skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Yes, absolutely. I love learning. I dislike that courses are only 8 weeks long because I would like to dig deeper into the material than that timeframe allows. However, I definitely feel the time is well spent.

2. I am less concerned about the credential. I already have a bachelor's degree and some graduate school. Thus, it's not likely to give me any extra weight, and I don't plan to pursue jobs with it. However, some of my colleague who've moved on have found it both helpful and valuable in that regard.

I will note that the school is nationally accredited, so this can be quite limiting (e.g., grad school options are very limit, transferring credit is limited, etc.). So, this is a consideration that must be taken. However, I'm happy with the return on my investment (knowledge) so far.

3. Real, college credit which can be transferred. While it has limits in that regard, I am not aware of any colleges that will accept MOOCs for transfer unless they were explicitly designed to be credit granted (e.g., some of edX's stuff or maybe some Coursera's new stuff).

That said, I would argue that UoPeople is really "self-teaching" like you would with MOOCs. While the school implements a form of "peer learning," I find it to be poorly done and not very helpful. I do meet some others who are genuinely interested in the topics, but most students are just interested in getting through the courses.

And, ugh, I loathe peer assessment. While it's not the only form of assessment which takes place, it's the most obnoxious part of the school. It's worse when you peers don't understand basic things like how files and directories work.

This part term I was told by a peer, in the discussion forum, that my post was "wrong." (It wasn't.) And the student told me to read so-and-so's post to see why. The student subsequently marked me down. (Fortunately, it had minimal impact. So I didn't bother appealing it.)

I couldn't really give any advice for your son. If he can handle academic work on his own fairly well, then it might work for him. However, some students struggle with online learning and there's not a lot of support structures in place at the school yet.
In my case is 25 years “long enough” [1]?

The only way that I landed a job at $BigTech, without having to go through the “leetCode”/algorithm dog and pony show, work remotely, and without having to move from my relatively low cost of living area was by doing plenty of resume driven development and targeting my experience toward either Amazon (AWS) or Microsoft (Azure).

Before, my current job at Amazon, I didn’t care what company I was hired by. In my local market (large metro area on the East Coast) all companies were paying within the same range. By making sure that my resume was in sync with the market brings a lot of optionality (or at least did before Covid)

[1] to be honest, I stayed at one job too long until 2008 and was firmly in “expert beginner” territory.
I like your framing, because it provides an opportunity to "judo" some of the institutional resistance to change.

Loss of power is a huge motivator for the status quo. Are there ways to facilitate institutional change that do not weaken the power structures with the most influence?

It's an interesting thought experiment.
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People have been crying wolf about the destruction of the US for a long time. But recently, when the President wanted to use the military on protestors, and was told no, it seemed like more than just the obvious, more than a recapitulation of the past. If they said yes, and then a state of emergency was declared, it sounds like a stereotypical way to go right to an excuse for suspending elections. I didn't really expect that people would let him do it, but it really seems like he would if he could. It's so pat.

As much as people have cried wolf over the last decade plus (maybe more, I don't recall) about whether there would be normal elections, I feel like now we have a discrete point in time where the (un)willingness of the volunteer military to do unconstitutional things is all that remains; the people and other institutions are no longer in control of our fate.

You can say, oh, we're fine, the military still has integrity. But it's a volunteer military that's become a distinct class; if they're the only bulwark, then we're very close to a military dictatorship. At best, it could be like in certain countries where they serve as a check on bad civilian governance.

So, I can still hope/think that this President as dictator is alarmism, but I can't say that if it is crying wolf, it is making me more confident the US will go on and on. He can end his term as an ineffectual wanna-be despot, but he's probing and outlining the weak points - how someone smarter and more respected and sympathetic can deal the final blow to the system. Someone said that history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.

What recent events make me think of is the point Richard Feynman made about the O-rings in the Challenger investigation:

"To paraphrase Feynman's example, if engineers built a bridge that could bear 3,000 pounds without any damage, even though it was never expected to bear more than 1,000 pounds in practice, the safety factor would be 3. If a 1,000-pound truck drove across the bridge and a crack appeared in a beam, even just a third of the way through a beam, the safety factor is now zero: The bridge is defective, there was no safety factor at all even though the bridge did not actually collapse."

So yes, people were saying the same things in the 1970s. And they were wrong. But things always seem worse for good reason, and eventually, some day, things do fundamentally change. When things crack, but don't break completely, it is not necessarily a sign everything is fine.

