skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few observations I have seen(US Based):

- In college there were basically no women in any of my classes, like 1 or 2 in a class of 30-40. Not having an entire gender being interested in a field(generally speaking) makes numbers overall very low.

- In a Java class I took in college, it was standing room only for the first two sessions, after 3 weeks the class was 70% reduced, by the end of the class it was about 25% of its original size. CS is hard, lets be honest(for most people), to excel you have to love it or be mathematically inclined.

- People, when looking at a career don't see CS as long term choice, they hear of burnout due to extreme overwork, and blatant ageism when you hit 40's. I asked a friend who went into the medical field about CS and they said they want to work into their 60's-70's and didn't want to be forced out of work due to age bias.

- Most engineers don't have much 'clout' in a organization that isn't a pure tech company, I have been solicited by GS and other hedge funds but always pass as I know I will always be 2nd fiddle to finance folks/business majors.
> Web MIDI API - Allows websites to enumerate, manipulate and access MIDI devices.

This API is actually a bit horrifying from a security perspective. In addition to allowing you to use MIDI keyboards as input devices on websites, it also allows websites to send binary firmware updates to MIDI devices. The reason is that it's common to use custom firmware to backup/restore settings and enable neat effects and functionality on MIDI devices.

Mozilla's engineers have reasonably pointed out that an attacker utilizing Web MIDI could use MIDI devices as a stepping stone to launch an attack against the user's PC outside of the web sandbox. One such attack might be by reprogramming the device to appear as a standard USB computer keyboard and "typing" commands to the host.

At least one well known manufacturer has vouched for the technical safety of their musical instruments, noting that they're physically designed in such a way that the MIDI firmware can't alter USB firmware. But there's no way to know that every MIDI device has been similarly well designed.

As neat as Web MIDI is, I think Mozilla and Apple probably made the right security call here.

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/58
I understood "contractor" in this usage to mean mercenary.
Before you have that need it seems like premature optimization. If I had a blog that was getting a handful of views/day, I probably wouldn't bother with CDN/scalability until it became an issue. Or use something like Medium (which I do).
For personally monitoring his parents' health it works great. For accepting healthcare data from the public it's unacceptable.
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To even be compared to anything related to Terry Pratchett is honor enough! And that's EYE-gor, thank you very much.
and that's why we are a low status profession...

Instead of digging your heels, and telling her your speech will be much more beneficial to both the students and the company, you did the typical nerdy thing and avoided confrontation and just left
>> God, I wish basic income was a thing.

I'm really tired of hearing about that concept. What you really want is probably a low cost of living so that you dont need much of an income. A lot of the cost of living today is artificially high due to - another phrase I think is getting old - rent seeking.
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> My only reprieve is that Netflix still offers their DVD service.

Wait, seriously?
This is such a big win for Apple. I’ve become increasingly disillusioned with Apple, to the point of switching away from the Mac completely and not missed it a bit.

However, my foray into Android was not so rosy. Android felt like playing with Fire. It was scary not knowing what all was taking your data and then finding like half the apps I had downloaded had been stealing data in some form or another.

Moving back to ios was certainly a huge relief. The privacy aspects are just so much better.
tl;dr maybe - is that an exception?
This assumes your objective of learning different skills is to be financially successful, no?
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Motives of US are different, largely self-serving and still have embers of morality and ethics.

Chinese have no such niceties.
A colleague of mine referred to software engineering as a stepping stone for her. She never saw it as something she would do until retirement.

It took years until I came around to the same realization for myself. It's significantly harder to coordinate and architect "layer 8" bullshit than it is to write apps or lay networks. And there's infinite layers of complexity in it as well.

You don't hear a whole lot of people in management claiming it's fun like you do in software engineering. That is probably a clue. Well, it was for me anyways.
What does this have to do with sovereignty? They aren't obligated to do business internationally.
Description: We are experiencing an issue with Cloud Networking in us-east1-c and us-east1-d, beginning on Monday, 2020-06-29 07:54 US/Pacific, affecting multiple Google Cloud Services.

We expect services in us-east1-d to be recovering within the next 30 minutes, there is no eta for service recovery for us-east1-c yet.

Impact is due to power failure. A more detailed analysis will be available at a later time.

Our engineering team is working on recovery of impacted services..

We will provide an update by Monday, 2020-06-29 10:00 US/Pacific with current details.

We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.

