skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done a good bit of research into online programs and there seems to be, with a few exceptions, online CS programs and online Liberal Arts programs. Of those the only "useful" degree is CS and the quality of the programs vary greatly.

For the most part this makes sense, a lot of cool or useful degrees arent really possible to deliver a quality program online because of expensive equipment for labs that arent available to consumers (be that for price or other reasons).

On an interesting note, I'm disappointed there arent more math programs. It's a moderately useful degree with wide applicability and doesnt have much of the way of physical constraints. The only issues I can imagine are ones that are common to online degrees in general. Yet only a few school have one.

> Indeed, that unbundling is already happening. Employers such as Google, Apple, IBM, and Ernst & Young have stopped requiring traditional university degrees, even for some of their most highly skilled positions

So... developers and tangential professions right? Self taught developers and those with non-traditional educations are hardly new. I doubt these companies are willing to waive for many "highly skilled positions".

I think I read some time ago about Elon Musk claiming he was removing degree requirements from job listings[0] and yet if I search for engineering positions at Telsa many require a masters degree in an engineering discipline. Everytime i hear something about how usless degrees are and how much better other options are, I assume they dont know anything about the world outside software.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-college-not-for-le...
I always expected the drop out rates for MOOCs to be high. The cost of entry is low.

If you look at organisations like the Open University it's a different picture. People have to put their hand in their wallets and that seems to be enough to fix the problem.
“coffee cup” is a semi-standard unit just like the ones you listed are. And yes, it’s about 6 fluid ounces, and no, nobody in the real world means “i drank 6 fluid ounces of coffee” when they say “i had a cup of coffee”.

Overloading is fun!
museums exist
Economist iOS App: Search all articles feature
I know I know. I'm just talking about their official policy. Github, gitlab and bitbucket all allow 1 account per person.

https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...

> One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free Account (if you choose to control a machine account as well, that's fine, but it can only be used for running a machine)
generally a person that does not do programming have less friction with the topic if you approach him with a functional style. for example, try to get a proof of concept or a big picture of the problem in excel and build up from there. it does not have to be something complex, replace services and databases with simple rows.

As a programmer also I recommend to learn category theory, which is known for its diagrams (drawing!), its hard for a while, but when you get to adjunctions I found it makes easy to navigate any problem and as a consequence, you can explain/reason about it better.
I think the cup count is useful from the habit standpoint, but the study should probably also include style of coffee or caffeine content.

If I drink brewed coffee I’m on a steady flow for the day, sometimes making a second pot in the afternoon. I bought an espresso machine about a year ago, and one Americano in the morning pretty much sets me up for the whole day.
Prey was an excellent game that I really enjoyed. To me it's not quite the same, since it's not as dense with people/NPCs. The only games that I can recall really coming close to Deus Ex are... Deus Ex Human Revolution and Mankind Divided.
Earlier today, WC admited that the money "most likely never existed".
Imagine if we taxed pre-existing conditions, like propensity to diabetes or obesity. Your genetics will set your tax bracket. Politically-incorrect enough?

Right, so target drinks.. slippery slope.. all sugar.

Then people buy the cheaper cuts of meat to afford a soda or two. Bacon ends with huge chunks of fat. Congrats, we just swapped one issue for another.

Isn't orange/apple/etc juice full of sugar? What about whole fruits? What about flying in bananas from the other side of the planet? Can we do that with less carbon emissions?

I'm just getting started. :P
Did a search on claim "Coffee plays a dominant role in that regard because it is the major dietary source of phenolic acids and polyphenols in the developed world": https://www.healthline.com/health/polyphenols-foods

Granted it's suggested to cook these a bit to maximize absorbtion because cell walls & things
> employers often look for the degree, but do not believe it is much of an indicator of quality and don't expect new grads to walk in the door with the needed skills

In other words, requiring a college degree (even in an irrelevant field) of applicants is a form of class gatekeeping for technical professions.
I've always felt that a CS degree (at least based on the curriculum I went through) is really three separate and only partly related areas of study crammed together:

- Teaching people how to program for the first time. Most of us had never actually programmed before, so you've got to have the intro classes that both teach _how_ to think through breaking a problem down into steps, and also the specific syntax of expressing those steps in a specific programming language, moving on to the typical concepts like OOP and classes and whatnot.

- Actual CS. Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Compilers, and the various more math-ish / "fundamentals" content.

- Software Engineering. The practical, hands-on work of actually writing meaningful code, working as part of a team, requirements, using version control, testing, etc. Some classes like specific web dev topics or something probably fit into here too.

Granted, I was going through this almost 20 years ago, and I only have my own experience to base this on, but it seems like this is a reasonable broad description of what a CS degree is trying to cover.

