skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, status is multidimensional, so to say it's "zero" is a bit immoderate. I studied CS in the UK (Cambridge) and I'd agree that it's not a prestigious field. Having said that, CS academics are generally fairly well off, some being posher than others. I think a major factor in the low status is their lack of cultural knowledge (cultural capital), even if they know or are related to others who do have it.

Much of what can be said about CS in the UK is true of the "technical middle class" in general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_British_Class_Survey#Tec...

"The technical middle class, about 6 percent of British society, shows high economic capital, very high status of social contacts, but relatively few contacts reported, and moderate cultural capital. Occupations represented include medical radiographers, aircraft pilots, pharmacists, natural and social science professionals and physical scientists, senior professionals in education establishments, and business, research, and administrative positions.[17]

The technical middle class is relatively well to do, with an average household incomes of £38,000, average savings of £66,000 and houses worth an average of £163,000. Members of the class report the lowest number of social contacts of any of the classes, though these do tend to be high status, probably mostly other professional experts. It is relatively culturally disengaged with both highbrow and emerging culture. Women comprise about 59 percent of this class. Many of technical middle class do research or scientific and technical work; a portion of the graduates are from established and prestigious universities with strong reputations for science, such as University of Birmingham, University of Warwick, University of Cambridge, University College London, University of Southampton, and Imperial College London with degrees in science and technology. Many of the technical middle class live in South East England where scientific and technical jobs are to be found. If they live in an urban area they live in the suburbs. Many of them have middle-class origins but are less engaged socially and culturally with the arts and humanities."
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Yeah, this is it.

Most people don't enjoy computers.

Most geeks don't enjoy people.
Recently I’ve seen a jump in the number of random sites popping up a “this site wants to access VR hardware” dialogs in FireFox; news articles nothing to do with VR or visualisation. I don’t have any VR devices.

How do you do this bit “requiring explicit permission from the user before a web application can use them” without the fallout of “its just a hundred thousand popups and you’re done!” on every page?
I'm currently reading The Black Jacobins which is about Toussaint L'Ouverture and the revolution in Haiti. Even after having read accounts of the brutality of slavery multiple times before, it always seems to recede into an abstraction after a long time and the descriptions are as gruesome and horrifying as they ever were. And this is a book that spares the details, relatively speaking.

The wealth of the world is covered in blood.
They had a small store at on College Ave in Palo Alto for years. It was near their headquarters, so while you could get every one of their products there, it also functioned as a kind of beta-test distribution point; some of the items were sold on a "we're trying this out locally" basis. The whole place was colorful and inviting, and very kid-friendly.

The store closed in 2009, well after they had become part of Scholastic. The remaining product line looks to be just a "greatest hits" collection. Sad.
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Bad behavior can slowly creep up on you over time.
Dave Bryant, with regard to having contracts with your Chinese Supplier - - - actually, I do know American buyers who insist their Chinese counterpart obtain bonding through a "Western" bonding service, not a Chinese hoax bonding service. In case the Chinese supplier has a quality problem or warrantee problem with the goods you buy, you are protected by the bonding company contract. It even pays for all the costs needed to buy and reship proper functioning product to your customers. ALL companies buying from the Chinese should insist on this and it would then become commonplace. If a Chinese supplier objects to bonding - - then you should be suspicious of their quality and move on.
Exactly. He could as well have created this jewel: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
Does it use JavaFx for its UI? If not do you know what library/framework they use?
Example of some incentives where I live:

- Pregnant women can start working 6 hours a day at full pay from week 12.

- Up to two years of paternity leave at ~80% pay, capped at roughly 3x the median wage. Either parent can take this, or it can be split.

- 3 weeks of paternity leave after giving birth for the father.

This means a couple can muddle through the first two years of a child's live without worrying about paying for day care of having to quit jobs.

Note that this incentives are country-wide and available for all citizens. The government pays you indirectly while you are in paternity leave.

How does this encourage not parenting?
Huge difference. Products that are intended to be sold overseas are made to comply with the recipient country's safety standards (although the Chinese are notorious for cheating around that in every way they can and quality control + liability is ultimately up to the importer). Random shit that you buy on alibaba, isn't.

There are several entire youtube channels dedicated to dismantling chinesium gadgets and showing how they'll burn your house down. Lack of reverse current protection, lack of overcurrent protection, trace spacing that's way too small and will arc under the right temp/humidity, mains side traces right next to each other, no grounding, ground shorted to neutral, under-rated caps and resistors that reach unsafely high temperatures, etc, etc.
> requiring explicit permission

Except on the long term that would have no effect in empowering users. We all know that when faced with a deluge of permission requests, or pressured by the fact that enough people have already accepted and it's the entry price to collaborate, people will just hit accept and be done with it.

