skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d rather know that the community thinks it’s worth reading and make my own decision to circumvent the paywall, because it keeps us in the good graces of those organizations and they produce interesting articles.
> Much of what can be said about CS in the UK is true of the "technical middle class" in general.

Going on a tangent here, but I observed the same thing while reading Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" when I was in high-school (20+ years ago), i.e. that the "technical middle class" and even the "technical upper class" of late 19th century France were way below the aristocracy of that time.

A respected engineer who had graduated from the "École des mines" and who might have even held a job as a Government minister had no chance to attend the parties hosted by the duchesse de Guermantes. Things might have changed in the meantime, though.
> the best hires were the college dropouts

I think this is survivor and selection bias. There were thousands of dropouts in every cycle and you'd never hear of most. For the ones that ended up being the best, school was probably the limiting factor rather than an enabler.

I see some kids these days doing the same, justifying dropping out of school because Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg dropped out and they're billionaires, ignoring that they dropped out because they could do better than what their universities could offer them, and they dropped out of Stanford or Harvard not community college or small town high-school.

I went to a good school and from my generation a single drop out was successful in his career. He dropped out because he wanted to develop his company and he did. I have friends who still finished their studies even while building companies with tens of millions of Euros yearly revenue. Everyone else who dropped out ended up in menial jobs. Car dealership salesman, cashiers, etc. I'm not going to argue the value of a career but the point is they were certainly not the best. I think you are the exception, not the rule.
Show HN: Model Zoo: Deploy your machine learning model in a single line of code
You present valuable arguments, but in this environment shipping is more important than creating an appsec team or bug bounty program as a solo developer. I'm sure you understand :)
Not only that, but it creates an anti competitive environment where someone like me, who sells to US customers, subsidizes those shipments from other countries.

That's the real kicker in this whole thing.
On the one hand I can look at what he did and say that his intent was good and he protected those women and protected his company. However, Mr. Sullivan is clearly taking the law into his own hands (even if that law is in another country).

If you look at this as a business deciding that they want to move forward a business deal elsewhere in the world, they would run afoul of the FCPA if they decided to bribe someone to further that business deal. But it seems that hiring PMCs to intimidate and threaten people is permitted. Perhaps the time has come for legislation to cover this particular practice.
You are probably right. However, the BLE transport was not removed from the 2.1 specification and supported by Microsoft Hello. And, anyways, for Arduino based DIY project existing security is more than enough.
Yes, and then there’s Emacs…
Thank you everyone for warm words. Such feedback means a lot to me :)
More of this kind of refurbs are on my blog already -> https://retrohax.net/?s=extreme
Thank you for reminding me of this. As an 8 year old, this was hours of good fun, and frankly, I viewed them as guides on how to be kid.

I wish I still had them.
You bring a great point that I think needs to be discussed further.

Every year I spend more time banging my head and I think it is having serious effect on my mental health.

I enjoy programming and I don't really spend a lot of time debugging. My code usually runs fine, or I am able to easily find out what is wrong.

It is the whole combined complexity of all the tools that we use. Git, Java, maven, gradle, jenkins, Oauth2, aws(ec2, s3, opsworks, cloudwatch, iam, secrets manager, etc), prometheus, elk, splunk, etc.,etc. plus the combination of all the repositories, branches, modules, versions, libraries that we use.
Why are you comparing revenues to profits?
It is literally just the two commands, I can send them to you when I'm at the pc. I have a 5C too.
Right, a lot of FAANG companies' offices look like kindergartens. I get that all of the perks are "cool" to someone, but to me it's just embarrassing.
The grandparent comment (not the story) said some words about US companies not considering themselves "subservient to the government", and the child comment (the one you replied to) said "but these companies have to obey the courts."

I'd say the GP comment over-reached by implying that a US company is not ultimately subject to US law. In principle, the companies do have to obey the courts, although in practice, there are multiple ways for companies to contest the power of a single court.
You should try Tcl.
What's worse is that MacOS already started down that path. Just look at Big Sur with all of the bullshit widgets and crap now. How I loathe widgets.
Yes, preferably one overflowing with books stacked on every possible flat surface, just the right amount of disorganization that people can find something cool that they never would have even looked for.
Tron did do a decent job, it was cool to see that. At least having a basis in reality goes a long way to making the the 'fi' part believable, if only for those that recognize the basis in current or previous technology.
> In the US, notably, the field you actually study increasingly seems to have little to do with what you do later on in life

Not sure that this is US specific, I think this has more to do with people studying things the economy doesn’t really have a need for (which while inefficient is fine by me)
I have not had to touch my AirPort Extreme or Time Capsule since first plugging them in, ~6 years ago. Maybe there was a software update once or twice.
IKEA has a new standup desk called IDÅSEN: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/idasen-desk-sit-stand-black-dar...