I feel like that gave me a good fundamental background, but at the same time 99% of what I do on a daily basis now is all stuff that I either learned on the job, or in my own free time.
Coffee roast temperatures are about 350 degrees.

do you worry about getting cancer from bread? Bread ovens are about 200F hotter.
I've looked at it and it seems to be a gross mashup of text processor and SQL. And I really don't see the value of it at all.
In this particular case In-App subscription option was not added, though.
> In the end, the problem is not the value of the four-year university degree. The problem is its price.

I don’t know. The piece of paper is worth more than I paid for it, but that’s just an issue of employers gate keeping.

If I think back to every course I took in college I would say all but maybe 4-5 were a waste of my time. All these ancillary required courses so that I can receive a “well rounded” education that I needed to get a job, but didn’t actually want to take.

Even those 4-5 useful courses were woefully out of date. I could have done a better job learning that material with 6 months on Pluralsight or some other learning platform.
Someone's going to be first on that front, it's more attainable today than ever. Elite Dangerous is doing space legs + combat next year.
How could the essence of this comment been captured and communicated without running the risk of coming off as braggadocios?
I don't think you can use any of basecamp features for free. [1]

They make money, that is not up for debate.

(and yes, I know, their platform, their rules, etc etc, but nothing about that says people cannot fight it, and make it politically difficult to let them bleed money from people for a very basic service.)

1 - I have never used basecamp, or looked into it, so YMMV
Those book's are absolutely great, the 2-D probes pack t to 3-D..ah man have to read them again!!
Fake news!

The rich don't spend, they save and invest - that's how they get rich, by deferring consumption.

As far as the socialist "tackling" of excesses is concerned, I trust that requires no comment. "I am from the government and I'm here to help". Yeah right. Please spare me.
I haven't really had any issues with HiDPI on Linux for a few years. Not saying that it's as smooth as macOS, but certainly not a huge issue.
I don't know anything about Julia...how hard would this be to port to python or a c-style language?

Edit: I was mainly asking because I was curious about the relative expressiveness Julia...
Unless you're screwing something up, coffee beans shouldn't be "burnt". I can usually taste a lot of burnt flavor from cheaper dark roasts, but a medium roast rarely seems burnt to me.
thank you for spending the time to write this. I'm new to React and starting with hooks, but if I need more I will look into RTK first.
No problem, nobody forces you to do it. They could inform you whether the app offers paying through Apple on the store page.
Because we're a massive, layered,diverse federal system. It's blindingly ignorant to suggest that the US has a literally uniquely dysfunctional government: other countries with categorically similar levels of diversity and scale (India, Brazil) face many of the same problems. And polities that have these characteristics in part face these problems in proportion: the EU is another source of signal here.

European govt's stability and relatively cohesive civic cultures come after centuries of world-spanning bloodbaths, genocides and ethnic cleansing to reach the status quo of relatively tiny, relatively ethnically homogeneous states. And there are plenty of dark sides to this cohesion as well.
The two things killing your ability to focus
I live in a rather hard hit area. It won't show up on any blighted or opportunity zones because attorneys or land owners connected to politicians can't make money off it. Here are some highlights:

A good month is one without gun shots.

I've been mugged coming out my front door by kids with knives.

An elderly woman was tortured to death during a home invasion.

A fight breaks out, police break it up and leave without arresting anyone, only for the fight to occur again 10 minutes later this time with gunshots. Police show up the next morning and pick up casings and then leave. Little kids were right in the middle of that 30 person brawl too.

Non-stop fireworks to cover up gun shots.

Mom moves into her new boyfriend's place, then break up and leave the kid. So you have kids growing up in a home with zero parents.

Garbage everywhere.

The attitude of always wanting to fight even when they mess up big time. Hitting a car, going through the garbage. Good things stay hidden. Vulgar violent things stare you down because they like getting grounded up.

When something really bad happens, like a home fire, they turn into panicked cowards. All that thug life goes right away on the slightest adversity.

Attorneys and corporate leaders have abandoned the people who got them here just to win at all costs. A vet who fought so they don't have to kills themselves every day. That's not going to last. WTC going down in a fireball should have taught them all something. Can't escape it, no matter how rich you are.

The leaders really are out of touch. They see the violence as like how mechanical bolts preload. People are killing each other. I don't feel it. That's good! It means I'm that far removed.

How can you help people when they don't help themselves. Police just keep a cap on it all so it doesn't take us all down.
I am sorry to say this but white supremecy does not have the potential to kill millions. It's like saying gang violence has the potential to kill millions.
> raking zero calorie soda into the policy makes it very obviously just a cash grab.