They only need to get the foot in the door and then you'll find that plenty of stuff ends up conditioned on you giving them access. Every one of these APIs is a Trojan horse. Past experience just proves that they will be hijacked for purposes that don't do the user any favors.

Look no further than JS which is there to enrich the web to benefit users but 99% of it is garbage slid under the door to benefit site owners. That's because plenty of things that should work just fine without it are now tied into it, disable JS and the site experience breaks.
The easiest way to cook is to have lots of small bowls for the ingredients. Each ingredient gets measured out into a bowl and put aside. Then when you need it, you dump the bowl into the dish being prepared.

This is assumed in all the time estimates, as well. Time spent getting the ingredients into the bowls isn't counted, so if something calls for 3 chopped onions you have to add the peeling & chopping time to get the real prep time.
What you offer ("It would be more precise to say the Russians were an American mercenary army.") by far beats the craziest Hollywood interpretations.
You're wrong. Therefore the developers' effort should not be wasted, and certainly not while exposing their users to privacy risks, exploits, and such other dangers as will inevitably arise when placing the capabilities to perform sensitive operations in software which also deals with untrusted input from the Internet.
I am actually interested in trialing and maybe subscribing to Quibi—I could use a set of well-produced shows optimized for mobile viewing when I’m out and about. For context, I don’t subscribe to anything other video service, including Netflix—I prefer buying shows on iTunes without a subscription, even if I end up paying a bit more overall.

But, I have zero interest in Quibi while I’m stuck at home due to COVID. Why would I watch a video on my phone when I have a 100 ft projector a button tap away?

I just hope the service is still around when the world opens back up.
I guess the irony is that, in the long run, it turned Russia into an even stronger competitor.
> lawyers, doctors, biologists, physicist, mathematicians

CompSci is a very young field compared to those.
It wasn't even a college subject before the 70s or so.
A driver should only be a security issue if it's actually running (loaded), and even if you have the module available on disk (which again, is unlikely for something obscure enough) it'll only get loaded if the kernel detects hardware that uses it, or someone does a modprobe (or equivalent), which already requires root. So having the driver available shouldn't add any risk unless you actually are using it anyways.
He mentions only Nintendo, I must have been mistaken about the GBA. Given the year, this must have been for the Virtual Boy. Not a surprise that they don't tell the story much. In the end the Virtual Boy shipped with a 32-bit NEC CPU.
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You might want to consider that doves are quite docile and generally peaceful birds, whereas ravens are carrion eaters, frequently associated with death and violence as a result.
Quibi claimed to be competing with free and i think thats where they made their mistake. People on Youtube can leave a 10 minute vlog half way and still feel satisfied that they got their fill of quick stimulation. Quibi forces high effort engagement into a snippet of time where that's the last thing you want to be doing. Of course if they aren't competing with free, then they're competing with Netflix and honestly there is no USP on that side either. Its clear that they were exposed on both sides from the get go.
Kallithea[0] has support for both. You might want to test it out and see if it's a good fit for your setup. I enjoyed working with it when when I used it.

[0]https://kallithea-scm.org/
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Great work on PPSSPP. I haven't used it in a few years, but even back then the performance was great!
Yea probably, I doubt that Minecraft would've been any less succesful written in C++ or any other language though.
It isn't the relationship between the folder structure presented in the start menu and any actual physical location that's the most valuable part (though with portable applications they can be one and the same!), what's important is the simplicity of it and that the user can easily manipulate it with nothing but a file browser.
I tried Quibi for a few days when it was released (90 day free trial) but found the content to be pretty boring.

Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it, but I tried a few different shows and nothing really kept me engaged like shows on Netflix.
The nerd stereotype is part of it. But there's also a part that runs along the lines of "Why would you go into CS if you haven't been fooling around with computers a whole lot in high school? Because that's what all your classmates will have been doing."

There's probably at least some analog to majoring in music. Sure, you'll probably spend a lot of your time in college learning about musical history and theory but it would probably seem a bit odd--and you'd probably be at a significant disadvantage--if you'd never had any music lessons or otherwise learned anything about music.
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Hey, thanks for the recommendations! I'll definitely look into the AVR instruction set.
I'm not opposed to multibyte instructions but I'm trying for 8-bit instructions. I'm actually planning to use a special register that holds the ALU input so that I have more space for instructions in the actual instruction. It'll take more instructions since you'll have to set the ALU each time you need it changed, but as it's not a physical microcontroller, I'm not worried about running out of room.
Do you think this is a feasible plan?
Article also states trust was lost with China (similar percentage numbers). Russia stayed about the same.
And no, I haven't found a source yet. I tried. These are my memories of that time from following Apple very closely because I bought a bunch of Apple stock when Jobs came back and I went to Macworld and WWDC a lot in those days.
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Nationstates have no meaning beyond mechanism to obscure borderization of humans and boderlessness velocity of capital. It would be more correct for me to say I am a Bezosian or I am a Zuckerbergian than I am Canadian.
Instead of Wikipedia, we would check out things from Microsoft Encarta.