It can be controlled via Bluetooth with an app on your mobile. It is a much better option in comparison to Bekant in my opinion. The tabletop on IDÅSEN is much thicker too, making monitor mounts safer to install. If you are on the market for a standup desk with good value, pay $100 more and buy IDÅSEN instead of the Berkant desk mentioned in the Tindie campaign.
Yup, this is my biggest problem with the field. 15 years in the industry and I've never seen anyone promoted out of IT. Your only escape is a being a founder of a startup. We are not included in conversations that matter. Our opinions are discarded. We are simply dispensable cogs in the machine, its equivalent to data entry work. No status, no opinion worth listening to. I did comp sci because my dad said it was a good idea. I hate programming it's the most boring mentally draining thing imaginable. I hate hate hate it. If anyone had told me compsci was a dead end, if they had told me it wasn't like maths or physics that don't pigeon hole you, I would have never done it. Doing compsci limits your options utterly. If you do compsci you are a programmer for life unless you are very very lucky. Or burn out so hard you have to go on benefits. Which I'm pretty close to doing right now. Programming is like pulling teeth now and I think I'm close to rather being dead than continuing to work in this field.
Graphic Presentation by William Brinton (1938)
If you are a programmer, you are using [a subset of] Lisp already. Every single programming language that in use today was influenced by Lisp. Sadly, most of them dropped the main and arguably the most powerful feature of Lisp - homoiconicity.
It absolutely is, and it's my preferred version. But I think I remember seeing somewhere that the vast majority of unit sales were of versions that were written in C++. My guess is that, if it had stayed Java only, it would have still been extremely popular, especially by indie game standards, but would not have become quite such a global phenomenon.
what the fuck did I just read hahahaaha
In my experience, both Aliexpress and the sellers on Aliexpress never refuse a refund request.

The items I buy are exactly the same on both sites: down to the same stock photos.
>shipping is more important than creating an appsec team or bug bounty program

Is it? Isn't "not losing people's personal health data to a breach" more important than shipping?
In-house vs. outsourcing product teams: What is the best choice?
Do you ever face yourself in a position of deciding to create an in-house team or to outsource? Which parameters did you evaluate? Let me know and I might edit the post to include more :)
Do you know that more than a half of Italy's hand crafted goods market is owned by Chinese?

I mean quite literally, there are Chinese factories all around Central Italy.

And they do outsource for big brand owners there; that's pretty much their main business.
India Bans TikTok and 59 other Chinese apps
Removing all barriers to entry is definitely key. This includes spin up / spin down time to even get into the groove. To whit I usually:

1. Keep a dedicated desktop set (I'm running Linux) plugged into my side project.

2. In my editor I maintain a "where am I" document, and update accordingly.

3. I leave things (from a code perspective) committed and pushed.

4. I leave a specific note to myself on what I think I need to do next, based on my thinking at the time.

5. I book a meeting in my own calendar with the note from #4 so that it's forced to be in front of my face, and my desktop

There are other things, but this gets the ball rolling.
On the other hand, is one "unit" of student effort equivalent to one unit of staff scientist work?

I would say no: early-PhD students in particular are still learning and have other responsibilities (coursework, quals, etc) to boot. You can also interpret your numbers as suggesting that an experienced person is 2-3x more productive than a trainee, which seems....quite reasonable, actually.

I think that's the other "secret": the combination of large budgets and tight timelines encourage the use of more experienced staff and smarter division of labor: hire a programmer for this, contract out to a machinist for that. This is very different from the model used on most NIH grants, where grad students are used as jack-of-all-trades.
See also:

* Opinion | China’s Man in Washington, Named Trump - The New York Times [1]

* Chuan Jianguo, Build-the-Country Trump,Red star Captain. - YouTube [2]

* Why do so many Chinese people call Donald Trump Chuan Jianguo(川建国)? - Quora [3]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/opinion/sunday/trump-chin...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE_Ait3Es9k

[3] https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-Chinese-people-call-Don...
FYI, the US Post Office is an independent agency with its own budget. It does not receive taxpayer money.

So really what was happening is that other people or companies sending mail or packages were subsidizing overseas mail and packages.
Skateboarding is similar. The people who get that rush after landing a trick for the first time will invariably spend the next few years doing nothing but skating. The people who don't will reasonably wonder why anyone would waste their time riding around on a stupid wooden toy.

It's a simple formula: if the gain is more than the pain, your life is changed.
Yeah, I stopped going on CSCQ years ago because I knew it was just making me more depressed. Still, I know a lot of successful people personally who privately believe I'm a failure for working at the FANG i work at so the net effect is the same unfortunately.
Since this is a Show HN, I must admit I've expected some "View on GitHub" or self-deploy instructions.
You already know its from Russia.
If all security, military etc are 'siloviki', then by definition, a "coterie of former KGB officers" is in fact a "coterie of siloviki".
For example... I have a friend who is a barrister in London. He makes a lot less money than I do, and works a lot longer hours, so sounds like he has the lower status job, right?

