skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, never heard of this person before, but seeing what useless nonsense he managed to waste millions of dollars on, it is at least good that he won’t be wasting anymore art grants.
I did a CS degree in the 1980s which I'm still very happy that I did (the fact that it didn't cost me a penny probably helps) - but I do think that CS is irrelevant to 95% of development jobs.
Thanks for the feedback. Thanks to people that saw this post the site has been updated to list a lot more information however I concede that it is still not perfect and there is still more information to collect.

Please let me know if you feel there is more information that could be added to help improve the site.
I agree. I love that about React. I think all UI libraries could learn a ton from React.https://medium.com/@ryansolid/what-every-javascript-framewor...

But it isn't something that completely gets abstracted. There is a reason it has been so difficult to make a non-virtual Dom version of React. It isn't impossible, but has yet to fully flesh out despite attempts by a few projects including members of the React team.
A nation ruled by actual war criminals should not be surprised that its police are a source of violent crime.

Blacks and other minorities in America today are treated with the same callous disregard as Libyans, Afghanis, Iraqi's and Yemeni are treated by its out of control military industrial pharmaceutical complex - every single day for decades.

Sure, you know who George Floyd is, because he was an American citizen and American media is not banned from reporting on his death. But, do you know who Saleh Matasher Tomal was? Got any clue who Saeed Chmagh was? Namir Noor-Eldeen? These are also victims of Americas out of control obsession with violent authority over what self-appointed political judges, proven war criminals, have deemed to be lesser human beings.

If you want America to change its ways within its borders, you have to start prosecuting the real crimes against humanity that are committed in the name of every single American citizen outside its borders.

This is where the actual trouble starts: war criminals, getting away with it, then turn their troubled death cult psyche towards American society and apply the same heinous policies towards the people they truly hate ...
I think it's to help Brad Pitt when he tries to speak those lines in his Southern accent.

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inetd was like what, eBPF hacks and sidecars?
What’s missing from the conversation is the nature of the university. It makes this piece uniquely applicable to, say, the top 100 universities in the world. Let me throw in an African perspective, a hand grenade depending on who you ask.

I’d argue that in the current economy where global mobility should be an intentional goal of any education, they (most African universities) pay negative dividends in both power in their name and quality of education. I’d rather spend my tuition on online courses offered by MIT and Stanford. So, should I go to the university? In order to be able to answer, we should ask, which university. The answer is a definite yes for the top 100, maybe until the 1000th, and a no after that: there are non-university institutions that can give you the higher quality signal you need.
Endstage capitalism.. Feudal Thiefdoms and recursive fleas.
> Maybe criminals in the US carry and use guns because they fear violence from the police?

Criminals carry guns because other criminals carry guns, and because prospective victims generally do not carry guns.

Most criminals are not going to be interested to pull a gun on the police. If they can make the gun disappear when encountering the police, they will.

> In the UK you know the police are going to respectfully arrest you and treat you well, so might as well give in rather than escalate it to a firefight.

In the UK you also don't face the same penalties. If it's twenty-five to life, people are likely to resist arrest by all means.

> But generally I think it's crazy that the police in the US are armed. Most policing doesn't need lethal weaponry, and community officers shouldn't be armed. Leave guns to specialist units when required.

Sure, most policing doesn't need arms, but most behavior doesn't need policing either.

If you were a police officer, would you, unarmed, engage another person wielding a hatchet? I'd say that's unlikely. Would you even take the job if you were unarmed?

Of course that means police kill/injure fewer people, but they also prevent fewer people from killing or injuring others.

> I know Floyd wasn't killed with a gun, but I think disarming the police would be the right response and first step towards reducing police violence, as it de-escalates every interaction.

It would de-escalate in the sense that there won't be any policing. Officers aren't going to engage a potentially armed criminal with just pepper spray.

If you could assume that the person you are trying to arrest most likely does not carry a gun, like in Europe, it would be different. That's just not going to happen in the US.
Does it matter where the risk comes from if the differences in risk are still there? A person dying due to falling off a tree is just as dead as one dying from a GSW. Police work is objectively less dangerous than many other much more mundane professions; why does it matter what the source of the danger is if the results are the same?
> college name matters

Nobody ever asks me what college I attended. Nobody cares.
> Unless the shareholders are idiots or impotent and the board set the wrong incentives.

