate the entire generation probably both owns and owes the same debt. Redistribution is clearly happening between groups and country but the entire pool sums up to near zero
And much like vacuum tube computers were, early quantum computers are a necessary step towards the advancement of computing.
> It’s sort of the national religion that the NHS is “the envy of the world” but it’s really only the envy of the US

I am from Mexico and I envy the NHS. I have had the necessity of using the Health system in NHS, IMSS (Mexico) and Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung (Germany), and from the 3 of them, I will choose the NHS with my eyes closed.
How am I supposed to know those numbers? I'm getting paid towards the top of the median range in what I do, working remotely, often less than 40 hours a week. Hard to get something better than that. The point of my post was that not having a CS degree shouldn't discourage anyone from applying for jobs that claim to need one. I've had well over a hundred interviews in my life in person, over a dozen jobs in the past twelve years, and never has it come up. Not at faang, not at startups, not anywhere.
its my opinion. feel free to express yours.
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Maybe it isn't. But I can't imagine that people with a job, household chores and/or a degree to finish spend significantly more than that when averaged over longer periods of time. Sure, I sometimes did binge-watch a whole TV show in two weeks. But then I didn't open Netflix for another two months, so it averages out.
It's not the illicit devices that have been killing people, it's the illicit juices. Those can be made in your kitchen.
I think the interviewer may have been a bit standoffish because he/she was expecting you to work out how to reverse a linked list rather than memorizing the algorithm.

My CS degree only taught me what a linked list is, not how to reverse one.

It's not a great question to ask because it's such a common one and many people will have learned an algorithm from a text book, but if you haven't memorized the solution it's simple enough to understand the requirements yet difficult enough to work out that you can get a good amount of insight into how a job applicant can solve rather than memorize problems.

After all, being able to separate candidates who can solve unseen problems from those who can't is one of the goals of interviews
I've been using Dashblock in a production environment and it's super easy to create and use the APIs on sites. We'd previously written our own scripts to do this at scale, but it was difficult to keep them all up to date. You're right that fixing a single page's dom changes is trivial, but it's a real pain to scale that. Regarding the ML aspect, I've tested changing the dom for a page in Dashblock and it seems to work... it didn't break the scraping I had set up. The price might not make sense for everybody, but for me it's definitely worth it.
GitHub Is Now a CVE Numbering Authority
> I doubt he used the words "sexual assault"

A child who had been captured by Epstein and coerced into sex with a bunch of people said that Minsky was one of those people.

RMS said let's assume it did happen, and then started defending Minsky by quibbling about the definition of assault.

RMS said that minsky having sex with a coerced child shouldn't be called assault because assault requires force or violence.

He's wrong. Assault has an every day English definition and it doesn't require violence or force. Assault has legal definitions and they don't require force.

His position on the word "assault" makes no sense.

This follows on from earlier comments where he said that children can be willing participants in incestual abuse, or that he thinks it's unlikely that children who are abused are harmed by that abuse. He retracted some of those after people told him that yes, in fact, children who are abused are often harmed by that abuse.
I like this idea. One piece of feedback, a parameter with a leading underscore feels very odd. In python I interpret leading underscores to indicate the programmer thinks of this as an internal / pseudo-private property. Exposing it through the api makes it "public" which means (to me) that it shouldn't have a leading underscore.

This is especially true if the usecase is common enough to put in the top level examples
But are there competing gigabit internet in Seattle? Obviously they will stay competitive, that's beside the point.

It's like how Comcast happened to bring cheap gigabit internet to every city Google Fiber entered... The fact that it takes a local competitor to get these big companies to bring cheap gigabit is exactly the problem. Your anecdotal evidence about a city full of competition doesn't really prove anything.
Please point me to this preponderance of evidence. I'll wait.
It's good that it's open source then ;)
Blogging Like a Hacker (2008)
While the ISO GQL standards draft is being prepared, the best way for a developer to learn and prepare for ISO GQL is to learn the Cypher query language.[1] Many of the concepts from Cypher will be carried over into ISO GQL.

[1]: https://neo4j.com/developer/cypher-basics-i/
> working at well over a dozen companies in the last twelve years or so.

That is the one legit reason I've ever heard for a degree -- To know that people are able and willing to stick with a multi-year effort. Moving every year or two when getting rolling with your career is one thing. More than one job per year for over a decade is something else entirely. It doesn't mean I would throw out your resume, but it does mean I would only consider you as a contractor, not a perm employee.
What about people like me who taught themselves to code long before they even knew CS was a thing? All I knew is that my family had a computer and I had somehow peeked behind the GUI veil when I discovered DOS. I wound up researching in a CS program because I found it interesting and just kept wanting more.
Are you referring to recursive common table expressions? These do allow graph queries. They are quite different to the proprietary extensions, though, and much more awkward.