No, because he's getting invited to join elite private social clubs and organisations. He's going to dinner parties with politicians and could use that network to start a political career if he wanted. He's meeting people with capital to invest. He's on the sports team with influential people. Etc.

There's a whole real-life social network out there, and they definitely aren't inviting the programmers.
You (or a small minority of users) actively wanting it is not sufficient justification for creating APIs that will, with near-certainty, enable additional widespread surveillance and data gathering of the public by entities whose only interest is in profiting from that data, not better serving the public.
If you want to read best sellers from five years ago they are great. If you are willing to work the queue you can get new stuff, just not on your time table. If you are into anything the least bit esoteric and/or aren’t organized with your returns or the waitlist they are frustrating. I have always had a love/hate relationship with libraries.
Maybe check out https://littlefreelibrary.org/ we grab books on walks and leave any books we enjoy but no longer want.
I am amazed... 2 bookstores near me: one that is a 2nd and Charles, a huge used bookstore chain, and huge stores; and another local used bookstore that is wall-to-wall, crammed with books, not a spare cranny. So easy to get lost in though and intrigue, just a delight.
I've found the reverse to be similarly gratifying: when some knowledge from another domain turns out to be applicable to some software engineering problem.

Oftentimes when this has happened for me, it's some knowledge that I'd absorbed in a Wikipedia rabbit hole (or some such) and thought was trivia that would be useless to me. Then suddenly I noticed some sort of congruence with a problem I was working on, and that knowledge proved not so useless after all.

This sort of cross-domain application has lead me to an intuitive and elegant solution on more than one occasion. Biology and linguistics have been especially fruitful in this regard, but perhaps that's only because those are fields I'm better acquainted with.
Google Cloud Platform network outage in us-east1-c/d
Apple began work on the Watch’s handwashing feature years before Covid-19
Try Nim too: https://onlinetechinfo.com/pros-and-cons-of-nim
I've talked to her about it and she can't really articulate why. I'm closer to the nerd stereotype in that I'm on the computer a lot but her mother (my sister) definitely is not. I think it's mostly pop and teen culture still harboring the antisocial stigma. I'll have to talk to her some more.

There is probably some connection with video games, in that boys overwhelmingly play games where girls do not. I don't think the games cause the disparity; whatever it is that draws boys to VGs is what draws them to CS as well.
Curious if using `log stream` with predicates is better, from a performance perspective at least?
Same here. It is now on the status page.

https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/20...
Where’s your code? Debugging ImportErrors in your Docker image
The History of Usenet and FidoNet
Dog Breeding in the Neolithic Age
I think, C++ U OCaml ===> Rust.

Do you know about any language with as strong or stronger borrow checker than that of Rust?
Yes, please feel free to build it yourself ;) Initially I offered kits as well - buy the PCB and all the parts to build it yourself.

I think I've sold about 6 kits total in more than a year since the last time it frontpage'd HN. It just wasn't worth keeping track of them and then effectively being a middle man for digikey. A lot of people want plug and play.
Nothing can stop us from making the same PCB but with USB Type C connector for charging.

Actually I'm using it in my other device according to the exactly same thoughts.
I've spent quite a bit of time in the sticks. You won't find any "Las Vegas architecture" outside of the capital city (which I avoid calling by its new name). The rest of the country looks very, very different.
Yes, that would be great. Something with the simplicity of markdown that saved .md files, but allowed you to edit tables in a typical gui fashion.
I honestly don't see what the deception is.
The years of Apple laptop keyboard issues indicate profound dysfunction in Apple’s “caring” methodology.
Equations system with a black rectangle in LaTeX
Well, I'd like to try to form this into a business but am certainly open to open sourcing it at some point.

I go into very high level details on what's happening behind the scenes in this blog post:

https://medium.com/@esteininger/whats-a-paranoid-son-to-do-d...
If there is a lack of alert, how do I know my loved ones are OK, versus the app being down?

Answering hard questions like that is the difference between a product that is ready for the marketplace, and a hobby toy.
This is why I made it open source. For those who have the time or drive, or enjoy it, they can get everything they need to do so themselves!
You have to be a little crazy to want to spend your life trying to get these damned things to work.
A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly
Unless you think the money to pay pensions will magically materialize out of thin air in the future, I don't see what's artificial about it. They have obligations to pay and recognize them.
This business model is basically the entire premium vodka industry: identical product (by law) differentiated on marketing / hype.
Agreed, this is what I've noticed as well. My bachelors program in electrical engineering was about 90:10 and was noticeably more toxic than my classes with a closer to 50:50 distribution.
Some historical context... IEEE 754 (the current floating point standard in H/W and S/W) arose in 1985, only 6 years before this paper. Before that, floating point representations were often proprietary (e.g. Cray or IBM). Back then, most microprocessors did not have floating point hardware, so most non-scientific apps avoided floating point operations and booleans using them. Few coders had much experience with floating point unless they were engineers or scientists.

