skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He proposed that the approaches to truth and accountability offered by GitHub, venture capital funding, and cryptocurrency all offer better models for journalism than "the East Coast model of 'Respect my authori-tay.'"

When people talk about tech/engineer hubris, this is it.

The idea that a "Github" model for journalism could offer the same level of a. resistance to external pressure and b. in-depth investigation as more institutional models is entirely without basis.
There's a really funny thing about language, it's fascinating really: All words are made up.
This popularization of neuroscience dumbed down to the point of losing the grain of truth is really upsetting.

90 billion neurons in our brain, interconnected in some combinatorial number of ways, but all our behavior and inner world boils down to the interaction of a few dozen neurotransmitters. Yup, sounds about right.
The UK is not much different -- a majority of senior High Court barristers[1] and UK Supreme Court justices[2] are Oxbridge[3] educated.

[1] https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/new-high-court-judges-all-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_of_the_Supreme_Court_o...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbridge
Seems like a no-brainer to me. Most skilled professions provide some sort of apprenticeship track where you balance some mundane tasks with more complex tasks working with skilled professionals in the discipline to learn the trade better. You're not paid at industry high rates initially but provided a reasonable timeline for full competitive pay employment into the profession.

New and young surgeons don't start out day one on the job after six years or so expected to perform a successful open heart surgery, like software engineers are essentially expected to do. You also don't have civil engineers designing full dams or bridges on day one of their job after their bachelors or masters.

Software on the other hand thinks that for some reason, you transition from student to expert in the blink of an eye or can simply pick up what you need in a few weeks. It's completely unrealistic and businesses need to realize the value and necessity of apprenticeships and mentoring.

The problem with this though is that technology is so diverse (now more than ever) that a certain amount of skill you learn at a business is going to be non-transferable as opposed to other professions where their craft is mostly constant.

This means employees are a little less interested in these commitments because it can tie their skillsets to a specific employer if the employer isn't keeping with popular industry trends. It's also a cost employers and employees often don't want to pay in a world where employer/employee loyalty is non-existent. I think for apprenticeships to work, they need to provide transferable skills/knowledge and or provide some basis of loyalty and long term commitment goals between an employer and employee. Both of these seem like incredible obstacles in the current development climate.
Sure. Read bios to research career trajectories. For example, read the bios of billionaires of who made a lot their money via renumeration. Cheryl Sandberg, for example. Steve Ballmer. Made their connections in college.
Yeah, doctors save lifes but it isn't as useful as being a programmer.
Many students would be much less willing to go to college if it was online only, and would instead take a gap year or do something else. If you can keep them hooked until after the tuition is billed and after the refund period expires, and then transition online, then you get that money which you would not otherwise get (now). This entire thing seems a bit like a conspiracy theory, but American universities are pretty greedy so idk. I've just accepted that I'm paying for the diploma so I personally won't mind if the classes are online for the same price - less time wasted in useless lectures, and I've already done much of the networking & connection building part of the experience in past years.
Japan always had its “peculiar” approach to electronics manufacturing automation. While rest of the world tries very hard do design out any kind of “fiddly” steps, Japanese manufacturers got very good at automating such things. Just look at any kind of Japanese home AV gear with its typical large single sided boards full of obviously robot placed jumper links and thru hole components.
Tesla tried it because the technology was mostly ready back then. The difference is a PlayStation has vastly fewer cables, far simpler routing, and problems can more easily be fixed. People can physically pick up a PlayStation diagnosis the problem and then put it back, try to do that with a car.
> RF engineer if it weren't for a four year BSEE that focused heavily on DiffEq, Complex Math, Fields & Waves, and Discrete Systems

You can learn all of this by yourself.

> I'm pretty sure I would not have been able to teach this to myself with YouTube videos.

YouTube videos suck for serious learning of non-visual activities. Written resources, particularly books, are optimal. People like to pretend that it's hard to figure out what you need to learn, but just taking a look at syllabuses and assigned readings and what the "best" books in the field are will get you plenty far.

> access to patient and friendly (mostly) professors

For many majors you can find decent help online, but often crossreferencing between different books will provide just as good results as talking to a professor.

Lectures are extremely inefficient.

