skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it absolutely is evidence that means something. You have direct first hand evidence of racism. Even if it's not sufficient for action on its own it is still incredibly valuable evidence that may well be strengthened by other people's accounts.

Unless you are lying, you absolutely have a civic duty to report what you heard.
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see Scrum prioritising the “how” over the “why”. It advertises itself as a “how” (and a very flexible, minimal one at that), in order to get out of your way to focus on the “what” and “why”. Because it completely avoids speaking to the “why”, adoptees are free to use it in whatever relation to “why” they see fit. To me it’s clear the “why” comes first.

I do agree that we find it very easy to talk about “how” ahead of “why”. Especially those of us whose job it is to make the “what”.

I’d happily dig into whether a “how” does indeed fall out of a “why”. My knee-jerk reaction was “probably not”, but on A bit of reflection you may be right in more cases than not. The “why” helps frame customer/user expectation, which in turn suggests tolerances for usability, functionality and quality, which in turn should suggest a “how”.
I think there are a few additional aspects to this than just a simple anti-university sentiment.

This site is very US-centric, which adds a huge monetary component to this decision. That makes this an entirely different question compared to a country where higher education is free.

I also think that software development is a field that is quite friendly and attractive to people switching from a different career or field. So you have the related, but still distinct discussion about whether you should have a CS degree specifically to work as a software developer.
A publisher has the right to regulate the content they publish.

A common carrier must strictly avoid regulating the content of their carriage.

There are different regulations in place for different businesses. A common carrier must scrupulously avoid even the appearance of modifying or restricting the information they carry.

The grey areas lurk in what publishers condone and promote: what constitutes hate speech or child pornography and is subject to reasonable restrictions on speech in a free and democratic society at one end of the spectrum, and what constitutes political campaigning and is subject to campaign finance and political contribution laws at another.
The same principle that allows individuals to say what they want also allows companies like Reddit to disallow certain speech on their platform. It's not as though they're fighting for it to virtue signal. Besides that, you want to keep the flow of speech open, even if you bottleneck it yourself, because it gives you more range on what to allow and what to block.
> When you run as uid=0 in same the container, you are actually mapped to your uid, since the range starts to be applicable for uid=1. If you can stay as root, you can write to NFS/GPFS just fine.

Oh oh oh, you were just saying run the container as root, like literally. That’s what threw me off, because I was in the mindset of rootless. Wasn’t allowing myself to think outside of that environment. Sorry for the confusion on that. Long day yesterday.
Especially in cases where size/weight is not critically important. This could be a huge deal for something like a home solar setup where batteries can make up a significant portion of the cost.
> The anti-university sentiment on HN is absolutely alien to me.

Mmm...how do measure that? I think it's balanced. I suspect that the majority of the folks that comment have at least an undergraduate degree. Even the ones who argue that the degree is not of great value..
Sometimes, you don't want them to contribute anymore.

A large number of the people who get banned on the subs I moderate are just belligerent assholes that we're better off without. Someone posting blatantly racist or misogynistic comments isn't someone we want around.
In case you are thinking twice about getting a degree due to education costs, please take note that many European public universities offer free education even for foreigners.
SciML Ecosystem Update: Auto-Parallelism and Component-Based Modeling
I'm a similar position. Visited every 6-8 weeks for a while due to work, but not been back since 2008, and at this point I really don't want to.
With WSL, shouldn't it be possible to use any native Linux file system?
How Covid-19 Is Affecting Data and AI Algorithms
How do I change the background color of the HTML page? Install a library
They do exist but they are dev kits = expensive
Nature takes the Lancet paper on HCQ for granted: but the current debate shows that it may not be the case. Even if the conclusion is the same (it may as well be), it is no excuse to not do one's homework properly, and instead may just worsen the public perception of science.

Some references:

- https://zenodo.org/record/3871094#.XtSHr6-Xz_8.twitter

- https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/25/hydroxychl... (and follow ups)
What is or will be the developer platform for IoT?
What do you think will be the dominant developer platform/programming language (if any) for all things IoT?
Care to explain why? There's riots in the streets because of police brutality, browser history can now be requested by law enforcement without a warrant, .. i mean OP has a point?
Why your digital transformation needs to go content-first in 2020
A New Month
I think this is phrased wrong. I get what you mean, but this is just gate keeping. First, what do you even mean by hacker? There are many ways to describe this.

