skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t understand what a hammer has to do with a story about an app that lets teachers score children by arbitrary teacher-specified criteria (without evaluation by an independent review board) and publish a feed to their parents of the scores with no oversight. Could you explain more?
On the other hand, he gave $37 million to various schools, which those schools might be using for scholarships for a number of students not standing on a multi-billion dollar pie.
Yes! This shift of business was somehow perceived by the public as the win of open source, but has actually amazingly been an actual loss on the control that you have with the money that you spend.
Thank you, yes I’ve actually tried that route in the past and I’ve enjoyed it but, as you said, it was a bit of a chore to maintain it
Yep, and last I checked (earlier this year I believe), there’s still a 14-character length limit on the MS account password. My bank’s better than that for crying out loud. Forget diceware or any other sane scheme, say hello to random hard-to-type punctuation characters.

And now you’re forced to use that as your computer password too, which you probably have to type multiple times a day.

(Okay, thankfully local account is still possible.)
I love gnome personally. It’s really easy to avoid using the mouse. Linux desktop certainly has problems, but I’m excited how usable it’s been for me the last couple of years for everything but certain games
> because the best ROI has been in the property market.

That is not true. It seems like it is true because we can look at our parents and grandparents and see that the house they bought in 1980 for $300,000 is worth a million dollars now, but that's not a great return. It seems like it because they are millionaires, but you'd have been better off in bonds with a better return and a whole lot less risk.
I can't wait until ReactOS is out of beta:
https://reactos.org/

There needs to be an alternative to Windows out there that actually uses Windows apps and drivers. WINE in Linux is not good enough for me yet.

They just released a new version of ReactOS and I haven't checked it out yet. If it can run Google Chrome and run MS-Office and Visual Studio I might just switch to it.
Thank you for linking that document, it led me to the petition [0] which I've now signed.

Though RMS certainly has his flaws, what the media has done here is very wrong.

[0] https://www.change.org/p/journalists-to-stop-the-persecution...
College/university is supposed to be about getting an education. For most people it isn't. It is about getting that piece of paper and its clear they learned next to nothing.

I take graduate degrees seriously, because people tend to take those seriously and focus on the education more than the paper at the end. I don't take 4 year degrees seriously at all. If all you've proven is that you can survive with minimal effort for four years before losing patience then you certainly have more potential than the lowest side of a bell curve, but you haven't proven you bring added value.
Show HN: On-demand walk-through with a property expert
Hiring operations engineers with updated and relevant skills?
Why can't you aerodynamically fly up to high altitudes and then start rocketing?
How to Use React Context API to Build React Native, Expo and Firebase Apps
When I use ChromeOS, Windows 10 or MacOS El Capitan

I guess I'm trading convenience for ...?

Is there any computer vendor that does not call the mothership or need these special vendor accounts?

ChromeOS <-- GalliumOS
Windows <--- ?
Apple <--- ?

Where do I buy a decent computer these days that respects user privacy without jumping through legal hoops?

Or is the last operating system, GNU/Linux - Linux that respects the user?

System76? ZaReason? puri.sm? <-- very small marketshare

Back in the day, my Apple //e never used to do that. Times have changed.
If you’re looking for a higher-level interface to SAT, SMT, and general constraint solvers, I can recommend MiniZinc: https://www.minizinc.org/index.html
Weird comment. You can get a college degree just for showing up.

Do you have a PhD, or did you give up? Do you have a high school degree, or did you give up? Do you still work at the first job you ever had, or did you give up?
A $250K household income is on the 96 percentile for San Francisco. Working in tech gives us a slightly warped perspective.

Moving from Britain to the US I've seen the income of my profession as a software engineer move from the 75th to 90th percentile and the variance of the income distribution widen so an income of the 90th percentile earns 2.6x rather than 2.0x the median. We're far richer here than we were at home.
And it's that kind of arrogant computer nerd bullshit thinking that will forever keep Linux from success on the desktop.
I think in your case the combo of Udacity nanodegrees and OMS CS is absolutely perfect. You get overwhelmed by Top 10 academia rigor and flooded by projects, and then jump to cutting edge with Udacity and do cool stuff like self-driving cars. The only drawback would be lack of time to do anything else.
Save money and realize that if my incompetence bothers anyone so much they’ll just stop employing me
It wasn't theft because of a discount.