It's funny you bring that up. I just noticed yesterday that MS Word now has a Wikipedia button: https://imgur.com/a/zbcLZGj Things change!
The last four years of living in the UK
My suspicion is that people don't hate SAP because of bad looking GUI, but because it implements rigid, hard-to-discover business processes that make everyone miserable (but make the company as a whole efficient).
I think his point is that the focus should be on intensive growth (use the existing people better, make their lives better) over extensive growth (have more people).

Though, OP, there are geopolitical issues with this, as Australia was extremely close to discovering in 1941. That's why Australia opened its immigration policy.
> not even good pay outside of a couple of tech giants in the USA

That's a huge exaggeration. In what other field can a bright kid take a 12 week bootcamp and get a job that pays $80k?
I don't want _most_ websites doing this. There are some websites (especially PWA) where they are definitely useful and can replace a heavy client.

Maybe it shouldn't "asking for permission" but "giving your permission" explicitly. If you don't need such an API, you would never be bothered by it if the model is opt-in without notification/popups.

I understand the problem you have with websites asking for permissions, especially push notifications permissions, as they keep showing up. And I do definitely agree that having a website that does not need any of these permissions ask for it would be even more annoying but there are definitely cases where I'm glad a website can help me out (and I don't have to download a heavy client that might or might not have tracking and analytics in it)
>Lucene?

It's mentioned in the Wikipedia search section.
Developers need the developer beta to work on their apps right now. He’s not using the beta for fun. Apple, realizing this, could have improved the performance of this developer tool.
The paper airplanes book is fantastic. More then once I've got a group of 10 children concentrated for a couple of hours just making planes and coloring them.
I'd say Spring takes that crown.
Disney didn't have to do any market testing. It's very obvious that people will pay for access to their portfolio. I bet they're more worried the service cannibalizes their DVD/Blu-ray sales than that the service itself isn't popular enough.

And since they already had the content and the marketing channels, the only thing they had to spend real money on is engineering. There's also a lot of cachet attached to working for Disney so I bet hiring talent was not an issue.
Yes my mistake, corrected.
At which point you bang your head into the wall because the fix is so bloody obvious. :-)
I've heard that the relative ease of decompiling Java might have contributed significantly, since it made mods much easier than they would've been with C/C++.
> so small and unimportant that some say the EU faces an existential crisis as a result of its departure

Eh, exactly who is facing existential crisis over UK leaving? No signs of any of that here on mainland.
I think this is a really good summary. You do often get some kind of kudos when people say they're rubbish at computers/IT but then they bring you down to earth by asking you for help with their bluetooth or some random app on their smartphone :-)
> It was only after Mr. Sullivan’s team shut off eBay access to all of Romania — with a message blaming eBay’s shuttering on Romanian law enforcement’s refusal to pursue online criminals — that Romanian police took action.

Jeez. While I get the frustration that eBay had with fraudsters, this is yet another case (after Amazon trying to extort France in the corona conflict, or Uber and AirBnB ignoring local court orders) of a major US tech company to outright crap on national sovereignity of an European country.

How can us Europeans protect against this kind of moves? Especially with the current US President being someone who would retaliate for anything that he gets complained about?
My perspective is that this business practice fills a niche of demand and is absolutely ethical. Your suspicion that this capitalism is what is causing people to want to burn everything down needs some proof to be anything more than a political statement.

Calling someone a jerk for being smarter and less lazier than you doesn't do anything for your argument, either.

I'm sure that everyone who bought a pair of those flashy cool looking sunglasses were very happy with them and enjoyed telling their friends that they were an expensive Italian/French designer pair.

And as to your final attempt to soften your attack, I got one thing to say: There's always someone happy to spend their money.
What would you learn in a BSc Software Engineering that's not in a BSc Computer Science course that's not going to become redundant after a couple years and couldn't be covered in a module? I have thought about this before and argued for Software Engineering to be a specific course/field, but it's just too ephemeral at the moment with a lack of 'core' elements to warrant a 3 year course.

