skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You remind me of people in the Soviet Union brainwashed by the propaganda and confident that it is all true.

We have shook off that and got quite a cynical attitude.

I see you haven't done the same.

I don't have a hope that it will change someday.
The creator of PHP's Xdebug (Derick Rethans) unsuccessfully stood for local elections recently.

I can't think of many others though!
Unidentified Wave Glider seen off U.S. Coast
I can hear the sound when the hourglass appears. You know the one I mean (if you're old enough).
a) EU doesn't have a military. However there are active discussions driven by France to establish one and it is getting support e.g. Eastern European states who feel threatened by Russia.

b) EU does have a Common Security and Defence Policy under which it coordinates overseas operations e.g. Libya, Iraq using the military from the member states.

So Galileo is definitely a critical element of the future of the EU.
I was in college during the same period at the largest school in my state and we graduated a class of about 60 or so undergrads in 2014.
What is someone's status as a chess player if they never play? If computer scientists have no social status - a position I am not necessarily backing - whether it is because they have not sought it or because nobody cares that somebody is a computer scientist would be moot.
I take my side projects as seriously as if they were major releases.

One of the big reasons that I do them, is because they help me to develop the habit of ship.

Also, one of my side projects has actually become a worldwide standard, so I think that treating all of my projects as "ship" has turned out well.

I have a number of works in progress. Some, I will complete, some, I won't.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Attributed to some guy that wore a sheet.
> For me at least, time is much more valuable than money

yes, but 'for you' being the operative word. Your time is worthless to me. Your time, if you used it to do something _I_ wanted done, would be worth something to me. Therefore, it is true for people to say time is money.
Hackers Extorted $1.14m from University of California, San Francisco
> It was common for mice to be chained off of keyboards, for example

And still was even after Macs switched to USB. I've got a couple of those keyboards in my collection.
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Galileo includes Public Regulated Service (PRS).

PRS has both military and civilian uses. Civilian uses include safety critical applications like autonomous cars, energy grids, air traffic, military and commercial drones, trains, some emergency services and so on. It's jamming resistant highly secure system that many commercial future systems depend on (even the open services in Galileo are spoof resistant).

Since UK will be closed out the development of PRS, UK thinks it's not going to serve their national interest to rely on EU.
And they keep screwing with the right registry incantation to turn off the web search crap.

If you're on 2004, it's HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows, DisableSearchBoxSuggestions = DWORD(1)

If you're on 1909, it's HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search
CortanaConsent = DWORD(0), and
BingSearchEnabled = DWORD(0)
More likely than not, sheep.exe still works perfectly on a Windows 10 box (at least if it happens to be 32-bit).

Microsoft's backward compatibility is still pretty impressive.
At my software company I think we have more physics graduates than software engineer or comp sci.

We use mostly Python and Go btw, which I think might affect things a bit. Graduate schemes for those computing degrees tend to be at big corporate dot net shops.
I think you're missing the point a bit. Not all changes are simple code deploys. They take time to diagnose, mitigate and fix. This is especially true when you have a lot of services that talk to each other, working on infrastructure that can support so many services and users.
I don’t know how old you are but this is not the case at all among my age group, recent college grads. If you say you work at Google, to continue your example, people are definitely impressed and think you’re very smart. Pretty much all of my friends and their friends are not in software engineering and that’s still the case.
JSON? Human-readable representations in general?

> Representing a float in decimal is absolutely idiotic

Other way round: humans like decimal arithmetic, and will accept binary floating point as an intermediate representation.
Time is money, but money isn't time.
> People often deploy new features deactivated, then, when the whole fleet is updated, activate features to different groups and monitor for breaking behavior change.

Even better - then they shouldn't even need to make another deploy, just flip the feature flag back off. And if you need to make network changes, then test those out behind a load balancer in parallel to the existing topology, so you can start routing more traffic to the new setup, but can stop doing so if any problems arise. I'm not saying any of this is trivial, but the point is, best practices exist to start deploying pretty much any kind of change in a way that can be undone in minutes or even seconds. When you have access to the resources and talent that Github has, then there's zero acceptable reasons why your site would ever be down or degraded for hours on end - zero.
Personal opinion: after four of the required five years of my CS major education, I felt like I had gotten about as much out of it as I ever would. I knew I would advance my own skills and knowledge more by spending that last year as part of an experienced team in the industry instead, so I did.

Other than it being annoying to explain the situation if someone asks, this has not ever set me back in any way I know of.