It was theft because the money didn't go to the school but instead went to the facilitating lawyer and some corrupt employees.
You sum it up well with ["Science" is not a term with a single, rigorous definition.] At one point in time, a friend asked me to write up a consistent definition of "science" that he could use for a course he was giving. As I was doing research for this article, I could not find any generally agreed upon definitive definition for what "science" was. It had such a diverse range of meanings. At best, all I could do was define various fields in which there was research going in a systematic, logical and well planned manner. Not at all, what I expected when I started. This is one of the reasons why I don't use the word nowadays. Like I said, from my perspective, the word carries way too much baggage and only causes problems when discussing different subjects.

You then go on to say [This is a weakness on your part. Unless your idea of science is at least somewhat compatible with, say, what Feyerabend described in Against Method, you may have a romantic and unsubstantiated view of science, which could be dismissed just as easily as your dismissal of those that bandy about the word "science."]

My problem with this statement is that amongst various groups who are classified as professional scientists, there is much debate over what "science" is or isn't. An example of this debate is the long running differences that have occurred over whether or not "String Theory" in all of its myriad variations can be classified as science or physics.

Please do note that I did say that what I wrote was my opinion and that you may well have a different opinion and perspective. If you don't agree, I don't have a problem with that. You may be having far better success than I when it comes to discussing all sorts of subjects.

At any rate, I'll stop making further comments now as I have to get a fire going to get the house warmed up. We have had the first month of spring pass and it's still far too cold for my wife to endure not having a fire running.
Graduate degrees are pieces
of paper too. Masters are shameless money grabs. Most doctorates will kick you out with a degree if you sit around long enough.
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Do we have reason to believe banana peels will decompose any quicker than lettuce, hot dogs, or guacamole, which were found to be "almost as good as new" after 25 years in the ground?

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/13/nyregion/seeking-the-trut...
Forget customer service, not even Microsoft's internal IT helpdesk is staffed by FTEs.
That looks like an argument that you need more than twice as much fuel to get twice as much payload to orbit -- that fuel requirements go up more than linearly.

Maybe this is obvious, but two rockets can get twice as much payload to orbit using twice as much fuel. You can that up linearly all day long. (It holds for "twice as much", but the same argument doesn't work for "twice as fast" or other metrics.)
Ohai HN! I lead product and engineering for services and the project reviews system at Udacity - seeing this post gives me a lot of purpose to go to work on Monday. We are hiring engineers who are passionate about changing education!

Frontend engineer on my team: https://boards.greenhouse.io/udacity/jobs/4320541002

All open engineering positions:
https://www.udacity.com/jobs#engineering-it?location=all
A user on r/StallmanWasRight writes, "I've been in email contact with him and he asked me about this a couple of days ago." and "I don't think it's a money issue, anyway... it's a bit strange. I'm not sure what the issue is or why he's asking for help with housing.
Berkeley is a state school.
Anyone that wants to go to college can (presumably) get into one. It's not that he wanted a college guarantee - he wanted guarantees at a select few colleges.

He, in my opinion, wanted to guarantee for his kids - the networks / access / prestige that come from attending elite schools Yale, Stanford, Harvard, Horace Mann, etc.

The motivation for David Shaw isn't fighting inequality or discrimination but ensuring the best possible outcome for his kids.
The DevOps movement petered out because it solved most of it's technical problems with tools that have become industry standards.

As a sysadmin, you used to have to write scripts to solve EVERYTHING. Especially since tooling for ops people in the 2000s was a load of hot garbage. A lot of tools back then had GUIs, which weren't automation friendly.

Nowadays most ops problems have some easily automatable tool, which I think gives less incentive for sysadmins to reach for a programming language.
Not to mention perl is significantly faster. I was fairly bummed when I learned this since it felt ask is no longer that useful.
It's been a while since I tried running numbers but I think if capacity increased 2X then electric would be a strong contender for distances under 500 miles.
I'm suggesting that in a society where only people who do useful things get rich, owners of businesses that have attained most of their value through exploiting network effects will not be extremely wealthy.
I'd go for lubuntu in that situation.
Streaming-bird: CLI wrapper for node scripts to work with Unix pipes/streams
[OP here] Yes, you're right. In my case, I had the fortune of starting to program at a very young age, about 11. I started doing these courses to get on the whole ML/AI bandwagon (although I had been exposed to neural networks in the early 2000s).

The broad understanding I came to was, it's important to make your own conclusions, and not take anyone else's conclusion for granted, whether it comes from universities, courses, or even blog posts like mine. In reality, however, it's difficult to devote that much time to personally research everything. So you should at least do it with the things that matter the most to you in life.
X fuel can get Y payload to Z speed. To get that payload to 2 * Z speed, you need 2 * X + (X * (X / Y)) fuel, because the fuel counts as part of your payload for the first Z of speed.

