skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the sentiment: people are too often regard as mere tools. But I believe (hope) the paper was a theoretical exercise. In the same way one might discover human flesh is nutritious. And I image no society (expect maybe China) would view the paper as a how-to manual.

Rather than using this information to create a dystopian (and kinda click baity) future, it could be used to examine current social forces and make predictions and, ideally, prepare/compensate for them.

Indeed it would be just as easy spin the paper in a multitude of ways. For example, one might use it to justify taxation earmarked to aid the rural poor by saying it's not only ethical but also efficient.
I believe that, I use a website called Citystrides that tracks my runs from Runkeeper and plots all my runs onto a map, the idea is to run your whole city, this is my map now: https://imgur.com/S3sTSml

Before a run, I will roughly sketch out my route and then run it.

Before I started I only knew the main roads, now I know areas I didn't know before, and I know a lot of the shortcuts and how everything is connected.
Installed 1x USG, 1x 8-150 Switch, 6x AC AP Pros for a 30,000sq. ft. church about a year ago now. Haven't had a call.
Nothing seems wrong to me. Your much more expensive new luxury car probably has a good deal of computing power without a useful Unix development environment. Same goes with your expensive new television.
> These skills are often gained through completing an undergraduate degree.

Disagree.

An apprentice or even a bootcamp grad can learn these skills in their current job or in a online MOOC course without a degree.

What the author fails to mention is the amount of student debt that comes with the CS degree. In some cases a CS degree isn't worth the debt if the curriculum doesn't align with the market or if the university is less prestigious. It's no good becoming a graduate and leaving with no experience + £50k in debt and convincing employers that you are "qualified" for the role.

Given that most or if not all of these CS and soft skills can be learned online for free, students utilising free courses can find work debt free with the same skills as a CS grad with the added bonus of hands-on experience if they are apprentices. Unless you are after a research position, it is economically better to teach yourself for a typical developer position these days.
That’s how I feel if you use GPS navigation a lot. When I moved to LA I used my cell phone a lot to get to places but after a while I realized that I didn’t really know where things are. Now I am making a point to use the phone as little as possible and I feel I have a much better idea where things are.
Having worked with both Redux and a "real" FRP implementation (Haskell's Reflex library), I wouldn't call Redux FRP.

In Redux one explicitly, imperatively sends messages to a top-level message dispatcher, which then invokes more imperative code.

This feels /very/ different to Reflex's folding over events, and transforming dynamic values with pure functions.

The API you use is pretty different as well; consider:

* https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflex/blob/develop/Quickref.m...

* https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflex-dom/blob/develop/Quickr...
I use it professionally.
The reason free speech is called free is that it is supposed to be free of suppression and negative consequence where that speech does not infringe on the interests of others. That it is only now protected in scope by interference from government does not make this version of the free speech the one that supporters of it (myself included) the ideal.

> Should esr be banned from the internet by court order? Probably not.

Where's the uncertainty in this?

> Does any and every privately owned platform have the right to ban him or/and anybody who dis/agrees with him?

Those that profess to being a platform and not a publisher should not be able to ban him, nor anybody else, for their views, whether expounded via their platform. That's why they get legal protections not afforded to others. Do you think the phone company should be able to cut you off for conversations you have on their system?
KDE has a comprehensive suite of Qt applications which all adhere to the system theme. It also uses client-side decorations so all windows have the same decorations. Most popular Qt themes also have a corresponding GTK theme to make the rare GTK application (for me mainly Qalculate, Firefox, GIMP, and Gnome's Simple Scan) look and behave very similarly.

Fonts also all match in all desktop applications, and I have configured Firefox to ignore CSS fonts and use the same ones as the rest of the system.

I internally laugh every time somebody gets excited about a new dark theme for their application/OS - like they're coming out of a cave into the 19th century, while I'm living in the future.

There's a plasma-integration plugin for Firefox which makes scrollbars in FF match the Qt scrollbars! It also changes the Firefox scrollbars to click-to-warp instead of click-to-pgup/pgdn, to match with the rest of the system (I believe this happens in all GTK apps though).

There is only one inconsistency I have noticed - in Qt apps you can scrollwheel in inactive windows (configurable if desired), but sometime in the last year GTK changed so that this is no longer possible - I need to switch window focus to scroll GTK windows, except for Firefox. Also Electron apps stand out very much and feel unnatural to use - especially the theming and animations in the File/Edit/View menubar.
A CS degree means better HR screening pass rate.

Isn't this obvious...
It's just a weird mix of both stocks being techy/geeky, extremely volatile (though generally speaking on the upward trend), Elon Musk adding to Tesla's weirdness, and strange infatuation with AMD's CEO Lisa Su.

Tesla especially attracts a certain weirdness because there's a large cohort of people who think Elon is full of it and hiding massive fraud and are hellbent on exposing him (using $TSLAQ everywhere).