I would love to see SQL grow a concise navigation/join syntax like JPQL's [1]; imagine writing:

select e.name, e.department.head.assistant.name from employees

Instead of:

select e.name, a.name
from employees e,
join departments d using (department_id)
join employees h on d.head_id = h.employee_id
join employees a on h.assistant_id = a.employee_id

Given that dots already mean something in SQL, maybe it would have to be:

select e.name, e->department->head->assistant.name from employees

Once you've got that, it would not be a huge leap to add a recursive version of this operator.

[1] https://www.objectdb.com/java/jpa/query/jpql/path#Navigation...
Dependency graph support is now available for PHP repositories on GitHub
> All our job postings say "CS degree required". But if you have experience and a good resume it absolutely doesn't matter.

So, you lie about your actual requirements (how hard is it to add the classic “or equivalent experience” qualification?) and expect potential applicants to intuit your hidden meaning?
PDF is here: https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=6881
They were acquired by Palantir.
It's a pain to switch on my smart TV. It's also a pain to search every service for a movie.
Quantum supremacy is usually misunderstood, and it's likely quantum computers will not surpass transistor computers in every way; they will be much better at a subset of tasks only.
Part of the reason for asymmetric cable modem (DOCSIS) speeds is due to the coaxial medium being essentially half duplex. Operators split the RF spectrum into a lower frequency range for upstream, and a higher frequency range for downstream. Increasing the width of the upstream range would eat into the available downstream bandwidth, and also has other implications in terms of power, noise and overall network design.

There is a full duplex version of DOCSIS, but its adoption faces some challenges due to how operators have to re-architect their physical networks to support it.

There is also currently a push to extend the downstream spectrum up to higher frequencies, enabling both more downstream bandwidth and also the ability to move the upstream split higher, therefore increasing upstream bandwidth.

(Disclaimer: I work with a client who develops products in this space.)
Dont forget the 20 million + veterans in the US who have also taken that oath.
I am not asking to remove based on that I personally dislike it. This is just my personal feelings and position.

But USSR does not exists and there is no reason to keep it. Using it is a kind of propaganda. Its place is in history books and not in the modern internet.
Nah. We won't see as many regulated mods, but plenty of less user friendly options are easy to make. In the early days of cartos and whatnot we used to make our own with very simple stuff.
How Much to Ask for Salary?
Its is my first job as a front end remote developer. I'm from Brazil. They are located in England.
I very much disagree that defending the reputation of your dead friend should be called "splitting hairs".

On a partially related note, the abuse of language that has lead to the current definitions of "rape" and "sexual assault" is distressing. :(
Some anecdotal evidence that waterfall is not a straw man: at least 10 years ago, waterfall was taught as waterfall without iterations at some German universities. This was the starting point, and many derived models, like the V-Model, where also taught, but iterations we’re nowhere in sight.
Love it! Congrats to internet users of Colorado!!!
Too late. Reagan brought in universal health care when he made it illegal for emergency rooms to turn back patients.
What about a proposal to make journalist write their articles with a typewriter?

EDIT: Following the general rquest of writing substantive comments, let's extend this.

The problem is that the authors see the cost of computers in other applications, but he doesn't see the benefits. For example using machine learning to detect face has a cost, but it can be applied to many things. From trivial applications like decorate your face in the phone to security applications like face recognition of justice fugitives, to more realistic faces in movies to deep fakes. You may like some of them and dislike other, but for some people the new technology provides benefits that hopefully are most than the cost.

For a journalist, probably the most important use of a computer is to write an article. Perhaps also to keep the small parts of info that must put in the article. Make some research by internet instead of traveling to a library. And modern cellphones are quite a powerful computer. You can perhaps replace the cellphone by a line phone, use a lot of cards for contacts and store information. But I think that the journalist will see immediately the benefits of using a computer to write the articles instead of a typewriter.
I don't know who downvoted you or why (not me), but I find your point to be a bit nonsensical.

Someone is pouring gasoline in our house and you're suggesting that we talk less about a catastrophic house fire and more about how they're ruining the carpet. How does that help?

Besides, what are these "environmental problems that we can actually all agree on"?

We should have clean water? No, the same people denying climate change have overturned basic protections.