If X is 500t and Y is 5t, you now need 51,000t of fuel to achieve 2 * Z speed.
I wish my Computers and Society professor got the memo that you can get a degree just for showing up. Could have skipped that 20 page paper on software patents.
fear of rejection - your manager hasnt made your workplace feel like a safe environment for you, or you havent expressed that you would like more validation. you’ll need to talk with your manager for this.

overly critical and ego driven perspective - how angry do you get at yourself for making mistakes outside of work? meditation and building a softer/less judgemental mind can work through this

lack of confidence in your ability to find another job - study up on interviewing, apply for some companies. create backup options for yourself.

fear of financial stability - like a previous poster said, it helps to have enough savings to weather any financial blips

fear of the unknown - improv classes are great at building confidence in yourself when dealing with unknown unknowns

just some ideas to work with
You do know who the president is right now right? You don’t need to do what you are doing -cia
Loc.gov & archive.org
Imagining a Time-Literate Society – Marcia Bjornerud at Long Now
> With Google's docs/drive, everything works cross platform

What do you use instead of Google Backup and Sync client? I haven't found something that works like that. The "best" thing I've found is the FUSE Ocaml filesystem (https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse) but still it is a "mounted" over network filesystem and not a sync-on-change solution. I tried InSync but could not make it work and it is not free, and also the Gnome "mount Google Drive" option, but it is also a "mounted" over network solution.

Other than that and some of the rough edges (random bluetooth issues, random issues after updating, completely broken Android ADB support), I like Linux Mint a lot. I do all my work and play (CS:GO, NFS, Cities Skylines, Hitman) on it, even for games that are not supported by default.
To elaborate:

A single IC die (a "chiplet" when stacked on others) is made of a layer of transistors and wiring up to several hundred nanometers thick on top of a much thicker (several hundred micrometer) silicon wafer substrate.

Yep, stacking these dies ("chiplets") on top of one another is one form of 3D, and is definitely useful: IIRC, AMD's recent popular Ryzen 3000 line uses chiplets, and the Raspberry Pi's RAM chip is stacked on top the CPU (in a much cruder post-IC-manufacturing assembly process). The shorter distance between dies (compared to placing them in separate plastic packages on a PCB) can lead to maybe an order of magnitude improvement (in speed/power/etc). It's hard to stack more than a few layers.

The most ambitious form of 3D design (and the one most people probably think of) is multiple thin layers of transistors on a single die ("monolithic 3D"); this would give maybe another order of magnitude improvement. Monolithic 3D memory chips are becoming popular (V-NAND, etc), with the most recent at ~100 layers. Monolithic 3D CPUs are still an unsolved problem because they need different, more difficult process steps and better heatsinks (but we're close!).
[OP here] You're right. I actually did my bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunications engineering, which can only be done in college because of the expensive equipment required to learn anything of value.
As a privacy concerned individual who is more tech savvy than some (but by no means a technologist or even a dev) - NO. no freakin' way man. I tried to do a dual boot WIN/Linux setup once. What a shitshow - took me hours, multiple attempts, drivers not working, weird quirks trying to get peripherals to work, games not working. Recalling it now makes me angry all over again.

90% of this planet is not capable, nor will ever be capable, of dealing with something that is not a fully fledged, 'stable' mainstream OS, either Windows or Mac OS. That's not good, it's not bad - it just...is. Better get used to it, or come up with a better strategy for changing it.
If you carry a phone, all the rest is just gravy. There's an old saying, "if you are going to get screwed anyway, you may as well try to enjoy it".
Both my previous linux install attempts resulted in effectively unusable machines. BIOS tweaks were required to even get usable software rendering on one, which didn't support my quad 4K monitor setup. Without the tweaks, I was dumped to a blank screen on boot. I might've been missing working audio drivers on the other - which I was using as a media PC.

As a gamedev, for my actual work machines, I rely heavily on windows-only tools, and I want to debug on the actual target platform customers would use (so, windows again.) Gamedev generally uses windows for even it's build servers. Maybe with a token mostly ignored linux box. Or a couple of mac minis if dabbling in mobile.
... only a small subset know about MIP solvers

And an even smaller subset are willing to pay to use gurobi or cplex. It would be so nice if the open source alternatives had competitive performance!
[OP here] I agree with you. Even if GT's courses, the course material is pretty standard and doesn't actually drastically increase your understanding. It's the assignments that give you the most value, which are similar to Udacity Nanodegree's projects.
I am not doing it.
You're right! I didn't want to delve into it too deeply, but for me and my friends who weren't CA residents the tuition was extremely steep, even after certain scholarships/aid. I think people in the US don't consider their state schools enough when looking into getting a college education. Again, my public school's CS department was ranked top 50, which certainly isn't the worse in the US, but it isn't prestigious either. In the end, the prestige didn't really matter in terms of getting job opportunities compared to my friends that went to much higher ranked schools.
I do find this to be actually legendary. At a target rate of about one per month, he is set to produce stainless steel, rapidly reusable, 150-ton-capable Mars transports. And is doing this using currently "about 5%" of the resources of his own commercially built satellite launch company, grown from scratch in a decade or so and out-performing every other nations satellite launch programs - by a large margin.