The hardest part is not being able to find answer manuals, particularly with graduate-level books. Usually you can find alternatives.
Ask HN: What's a good course or book to learn web development?
For somebody who has a masters in Maths and has a read a computer science book pdf. What's the best way to learn practical web development?
Bayonne: Bus driver left brain dead after being 'attacked over face masks'
Explore 0.5 mln photos taken on Mars
Work on a sample project, sample team for 2 weeks. See if you like the work and the company sees if they like you. This would only work if it were a widely accepted standard practice.
I've told both of my parents--in their 70s--that I will never, under any circumstances, ever call them for money and that any call they might ever receive claiming to be me asking for money or asking for it on my behalf is guaranteed to be a scam.

Yet it still happened that, during the exact week my family was on a Caribbean cruise that included a stop in Mexico[0], scammers targeted both of my parents' mobile phone numbers insisting that they were alternatively Mexican authorities demanding bail money for me or that they were my spouse sobbing over the phone that I'd been in a tragic boating accident and needed money for the hospital.

This was before international roaming was included with my mobile phone plan so when I got back to port a few days later I turned on my phone that morning to several voicemails from my parents, starting out panicky then realizing what was going on then positively jovial at how they'd played the scammers along for almost a full day.

They didn't send any money but both of them said it was incredibly difficult to keep what I'd told them in mind because "what if it really was you needing help?"

0 - We think the scammers got the information off of the Facebook pages of one of our related family members who posted publicly about "being envious of [my name tagged] going to Cozumel" next week and then trolling linked family members for people who appeared older.
One problem I see with microLED's taking off is that the primary parameter the microLED design helps with is power for a given brightness. If the uLED tech costs more than a normal smartphone display (seems to be likely to be true for some time) then getting improved power efficiency I'm not sure would cause a big wave of adoption similar to what has happened with OLED over the past 3-4 years. OLED compared to LCD tends to have both better color gamut and contrast ratio, and when using dark mode UI's the power savings can be pretty high. Hard to see how uLED would be able to differentiate itself from OLED except for showing HDR images in a power efficient way. I'm probably missing something else about why uLED is good though?
Same can be said about a lot of the outrage stories at Google, Facebook, etc. A lot of things viewed as hostile to users are actually bugs.

I'm not suggesting that there shouldn't an outrage against big tech companies. But small company should be held to the same standards, especially as they make those very features their main point of existence.
Feel sorry for the students right now having to face all this.. but it's for the best overall.

College needs to be massively re-imagined in this country. The costs are so out of control it's insane. As a parent with 2 younger kids, trying to save to help them with college some seems monumental.
> unnecessary expenses and every growing administrative bloat

This is a problem, and yet, I’m unsure how “unnecessary” that administrative overhead really is. If you went to college in the 70s you didn’t have all that. But college wasn’t a requirement, it was an entitlement (loosely speaking) and the people who attended largely reflected this - they were entitled, privileged. Even at a public school they were from comfortably middle class homes, white, etc. If you were poor, non-white, you were largely excluded. If you had mental health problems, you were on your own. In fact if you had any sort of special need you were on your own, there was no support from the school - they were academic institutions!

So much of the work over the last 50 years has been to bridge these gaps. College is now practically a requirement for a comfortable middle class existence in the US. So we try to make sure everyone can go, even graduate, and this is the result. I still view schools as being pretty lean on staffing, for what they provide. All these problems with schools are symptoms of a larger societal issue in my mind.
Well, at least they're getting out, even if it's not driven by true environmental concern. BlackRock taking that step seems like it has/will set the stage for other, smaller organizations to follow.
Yes, if you, as a nazi or other sort of radical, create services dedicated to "free speech", that include people who are openly nazis, or otherwise genocidal in nature, people will not want to be associated with you. That is a consequence of those views, and private organisations have the right to do that, since they are -- by their very nature -- private.

The types of people that moved to Gab hate "big government" and are against market regulation, but suddenly want the government to step in when companies blacklist them. They want the ability to "just ask questions" when it's clear they only intend to create inflammatory arguments so they get the excuse to degrade people. People like that complain people shouldn't force their views onto other people and then force their own hateful views about abortion, birth control, etc.