If, in the future, I feel like it would improve my abilities/position to write a Master's thesis and get a diploma, I might look into taking the last year. But so far, I have gotten way more leverage out of the additional industry experience.
The current lot remind me of every terrible tech-illiterate manager or client who uses phrases like "it's got to be easy..." or "you only have to...". Cummings is the worst case, the manager who has learned just enough to consider himself an expert but not enough to realize how out of his depth he really is.
Doesn't Oxford just automatically boost all bachelors to masters a year after graduating though?
> Amazon at least has to obey local standards for the country in which they sell.

In theory. In practice resellers are free to dropship whatever they want from AliExpress to Amazon and sell at a markup.
May not answer the question, but using LaTeX and producing PDFs from it works best for me. Also, it is free (as in libre) software.
The US may already do this under the Five Eyes agreement.

But given how Trump has shaken alliances even countries like UK are realising the importance of being self-sufficient.
After living under the east and west influence there is little doubt which one is better as regards to human rights, standards of living, levels of corruption. To say the other side has the same problems is true but highly misleading. It's like saying both a mouse and an elephant have mass.

Same for internal tensions in the west. Sure they exist regardless of Putin and Russia, but it's the size of problem that matters. Extremists without critical mass can't do much harm. A small fire can go out on it's own, but adding gasoline is a clear significant issue.

The last part about calling the other side shills don't interest me much. Internet drama.
Answers from a layperson, while you wait for a proper answer:

1. Low, and high, respectively.

2. Almost all very big stuff, most big stuff, some medium stuff and very little small stuff, where "medium" is around the size of the Chelyabinsk one (~20m).

3. Decades for very big stuff, years for big stuff, very very variable for everything else.

4. Nothing. Plenty, in theory, but we haven't got around to setting any of it up yet. Knocking them sideways so they miss us is the current best bet, iirc.

5. No.

6. Low, assuming you're not going to live past your 90s (which is a potentially dubious assumption).
Why?
Vim is compiled nativly for windows as it is and I can't imagine a better editor to ask for in a terminal
I'm on sourcehut. Whats a microsoft?
For most members of a gym, I guess that would be today. Most gyms require members to abide by various coronavirus-triggered regulations (including, in quite a few countries, the rule “don’t enter the gym”)
I know the story of the ordinary people. They are my grandparents.

I don't know in what kind of warped reality you live if you write things like 'the Russians were an American mercenary army'.
The gold standard here is 5 9s, not 2.

They have paying customers that are being inconvenienced by this. We lost time over this multiple times in the last few weeks.

So, not good. IMHO they are having some major issues with their release process that they need to address. Standards have slipped there; they used to be better at this.
You’re right. I went to a slightly posh school and my parents actually got commiserations that I was going on to study comp sci. “I.T.” is still not a high status field in the LEAST in the UK. It went down like telling people I was going to drop out and become a mechanic (not that there’s anything wrong with that either, but it’s all about the perceived status of the field).
Four views: How will the work visa ban affect tech and which changes will last?
Got taken over by bean counters (accountants /MBA ) instead of engineers.
Some of the decline in 80s can probably be attributed to a reduced percentage of women getting CS degrees [1]. I tend to agree with the conventional wisdom that gaming and home computers led to CS becoming a less welcoming degree to someone who had never touched a computer before. Contra almost every degree outside of the arts where some interest and the usual high school curricula are all you need. (And it became a somewhat self-reinforcing cycle.)

That theory doesn't speak to the 2005 peak and subsequent decline however. [ADDED: Which is probably more related to the dot-com bubble bursting.]

[1] https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-the-declinin...
As a recent transplant from the Boston area, howdy from the WRJ area!
Part of the continuing British infowar against Russia.

If you want to understand how modern Russia came to be, start with Paul Klebnikov’s Godfather of the Kremlin. Klebnikov, who was in fact murdered for his fearless journalism, very likely by said Godfather, Boris Berezovsky. Berezovsky, who received shelter, protection and more from the UK.

Excellent documentaries on the topic:

https://youtu.be/oLNKqbwec0s

https://youtu.be/ZLPxyDlQfBc
Thanks for you response. It would mean that, but if I understand the code at https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=elf/dl-look... correctly, linear search through all mapped libraries happens already.
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Computer Science is by far the most popular stem major all around the world!

If somebody have numbers showing opposite, I would like to see them.
Easy. The educational aspect is pretty awful. And after you get through that, the big companies treat you like a leper unless you went through a few chosen schools.

I went to a big state school in the 90s. The first two years were a hazing, with a brutal curve designed to drop class size from 1000+ (CSI 200) to about 80 graduates.