If you follow earnings season both stocks did extremely well, especially Tesla. Made and broke a lot of people.
It's not difficult to install and use. Nobody is forcing you to use it.
I imagine other students would be extremely grateful to have your experience to know the motivation behind some of the seemingly arbitrary ‘whys’ they are required to learn.
I'd be surprised. Here's an actual quote from one of their changelogs:
"Do not choose the skip option when running the Migrate Site wizard. If you do your devices may end up in a weird state."
I think a clearer is example would be with telecom companies. Say A and B, are telecom with equal market share. A, could "compete" in an attempt to gain market share and install a gigabit bandwidth, but this will only cause cause company B to retaliate and instant gigabit bandwidth as well. Therefore the market share and revenue will fluctuate back to equal. But both companies would have lose the money involved in installing the higher bandwidth. Therefore if the market share is equal the best strategy would be "tic for tac" i.e wait until you opponent does something. Which has two equilibrium either constant tic for tact. Or waiting for the opponent does a move.

In the case when one company's market share is smaller than the other it is always better to "invest" or compete.
Germany's Giant Windmills Are Wildly Unpopular
Same here and I was thinking it would be a detailed guide to compiling from source.
Gadget mode is limited to Raspberry Pi 0, 0W, A, A+, and 4.

> What I would love is to do the RPi wifi configuration wirelessly, perhaps through bluetooth on my phone.

As I understand it, this is what BerryLan does.
It's not perfect, but I've been using this Kill Sticky [1] bookmarklet to ditch those modals without having to look around for their [close] or 'x' link.

[1] https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky
Lately, I’ve been using YouTube primarily for music. My three current favorites are:

Odysseus (synthwave)
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCwoTj-pZgZZ8DInOXSSLMmA

Smooth Sounds (rap/trap)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m6HWQxnw7ko

Johnny M in the mix (trance/house)
https://m.youtube.com/user/johnnym805

Astral Throb (electronics)
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCpbH_7H71IPKq4eH7CD5spg
With self driving cars, the only entity who "uses" the car is its software.

The owner/user isn't in charge of any of its actions, and can therefore not be help responsible for them.
What if all wild animals died? Would insect extinction still be worth it?
A X64 Assembler in Typed Racket
X10R4 deserved an entry as did sunview
Show HN: Open-source game engine that combines SwiftUI with SpriteKit and ECS
1) I don't need to keep up with the news at all ~355 days/yr to be an adequately informed voter. It's not like it takes that long to google a candidate and some issues and catch up on what you missed.

2) If we're going the informed-voter justification, we'd be much (for large values of "much") better off if everyone took 99% of the time they spend on news and instead read foundational works and textbooks in political science, economics, comparative politics, ethics, statistics, history, and government in [home country], with maybe a smidge of modern policy pieces (e.g. think-tank stuff, policy studies, that kind of thing).
You missed a few:

* Poster candidate for Dunning-Kruger

* Cheap and fast but low quality

* Single pointed focus. More likely to be a one-language savant

* Degrees are for chumps: this is a delusion.
No, it would not be worth it.
Supermicro is offering Epyc Server since the product launch of the first generation. We ordered a Server back in June 2017 and it bot delivered in November because the CPUs Werke sold out in the beginning.

Now with Rome it gets even more wide spread.
The Epyc CPUs are perfect for a Single CPU all Flash storage Server due to the 128 PCIe Lanes. Intel can't offer anything comparable at the same or similar proce point because you need to buy 2 CPUs
Your second point is only true if you add a constraint to learn alone, nothing wrong with seeking out other self learners. Salary is generally true but that really depends on your negotiating skills.
Your expensive new car and new TV probably aren't being marketed as a replacement for your PC.
> this day and age...

The manufacturing of consent has been going on since the corporate monopolisation of newspapers in the early 20th century, but arguably news media has always had an agenda.

Before they were killed off I’m sure the labour class media organisations had an agenda that was pro-labour class.

You can never really escape agenda driven media you just have to be a knowledgeable, critical media consumer so you can derive information even from those with antagonistic agendas.

For example, Chomsky still thinks it’s important to read The New York Times and check out CNN.
There are multiple sides to this issue. On one side, homeless people often seem to feel entitled to live wherever they want to without paying a penny in rent or taxes, while actual residents in California are paying through the nose in both those categories. People like myself don't believe people have the right to live wherever they want regardless of ability to afford it. This obviously creates tensions.

On another side, California's housing policies at both the government and NIMBY homeowner level have been so asinine for so long that it's impossible for lower-income people to afford rent in major metro areas and people are finding themselves on the street after being priced out of their own homes on a regular basis. Then they stay in the same area, homeless, because of reason #1 above.