That's quite a big leap. Humans are exceptionally good at gaming objective metrics if that's all that matters... setting the right incentives is by no means something any non-idiot can do; it's in fact exceptionally rare to find people able to set right incentives for an entire organization (or for it's leadership; if the leadership doesn't inherently have the right motivation, I don't actually think you can fix that via a set of incentives; probably the best you can do is constantly-modifying incentives, tracking aggressively any sign of misaligned motivation etc)
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I don’t think you need a degree for that sort of career shift. Just get a short training course and start building stuff and applying for jobs.

University degrees are, fundamentally, a mark of status and patience: “this guy had enough money and willpower to sit through years of drudgery, so it’s safe to hire him to do the same for us”. After a few years nobody cares what the degree was actually about, particularly in IT where everything gets redone every few years.
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The premise of the map is that "police kill a lot of people in the US, many unarmed, and they are disproportionately black".

What do you think the premise of the map is? You are saying to disagree with the premise but then you simply argue with the "implications" of the data. What premise are you disagreeing with?
The irony here is you just pigeonholed "ethics" and then made several ethical arguments yourself while saying you don't care about ethics!

To add some formal language:

> I don't think absolute right and wrong, or even absolute "lesser of two evils" is a particularly useful goal.

This sounds like a metaethical argument - what underpins ethics is a very important question that a lot of people miss, but that argument is actually the base of ethical stances. The formal metaethical belief here is objectivism. Some other options are things like subjectivism, cultural relativism, error theory, and non-cognitivism.[1]

[1] A video alternative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOoffXFpAlU

> It's the contextual framework that matters... Values, priorities, fears, desires, needs, the things that comprise a person's identity and worldview. Those things are going to win over ethics every time when real world decisions are being made.

Ethics (once you get past metaethics) is almost always around a framework, and focuses exactly on everything you listed. Aristotle explicitly focused on values to built his ethical framework. Foucault talks a lot about fear and power. Most of consequentialism and utilitarianism focuses on needs and desires. Rawls and egalitarianism is an example of talking about priorities.

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To me, it sounds like you have a gripe with the impracticality of philosophers talking about ethics but care quite a lot about ethics itself. If so, I'd be with you strongly on both accounts.
deleting them is way more controversy generating than not. companies avoid controversy.
You mean SPAs that renders on servers?
Lots of great resources here, but as mentioned in the essay signaling based on external validation is still crucial. (OP seems to have won a Thiel Fellowship, I’d assume that has a stronger signaling value than your typical college degree.) As much as I hate it, the world runs on limited resources and people and organizations have no choice but to rely on some sort of signaling scheme as a filtering mechanism.
At least people are willing to pay for that stuff with their own money, instead of having it imposed on them.
Also, a lot of FOSS developers use a liberal license like the MIT one, so companies can use their free software too without even needing a lawyer!
Someone tell me how this amazing discovery won't work in practice.
So React needs VirtualDOM? Do people want React not to be dependent on VirtualDOM. Is there a reason/benefit?
Sort of. I don't think you can write off the virtual Dom. But this is basically my area of research. I'm saying that a specific approach to reactive programming is more performant. I have an article for that too: https://medium.com/better-programming/the-fastest-way-to-ren...
Hi, thanks for the feedback. Some people that saw this post offered their help last night and as a result the site has been updated to contain much more information (there couldn't be any less let's face it) about each video.

If you still think there's more information that could be added please say and I will make sure it is listed with each video
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Just transferred my Brex points away to an airline partner.

After using Brex for a year I don’t see the point. It has nice benefits for tech startups, but these are easily obtainable elsewhere. I get much better benefits and service from Amex.
For the CV - yes. For the job - depends on the uni; many are 80% java which is pointless if you already have tech skills. Having might also save you from dwelling on "what if i had?".
Some universities teach formula plugging, and some teach fundamentals. I've worked with the graduates of both, and the former can't solve any problem that doesn't have a book answer, and they'll misapply that.
fine for me, firefox/android
Hi, I certainly don't want this to be the case and as such the site has been updated with a lot more information about each video. Still this may not be enough so if you think there is anything else that can be added please say and I will ensure that the website is updated.
Think FPS charts in GPU reviews. If the distribution of the latency is uneven, eg. you get fast response times, but only in a small number of requests, the average won't tell you as much information as what the latency is 50%, 90% or 99% of the time.
spent a little more than two in Berlin last year. I didn't find Germany particularly orderly

Berlin is a sort of internal exile colony for those who reject or are rejected by the German lifestyle but don’t for whatever reason want to leave Germany
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Yes... the so-called sketches were often done after the major work was already completed. Kind of like reverse preparatory work. His work was very expensive indeed, and tthis was one of the ways they funded it. That and tax write-offs from big buisness.

