skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but, it's really sad that circumstances are such that people need to get useless degrees to compete for a job that doesn't really need the degree.

A CS degree teaches you so much more than what is needed for a software engineering job (it goes far beyond SE and teaches you about compiler design, networking, OS algorithms, analysis of algo, etc)

I have a 4 year degree in CS and a masters in CS. Despite over 15 years of SE experience, I haven't had much use for 80% of the stuff a CS degree teaches you.

However, as the poster has said, it's very useful for getting your foot in the door.
This strikes me as an unfair characterization of those YouTubers. I’ve followed them for a while and have quite a different impression.

Today’s video from Laowhy86 is a good short summation of his time in China, and how his perspective has shifted over time while living there and running a business, marrying a Chinese woman, starting a family, etc:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ed4ryYokLzU
It's interesting to see populism take hold in real time. Growing up, I remember teachers and student asking, "well how did $HORRIBLE_LEADER even come into power." Now we know.

Turns out it's ridiculously easy to get people to cut off their nose to spite their face.
>This move will probably result in money for Trump's 2020 campaign, because he's saving the automotive industry money.

Unsure why you're being downvoted. This sounds like, at minimum, one of the lines of calculation.

"Hey, we're not going to win California anyway. Let's screw those Americans over and make some money for our buddies over here. Remember fellas, some of that money's gonna come to us!"
My previous comment was mostly based on my personal experiences discussing US politics online - and seeing people on both sides retweet ideas that are not logically consistent but make them feel good about their team. I'm sure this common in most political discussions, but I'm not well versed in Chinese politics personally.
Nice! Only 20 years late! :-) (referring to the $2B rate hike they were given to deploy fiber by Y2K)
> Experience for software development is worth much less than people give it credit for.

I strongly disagree with this. You can read all the books you want, but when it comes to making a decision about a set of tradeoffs, there is no substitute for the experience of having made a similar decision in production before and having seen what works well and what doesn't. So many of the nuances of real-world production systems get lost in books and articles that it's hard to know when it's appropriate to apply that knowledge.

That said, I concede that "experience" doesn't necessarily have to be your own—you can learn from the experiences of your co-workers, friends at other companies, or random people on HN, you just have to take everything with a grain of salt.

> Hacking sucks. Just hacking at stuff for years on end leads to you being an expert beginner.

Solo tinkering is a poor substitute for the experience of building production systems with a team, but it's a great way to stretch the breadth of your experience. I have learned lots of different programming languages, platforms, and concepts in this way that have all made me a better programmer all around, even if nothing tangible came out of any of it.
A tiny bit irksome somehow, that in the well-intentioned effort to make people care about salmon, they can't stop talking about the precious, precious orcas! Like salmon aren't valuable and awesome in their own right.

Also annoying on a totally different level is how actual policy has been to try to counter one blithe, destructive intervention (dams that hinder salmon) with another (killing sea lions which supposedly helps salmon). Just arbitrary, stupid stuff. Why not kill whales to help salmon then? "Well because salmon exist to support the precious precious orcas." But don't they exist to support sea lions too? "Yes but those are bad."
"everyone with a pro-China sentiment" != one sock puppet account with zero history aside from spouting rhetoric on one position.
>Or license plates could become programable e-ink displays that display a new hash every X minutes

Once a week would likely be enough. The point is that you can no longer associate "Plate ABCDEF was at this location at this time" with "Car owned by person X was at this location at this time" without making a lookup in a database that's owned by the government.
"What's odd to me about this post and all of the responses in this thread so far is that everyone is only thinking about password length as a way to defend against online bruting attempts when in reality long passwords mostly serve to protect against offline bruting attempts. The reason you don't want 6 or 8 character passwords is that when your password hashes get dumped it's a lot easier to crack them."

This is:
i) not accurate
and
ii) bad info

Password hash dumps are worthless if the password hashing scheme used is i)crypto-hashing based and ii) uses salt.

6-8 char passwords are not an issue under this scenario. Current password management best practice is to use both standard crypto-hashing algorithms and salt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)

Almost all platforms use standardized crypto-hashing packages that come as standard libraries in the language these days and those require salt. Further, almost all banks will all use these packages.

This is the reason you do not see rainbow tables these days, they are worthless in face of almost any current acceptable crypto-hashing implementation ... assuming one does break rule #1 of crypto and try to roll their own crypto ...

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18197/why-shoul...
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/05/amateurs_prod...
.. ad nauseam

Salting also has the additional benefit of making brute-forcing magnitudes of difficulty harder. This is because salting rules can be implement that always add non-standard chars..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)#Common_mis...