I mean hell, r/conservative said this point themselves, in a strikingly moment of hilarious self-awareness:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfAwarewolves/comments/hle529/goo...

The reason they get turned away from every and all social networks thusfar is because they cannot conduct themselves in a civil manner.
You can work it out if you read the article. It says the high infection/death rate estimates were based on no interventions and no change of behaviour i.e no voluntary social distancing and working from home. Looking at the reaction to the lockdown, from some sections of US society, it is pretty obvious that without the lockdowns enough people would have made no changes to their behaviour and would therefore contribute to higher infection levels and desths. Further, plenty of employers would not have allowed working from home and would have expected people to attend work or lose their jobs. So infected people, predominantly poorer people, would have had no choice but to work when ill and with the atrocious healthcare system would have been unable to access help even if they didn't have to work. So those huge numbers we saw estimates of at the beginning could easily have been achieved in the US, and possibly still could. Florida saw over 10k cases a day this week. This isn't tailing off or going away, it was slowed.

Vietnam had a quick response to the problem, but it also doesn't have the same level of international travellers passing through it so it is easier to contain. The US could have contained it but that means shutting 150 airports, as opposed to Vietnams 3 airports.

Vietnam gets about 45k visitors per day, in comparison the US/Mexico border crossing in California/Tijuana has 75k crossing per day. That's one border point and there is also the US/Canada border too.

So it is in part because Vietnam handled the pandemic better than the USA, but that was also more easily achieved due to the size and complexity of each nation.
Want to Create a Better Mask? It's Harder Than It Seams
It sounds like a win for Harvard's residency fees and that's about it.
> I'm not sure why the hate

I'm still in the camp of "I'll believe it when I see it".

> Fink doesn’t own that $7 trillion of assets, he manages it as a fiduciary for others, and it is obviously wise for him to say that this initiative is client-driven. But it’s also helpful for him if that’s true. This letter will get attention, and if BlackRock’s biggest and most vocal clients think it’s bad then they might take their money from BlackRock and give it to some other, less environmentally committed manager.

Or the investors don't actually think that it _is_ good, just that it _looks_ good to publish such a statement (and not actually enforce it), the same way that Autodesk is just parading "sustainability" as a marketing statement.
Those are national stats, and we are very rural. Plus, we have a whole set of problems that can make it worse if certain events happen. Add to that we've been under a travel ban for months which requires people to self quarantine at home for 14 days if they leave the state or go to certain cities. And yes, figuring out what is going to happen 6 weeks out is a problem.
I think the issue here is that it's so easy to make excuses to plug it back in, and it's so easy to walk over to the router to do so.

When I left my devices at work, whenever I had the urge to go on the internet at home, I would realize it would take me another hour commute to get there and back, and that wasn't worth it.
As someone who is regularly helping companies improve the hiring process, I can say with absolute certainty that companies _do_ get dinged for "only hiring candidates who sail through whiteboard-algorithms questions". Companies know that these are not indicators of success and that they lead to uniform teams with homogenous backgrounds.

I will also say that crafting real world "on the job style" interview problems is growing steam, as it should be!
Can you help me understand what this means? Like "Hey, do you think I'd be a good fit for XYZ?"
> Not to be too reductive, but companies that make wrenches, welders, milling machines, steel, trucks etc. are all complicit in the same thing.

We're literally talking the end of life on this planet as we know it. The companies you mention are also complicit in creating the upcoming climate-caused world wars and their executives should similarly be held responsible.

If you think this position is extreme, you are not paying attention.
Note: "the passengers who had no tickets and were not wearing masks"
What does eyeliner have to do with trucks and ATVs?
What if the time traveler arrives today and tells you - as gently as possible - that he doesn't know your 2020 password because you didn't (technically couldn't) communicate it on Dec. 31 2020?
Without being on campus and making friends / contacts with these people how is the brand useful?

"Oh man that looks like dilhead3112 from my M&A, I thought e worked here and that is definitely their green poomoji face, we should go talk to him! Probbably saved this company!"