Not necessarily. Maybe the goal was to discourage people from the habit of drinking sweetened drinks in general, instead of just encouraging them to drink Diet Coke instead. It would probably be better for everyone except the drink manufactures if everyone just switched to plain water.
Apple would still be able to optimize around your experience even if they allowed other marketplaces to be installed. Apple and developers would be under more pressure to provide you a good experience if you could install open source utilities from F-Droid as easily as $500/year subscription utilities.
Does anyone here notice the stylistic similarity to The Matrix? Both featured a protagonist with a trench coat and black shades. I wonder if The Matrix inspired the design team of Deus Ex in some ways.
Facebook helps in #3 only for similarities, I see no feature of facebook which allows people to come "together across similarities and differences". In fact I would say by optimizing over similarities it contributes to creation of information silos and actively discourages even acknowledging anything different as valid. Thus, by partially helping with #3, it actually does more harm than good.
Amerisleep+Mattress+Savings+30%+Off
It's fine as it is.
Can you?

I am pretty sure that the rules about IAP make it very clear you have to charge the same price on and off the app store.
I'm Stackoverflow user #823 or so and still in the top 4% of reputation, and...I don't get how the narrative has turned against SO.

I visit the site once or twice a day, and probably write two answers per month, which should make a decidedly average user. And for the life of me I could not tell you what people are complaining about?

I still find answers there more often than anywhere else, so whatever is supposedly broken doesn't seem to affect the primary function too much. The imaginary points still mostly point in the right direction. If happened to feel they diverged from perfect meritocracy I would try really hard to care about real problems, instead. Failing that, I would hopefully manage not to complain about it too obnoxiously, fearing it would make me look childish.

And then, much like Github, they seem to have committed the cardinal sin of tech communities of mildly opining that maybe racism or whatever isn't something they personally want to support with their work, which gets them into all kinds of strange arguments with one sort of people who are obviously not racists but just feeling the urge to defend some grand principle they just came up with, like ethics in game journalism.

Github is a very similar example: they single-handedly got millions of people to contribute to open source code, and made working in this ecosystem so much better, compared to source forge and various crappy custom systems that came before it. StackOverflow similarly replaced the most obnoxious, google-spamming, click-baiting, sign-up-to-see-the-answer grifters, and I will forever be thankful for their contribution.
I recently started paying for Direct Primary Care. We signed up as seeing a doctor during COVID became even more difficult than usual. It’s definitely a luxury but I pay $100 a month and my wife and I can bug our respective doctors (she has a woman doctor that will only accept women and children patients; my male doctor only accepts male patients) whenever we want. Obviously we try not to bug them all the time and be respectful, but I’m seeing weird spots at 7pm; text my doctor he says don’t worry about it. I’m kind of a hypochondriac — this saves me a trip to the ER. I say I’m pretty sure I have a sinus infection, and the symptoms are similar to one I had last year. He wrote me a prescription for antibiotics, tells me to let him know if it doesn’t clear up.

It feels how I’d expect modern medicine to feel, rather than everything being set up to gatekeep me from interacting with the doctor in any way except for fifteen minutes after paying $150 for the pleasure. The doctor has an incentive to keep us healthy because we’re not paying by the visit anymore.

I love love the direct primary care approach and wish I’d started paying for it sooner.
I have realized doctors don't do much good, except for very extreme treatments for life-threatening conditions (surgery, powerful medications etc). I'm not saying they never help, just that 99% they do either useless or actively damaging treatments that don't take side-effects into account. They are biased towards unecesserary action. Overuse of antibiotics is just one way this manifests itself, but it is true for most treatments.
Building an Arcade Emulator Cabinet
Well, it's comforting to know that only violent people are listed on that site, because non-violent protestors don't need to worry about being falsely arrested.
Console #5: A Tiny, Static, Full Text Search Engine Using Rust and WebAssembly
> have a healthy respect for authority, and can delay gratification in the extreme.

What does these qualities have to do with being a effective software developer?

> The degree acts to filter out people who are too independent to fit well within a hierarchy.

Wouldn't people that fall into the category of "free-thinkers" make for better engineers — or at least engineers that are more capable at creating novel solutions to hard problems?
First tell me what intelligent means....then we can make that bet ;)
This is not a catch-22. He's responsible because he was the CEO; that's what being CEO means.

Don't want the responsibility? Don't become the CEO.
Which university was that?
If that's the goal, they're doing it poorly, because the only spin I smell from this description is the tacit admission they failed to successfully security-compartmentalize one user from attack via another user's credentials.
I remember having nightmares about leaking javascript memory, and then having a dream where I resolved the issue. Then I woke up, and thought carefully about my spaghetti js code and thought never mind.
> Name one retailer that lets you hock your product in their store without paying anything?