Covid doesn't seem in itself like an existential threat to the US in particular, but any time it seems like people are denying reality that worries me, honestly scares me, and certainly it's been over a month that global daily cases are reaching new heights, while financial markets and the media seem detached and focused on reopening. Maybe we need to stay the course; maybe Mnuchin and many others are right that there's no going back, but the sense that people are imposing their wishes on reality, as though it is reality which will be forced to bend, feels like a bad premonition to me. I hate the idea of daring fate, of putting the all-powerful to the test.
Ok, changed from https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-announce/A0frTIl9W6Y/....
I looked at their CS degree. Just one semester of Calculus?
It depends how you pronounce "H". If you pronounce it aitch instead of haitch then using "an" in this context is totally correct. https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2012/04/using-a-or-an-wit....
GP here, I am moderately surprised that the parent post implied I am linked with Chinese government. Usually people would be more subtle.

I was born and raised in mainland China, left to US for PhD at 22.

I gradually understand why westners show various degree of hatred towards the Chinese government, CCP, and not so rarely the Chinese people. And also see the equally ridiculous negative biased of Chinese people towards westners.

From a self-interest perspective, I try to state the less emotional charged description on news relevant to China. Because I am seeing the risk of becoming one of the scapegoat of the Sino-US conflict. For example, while I was called linking to Chinese government, I am equally possible being called "banana man" (yellow skin with white heart, you get the idea) by passionate Chinese netizens.

I am actively risking my reputation on this forum by behaving like this. As for a long time I am well aware of the genuine political and cultural biases.

But I believe this is best for my situation. I cannot just watching the hatred grow between the common people without an action. That is also hurting the my own and my family's future.
So odd to see another HNer from my home city!
I don't know what you think you're saying. A third of the total effect size is a lot. Nobody denies that the volume of food is going to be a significant driver of your weight change. The issue being debated is that the composition matters, and it does.

And for what its worth, I'd imagine the effect size to be even stronger for weight gain.
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That gives me an idea: what if you had a pool of flaky/failing tests, but it was limited in size, and if you add a test to that pool that takes it over the maximum size, you must either fix it, or evict another flaky rest by fixing it.

You could use the pool capacity and size as a proxy for technical debt. Starting a new, large project? You can increase the pool size temporarily until the project reaches mvp. Periodically the size of the test pool should be evaluated, tests fixed and the pool size shrunk.

Over time the overall pool size should shrink or at least stabilise.
Occupy Wall Street had a tangible goal. Break up big banks, and forgive predatory loans.

Even with Obama in office, we ended up with even bigger banks and a spiraling debt crisis.
So this seems like a good time to ask, does anyone have experience with University of London's online degree and how US employers feel about it? I've been eyeing it for a couple years now and was wondering if anyone either has experience directly with this program, or at least can speak more to how US employer's feel about degrees from overseas.

https://london.ac.uk/sites/default/files/prospectuses/comput...

https://www.coursera.org/degrees/bachelor-of-science-compute...
To be fair, atoms had existed long before quantum mechanics was invented. It’s a theory, and not a perfect one. Potentially even “wrong,” as it is not consistent with one of the most important classical theories, theory of gravity (somehow gravitational waves resist quantization, and the graviton still remains a fantasy).
“now Twitter has a great way to deanonymize users and track them” (thread)
I always like to learn about human skills that aren't obvious and that other animals, especially other great apes, lack

For example

Humans can throw good.

Humans can run very long.

Humans won't usually kill each other when put together in great masses.
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I have a very well planned home office. I've gone through countless chairs over the year trying to fix back issues. I introduced more weight lifting into my exercise (deadlift in particular) and I haven't had back issues in a couple years. I sit on my couch or bed for work most of the time -- which I've been told is supposed to be the worst for you.
Yep, I’ve been staying in Seattle with my girlfriend since quarantine began. We live about 9 blocks away up Madison and have been walking around the zone almost daily. Hard to believe how much fear-mongering, disinfo, and straight-up lying I see in every thread/post about the subject.
Or a high school computer science teacher, for that matter
The numbers here are so staggering, I thought they had to be wrong. How many plastic bottles can humans possibly throw away in total?

How wrong my assumption seems to be. In 2017, we created over 1 million plastic bottles a minute [0], and in 2018 we produced more plastic by weight[1] than the human population of the world[2].

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/07/26/million-p...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/282732/global-production...

[2] https://www.livescience.com/36470-human-population-weight.ht....
With regular assholes you have the right to self-defense. With the police you don't.
Yep. And this is absolutely a concern those considering the school should take seriously!

That said, the school started the process for WASC accreditation. They announced it about a month or two ago. Thus, those who start now and take 4 years to do a bachelor's may end up with a regionally accredited degree instead of national.
Taking a look at some other "social systems that are being tested at the moment", I don't think your claim that Australia is "coming together" in comparison to other "developed countries" is correct. Some examples:

* Brisbane's "Boundary St" still exists, name unchanged [0].