Diagnosis: Some services in us-east1-c and us-east1-d are failing, customers impacted by this incident would likely experience a total unavailability of zonal services hosted in us-east1-c or us-east1-d. It is possible for customers to experience service interruption in none, one, or both zones.

Workaround: Other zones in the region are not impacted. If possible, migrating workloads would mitigate impact. If workloads are unable to be migrated, there is no workaround at this time.
I guess this will settle YouTube vs TikTok for sometime.
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Don't worry. S/he doesn't have much karma, and I don't expect s/he ever will.
Yep, I agree that there are legitimate questions raised which still lack answers. However, I'm responding to the claim that the information the author provides in the summary is not found in any textbook they saw:

> So there you have it, a quick summary of one part of neural connectivity I’ve yet to see described in a textbook about the brain, but which really should be given out there, along with the classic Hebbian principle
This looks really cool. It reminds me of a tool called Storyline that was basically a WYSIWYG for Alexa skills. They shut down the tool and went enterprise I believe. It was quite fun to play around with and make skills.

Your tool looks even more all encompassing (covers many more use cases and devices)
I totally agree with you. They would have high profile influential people in there circle such as Investment Banker lawyers bureaucrats and etc
I have to say I find the way of thinking presented in this article to be wrong in a fundamental way.

I realize that this is (more or less) how we're all brought up to think about our place in the world, but I have come to see it as a very destructive way of self-development.

> The idea behind this model is to focus on your strengths that you are either born with or something you have developed over the years instead of investing time and resources on trying to do anything and everything for the sake of it.

Why should my life be centered on the 'thing I'm good at'? What does that even mean? Is it the thing I like to do and that makes me happy, or the thing that can bring me money? Since the common understanding (I think) points more towards the latter interpretation, is this a desirable way to live your life, or to expect others to live their lives? Should we all be efficient production machines where our efficiency is dictated by whatever the economic needs of the moment are?

> Focussing [sic] on your strengths does not imply that you need to avoid exploring other areas, but it is rather about not letting those other areas take away too much time and resources that could be better utilised on your strengths.

How does such self-optimization relate to the aspiration of living a free life?

> Focussing [sic] will help you accumulate experience and knowledge in a particular domain giving you an almost unfair advantage over others who are much more scattered in their approach in the field.

Why should you aim to have an unfair advantage over anybody? More so, what happens if industry trends shift and it turns out you specialized on the 'wrong' thing (e.g. you're the best mainframe programmer, but the PC revolution has come)?
They have around 120 million monthly active users in India.
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"The brainchild of the DreamWorks Animation cofounder Jeffrey Katzenberg" is more-than-enough for VCs.
> I think they mean the severity of a nuclear plane crash is greater than the severity of a regular plane crash.

Yeah, I know, it's just... There are already existing words for that. Words that were in use before "exponentially" became the cool word of the week. I guess I should just accept it, that "exponentially" is going to mean the same thing as "truly", "very" and "really". At some point some newscaster is going to describe a patient's outlook as "it's not looking exponentially good". Although maybe the word has too many syllables. One can hope.
Why? I'm assuming that my experience is common, which it is. That's more than enough to disprove the idea "I'm not good enough at doing essay style exams to pass a CS degree". Everyone is that good, because there is no minimum essay-skill requirement to pass a CS degree.

Are you thinking that the only CS degree you could conceivably otherwise have passed also had a strict essay requirement?
Book - Range by David Epstein - covers this topic really well. The book shows how expanding into neighboring areas increases your performance in your chosen field itself.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PHLNR28/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
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If you mislead a customer in order to make them buy something, then that is fraud.

Superdry is an odd one. Perhaps they are crossing a line, or perhaps they're just selling a kind of semi-japanese-but-made-in-UK styling. It all depends whether the customers know the truth.
Not the OP but I got a CS undergrad degree and am now in a top economics graduate program. Finance/Consulting is still seen as high status by many.
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There are several diverse viewpoints on this.

One aspect is that being excellent at one thing is hard. Be really good at two things. And thats how you will stand out because it is the fusion of two skils that makes you unique.

First: Some advice on this by Scott Adams. https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/car... I love this one.

Also a book that pretty much centers around the same point. I think the book itself is a great read. And I recommend it.
https://www.amazon.com/Medici-Effect-Elephants-Epidemics-Inn...

And then there is a quote by Robert Anson Heinlein, if you want to take it to heart and live on other extreme. By no means it is a career advice but surely an interesting take.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
Making it mobile only in the beginning was a big mistake, I think they overestimated how many younger people would want to watch on their phones with no option to watch on their TV.