I never understood the Jean Claude thing. She always insisted very vocally that she and Christo were a creative partnership. However, there is no discernable difference betweeen Christo's work before JC, and that which he produced after they partnered. So where is her creative inmput?

My experaince of her is colored by a very colourfull fax I recived from her whilst interning at a major London gallery. I made the huge mistake of addressing a communication only to Christo.
In French (I work in France), sénior (senior) sounds similar to seigneur (lord), so I use this to my advantage.
> I wish free software advocates would stop calling proprietary software immoral.

Vendor lock-in is immoral, though.
This is a good talk on the matter from the creator of Svelte himself, if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdNJ3fydeao

Basically, it boils down to moving from tracking the DOM state in a VirtualDOM to tracking what DOM updates can happen at the compile stage and then just doing those exact updates to the DOM.
I agree, but the signal can be pretty small. I contributed to Firefox and it was good enough to be hired by web browser company without a degree. After that, work experience was good enough for pretty much anything.
And recently made irrelevant by Amazon, who discovered how to defeat its purpose while fully respecting its terms (copy the code without any contributions back to the authors, so you don't get any sharing back; do all of the hard work of deployment logic in code you do not share, ensuring people can't really move to self-hosting if they want to patch the software in any way).

The AGPL is one of the strangest licenses to me, coming from a foundation that considers running code you can't read or modify as a violation of your human rights, but also making a license designed for software running on someone else's computer entirely, where you have no possibility of any amount of control.
The underlying dataset is fascinating and supports the UV-B damage hypothesis while also falsifying the mega-volcano hypothesis. It took a great deal of Wikipedia research for me to get a feel for the paleo geography and paleo climate of East Greenland 359 Mya. The “warming causes ozone collapse” meme seems aimed at gaining media attention but that tactic seems to be the norm now in scientific papers.

Sometimes the curation role of a journal is important and peer review can identify errors. In this case it seems like access to the right geological formations by competent scientists is key and I read nothing in the paper made me question the science. I don’t think the lack of journal prestige diminishes the significance of this specific paper; it probably reflects the modern relevance of this extinction event.
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...in mice!

Sorry, wrong thread.
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And I suspect that both of you got technical degrees and work in technical fields.

You are almost by definition an edge case.
People don’t care that much about what university you’ve gone to, but they definitely care about the fact that you’ve graduated.

Source: am 42 with no degree, and I’m surprised when my CV makes it through HR filters, because it’s so rare.
I don’t know the answer to your question, but my advice would be to seek out US companies that already hire from Eastern Europe. I know Sentry has a team in Romania for example.
+1. NixOS benefits especially, because a broken kernel/nvidia update never renders your system unusable. You can make changes to all your heart's desire, and if something does break, all you have to do is reboot and select previous configuration
I don't think any of those models would work in the small business sector that I provide niche software for. The big open source projects supported by the likes of Facebook etc work because writing software is something Facebook do as an aid to their business rather than it being their business per se. So contributing to open source software is purely a way of reducing their own costs and maybe getting some kudos. If your fundamental business is writing software that you need to sell to people then making it open source makes as much sense as a corner shop operating on an honour system.
Even at age 48, I see people getting on the inside track because they have degrees from name brand universities, including myself (I have a PhD from CMU). A degree from a good place signals (rightly or wrongly) that you were academically strong enough to get in and to finish.

As for career development - 3-4 years of career development "forgone" isn't really that much relative to the sum total of an entire career. One could just as easily say that when you're 40, no-one but bureaucrats is going to give a crap whether you have 19-20 years of experience or 23.

There are always exceptions - the whole "dropped out of university to found X or invent Y" thing - but 95% of people's actual accomplishments (as you so excitedly put it) are going to be a bunch of 'turned up, did pretty good' lines on a resume. All other things being equal, I'll hire the person who passed university-level calculus at a good school, thanks.
> If you were a police officer, would you, unarmed, engage another person wielding a hatchet? I'd say that's unlikely. Would you even take the job if you were unarmed?

Great example! Here's how the UK engage someone wielding a machete, without guns or any other weapons beside extendable batons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mzPj_IaMzY

They try to deescalate, they bring in reinforcements, they surround, then they disarm him using shields, not weapons, and he survives to stand a fair trial. No guns needed.

And if they thought they couldn't arrest him using shields they could call in a specialist firearms unit, who are specifically trained, authorised, and accountable.
Not all the keys can change and the ones that can't are all Mac ones which limits the adoption of Windows users which like it or not are still the vast majority
The pace. It's like going from Formula 1 engineering team to classic Sunday rides in some backwater suburb. Started a web design business first few weeks out of uni and spent a good few years struggling, worked ourselves to the teeth, finally got a product out and bootstrapped until we got acquired. Don't get me wrong, not everyone wants to go that route but after a year of not doing anything particularly useful I opted to go work instead of start something new. The pay was nice, but everything else was just painful.