It was sink or swim and awarded grit. The only major worse was biology where organic chemistry weeded out the frat boys from premed.
Or in other words, facebook is more stable on the holidays.
I have an enormous portfolio of code. I'm talking dozens of repos, hundreds of thousands of lines of code, shipping apps (with full source code), and at least a decade of checkin history.

Also, I have many, many articles on Medium, and on my own sites. These tend to explicitly and unambiguously cover my development methodologies, design ethos, and personal philosophies.

There should be no question at all about my technical ability, methodology, creativity, or team integration.

But it is my experience that the portfolio is immediately ignored by hiring managers.

After a few instances of that, I just gave up looking to work for others, and started doing my own thing.
It sounds like a kind of toilet paper
It is lovely to mess with. What are the apps that are not possible with this ? Is the API coverage full ? Can I make an app with it packaging PHONK + script ?
I think people are impressed by the big names, but not so much if you work for an enterprise SaaS provider.
It would certainly be an odd world if we had US-backed nuclear missiles (for which we pay a huge amount) but not US GPS access.
Honestly, here's the truth of the matter as someone who has gone through Bachelor's and Master's.

Annectodal (sample size 1):

I went to a top university in Florida for Computer Science. The classes were either simple, useful or nintendo hard. Data Structures and Discrete Math were the courses most likely to have transfers out to IT or Business degrees.

Two good friends ended up dropping because they just found a job and said "Screw it" and just went into the industry. A couple of others went into IT because the coursework was "too hard and I can get the same job with an IT degree"
As an engineer many political compromises make no sense to me to the extent I cannot support it. Compromising between, say, quality of a solution and the available resources to implement said solution makes sense to me and it is clear what the trade-offs are beforehand. A political compromise to keep all parties involved happy that mixes parts of totally different solutions and creates a system you know beforehand it is going to perform significantly worse than either solution, is difficult to accept let alone support for me.
That's weird. Is your WiFi the issue, maybe? For me, whenever I have issues with the Chromecast, that usually solves the issue.
What jobs are being done at home during the crisis? Evidence from firms
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Governing and campaigning are very different things, though.

What is the difference in effort between ‘selling’ a $15k website or application versus writing, maintaining and deploying said application?
Confused and confusing.

Saying that Khordokovsky was "no saint" is...an understatement. He refused to pay tax in Russia, he was charged in the US for money laundering resulting from one of the largest tax fraud schemes ever, he was the main money launderer for Russian organised crime, he was involved in massive political corruption (it is forgotten today, the reason why Yukos was targeted was all of the above...Western investors, Bill Browder, worked with Putin to take Khordokovsky down), he got "his start" by stealing a bank from the state and paying bribes to win rigged auctions (an idea suggested by Western economic consultants, even well after it was apparent they were being rigged). Khordokovsky lived by the sword, and died by it.

To suggest that Putin was immensely powerful from the off and schemed his way into the Presidency is also not true. It took him nearly half a decade to build a power base. The corruption and incompetence around Yeltsin was also very real (it is amazing how almost every Western accounts ignores this), elections were rigged, big donations from foreigners were produced (one even went to pay state pensions before an election), and this was a govt run by oligarchs around Berezovsky (all of whom refused to pay tax and controlled the media, all of whom fled to the UK and were sheltered by the govt...which wasn't particularly smart). Not to mention that Yeltsin was then basically dead on his feet (he had heart surgery, was polling near 0%, and the corruption against him was basically proven).

If you want to understand Putin, you have to understand the 1990s (funnily enough, 1998 isn't mentioned...it never is, a financial crisis triggered by bad advice from the West doesn't fit the narrative).

Btw, this isn't to say that Putin isn't corrupt, etc. But it is to say that West reaped what it sowed in Russia. Bad economic advice (amazingly, some involved are regarded as economic experts of great gravitas and wisdom) and hitching our star to Yeltsin were errors (inevitably and accurately, Russians believe the West is hypocritical...Yeltsin's corruption was fine because he was "our man"). And say what you will but when Putin came to power, Russia's economy had basically imploded, there was essentially a civil war going on, the oligarchs were paying no tax, and looting everything that wasn't nailed down. He ended that (and btw, he won great plaudits from the West for this until he took over Yukos) and brought some measure of stability that Yeltsin was nowhere close to achieving (again, largely because the purpose of his govt was to be run by the West and oligarchs looking to loot Russia...Putin was focused on what was good for Russia).