Sure, if you mean the creativity, bending the rules of what's possible, general interest in discovery... that's traits people have in the first place before being called hackers. But that's not the only way.
From this quote "Black people are 3x more likely to be killed by police than white people".

Perhaps the interpretation is indeed only in my head but it seems that a white cop killing a black perpetrator will generate substantially more attention and rage than any other racial combination. This in turn fuels the confirmation bias that make it seem that (white) police are just shooting unarmed black people left and right. The same site shows that black people are "only" 1.3x times more likely to be unarmed compared to white meaning that it happens a lot yet how many stories of unarmed white deaths caused mass riots?

A quote such as above implies causation, yet the numbers while technically true, don't. For example "White people are 3x times more likely to be killed by police than Asian/Pacific Islanders" is also true [0]. Also, the same source shows that "Men are 20x times more likely to be killed by police than women". All these quotes have the same structure yet only cause outrage (and imply causation) when the race/genders are in an order that confirms an implicit agenda such as white>black or men>women.

My point is that police brutality, like most things, is complicated and has many factors in play and allowing it to be hijacked to a racial discussion as "police against black thing" isn't doing anyone any good.

[0] https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793
For most of my career, nobody 'created' a job for me. I went out and figured out something useful to do, did it, and made a living.

And would we imagine a society of capable, educated, useful people is not preferable to a society of ignorant unskilled people? Why would we wish that on ourselves? How does that improve the world?

Even worse, the implied understanding that our society cannot function without an uneducated subject class is worrisome. Are the socialists right, and Capitalism/the free market demands a slave class?

Anyway, with automation any such demand diminishes yearly and is already small.
I don't think you're allowed to sneak "when I kill it has societal benefit" into the "context".
i appreciate the practical usage focus here with software tutorials
This is what happens when you learn React first, without a basic understanding of web fundamentals (HTML, CSS and JS)
Redundancy, Backups, and RAID: The story of lost data and downtime
I canceled my Facebook account a few months ago. A full delete, not a deactivation. Somehow, I still get the occasional email notification from a Facebook group, and it makes me really really curious to know how that could be possible if my account is supposedly gone.
Meaning what? Please give a full reply, not a bullet-point.
That is the debate over Sec 230 though, with many people saying that if a platform wants to enjoy the immunity granted under sec 230 they need to be neutral, failure to do so means they lose that Sec 230 Immunity.

This would mean any moderation makes them liable as a publisher as under current law if you do not have Sec 230 immunity then the only other way to avoid liability to not do any moderation at all of user generated content (or to prohibit user generated content)
Responsible as in "speech we are not responsible for," right?
As someone who is 27 yo and dropped out of school when already having a job offshore(oil) lined up, I certainly can agree with a lot of this.

I had been doing software development for 4 years and I figured I'd rather work with that than automation and electronics. I had a side project(game) that was earning some money.

Note that this was in Norway so I could have (and still can) go to university for free.

My girlfriend ended up getting a masters degree in software development and is currently working in a consultant firm. She's currently tanking another masters degree in entrepreneurship, mostly for fun.

I've always doubted my skills, but after helping her out every now and then I've realized that 10+ years of experience really can't be matched by going to school.

On the other hand I've also learned that university is a great way to kick off your learning. Some things they're learning are things I often ended up with too, on my own, with trial and error. At least I really understand why some things are what they are because of it.

I started very young and was quite successful with my first project. People has spent thousands of years(combined) actively using my first project.

But even though I have done well, I still feel like I'm taken less serious than those with a full education, cause I've just created a strange game.

I'm considering going to university now just to get cheaper insurance and the degree, but I don't expect I'd learn a lot of new things. But I do enjoy fiddling with stuff, so it might be fun.

Do I regret it? Not really. Am I worried? Slightly, if it all falls down then I need to get a normal job or come up with something else.

Would I recommend it? If you're really driven and are already seeing signs of success, sure, give it a shot.
From my perspective, somebody who has not attended university but still learned everything they need to do a dev job well has demonstrated something really important：the ability/motivation to learn new academic things in their own free time. So many people seem to completely stop learning once they leave university. I work in HFT, where things are constantly changing and people need to be at the top of their game to stay competitive, so the ability and willingness to keep learning new things is vital for success, as the majority of what makes a quant-dev successful will be stuff they learned on their own/on the job, not stuff they learned in uni.