On a third side, Californians have been paying a huge amount of money for homeless programs, rehab programs, education programs, and I don't even know what else (it's hard to keep up with all the ballot measures) for quite some time with limited visible effect. Now there are measures to build homeless shelters not in places where residents wouldn't complain, but in extremely high property value places like Marina del Rey. Again, see reason #1 above.

And on yet another side, articles like [1] like to downplay the effects of homeless immigration from other states, but at least 13% of SoCal homeless people came from somewhere else. Politicians at the federal level like to tout dropping national homeless numbers as something to be proud of, but in reality Californians are paying, at least in part, for other states' refusal to deal with their own homeless problems.

[1] https://www.politifact.com/california/article/2018/jun/28/di...
>can be learned online for free

Can is the key word here. Most people don't have the discipline to go through a CS curriculum on their own.
these have nothing to do with coding skills!

any degree will get you those skills. project planning, deadlines, networking, dealing with people, etc. college will always give you access to people.

what is missing is basically easy & sometimes free access to knowledge. god i miss having access to nearly any library and all these books, and all these publications you can print for free. i still have a trove of PDFs on a USB stick somewhere...

and also all the discounts you get on most software. poor student me would have never had the monies to buy full visual studio back then...
Most of us already have free SD cards laying around, and reading the fine article’s scenario the phone which the author already owns and carries around also doubles as the screen, so no need to buy a second phone. So I read it as costing around $20 for the base setup described.

And you don’t need to trust a sketchy flavor of a phone OS or other sketchy phone subsystems made by vendors who do not have tight controls. Unlike Pi, phones are a highly targeted device type by certain governments including governments of countries where phones are made.
I’ve been vaguely aware of Sivers for years but this is the first time I’ve consciously listened to or read his content. It’s quite inspiring in a very grounded "you know, this is actually sensible and practical" way. Just wrote my first diary entry in a good 7 years. And the thoughts journal is something I’ve been experimenting with conceptually and on paper for months now, but this has given me the push and guidance I needed to really put it into practice in a structured, consistent way.
Yeah, 95% some YouTube Monkey blah, blah, blahing, and just a short piece of Marc telling his side . . . . .
I'm old enough to remember times when prestigiously-educated experts claimed big cities are going to disappear because of developing communications. Great to know they didn't stop generating their valuable prophecies since then!
Do you type "sudo" by accident a lot?
Totally agree with your last statement. I've fired more CS degree programmers than self learners.
Much like Apple products, when people go to college they feel the need to defend that idea to the death. As surely they couldn't have been so silly to pay 100k to have someone stand in a big room and read the internet to them.
You train this on them! (And then put the results on SoundCloud or YouTube.)
This is obviously not real.
I don't think the article made the best points in favor of a CS degree. I went to a top 40 program and I took a lot of CS and hardware classes and what I did learn, crucially, that is more difficult in the workplace, is how complex systems work and how to approach complex systems. Now, you could accidentally learn that on the job, or intentionally if you choose to, but you can also sort of skate by in a fog of ignorance for many years without ever learning the fundamentals. But look, we learned how RAM works, how networking and IP works, how to build a peer to peer file sharing network, how to design a simple microprocessor, how operating systems and threads and processes work, many of the fundamental data structures and algorithms that software is built on, etc. Learning all that provides a very strong foundation for learning any other software system. That's very hard to do without a program like a good CS curriculum.
A CS degree helps you get an interview. That's pretty much it.
Yup, that's where I first encountered the idea.
I expected the same and was gladly surprised with this interesting collection. That being said, there's a link under "uncategorized" regarding the X window system :)
The addon cannot work any longer because since the XUL to WebExtensions transition Firefox no longer allows addons to make decisions about the validity of https certificates. This killed off Perspectives and a number of other addons implementing alternate trust models.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1435951
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489080
Not windows in particular, but relative to flat UIs, I’d see Apple going full flat in iOS7 and having to bring bag borders and clearer buttons in the next versions as a pretty good sign those were needed.
Use blacklist. I already have to blacklist some Belkin URLs that are constantly pinged.
Not sure why this is downvoted. Only the uninformed are using (usually multiple, lol) requirements.txt files + raw `pip` and managing venvs themselves nowadays.
And what's interesting is that AMD was a tech bro darling before memes were a thing, it dates back to the late 90s and early 2000s.
Starlink is a big deal
It is possible to scrape through a program without much curiosity or real understanding. Thus defining a clear gap in the workforce that those with CS degrees (and who actually paid attention) can fulfill. Specifically, building the tools, algorithms, and systems that the code monkeys will add features to. Which part of the food chain one wants to show up in has surprisingly little to do with how much one gets paid, but since it doesn't matter, I know where I'd rather be.
I was coming into this thread to recommend looking for entry level part time mcb/bio lab work precisely because of point #1.