As others have said, the 6-8 chars limits are are a function of legacy system somewhere in the application chain (online banking is never a single platform, it is usually a front-end that talks to a standard backend that tellers, operations etc also access, usually some type of greenscreen app - which is where the password hashes end up).
When I was accepted to my school's gifted student program, my dad printed out that comic and taped it to my bedroom door.

Would have appreciated his support instead, but it is a funny comic.
I suggest you read the articles linked in the posted link, and also this story by Steven Levy:

https://www.wired.com/story/richard-stallman-and-the-fall-of...

Threatening to kill yourself if someone won't go out with you is terrible behavior at a bunch of levels: https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-appendix... (search for "When I was a teen freshman").

It's clear that Stallman was not just "trying to joke around and be charming".

Even if that were his actual intent, acceptable intent does not justify bad behavior.
Do they potentially propagate through matter with less interference than electromagnetic waves? I have no idea, that would be the only thought.. otherwise yeah I don't see what the appeal would be.. and how the hell do you create them on any small scale that can be actually read by someone, since gravity is such a weak force?
But, what's the value compared to using open-source products like Portia https://portia.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.html ?
Functionally it looks very similar.
>In summary, your thread rapidly devolved into a political flame war, I am sorry to have ever engaged with you, and I am done now.

Wow, if you regret engaging why the heck do you have to engage again then run away with your tail between your legs.

>Straw man. I made it clear that this act is definitive of the USA just as Chinese government's present day actions are definitive of it.

If this action defines you then you need to be executed. Literally for the murder of thousands. It's a war crime. Be glad it doesn't define the country or you.

>Undefended baseless hyperbolic claim.

Like your entire argument.

>You have defined freedom of speech in a way that merely assists your argument. No one should expect the freedom you describe.

I have defined it the way it's defined in english. If no one expects the freedom then there is no freedom in the first place. Your definition of freedom is a very specific subset, exacting and detailed, while mine is literally the dictionary definition of freedom and speech.

>Straw man. No one has accused you of this.

You literally said that I'm spreading propaganda rather than my opinions as if I'm trying to deliberately manipulate. Governments usually do this hence it's assumed that's what you implied. Either way, if anything your insidious response is probably what caused this whole thread to devolve into a flame war.

You aren't done. You never will be. I'm the one done with you, permanently.

Stop using the term strawman when your entire argument is a strawman.
This is simply untrue. The laws regarding publishing classified information to those unauthorized to have it applies across the board. There is no exception for journalists. There has been a tradition of not prosecuting journalists for doing so and the Supreme Court ruled in the Pentagon Papers case that the government couldn't prevent publication but didn't rule that journalists could not be prosecuted after the fact for doing so. Several justices released their own briefs regarding the opinion because the reason for ruling against the prior restraint varied among the justices. In a few of them justices mentioned that the government could seek, likely successfully, criminal charges after the fact.
I thought allergies are built up over time and so vary greatly with individuals, a perfect sample of the "nurture" side of the coin. (Though I'm sure you can have genetic predispositions.)

Here is one thing that came up after googling: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/25/science/q-a-twins-and-all...

> In other studies, asthma, which is often tied to allergies, showed up in both identical twins only 20 percent of the time.
> I’d probably fire someone if I started to see `JSON.parse(…)`

Guys - I think he was being hyperbolic. Ya know, like everyone does on the Internet. If he had said "if I had to look at JSON.parse(...) lines constantly, I'd jump off a building!" I doubt you all would be calling 911 over an attempted suicide.

Seriously, chill.
Whoever has been living in China knows this is true, too bad you are downvoted. I always laugh at report like this, because in reality probably such 'coordinated effort' is simply done by people from a random forum online.
I can imagine a company reasoning that someone who doesn't have a traditional CS education may approach problems from a unique perspective as they wouldn't have the standard logical flowchart in their heads you might expect from a CS graduate.

I remember taking a geology class as a substitute for an ecology class I couldn't get in to before I moved states for my environmental studies degree where the professor would often comment that my descriptions of certain geological principals were interesting to read through because I couldn't just regurgitate the info my classmates had from taking pre-requisite classes I didn't have to take.
Because gravitational waves get "dimmer" inversely with distance, while electromagnetic waves get dimmer inversely with the square of the distance.
> And this was a very brilliant software engineer, but he was consistently making poor decisions like this.

That is something I've noticed. Brilliance doesn't go hand in hand with making prudent and wise decisions.

> I did my best to shield that software engineer from them

I've found rather painfully that you shouldn't shield guys like that when they go off on their own to make mistakes.