It tries to be tiktok and netflix at the same time, without being good at either vertical.
I broke the lines up some, but tech discussions aren't going to be TV dialog, it's not healthy that way! :)
> Military expert Anton Lavrov in the Izvestia article suggested that the design of the Burevestnik uses a ramjet engine, which, unlike the more traditional propulsion systems for nuclear weapons, will have radioactive exhaust throughout its entire operation.

That statement implies that all ramjets produce radioactive exhaust, which is false.
I think the more relevant point is not that political propaganda/ pork spending is automatically and inherently wasteful, but that the political value thereof is highly subjective and varies greatly based on locale.

The US career politicians have arrived at a basic understanding, where loads of widely distributed pork spending is the acceptable cost of doing politics their way. The EU is not quite to the point where naming every local post office and govt building requires (supra-)national political capital and cooperation to accomplish.
Windows 10 is falling behind macOS, and it is frustrating
It's the low-end vodkas that are literally identical. Many high-end -- or just "quality" -- spirits are in fact different. Tito's, for example, is distilled 6 times.
You should look into getting a 3D printer. I’ve found that most of the time I can just easily print the random things I would normally buy on amazon (cases, organizers, etc). And if I can’t find a good design already online, I’ll try to make it myself. Really fun hobby.
>largely self-serving

like China..or do you think the do it for the greater good?

>morality and ethics

Yes please tell that every single country the US attack d since the second world-war, oh and maybe your own countryman...hint NSA.
How can a country be this stupid. Instead of entering modern world without war and trade instead.

They consistently try to destroy everything possible.

Last week a major oil spill, radiation leak now. Previous radiation leak was in 2017 and everyone remembers Tsjernobyl, I hope.

Killing people abroad ( Germany, London)

Invading Ukraine, for saving their naval army

Threatening Europe with fly overs

Meddling with elections and spreading misinformation.

In the mean time, they think they found an ally in China. While Russia is getting pennies on the dollar, losing engineers to China and getting almost zero "promised investments" of China. Lol

They already lost to democratic Europe during the USSR. I'm just waiting till history repeats again somehow
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Because I never had the knots book! And my knots are still suffering for it (I lost a fishing lure yesterday as a direct result of not having this Klutz book as a kid).
It would very much not be, oversight is a codeword for doing nothing when the oversight is as defunded and weak as ours.
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That sucks for vendors and is quite unfair, but it's quite reassuring for users. I know I'd rather use Paypal for vendors I don't trust if I can.
They're trying to attract young kids who haven't made the connection that forgoing ping pong table real estate and "cool" office perks would mean larger compensation packages for themselves.
That's true but it cuts both ways. I think social respect is entirely relative. It doesn't make sense to talk about status as if there's a universal ranking.

Your examples are all from the perspective of someone inside the British political system. Are these jobs high status? Not from my viewpoint - there's no way I'd want to be e.g. a civil servant, a Sir or even a politician in the existing parties. A whole lot of people hold this class in contempt, really. If a senior British civil servant turned up at a social gathering that happened to be mostly software engineers and successful company founders, do you think they'd get much respect? People would be polite, certainly, but I don't think they'd have a circle around them hanging on to their every word.

I've visited the elite London social clubs. I've also had dinners in the back rooms of fancy London restaurants with investors, journalists and other members of the British 'elites', invited there specifically to talk to them. So I guess I find that world a bit less impressive than normal. Actually I've repeatedly visited two private clubs, both closed to programmers normally: one is for people in the arts and one is for people in finance. I've close relationships with someone in the arts and someone in finance, both of whom make lots of money and thus purchased these memberships. They can take guests, so, that's how I got in.

There are some perks. They have nice facilities in good locations. The receptionists, waitresses and many of the guests are very good looking, they must find them in modelling agencies or something. Would I pay to join one if I could? No way. They're ripoffs: you can get nice bars and hotels anywhere, and there are far easier ways to make business contacts in our world than going to those and hoping you bump into someone.

For example, if you want to meet investors in the UK I can hook you up in ten minutes. It's way easier for people like us to get meetings with investors than basically any other group. People know computer scientists can multiply money like nobody else. I'm actually surprised a lawyer would get the time of day from serious investors, it's certainly not an advantage of his social status.

In the end it's all relative.
>Moving back to ios was certainly a huge relief. The privacy aspects are just so much better.