In this sense the biggest value of a degree in hiring is just the crude proxy it is for IQ and conscientiousness. That being said, I've never interviewed anyone without a degree, but then I've never seen a candidate without a degree either. I have hired people whose degree is completely unrelated to the role, because they demonstrated the ability and interest to learn something outside of what they studied at uni.

So perhaps part of the opposition to university is due to the (possibly incorrect) feeling that it encourages people to think of it as "this is the period I do my learning", whereas some alternative to university might better promote people to develop a habit of lifelong learning. I.e. maybe people have been jaded by the experience of interviewing/hiring people with degrees from good universities who just spend all their spare time consuming media.

Which is not to suggest attending university is a bad idea, given its value as a signal, just that it doesn't seem ideal for developing the habit of lifelong learning.
You can probably list all the reasons for plumbing to exist. There’s a few, but they’re largely well documented and understood. Cleanliness, sustenance and comfort seem to be the main three. Of course there’s detail, nuance and special cases, but all within the scope of those three.

Software can help in more situations and hence gets prompted by a wider range of “why”. I doubt you could list all the reasons for software to exist before the heat death of the universe overtook you.
Excessive line breaks are bad
From the outside (I'm in the UK) the US looks really bad right now. I know plenty of people who have completely ruled out visiting.
The points you bring up don't seem to support your argument. It took a decade from when people first attempted to haul freight with a steam locomotive until the first commercially successful railway was built. If you start counting from when the steam engine was first invented then it would be more than a century. You're correct that a lot of that success depended on improvements in manufacturing capability but I don't think it's so obvious that there was a huge market for steam locomotives right from the start, early steam engines were notoriously fickle, required constant attention and a trained engineer, needed specialized tooling and materials to repair when they inevitably broke, and they were incredibly inefficient and fuel hungry at first. That's why they started out so linked to coal mines, the mine produced enough cheap fuel for the engine and already had a lot of the metalworking tools and capable engineers needed to maintain it.

I'm not sure why you don't think space is commercially viable right now, companies and governments are paying a lot of money to have things delivered to orbit. SpaceX is making money with every launch otherwise they would have gone bust years ago. If you mean there's no market for human spaceflight, well there wasn't a market for passenger railroad travel for a long time either. You need to build the railways before people can make practical use of them. Back when most railways only extended for 1 or 2 km it was pretty hard to imagine getting paying passengers. You have to build something that connects to places people want to go before they'll pay to ride it.

With spaceflight we're currently in the shorthaul stage, all the profit is in delivering cargo to LEO. The cost is coming down and people are finding more uses for cheap satellites. The rockets already have their use case, they move people and cargo the same as a railroad, it's what we do with that capability that we need to get creative with and as we continue to build out capability and lower cost there will be more and more uses for space. The main reason I compare it to railroads is that it is a type of infrastructure that makes new things possible and there's always a profit to be made in a frontier as long as you're daring enough to take it.
My point is just that mostly my time and to a lesser degree my money to travel are limited. So why should I choose a destination, which treats visitors in such a discriminating way. Assuming we will travel at all any time soon...
I'm guessing that RSI from holding a phone is not nearly as significant of an issue as RSI from using a keyboard, since there are quite a few more hand positions in which to hold the phone where you can scroll comfortably. Also, your wrist is never in a strange position holding a phone compared to a keyboard.
> There might be no future one at all, particularly not under the current administration.

If "browser history" is even on your radar when responding to a claim like this, things may not be as bad as you think they are.
For me, a lot of the value in university was the experience of living independent, being thrown into a relatively unknown place with new responsibilities, and figuring out how to cope with it all. I would say that was far more valuable than the coursework itself. I went to undergrad at the typical age (18) and had the opportunity to solely focus on that. I think a lot of this question depends on your age and what you want to do. Adults going back to college won’t get this experience, and if you can self-study enough to prove you have what it takes, there are definitely diminishing returns in going to university.
While I don't know that I was thinking about Queers in Love at the End of the World specifically while making this, Anna Anthropy's games are definitely an inspiration for me more broadly.
I personally don't really give too much weight to education credentials when I'm screening resumes. However, I'd recommend that everyone looking to be a developer go to university:

A) it's a great time to get a broad education, learn from experts in many fields

B) it will most likely affect your compensation throughout your life. Yes, you can find jobs without it. But if you limit yourself to jobs that don't care about a college degree, you will find your options limited. I may not care, but I know that the CEO of my company does, and that will likely affect your bonus and/or salary.