Other thing, you have a team of people that are familiar with how a codebase is put together and does things. And what sort of things go wrong. It's a bad idea to disrupt that 'just because' Goofus rewrites a module to use X fad. Great! Before there were five programmers who knew how that module worked and now there is one programmer who knows how that module works.
I agree but they still. shouldn’t threaten people who show these hacks with expulsion. The real bad guys will do their thing without telling anybody and you can assume that this is going on
YouTube and Twitch every day on public transportation.
A blackhole traveling at near light speed is pretty darned close to the analogy of a massive object instantaneously disappearing, similar to fictional spaceships engaging their warp engines.

Of course, it's not actually disappearing, just moving, but the original point was about detecting sharp changes in the gravitational waves. A quick Google search tells me that gravitational wave red shifting is a thing, and I imagine that with blackholes it's a very important phenomenon and area of study. And I would guess that there can also be interesting second-order effects that such a blackhole's movements have on the propagation of gravitational and electromagnetic waves from other objects.
So what? A lot of college educated developers suck too. I know, because I've worked with them.
Ultimately, the only way out of the rapidly approaching distopian hell, I think, is educated and critically thinking population. The trend though, is for dumbing down the masses, I guess it has to get worse before it starts to get better...
Agreed. I was quite disappointed the day it came to me, I searched for it, and discovered I was not the coiner.
> "President rootusrootus spent the entirety of his term in office attempting unsuccessfully to undo the legacy of the previous occupant." is not exactly what I would be going for. Tearing down a legacy is not the same as building one.

That assumes the previous occupant had a legacy worth preserving. The real underlying problem is that a lot of people honestly believe the previous occupant's legacy needed to be torn down.
The fact that there's a tool to get around how janky the streaming service market is, does not prove that the streaming service market isn't janky.
The gist of it is:

>> that can hold more than 2 states

--> that can hold more than 2 states AT THE SAME TIME (in weird quantum conditions)

So you're not trying 00, 01, 10, 11; you're trying [00|01|10 |11] at the same time, as well as other state in between 0 and 1.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20987429
He is suggesting that advanced civilizations would use gravitational waves to communicate because they are hard to detect.

This summary of Dark Forest helps explain why a civilization would want to conceal their communications[0].

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Dark-Forest-Theory-of-the-...
usmobile.com is much more cost effective. I can get an unlimited minutes/text plan, plus 5GB/month for 25$ there, 30$ (with all the taxes and fees).
Any idea how frequent this (the first naturally, the second via C-section) is ?
I mean, I work for one of the biggest tech megacorps now (not going to say which one but I can guarantee you've heard of it), so it's definitely possible to get the stable job eventually as a dropout.

That said, it was a rocky and scary road to get to this point; if you get your degree you can often start out immediately with some stability.

I never took CS, as I was a math major before dropping out. Honestly, math is still more of a passion for me than CS (despite me loving programming), and I consequently do have some regrets about how I handled school; specifically, I'd like to get a job doing research, but as it stands that would require me first finishing my bachelor's, then getting at least a masters, and probably a PhD. Doing night school for a bachelor's is definitely doable, but I don't think I've heard of a single success story of people trying to work full time (which I would need to do to pay my mortgage and support my wife) and doing a PhD. If I had finished school the old fashioned way, I could have conceivably gone straight to grad school before entrenching myself into my current (admittedly comfortable) lifestyle.
In practice a small function like this would be inlined, which gives room for further optimisations. At any point, if the compiler knows that all accesses are in bounds, it can remove the bounds checks. The trick is actually having it figure that out.
>you can’t really say Bitcoin is bad and shouldn’t be allowed to exist for that reason without also agreeing that other stupid things we do with computers should suffer the same fate

That point is debatable because Bitcoin and snapchat are different in kind.
For bitcoin to function, it must be deliberately very computationally expensive. Generally speaking other software limits deliberately costly operations to certain functions (e.g. password hashing) and inefficiencies caused by of developers disinterested in performance can be reworked. Even the resource draw of a high end gaming for a few (or many) hours a week and a 24/7 miner are distinguishable in both raw and cost/benifit ways.
I'd like to see the statistics that demonstrate the probability you claim.
It depends on the perspective. To me and in the codebases I've worked in, the predominant style is "int const" instead of the other way around.
> ability to complete a four-year-degree correlates highly with ability to complete software projects

[citation needed]
We don't provide an API to manage other API yet, but this inception use-case is interesting. Could you specify what your app would like to do ?
We render the Javascript of the page and for now we don't provide a way to specify if you want to render the page or not but we plan on doing so.
They tend to get put into databases that are abused, sometimes by LE officers looking up family members or exes, and sometimes by hackers. Also it's creepy for the government to keep tabs on millions (well NH is only 1.4 million) of innocent people. If there's some specific car you're looking for, humans can keep an eye out for it. Anyone can still track the plates etc. but it's harder to make a all-encompasing database without automated readers.