* Story from less than 1 hour ago: 4 month-old baby of indigenous women dies while mother is in police custody [1].

* PM calls Australian BLM protests "completely unacceptable"[2], urges people not to attend[3], while "think[ing] to [himself] how wonderful a country Australia is" [4].

* The mounting spread of COVID-19 conspiracies, including the "Wake Up Australia" campaign [5].

* Australia participating in spying on its citizens [6], passing anti-encryption laws [7].

[0] https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/calls-for-brisba...

[1] https://www.news.com.au/national/northern-territory/fourmont...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-11/black-lives-matter-pr...

[3] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-05/pm-tells-people-not-t...

[4] https://www.sbs.com.au/news/quoting-a-meme-scott-morrison-sa...

[5] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-12/asio-briefing-warns-f...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

[7] https://www.wired.com/story/australia-encryption-law-global-...
It's also a very costly method that many people cannot afford. Doubly so if it'll impact the long-term career prospects of the parent that spends their time teaching.
I don't think you need to convince me that Chinese government have inherent flaws.

And you might be wrongly thinking I am one of those supporting Chinese government and CCP here.

You can see my other reply above to see more explanation of my position.
Not really. There ares some who do workshops/etc (I know some in Bangalore - Masterclass, Kaydo) but they don't really have much info online. Try talking to them. By the way if you are from there, there's IWST you might want to look at.

The tools and the wood - I kept trying but I couldn't really figure out a way to procure these easily and with some help in selection. Getting them from abroad would cost multiple limbs.
The far-fetched "solution" along with the "I don't understand everyone doesn't do <thing that is easy to understand why everyone wouldn't do it>" make it hard for me to believe you're actually doing this. Sounds more like a shower thought, maybe fun weekend project, than something in production.
I look back to the 50's in the US (and most western countries I believe) - a time when science and education were respected and educating and housing the citizenry was the goal. As a result of this and other events the booms of the 70's occurred.

There seems to be a reversal of this - science is actively disregarded by a large part of the population, education is not respected, a large and growing part of the population is disenfranchised and so on. These are not good portents imho.
Don't you think qualified immunity is a bit much? Take the pensions and subtract the money that would have been awarded in lawsuits and it probably evens out to $0.
And if we had stayed, we would have been screwed when we did get ready to leave and find another job and all we could talk about is that we developed in PHP for a year....

But the rest of the story....

The department we worked for was an independent startup that got acquired by a Fortune 10 company (at the time) shortly before they started ramping up. The manager of the department was one of the original developers and founders. Even he left soon afterwards.
> Proned patients are too sick to survive at home.

Proned patients are just people lying on their stomachs, are they not? I get that its something you would recommend to someone who is really low on oxygen, but why aren't people who aren't too sick to survive at home being told to do this also? Is there a downside?

Like if your pulse oximeter starts readying 88 and slowly dropping, its probably a good idea to start proning, in the very least at night while sleeping?
Given the timescales that humans operate on, it would be incredibly strange for us to reproduce into extinction. As far as direct effects, an unmitigated exponential growth trend would eventually result in widespread famine and other resource restrictions leading to a population-limiting amount of death. Not extinction, but not much fun either.

Long term accumulating issues that become unrecoverable past a tipping point could be a source of extinction (e.g. extreme worst case climate change). Here, yes, exponential growth could hasten extinction in a world where people weren't trying to stop the catastrophe, but...

1. Empirically, we're not on an exponential curve or anything close to it. Many developed countries would be in population decline without immigration.

2. Generally, the best solution to problems of efficiency or long term threats is improved technology, not reducing population. In the concrete case of climate change, cutting emissions per capita by >50% is both achievable and clearly superior to the Thanos approach.

3. More people can produce a more interesting universe to live in. Imagine a solar system colonized with 10 trillion humans: provided we build the requisite efficient infrastructure to unfetter human creativity, we would have the capacity to produce over a thousand times as many isekai animes.
I’d rather see a blanket ban on defunding any pensions (public or private).
If it must, but it isn't as smooth as conversation can be. sign language is a real language, and you can have real conversation, with all the pros and cons of real conversation.
Twitter, Facebook, Telegram Web, there have been others but none as noticeable.
Yup, Lemonade is certainly has the advantage of being more flexible and nimble. I've spoken / worked with larger insurers and they are hampered by the amount of manual processes and bureaucracy that are typical for +50 year old corporations.

Lemonade's competitors also do most types of insurance, there aren't very many large private or public insurance companies that only focus on renters, homeowners, etc. The power is in the bundle and upselling a suite of insurance products to the customer you've already spent the CAC to acquire. With this comes more data to better underwrite deals, and the cycles goes on.