After being a founder you learn to communicate, adjust to situation and more importantly, always keep an eye on the big picture. My job only evaluated the particular development skill and were thoroughly uninterested in anything else I had to offer. This wasn't helped by my fellow employees lack of urgency and as you so well put it "sedated" feeling and sort of going with the flow in easy fashion. So off the cliff manifested itself into a minor depression/anxiety. I remember reading a book years ago where the author said "nothing feels right". My family and friends said I looked healthier ,with the irony of-course, I was dying inside.
I didn't come up with the idea, I saw it in action in a mining context.

Besides, how you can be sure it does or doesn't happen? The world is large and complicated; and basic research gets nearly no press and is very hard to statistically quantify. Where would you look for proof in the positive or negative?
And to make it worse, it takes focus off solutions that would work and increases the racism by making identity politics a good thing. If you made $180,000 a day since the birth of christ, Jeff Bezos would still have more money than you and that guys children is going to inherit it because of the system.

Having your kids not working a day in their life with inheritance money might be ok but grandkids?
"Without needing a lawyer" is a strong assertion: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2016/09/21/MIT-License-Line-b...
It's a feature that you can use it without learning anything.
What's the important stuff? Where do I check my understanding?
A Russian company launched a similar keyboard like 10 years ago, don't know what the long term reliability was
Can’t upvote this enough. I wish I had taken a gap year back then, and I will insist that my kids do it. More than a decade of schooling inevitably takes a toll, and optimizing for highschool success can mislead one’s choice for university.
It never was safe.
I had that too, if taking the flight path from Goldshire to Stormwind and my game crashed/disconnected, I often found my character next to Stormwind gates.
Std::string half of all allocations in the Chrome browser process (2014) [0]

The key difference is that web browsers support a highly arbitrary and mutable dataset. A game engine's assets exist in a mostly-static space. The things that are allocated at runtime are things that should have a known maximum, because going over that maximum will start to overrun latency targets. Many assets are streamed, but still hit a certain size and bandwidth budget, and so are still "basically static" - some degree of compilation and configuration at runtime always takes place for rendering features. The genuinely mutable part of game state while playing is in a comparatively confined space, and that allows a lot to be pushed to build time, where it's easier to validate and to maintain.

The features that change this picture are editors and arbitrary data imports. Web browsers are all about these two things. When you click a link the document may load thousands of gigantic images, and I might try to copy-paste the entire contents of Wikipedia into a text box. The engineering requirements are much broader as a consequence, and there are more rationales to need genuine "black box" interfaces supporting a complex protocol, as opposed to a static "calling function switches on a specified enum" approach, which is sufficient for almost every dynamic behavior encountered in game engines.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704318
If you are not struggling academically, you can learn more by taking higher level classes. Talk to your advisor about balancing this.

Learning applied subjects is easier than learning theory, so make the most of your limited time with the professors by learning the most amount of theory.

But most importantly, go out. Find friends from as many departments as possible. Get into mamy clubs (you can just drop the ones you don't pike later). Much of the personal growth from college comes from being exposed to different perspectives, so don't miss out on that.
> Stallman's position is pretty extreme.

Stallman's position is not extreme. It is consistent and firm, but he tries to reach a reasonable compromise. In political parlance you could say that he's a reformist, not a radical. Notice that he argues that it is OK to use proprietary softare, for example for developing free software if it is the only option, or for communicating with other people that cannot use free software at the moment (e.g., zoom meetings). If that is the case, he urges you to at least tell your colleagues from time to time that there are other options and that you would prefer to use free software:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/saying-no-even-once.html

The linked text is very clear and cannot be construed at all as "extreme". At the same time, he holds that while we can reach temporary compromises, proprietary software is always unethical and that we should strive towards freer options.
Those you actually have to enter, though, so I never set those to anything that wouldn't be available on a standard keyboard.
> "The ones in London like to regale others with tales of how much they enjoy donning their riot gear and using any excuse to batter people, especially if they are black"

If this is true then you need to immediately report it to MPS DPS and IOPC.
Sure, you don't get to easily make any changes you wish, but even this has real upsides.

Modern consoles are able to offer a multiplayer experience free of the cheating that plagues many PC games. That's because they're bolted-down and deny users the freedom the modify the software. To the customer, that has real value.