This is a bad take. Hey is a subscription service. If you buy a magazine from a newsagent and then sign up to a subscription from it, the newsagent doesn't get to claim 30% of the subscription fee.
They aren't being clear on what they are doing exactly but Why not just use Ketanserin. It's what they have been using on mice for a while now .
They’re claiming PM is siphoning off money to the Russians, implying common interest which is against the interest of the UK. “Russian agent” is the correct summary of that.
Both are definitely mysterious, it's a bit difficult to tell by reading English translations but as far as I can tell Zolotaryov's body had a tattoo (I've seen it described as military related, crime related and unknown) that people who knew Zolotaryov said he didn't have, Had a fifth camera that was unknown to the rest, had different tooth caps and didn't match a DNA test after a recent exhumation, though later testing matched.

Also on the subject of the rib fractures, they've been described as consistent with a bomb or car accident, a snow mobile like a B7 seems like a possibility. Maybe Krivonischenko was suspected of leaking information and Zolotaryov was there to keep an eye on him, and the rest got caught up in the mess. And when things got out of hand, Zolotaryov sided with the group.
$340b of $454b Mnuchin was to turn over to the fed is unaccounted for
Well, usually.

If we dragged in Psyche 16 into our neighborhood, it would make all gold here worthless. A NASA probe is already en route.
Unfortunately, I used to not have this problem then one time had a "bad trip" while high out of my mind on weed. After that night, weed has been an entirely different experience. For about 2 years I couldn't/didn't smoke weed because even tiny tiny tiny amount triggered a full blown panic attack. After about 2/3 years I was able to smoke a little with friends and enjoy music, vibe etc. Nowadays I smoke weed very rarely as I like the physically-relaxing effects on a lazy sunday watching TV. But it still makes my brain go berserk! Sometimes it's fun as I start overanalyzing stupid shows like It's Always Sunny or The Office, but if I feel a little vulnerable it doesn't end up well. :( What I learned though, is when I start panicking on weed, taking a short walk is immensely helpful as the effects only last 30 mins to an hour so if you just keep walking around neighborhood you feel fine.
Thanks for sharing the research! You might like the YouTube channel Scottiestech.info Do you have any other way of connecting? Your profile 'about' is very interesting - it'd be great to talk more about hacking and planting trees. You can reach me at the email in my profile.
Couldn't you demand your money back? You or the app provider sue Apple? Is all of this prevented in the ToS? Would that really be enforcable?

If the answer is "no" or yes for the last one, that'd go pretty far against my sense of justice. But of course we're talking about american laws.
Most degrees in most subjects go in-depth on subjects they probably won't ever use in bog-standard industry role.

Do I regret it? No, it was fun, interesting and it's cool when this hidden knowledge does come up at work.
This might be a dumb question, but what on earth is the point of x86 if ARM performs better and is also more power efficient?
If we want to not think in black and white we will have to think on balance. Just because facebook allows some people to derive some value, it does not make it a value adding thing. In fact, it destroys more value by creating information silos. If you think on balance, at least the way I see it, facebook is a destructive force.
In the UK my follow ups( every 8 to 10 weeks) for a kidney transplant are done over the phone now - its just the bloods I have to go into the hospital for.

Its a real pity Theranos has tainted the testing with small amounts of blood area for the next decade.
Reminds me of the Coffee video made by Hasan Minaj

https://youtu.be/6HsC3wsTxms
Legally speaking, if you find a bug and abuse it (to e.g. extract data), you're breaking the law; I know people don't want to hear it and want to protect whistleblowers, but it's factually illegal to steal data like this.

That's what whistleblowing is all about though; purposefully breaking the law or a contract (like an NDA) to expose shit. Some countries will protect whistleblowers, others have to flee and seek asylum abroad.

So don't deny whether or not law and/or contract was broken, instead focus on whether the action was justified. Yes the system was broken and open for exploitation, but the attack was not accidental: they intentionally uploaded a malicious payload, intentionally extracted data, and intentionally uploaded it to the internets.
> being contrarian and having no talent

I meant that if you are a contrarian then the majority will dismiss you as an opportunist who is using their contrarian position to gain popularity, that they would have otherwise been unable to attain.

Their implication being, that the contrarian lacks the talent to make it without the additional attention brought by being the contrarian.
I wasn't stating a truth, but rather the perception and resulting reaction from the 'hivemind'.

> There is a large portion of philosophy that ponders the question if criticism can be a creative endeavor. I am firmly in the camp that believes it is indeed with no restriction.

I am totally with you on that. I am sorry if the original comment came across as being demeaning towards contrarians.
They mainly killed themselves through incompetence with building bombs. The plan with the bombs was to blow up military personnel.
Since this is a tech forum, perhaps we can model "being alone" as an introspective state machine that has limited I/O.

It is also interesting to see how apps want to be alone. A social network app like Facebook is useless when off-grid. But an immersive app like kindle can offer you hours of solitude.
And what are the odds you will encounter that situation again in the next 10 years? In the same time period, what are the odds you'll need a prescription for antibiotics for a common disease?

No one is saying you should stop seeing doctors entirely, but several things that currently require a doctor's appointment probably shouldn't.