Lemonade has mentioned looking into niche products like pet, phone, etc. Sure, they can carve out a nice space for itself, but the reality of those products is its low premium, low addressable market stuff so its not the most efficient use of capital for large insurers.

One major piece Lemonade is also missing is the traditional float an insurance company has. Even if loss ratios + expenses are 100% of premiums, insurance companies can still generate returns on the massive amount of float these premiums generate every year.
Sadly, yes. College Algebra, Stats, Calculus (one-term), and Discrete Mathematics are all the math requirements.

I plan to do my math elsewhere.
"It was calculated already in the 1960s by the Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Oxford, that the agricultural productivity, even at that time, would be more than sufficient to feed 45 billion people globally."[1]

Granted, there's much more to sustaining humans than just food, but come on let's apply some engineering to the problem first before giving up.

There's another, better reference but it escapes me at the moment- something calculating that with various engineering techniques applied to the planet, 100 billion people shouldn't be an issue.

Edit: Wow has it been 15-17 years already? Good seeing you.

[1] Agricultural productivity in relation to population, 1963
Curiousity question: does FB use Gmail/Google suite?
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An interesting question would be whether governments and teachers agreements accept this program.

Many of those have rules about how if you have a Masters, you earn X more and you can just keep earning more the more degrees you get. $4000 lets the payback period Be quite fast.
Pure caloric need may be a non-issue but I don't think it's sustainable for every living human to have a first world lifestyle barring many tech improvements.

It's seems preferable to have a lower stable population where everyone has a very high standard of living and a low aggregate environmental impact.

A flat cap of two children per person would halt and slowly reduce the population without killing anyone or being unfair to specific groups.
Also blank pages are good for your imagination.
This goal can be accomplished one municipality at a time which cannot be said of occupy.
It is plainly illegal. A bunch of criminals have barricaded several city blocks that do not belong to them and barricaded shared public infrastructure (roads). These are crimes. They should be apprehended, charged, and sentenced. This is very straightforward. Either the laws exist and they are enforced equally upon everyone or we do not have a functioning society.
MIT has its own publisher initiative that suits modern science - online, interactive, and open-source. PubPub[1][2] is closer to something like Authorea[3] and Overleaf[4].

[1] https://www.pubpub.org/

[2] https://github.com/pubpub

[3] https://authorea.com/

[4] https://www.overleaf.com/
This FPGA is not open source by design, but this project seems fairly complete:
http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/
"Project IceStorm aims at documenting the bitstream format of Lattice iCE40 FPGAs and providing simple tools for analyzing and creating bitstream files."

Lattice (the FPGA's manufacturer) seems open-minded regarding such efforts: https://twitter.com/latticesemi/status/1269115302140231682
RDP can be limited to TCP. Microsoft's client autodetects whether UDP is available and can work without it.
I love CHAZ so much, I hope it becomes a national trend.

If city councils would defund the police and use the money for actual good things then we wouldn’t have this problem of police brutality and police being above the law. But no, the police need to buy tanks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There is legal precedent to use imminent domain to transfer wealth from one individual to another. Usually it’s stealing from the poor, and giving to real estate developers.

There’d be a certain amount of deferred justice in doing that, but I’d rather the practice simply be banned.
Has there been any announced timeline on Go2?
Link: https://www.uopeople.edu/programs/cs/degrees/computer-scienc...

Their data structures & algorithms course: https://my.uopeople.edu/mod/book/view.php?id=45606&chapterid...

I'm more worried about the the apparent lack of basic algorithms (Dijkstra? DP?) than not having more semesters of calculus.
After viewing your other reply, I do not believe you are supporting the CCP, but I also disagree with your stance.

I believe we should stand up against dictatorships and challenge them even when we have ties to them.

Being able to say anything and challenge anything is the foundation of freedom, ANY form of censorship threatens that.

People in the U.S. appreciate being able to call out their government leaders I'm sure.

Imagine if you were hauled off at night because of what you posted online.

We should all be standing with Hongkongers on this one.

tldr: the answer to government censorship is not more censorship of phrases ("五毛”) that call them out
kdb/q: its a programming language more than a tool. But learning it has made me more efficient in other languages. It's vector approach to programming makes me think about how to leverage similar features in python for example. itertools library in Python is mostly inspired by APL, an ancestor of q
Network of Twitter bots detects surveillance aircraft in real time
This sounds both accurate and very depressing. The frightening aspect for me personally is that even if the current President loses the election and leaves office peacefully, he has transformed his party, perhaps permanently. Its not just him, its been happening for a while. But the country cannot be governed by a single party; it needs both parties to function. If one of them refuses to accept reality and scientific facts, I doubt that the country can continue to function, even if the people holding majority are qualified and sensible.

This was incredibly clear during the Obama Administration. Not sure what kind of inane cultural wars will consume the next one.