Live free or die, eh?
> what sense does it make for California to dictate

Many California cities are among the worst in air quality in the nation, even though there are stricter standards in California.

The fact that different locations may have different air quality needs due to geography, ecology, or activity is a pretty good reason for the law to allow locally stricter versions.

Auto makers could make different cars for California, that they choose to not do so-- presumably much of the compliance costs are non-reoccurring expenses-- and instead use the same cars elsewhere is just the free market at work.
Ping Tunnel – Send TCP Traffic over ICMP (2011)
I am not sure Steve Blank is just another by the numbers Agile guru with very little development experience of their own.
> One day, he proposed, the company could “solve the problem of children without parents,” and from there go onto other causes such as eradicating world hunger.

>Mr. Neumann has told several people over the past two years that a personal goal is to become the world’s first trillionaire.

Am I the only person to think these two ambitions may be somewhat at odds? Or rather, they both seem to be egomaniacal in nature, and being an egomaniac doesn't seem to lend itself to solving nearly impossibly hard problems.

Maybe after he has his exit, he'll put his money with his mouth is and start working full time on a foundation like Bill Gates.
Thank you - this is exactly what I was trying to explain!
Would you debate a Scientologist on the merits of Scientology?
Your response is an instance of the naturalistic fallacy.
That the people who are willing to jump through hoops to save $8.99 a month are not Disney’s or any other services target demographics. You can make quite a bit of money ignoring poor people and staying out of the race to the bottom. See Apple.

Or more relevant see Disney. Disney makes a killing with its resorts where the price per ticket is $100+ per day and most people pay for more than one day, but souvenirs, and stay at one of their hotels.
My dad is he same way, and he's 81. He hates talking on the phone. He doesn't like to bother people unless its important and that way they can get back to him when it's convenient. This way too, he won't miss the message if he doesn't hear the phone.
It really has to be part of the company culture and a top-down process. If the higher-ups are on the forced 8-hours-in-the-seat plan, then why should the employees get more freedom than them? There's an unspoken "if I'm going to suffer, so are you!"
C declarators cannot in general and do not follow English grammar rules, so that is a non-sequitur.
What are the biggest red flags or things that don't add up in your opinion?

I dug into his releases pretty deeply, but probably have missed quite a few of his public statements.
Smart TVs Caught Sending Sensitive User Data to Facebook and Netflix
In the City That Ride-Hailing Forgot, Change Is Coming
Royal Game of Ur
I get quite a good response rate in general, and most folks are rather impressed with my resume. The visual design as well. Its one weakness is having only a two-year degree.

There's not a lot of dates on it though, and only go into detail over the last ten years. So while ageism is a thing I've encountered when people see me, this happens long before that moment.

Not surprising at any place that receives a hundred resumes a day. You need a leg up advantage just to get noticed. JPL was the worst, my application was rejected within 15 minutes of submitting.

If I had known it was possible to work at such a place as a kid, or that Netflix would even exist, I'd have gotten a degree.
> But then I could argue back- if you value that type of privacy SO MUCH then you can choose to move to an area where you can walk or use public transportation.

This same style of argument when applied to freedom of speech leads to the appropriately criticized "free speech zones". I have a right to travel and a right to privacy. Saying that I can only use one of these rights at a time is absurd. My opinion on this specific instance might change if the US invested as much into public transportation as it does into roadways, but that is not the case.

> I can't really think of a situation where I would care that someone is passively recording my plate location as I drive by?

Driving to a union meeting? Driving to an abortion clinic? Driving to a church of a different religion/denomination than your family? Driving away from an abusive partner?
I understand your point, but I read articles like this (and especially ones by Langewiesche) because there are topics that, for me, I learn better about it this way. I'm exactly opposite of you -- I generally can't bear to watch videos or listen to podcasts about these kinds of nonfiction topics because they feel way too long to me, whereas I can read an article faster and skip the parts easily that I don't feel are good.
Renewable and natural gas generation is approaching or undercutting the marginal cost of operating coal plants in many areas. This isn't accounting for amortized costs of coal plant construction, simply the fuel and operations cost. So coal is well on it's way out. China and India have all but stopped planning new plants.

Natural gas is some ways away from being overtaken by renewables, but trends need only hold for a fairly short period for that crossover to occur.

The future isn't all rainbows yet, but things do seem to be headed in the right direction. Economics strongly disfavor the carbon economy going forward.
it pretty much means a modern-day hippie.
I get 404 not found from this link.
What is this account? Made ~20 minutes ago with 5 nonsense posts on this article? Obviously a bot, but to what end?