I am not sure why journalists push this narrative either. Everything doesn't need to be characterised as good or bad. It isn't binary. Putin is a function of the system that exists in Russia, and the situation that he inherited. Russia isn't like the West. To expect that it should be or judge him solely by those standards may feel comfortable but it makes no logical sense.
You need a truck to move a container of freight across the country. You buy a skateboard, hoping that you can modify it to do the job.
Reactos mantains that look&feel, but it's not stable yet and wonder if will ever be.
Obsidian does have that feature, so at least one of those options should work. For me, the best thing about roam is the outline level block references. Having to create a bunch of new atomic notes can start to make things really confusing from an organizational perspective and that is what always bogged me down previously. I can use Roam more like a bullet journal, just open up today's note, throw a header down for whatever meeting I am in and start to capture, then click on the header to get all the previous notes I have taken on that subject.

Note that I am not a researcher, but a dev manager, so most of my note-taking revolves around meeting notes and action items with some research thrown in.
Agreed, and it goes beyond that. We have a pretty poor reputation when it comes to dating (as heterosexual/bi men). Obviously, it's not "real" - a lot of us end up married or in relationships, but of all of the high paying office jobs out there, tech guys are probably the lowest in the ladder.
Check the graph, it actually isn't...
The premier minister of Singapore is a computer scientist ...

(Though that might not be his primary qualification.)
Yes, you’re awarded an MA (Oxon) after a few years of graduating, but this is a ‘proper’ Masters course
> Given high wages for developers and the cultural centrality of Silicon Valley, shouldn’t we expect far more people to have majored in computer science?

Are wages that high though? I don't know much about the UK, but I feel it's lagging behind Switzerland, for example, and that only London is the high paying spot because of inflated cost of living.

In Amsterdam, where I live, a junior developer isn't paid that much more compared to a junior business analyst or a junior marketeer. What is way more noticeable is that a lot more developer vacancies seem to exist compared to the other two, even for junior developers.

> I consider this a puzzle because I think that people who go to college decide on what to major in significantly based on two factors: earning potential and whether a field is seen as high-status. Now let’s establish whether majoring in CS delivers either.

In The Netherlands it's either whether something is interesting. Or it is whether something is interesting and it's good for one's career. It's almost never only for career.

> Are wages high? The answer is yes. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has data on software developers. The latest data we have is from May 2016, in which the median annual pay for software developers is $106,000; pretty good, considering that the median annual pay for all occupations is $37,000.

The comparison should be made for different categories from university. I wonder how business studies is doing as that major was a lot easier, in my experience. But I'm pretty sure that the pay isn't lagging behind (disclaimer: I don't have data, I can be wrong).

I've never seen someone join a field of study for social status and I asked the "why do you study xyz" question a lot. I have met a few people who started studying <insert_female_dominated_program> for finding a girlfriend, which usually worked. In most cases, they were also at least kind of interested in the content.

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Here is my partial guess. I have two factors.

I believe that there are more computer science people that are interested in math and physics than the other way around. So there is a crowding out effect.

In The Netherlands, CS suffers from a negative stereotype among Dutch women, which is truly evidenced at my uni by the amount of international female students versus Dutch female students (a good amount versus 0 in some years). Heck, I even met very traditionally feminine women in my computer science classes (caring about fashion, aesthetics/beauty and caring for people), but they were all non-Dutch. Of course, there were also non-Dutch women with other gender identities (I've seen integrated as well). The gender identity of Dutch women was either "not male and not female" (do they call this non-binary?), male, or integrated. So this might play a role in England as well?

Of course, my observations are limited, they're simply based on 8 years of walking around at the two universities of Amsterdam and talking to quite a few students.
The other company does not use Azure.
The featured article has these "numbers showing opposite".
Its hard for me to trust your products if you didn't even have a Cloudflare in front.

EDIT: I don't imply the product is bad, sorry
There's a big difference between a driver being dropped from the upstream kernel source tree, and a driver module not being compiled and shipped by default by RedHat.
Especially as we are so degraded that we could probably not even make basic things like small arms Pistol / Rifle.

Given that USA as an ally isn't looking as solid as she used to be and post Brexit will German arms manufacturers be happy to sell to us - better make sure we don't piss of Canada then.
First party; the first party writes the contract, the second signs it, the third isn't named.
A bunch thugs from late 80s and 90s are still fighting it out. It will be another 10 years before they die off, hopefully.
A lot of work obviously went into this. Super cool!
If they wanted a high resolution positioning system to cover the British isles, it could be accomplished with an entirely ground based triangulation network at a tiny fraction of the cost. Same principles, just cheaper, and a smaller area covered.
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> but the same is true for other branches of engineering and STEM as a whole.

Is it though, my understanding is that for a lot of engineering programs and science courses, much of the value comes from labs and hands on experience with equipment that a consumer cant get access to.