Are you saying you saw a notable difference in the ads you were shown after switching back to iOS?
I had the same feeling and even though everyone touts the level of control you get with Android its overwhelming as a user who just wants things to work and doesn't have time to pore over every app and setting to control.
To add to this, and at the risk of restating my earlier points: even if you get it working, it still probably won't be as reliable as a provider like GitHub.

Keeping it secure is no small thing, especially if you want to permit access from arbitrary IPs on the Internet (rather than using a VPN, say). GitHub does this, and presumably they have solutions in place for everything from intrusion-detection to DDoS protection.

GitHub employs people to take care of server failover and data backups. You could spend your own time building your own solutions here, but they're unlikely to be as good as GitHub's. Your solution is guaranteed to be less well tested.

And that's assuming you even have a server room in the first place. You could run your own Git in the cloud, of course, but you're not really 'running your own' if you do that. GitHub take care of the server question (apparently they use a physical-server provider called Carpathia [0]), and because git always needs to be available but is only used rarely, the amount they charge you is probably less than the cost of running a dedicated server for the purpose.

And all that is assuming that a self-hosted GitLab is just as good as GitHub from the developer's point of view. It may or may not really matter, but GitHub is probably the more polished and feature-rich service.

Building a competitor to GitHub is possible, but not trivial, see SourceHut. (We've been talking about GitHub, but of course they're not the only Git provider.)

I can see only a few situations where it makes good sense to run your own Git/GitLab:

1. Your Internet connection is slow and/or unreliable

2. There are extraordinary safety/security concerns associated with your source-code (military avionics code, say) so you want to run Git in an isolated network (no Internet connectivity at all)

3. Related to point 2: You don't want your organisation's data to reside in the USA. (To my knowledge GitHub don't offer any choice about this, but I could be mistaken.)

For the average developer though, I don't see much upside. Having more control isn't a compelling advantage, it's another way of saying you have more obligations.

[0] https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553
This is an issue facing much of online media content (imo). Take for example music. I use youtube to find music, where-as I used to regularly spend money at record stores. At this point youtube represents a far more varied buffet for me to pick from.

HOWEVER, since selections and recommendations are algorithmically generated, and clearly drive towards sponsored artists (and sometimes what appear to be algorithmic black holes: looking at you Tycho), the variety of the recommendations I get tends to get be pretty damn stale. It takes substantial effort on my part to introduce variety into the system and when allowed to run on its own, it always seems to regress towards a very static set of recommendations.

I think the analog variant of this, a record store resolves this by at least forcing you to walk past a bunch of music you might not have other wise listened to. Same thing is true with the book store. You might not be into the classics, but you'll walk past them everytime to get to sci-fi. Eventually you might be like, eh, sure, lets try out some Dostoevsky.

I think a possible resolution to this is to stop treating recommendation algorithms as a purely a product recommendation system or as some black box secret sauce. Give people the ability to work with and manually adjust the algorithms that are built to offer them products/ make recommendations. Allow users to work in partnership with the algorithms to get a more varied (or less varied) range of recommendations.
As of 2018 nearly 1/3 of all Russia’s medical facilities had no running water
>reduce e-waste

Yes so you dont have two incompatible chargers when apple decides to change the plug again...that's when it started, that was 2009.
>"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

That's a brilliant quote
If you're concerned about the environment, browse at your local library. The energy cost in printing and shipping books is shocking: https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/amazons-kindl...
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I am, and yes, it's definitely limiting. I wouldn't buy a Yubikey because of that, I'm very excited about the new Solo keys that should be coming out soon, those will probably support thousands of keys.
Popular actors or writers or wrestlers or sport figures are more popular and make more money.

But not so popular writer not much respect, no name wrestler even less.

Brand is status.
> Much like TempleOS, it's not very directly useful

I thought this part of the review was a bit over the top. The author seems to conflate "useful to me" with "useful to anyone" throughout. And in service of such a position, some very black and white conclusions are reached.

Where utility is concerned, we live in a world where bullet journaling on paper is still very popular and also a relatively recent development. It's not exactly the same experience as your brand new tablet may offer, but it's not expected to be. Similarly, in my experience, Haiku was very directly useful, but I didn't go into the experience expecting to surf the Ars website or watch videos on YouTube. I used Haiku on a netbook, and it was a terrific, appropriate, and even tranquil, environment for writing, organizing, planning, and reading.

In short, I found that Haiku was useful and desirable for getting away--and this includes getting away from the exact conditions the author of this review was trying to equate with a minimum bar for a personal standard of utility.