His presentation is noticeably a little self-concious, but not so much as to obscure his enjoyment to be standing in front of the first massive shimmering yet wielded and dented together rocket ship, which is due to demonstrate lift off and landing in a month or so.
If you have enough RAM you can run VirtualBox alongside your other programs on Linux. I used to run Android Studio in a Windows VirtualBox and it worked perfectly. Never had an issue.
> Take this as inspiration that’s its not just all smooth talking bullshit artists who get to become billionaires.

That's how you get WeWork.
The bit about the bait and switch contract they gave Amirchand (or Omichand, as they know him in Bengal), is pretty jaw dropping.
> As a result, it's very easy to build higher order tools to handle most workflows and infrastructure. It's the whole reason AWS can exist and why most devs don't care about the details of ops.

I have 25 years of engineering experience. I'm now a CEO... I think the cloud infrastructure movement is really killing off a valuable skillset - actually understanding your software stack.

My company would die on AWS... our hosting costs would be 8x...
You know that TV has always included ads, right? And the purpose of an ad is to influence thought and opinions?
I don't know about "best". But here's some I always check in on:

Jessie Frazelle: https://blog.jessfraz.com/

Joshua Stein: https://jcs.org/

Jim Fisher: https://jameshfisher.com/

(I just noticed they all have first names starting with 'J', weird coincidence, right?).
Yeah. What really stood out for me was the dissonance between what the mother was doing vs what she was prescribing/writing about:

> One of her areas of expertise is how to pay for college. In her writing, media interviews, and YouTube videos, she cautions parents not to “follow the herd with your donating dollars” or pin their hopes for their children on getting into brand-name colleges. “Don’t believe the hype,” she tells them. “You might find yourself obsessing over those annual college rankings. Don’t take them too seriously.” The sensible solution, she argues, is for families to “pick a few financial safety schools” — public universities close to home. A degree from an elite college, she reminds readers, may not translate into higher earnings in later life. “The Ivy League isn’t necessarily the gravy train.”

VS

>Shaw and his wife, financial journalist Beth Kobliner, have sent their three children to an elite prep school, supported them with hyperqualified nannies and tutors, and encouraged their extracurricular interests. But while the typical snowplow parent quietly eliminates potential obstacles by clearing the road ahead, Shaw and Kobliner have seemingly bulldozed an entire mountain.

>Starting in 2011, when the oldest of their three children was about two years away from applying to college, the Shaw Family Endowment Fund donated $1 million annually to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford and at least $500,000 each to Columbia and Brown. The pattern persisted through 2017, the most recent year for which public filings are available, with a bump in giving to Columbia to $1 million a year in 2016 and 2017. The foundation, which lists Kobliner as president and Shaw as treasurer and secretary, has also contributed $200,000 annually to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2013.

>The total donations for “general” purposes across seven years and seven elite schools are $37.3 million, which represents 62 percent of the foundation’s giving over that period.
Your first mistake was having an opinion that the government is ineffective at spending or regulating thing.

The second mistake was thinking this forum would support you.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. People have short memories of Microsoft practices and for some reason have "drunk the kool-aid". Ballmer was better because his tactics were not "sleazy", they were straight and clear.

This new exec team is sleazy and trying to give a "good face" when the reality is that they are as bad as they have always been. But people get flashed with the new & shiny open source crumbs that are given.
Part of the whole diversity thing is to also hire people who do not have programming in their list of hobbies. When I was at uni it was more common than not that people did not have any personal projects.
Yes you are right, those are another very good example of locally treated water, my Thai relatives live in a rural area where the “gallon bottles” are more commonplace so I forgot to mention those machines.
HN comment section serves to allow us to debate and discuss the linked articles. The author explicitly chose to make her editorial not only about her situation but a larger critique of society, throwing bombs at everything. I’m not going to give her a pass because she has cancer as I vehemently disagree with her.
They exist now; kulhars were mandated by a previous railways minister but I'm not sure about their present uptake