Edit: To be clear, I want the field to mature and develop into something similar to other engineering fields like EE, but it's not there yet.
Parent seems to be referring to https://www.autonomous.ai/standing-desks
Disney+ is an interesting contrast. They threw a lot of money at proven technology (BAMTech) as well as proven content producers (in-house).

That's the entire point. You don't throw billions at something new -- you prove it out first and then throw billions at it.
I'm (in theory) the target demographics for this app. I love short content (YouTube, podcast, web-comics, etc...) and always on the go.

The main problem (for me) was the lack of content, for some reason they didn't tap in the YouTube ecosystem where there is plentiful of talent that specialize in the short (10 minute or less) format, Minutephysics is the first example that come to mind.
Instead they went for the big-star tactics that really doesn't work.

I watched all the show and, while some of them are good, the vast majority is only "meh". This plus the low number of show and episode, doesn't allow me to justify speeding the money of the subscription.

It seem they tried to do Netflix "but short", instead of specializing in on-the-go entertainment.
They don't even have podcast!

However i really want a service with curated short content, but i want more than video! I'm also interested in podcast, articles (side note: can someone recommend summary "this-week-in-[argument]" site or channel?). I currently use YouTube, but a more curated multi-media platform (without ads) would be awesome and i would pay for it.
When Hebb talks about "reverberation" in neural circuits, he still thinks in advance of our current knowledge of oscillatory neurodynamics. Here he speculates about the short term memory trace that holds position dynamically, prior to physical changes in the synapse:

"It might be supposed that the mnemonic trace is a lasting pattern of reverberatory activity without fixed locus like a cloud formation or eddies in a millpond"

From Hebb's 1948 "Organization of Behavior"
Last night on home laptop I wrote some code, put it in a private gist and went to bed. Came to office at 4:30 AM to work on my own project before work day start. GUESS WAT !!! GitHub down ... FML
FWIW,

I would say that knowing how to design boards makes me MORE willing to buy other people's boards. Coming from a more mechanical background, I don't look forward to the tedium of reviewing and modifying all the footprints of "standard" sized SMD parts.

I like making music effects for friends, and branching out to things related to motor control, LEDs, sensors, etc. I prefer to have them pick and placed for me. Since an injury a few years ago, I battle vertigo when doing extended fine detail work.

I would be interested in seeing some of the designs, you've always been an interesting person to read from here on HN. Tindie makes that easy.
FWIW I've been coding since my early teens and enjoyed it a lot, but when it came to university (in 2009) I had very little interest in doing a CS degree and instead opted for Maths. The two main reasons were: a) I knew that doing Maths instead of CS wasn't really going to hinder my job prospects in any way, and b) CS sounded a lot drier and had fewer options and choices than the Maths degree (in the UK you apply for the course and you generally don't do anything from other courses, so your choice matters a lot).

The first point I think has born out fairly well, even if it was probably a bit arrogant. Certainly when I'm interviewing grads I'm not actually that interested in if they did a CS degree (though that might be more because I didn't do one...). We don't really do early stage training so we're looking for evidence that the grads can actually code, whether its by pair programming, via questions or looking at personal projects, etc, its the people who have done it as a hobby that tend to shine there.

The second point is highly subjective and obviously quite personal, but equally if people know they can get into software engineering without a CS degree then I think they're more likely to do a course that really interests them. After all, if you it doesn't effect your job prospects that much then why wouldn't you? There is a fair argument to be said that the industry should be better at hiring CS and code camp graduates and doing on the job training, but that's not where we're at currently, alas.

If anything I tend to view CS as the academic arm, and software engineering as the practical/vocational arm. In the same way e.g. law works (at least in the UK), where actually most lawyers haven't done law as their first degree and do a conversion course after instead (often getting a contract before doing the conversion cause and then having the firm fund it). Really, its the classic argument about how much university degrees should be academic vs vocational.
I still give Tomcat credit for taking Websphere and Weblogic out of the way. That opened the door for Spring.
I think it's because they can't relate. If I had a degree in English, then there could be a conversation about all sorts of things.

But I work "in computers", and the only thing to talk about is "so, my computer has started making this funny noise..."

I find the same bias against people who do things in work life too. I have an MBA, but routinely find myself marginalised in meetings because I code. Somehow the guy from Sales who doesn't understand how the product works has a more respected opinion on our market strategy than the guy with the MBA who literally understands everything about both the market and the product (because I designed the product to meet the market). It's frustrating.
But why even start with an assumption that is so likely to be wrong? We know that incidents are frequently correlated. We know that scale and complexity add fragility. We know that GitHub has gotten bigger and more complex. The chance of the probability distribution holding constant over 5 years of major growth is basically zero.
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What was the last sentence of my post saying?