Yes, there are some people whose technical skills are so good that it's obvious to the world. But most people don't fall in that bucket. Whether it's true or not, a college degree will make people _think_ you are better.
Then you probably haven't tried to schedule and manage thousands of containers in production. The reason people use Kubernetes is the problems it solves are much more significant than the complexity of bootstrapping it.
From my perspective, the things are a bit like this:

1. Make all updates manually with jQuery. This is fast, but hard to keep track of.

2. React, create a virtual DOM, then compare the current DOM with the virtual one, and figure out what needs to change.

3. Solid, Svelte, don’t create a virtual DOM, but have the JS compile all the possible changes so you can make them directly in the DOM like with jQuery.
Just to be clear the Affero GPL only differs in that I would have to give you source code (edit: previously typed "software") if I supply a binary for you to use over a network. My point was really just that if I have not supplied a binary to you (and hence you are not my customer), then I don't need to do anything for you. This is frequently confused by people.

They are clearly consumer rights issues, to me. Whether you think they are important consumer rights issues is quite another matter ;-). Freedom 3, IMHO is definitely more important that Freedom 2. If you've managed to fix an issue, but are prevented from helping other people to fix the issue, I think it's problematic. As a consumer, I definitely value Freedom 2. Personally, I'm not sure I would consider it an ethical issue.

However, whether or not Freedom 2 is really an ethical issue, I think it's fairly straightforward to understand how people find Free software, as a whole, an ethical consumer rights issue. I'm not saying that everybody in the world is going to agree with the stance (and clearly many don't), but it's not much of a stretch to at least understand the position.

More edits for clarity. I should probably just go to sleep :-)
Consider looking beyond the most sensationalized news coverage.
Certain subs are heavily curated. You will immediately get banned if you go against the mods view of the world. And they do this to even the most innocent posts.

If you are used to these subs, as soon as you leave your perfect bubble you will see a Reddit full of (to your eyes) lies and deception. Of course the same applies to outsiders visiting your sub, they will be shocked by the amount of lies casually presented as facts.

That's why everyone should subscribe to at least two subreddits they don't agree with.
Yes, as a Canadian attending Canadian university the most important learnings happened outside of the program stream and in many cases outside of the classroom altogether.

We were required to take a breadth of courses first year that helped create a well rounded foundation to my studies in software which I value greatly.

I can tell many people in the field have never looked past the technicals to think about how computer science connects to the world at large and it's a shame because there is a lot to learn and much wisdom to be gained by taking a holistic view.

Some of my favorite courses were sociology, anthropology, chemistry, physics, biology (I did switch majors) not to mention classics and astronomy.. They gave me a very rich insight into the philosophy of thought outside of software and I've always applied my learnings to corporacy and professionalism.

Not all universities are like this and graduates while technically proficient graduate wholly unprepared for the realities of social programming because let's face it software is a social medium in the truest sense of the word and university work with its emphasis on solo work i.e. individual performance and occasional groups (which are invariably one person pulling all the others' weight or someone bossing everyone until they give in) as well as emphasizing marks as the primary metric serves very little utility in preparing people for the real world and even co-op programs serve only to reinforce the stereotypes rather than disrupt them.
Reddit is the biggest echo champer I've ever seen. You can literally see hundreds of posts and thousand of comments about a certain topic and when you get out, you see that they take the bits of information that pushes their agenda.

The last big example I've seen is during the democratic primaries. I didn't really care at all about it but everyday I could see how Bernie was killing it. Then I saw somewhere else that Biden was the candidate getting the most delegates and was probably going to be the nominee. Not a single word about this in none of the main big subreddits.
A Publisher of content has the right to regulate their content for sure

a Platform that want special legal status from liability that other people do not get well that liability shield should and does come with strings attached and one of those strings should be neutrality

One Suggestion that I have seen talked about is to modify Sec 230 to says that a platform will only get immunity from liability if follow the the First Amendment of the US Constitution as if they were a US Government Agency, Thus only illegal content would be prohibited
From a purely pragmatic point of view, setting fire to a small business, especially a restaurant in NYC, is an act of kindness.

All of these folks are under water and suddenly the buck stops at the re-insurers.

Sometimes the disease is worse than the cure.