It's a wax on, wax off thing. The repetition gives you a chance to reflect on the rationale for your technique and bigger picture of what you're doing, in addition to getting hands-on experience in the field.
Beyond all that, a lot of people already have an unrelated degree. Going back to school for CS makes even less sense if you already have a college degree, even in an unrelated field, and have some coding knowledge or job experience.
From my experience, if people don't have the discipline to self-study some specific topic then they'll have a hard time in CS. The problem is CS is constantly changing and you need to be routinely upgrading your skills as time progresses to stay competitive in the marketplace.

I would even go as far as saying that being able to self-study on your own is an essential life skill, up there with learning how to read/write. That's how important it is. You need to learn how to do it. It is important. Personally, I think overtime it will become easier to self-study topics due to advancements in edtech technology.
It feels to me that Mr. Neuman is a kind of person like Louis Bloom in the movie Nightcrawler.
What I would rather carry in my pocket:

* A bit of secure, encrypted storage for my ssh keys, important papers, and similar stuff.

* A u2f token.

* A password manager running in a secure, controlled environment which exposes itself e.g. as a web app.

* A VPN node that exposes itself as a modem / network card.

An RPi could be all these. I maybe would prefer something like USB Armory [1] for for higher security, though it lacks a wifi interface.

[1]: https://inversepath.com/usbarmory.html
I own and operate Ubiquiti hardware.

If this doesn't go opt in, I will not be buying more and I will stop recommending it to others.

Please don't do this. Firewalling access points, good practice or not, should not be necessary. You're not a dodgy IP cam manufacturer.

People buy your equipment precisely because they want to trust their network hardware.
Here's the stock photo:

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/cute-baby-boy-sitti...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21406176
Some of the GOOP products have been noted by health experts as harmful. For example, the jade eggs GOOP wants women to put in their vagina despite jade being porous enough to harbour bacteria.
Indeed, after working at Tesla for awhile.

While the core is great, I think the biggest contributors to the success are a few decisions outside of the design of the Zen core.

One is an investment back in the Opteron days for an efficient, scalable, low power, low latency, high performance serial interconnect. This is a key enabler for the new chiplet strategy that has paid off so handsomely for AMD. Now a single piece of silicon can scale from low end Ryzen through the highest end servers without having to divide their limited R&D budget across numerous different designs.

Additionally selling off global foundries enables them to pick the best fab per generation, something that Intel can't, or at least hasn't done.

So Intel had a set back on the fab where the difficulty (chip yield) is increased by their larger chips. While AMD can switch fabs (they switched from global foundries to TMSC at 7nm) and make much smaller chips. The top of the line Epyc chip has 9 chips inside (I/O + 8 CPU chiplets).

This positions AMD Particularly well for the future, they could now rev the I/O chip for DDR5, more memory channels, or any other performance tweak without having to re-engineer the CPU chiplets.

It also doesn't require all the chip related technologies to move in sync. The I/O chiplet is actually made on an older process than the CPU chiplets. If the PCI-e 4 I/O chip was late, AMD could have shipped a PCI-e 3 I/O chiplet. If mid cycle PCI-e 5 becomes a must have AMD would have much less engineering to fix it.
It's funny the article never mentions learning actual code and learning essential algorithms as part of what makes CS degrees a good choice.

What it does mention:

Struggling as a community; learning independently plus from people who are learning independently of you; networking with people who are committed to the same career path as you; and confidence that comes from having a degree. (I'm paraphrasing extensively)

Since this is something that all college degrees offer especially under bad professors and terrible academic programs, I think the lesson here is heavy goalpoints combined with little guidance makes for successful students and career paths when backed with prestigious degrees.
Wait the implications of this are huge for electronic music DJs
True story, I am self-taught but have some impressive projects listed on my resume, some even open-source. It's more often than once that I've finally get an interview just to learn that the recruiter has removed these when anonymising my resume.
Like I said a CS program at least attempts to bridge this gap. Courses are there. Most self learners are unaware or just want to learn React.
I agree. I’d pay for a "course" that assembled a massive list of practical learning projects like this into something that plots real skill/knowledge growth from beginner to advanced in a structured way.
I salute you sir.
I'm a self-taught programmer and finishing my BS in Software Engineering right now. Something I never appreciated in my career or my first go at college was the value of access to academic papers. There is so much knowledge available in academia that's locked away from the general public. Quite frankly a lot of that knowledge ends up duplicates effort because you can't get to it otherwise.
You can also specify length and strength of the generated password:

password 20 high

password 10 low
I'm still very much an amateur at all this, especially open source. Hopefully someone else likes using Swift and SwiftUI for games as much as I do.

Still a long way to go, but I just managed to get the same game code/UI running on both iOS and macOS without resorting to Catalyst and minimal #if's. :)
AWS isn't a big brand in the enterprise space? Because they certainly do have AMD offerings...