This paper broke new-ish ground in introducing 'the rest of us' to the nonlinear representation space of digital scientific numbers and subtleties of roundoff & inaccuracy inherent in math-intensive libraries and scientific math functions. It still usefully covers more ground in that space than most of today's BSCS degree programs.
There's an open feature request to allow this type of functionality. Someone else wanted it to randomly move during working hours (a few times a day) to force them to alternate their position.
Another point of view: through the app I buy less not needed stuff because they are around the tills. Stop and resume the process anytime, also I don't need to fight with my daughter over the 3rd bar of chocolate :)
I don't think any of those things should be collected nor published.
Firefox 77.0.1/Ubuntu 18.04: No mouse drift for me.
2020 China–India Skirmishes
Nuking is unrelated to the discussion. I will never promote an actual war.

Russia is meddling in foreign affairs, invading Ukraine, uselessly threatening Europe, trying to spread misinformation and killing other people in foreign countries ( London, Germany, ... )

Even now, Russia is trying to influence/take-over Ukrains news agency.

This is not about conspiracy theories, these are plain facts.

And for this, Russia deserves to be punished. And Russians should realize it is Putin's fault.

We have been too soft on Russia for too long and the problems are just increasing. The soft approach isn't helping anymore.

Edit: new from an hour ago. Nuclear radiation spike. Guess who it is... Again...

https://www.iflscience.com/physics/unexplained-radiation-spi...
The number of essays required for a CS degree is zero. If you think otherwise, all I can really say is "you're doing it wrong".

Graduating from college usually requires some essays, but there are easy workarounds for that.
I'm sure they have both but complex shit breaks when you change it often.
If you ever find yourself in Detroit, Michigan, United States check out John K. King Bookstore, it is a giant warehouse of books
Sure, but at least on reddit, if you don't like a moderation style, you can set up a competing sub-reddit r/fitness to r/advancedfitness, or r/weightlifting to r/powerbuilding to r/bodybuidling to r/naturalbodybuilding - the opportunities are endless.

No such alternative exists on NextDoor. Don't like the content or moderators? Your only choice is stop participating. I have no idea why NextDoor thinks that is good for their business model. Over time the site will just be populated with Karens.
>The 9M730 Burevestnik (Russian: Буревестник; "Petrel", NATO reporting name: SSC-X-9 Skyfall) is a Russian experimental nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile under development for the Russian Armed Forces. The missile is claimed to have virtually unlimited range.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Central_Navy_Testing_Ran...
Are we talking about the same company who couldn't get Keyboards and thermals right?
Hey! all data is encrypted on the client side (https://github.com/esteininger/pymongo-fle-example) and wiped after 30 days. if there are any data breaches, it will all be useless
Depends on definition of "software competency". Lofty functional programming in Haskell is quite different from low level driver programming in C. I doubt you could take a world class Haskell programmer and throw them in linux usb driver land and expect them to perform well.
How to successfully implement a No Meeting Day at your company
Great article. I majored in Electrical and Computer Engineering roughly 20 years ago at a top US university. Even then, my classes were probably 2/3 international students. I fear that the recent rhetoric from the White House (shutting down H-1B visas) and general impact of Covid on globalism is going to make this problem in many countries like the US. Just as the legal and medical fields got saturated in the 80s and 90s and the preferred career track for high pay and job security, I predict that the same will happen with computer science in the near future. I think most future innovation will come from fields like biology.
"I'm surprised that they cannot capitalize on this data"

They can capitalize on the data (to varying degrees) and it would be a missed opportunity if they don't.

Knowing (quickly, thoroughly, and specifically) which businesses in a given industry/market/region are open, closed temp and closed for good is very valuable insights for a variety of service-based companies.
Creating these APIs doesn't just grant access to them to well-thought-out PWAs with a clear use case.

It grants access to every shady malware ad that wants to siphon your data and that of everyone around you.
In the last few weeks many technology companies have been able to have their staff work remotely.

I wonder what suspending Visas means in so far as remote working is a thing.
My university recently put a package manager for SML up on its GitHub page. So there is still a chance for a comeback https://github.com/diku-dk/smlpkg
Thanks, agreed
When the start menu gets long and even more when it overflows it is nice to have folders for eg. games, office apps, image apps etc.

The main reason I like the start menu is that I sometimes forget the name of applications I use seldomly and I forget what apps I have installed.

Edit:
One thing I forgot to whine about is the configuration panel. In the old one you had everything in front of you instanly. The new one is a joke and I never seem to remember which feutures you need can change in the "mobile friendly" blue one, or the kinda a folder one.