Protection of endangered species? Also overturned.

Protection of national parks? Nope, acreage removed from the park system and existing reserves opened for drilling.

Increasing fuel economy standards? No.

Common sense reductions in coal usage, which is now more expensive than solar and wind (not even including carbon externalities)? No.

Both sides have extremists. But right now, an "economic growth at all costs" extremist regime is making policy. That is undeniable.

If a left-wing "criminalize eating meat, eliminate fossil fuel overnight, outlaw corporate farming and force people to live in yurts" extremist sat in the White House, do you think we should not talk about the risk of global economic collapse?
>In real life if the attacker is capable of stealing my session credentials the chance of them _not_ being able to tunnel through my local network is infinitesimal.

In real life each "trivial" filter like this cuts down a substantial number of potential attackers. Defense in depth. When there's a ton of hoops to jump through attackers go find a different target.
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Don't want to pile on but please put "or a great portfolio" as well.
It's really true that once you get probability, you see the world, read the news, and solve problems differently. If everyone had a good basis in stats, Vegas would be a Ghost town.

But if you spend time thinking about it, trig likely changed your perception of the world (and history) too. I think most mathematics do that to your brain, by virtue of expanding your internal language.

I can only imagine how crazy these conversations must get for the people actually trying to plan curricula.
They used to quote their speeds in ATM frame rates, not in IP speed, and ATM has a lot of overhead. 15%? I wonder if their 40mbps is still quoting frame rates rather than actual IP throughput. Not sure, because 40mbps isn't enough for my home use, so I haven't even talked to them.
I was not arguing against volunteering. From the article, I just did not understand what was described in the title. I’m glad there is so much volunteering, I think the current climate crisis shows that capitalism cannot work for everything.
Our Family Video store recently closed. They were building new stores, I heard they were growing....

The local ones start selling vape pens and CBD oil and then they closed up shrug
JSON is a syntactic subset of Javascript in ES2019 [1].

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-json-superset
People like the ability to stream from the phone, but the same mobile apps also target tablets, which are very much used as portable TVs.

Still, I don't see your problem. Given how good browsers are on mobile, a pirate streaming site isn't that much worse or less convenient on a phone than Netflix or YouTube app. You select the video you want to watch, tap Play, tap "full screen", and enjoy the show.
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I also argue that banks have much, much better security than anything most of us have ever touched, because they handle billions of dollars moving around routinely and manage not to lose it. Meanwhile, half of the internet can't manage not to lose the email addresses of everyone who signed up for their cat picture website. If they're trying that hard to steal something of little value like that, how hard to you think people are trying to steal the billions of dollars that banks handle?"

Exactly this is the reason why I don't think Troy is being gullible here.
Not sure for how much longer this will be true, but if someone can survive in the market without a degree, something about them must be exceptional. Not having a degree is a ridiculously expensive counter signal that is costly enough to be honest in many cases, so as a fast filter, it's often worth interviewing them.

I get that a business that needs autodidact polymaths to run it is by definition going to have trouble scaling, will probably fail because nobody else could understand it, and that it is probably not a very good business, but this describes the vast majority of businesses, which fail in their first few years anyway. The outcome of blowing your capital on mediocre staff vs. unproven mavericks is the same.

However, expecting unconventional outcomes while only risking conventional failure seems a bit self fulfilling.
And where is this actually happening? In what numbers? Too much nic in your juice isn't even enjoyable (it's incredibly harsh.) This is a make believe problem.
Would you also fire yourself?
I'm glad the telecoms weren't able to buy the legislature in CO like they did in NC in 2011: Under H129, municipal broadband programs like Wilson's "Project Greenlight" would be pretty much impossible to replicate if a cable company serves just 50% of the households in the area with "high-speed" internet.

https://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/blogpost/9625657/

Fortunately, NC is now considering loosening the restrictions: House Bill 431, the FIBER NC Act, would allow counties or cities in areas with little or no broadband service to spend taxpayer dollars to build their own infrastructure for it and then lease the network out to a private service provider.

https://www.wral.com/plan-to-allow-municipal-broadband-syste...

That said, I'm fortunate in my town to get AT&T 1Gbps for $70/mo. The alternative, Charter (which I had for years when it was TWC), is awful on both pricing and service. I think it was the threat of Google Fiber that got AT&T to move its feet. Years later, still no Google Fiber anywhere near me, though supposedly they are still expanding in the area. A few miles away in a neighboring town, folks have access to Ting Internet (1Gbps for $89/mo) and seem happy with it.