But seriously if their brand is networking, having a tight well filtered network I think would be a lot better for them. And if no one meets in person isn't that also bad for their brand? Everyone essentially becomes 2nd contacts (via harvard) on linked in.
> plans to bring up to 40% of our undergraduates to campus, including all first-year students, for the fall semester. Assuming that we maintain 40% density in the spring semester, we would again bring back one class, and our priority at this time is to bring seniors to campus

I'm not sure what exactly is achieved by having 40% density if that decreased density isn't evenly distributed. Unless I'm misreading, the incoming Freshman classes will all be at 100% density.
Speaking of COVID-19 and PyTorch, I just created a prediction model for new cases and deaths based on all sorts of local data and demographics, mobility, dining, shelter data, contact data, testing, weather, races, income, political affiliation, etc. Some initial results for the cases in the upcoming week are here https://www.city-data.com/predict/predict_2020-07-06.csv
At least I know some of it will be used in an attempt to make their product's UI better for the user.

Compared to google which continues to make their UI more hostile to users with each iteration.
If you're interested how it's made, check my first video showing the process of building Mars Explorer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJGY9roFr5E
Don't the professors who are not always healthy young people also deserve to not get sick?

(My mom instructs chemistry at a university and she almost 65)
> The author characterises today's class war not as the working class vs the rich, but as the rich against the professional and managerial class.

That's an interesting perspective, but not the only lens I would view this issue through. John Mackey (founder of whole foods) makes a point about the intellectual vs. the commercial class that seems relevant:

> Intellectuals have always disdained commerce. That is something that tradesmen did—people that were in a lower class. Minorities oftentimes did it, like you had the Jews in the West. And when they became wealthy and successful and rose, then they were envied, they were persecuted and their wealth confiscated, and many times they were run out of country after country. Same thing happened with the Chinese in the East. They were great businesspeople as well.

> So the intellectuals have always sided with the aristocrats to maintain a society where the businesspeople were kept down. You might say that capitalism was the first time that businesspeople caught a break. Because of Adam Smith and the philosophy that came along with that, the industrial revolution began this huge upward surge of prosperity.
Also shipping the manufacturing/automation technology is not particularly cheap, not to mention the amount of on-site setup/calibration that would be required.
That's a great sub-site. This is such a good year for exclusives! 2020 was always going to be epic for that, and I haven't been disappointed.
Claims made on resume or in person? On the seeking side, I've felt pressure to put every technology I've used even in passing on my resume, to satisfy "buzzword bingo" and get through the initial screen, but in an interview I would give a (truthful) answer along the lines of "I don't have a ton of experience, but I know the basics; enough to be confident that I can quickly pick up whatever else I need to learn on the job."
Some things I have thought about looking into:

* Reading aloud text in a very quick speed. Maybe I need more practice in just brain-to-mouth coordination?

* Flash card style training, from just words to even actor headshots (because that feeling of "I know that person but I can't remember their name" is a similar feeling).

* Just speaking more, maybe getting into VR Chat or something similar.
> But do you think the chance you’re going to cancel or return it is so high Amazon should advertise the same product to you instead of something else you might buy?

It’s not either or - Amazon showed me grill accessories along with other models when I bought a grill. Regardless, I don’t really have a hard time believing that even a small chance of buying and canceling could make the expected value of showing that item higher than other items, even if that’s counter intuitive to you. I have a harder time believing that what’s shown is not well optimized and “obviously” wrong.
At this point we have seen cases dramatically spike, yet deaths have not. I think if/when we see deaths start spiking, then the decision to force closures will start happening.
I think an apprentice role with:

- a real chance and a clear path to 'upgrading' to a dev role

- generally good integration with the team (AKA not a person 'over there')

- mentoring & pair programming (for example for bug fixes)

- time scheduled for learning

Can be both attractive for an inexperienced applicant and very useful for a team. Just note that if you take an apprentice or even intern, then you have a responsibility of teaching and helping that person grow.

Also note that some of the things you mentioned, specifically QA and documentation, are quite hard to do well. There needs to be some guidance.

The danger is that people just/only give an apprentice tasks that nobody else wants to do. Some of that is fine, but I've seen people give interns/apprentices tasks which required expertise but were 'boring'. This is a failure in my eyes, because now your apprentice is overwhelmed and demotivated.
4) They're actually adware
This movie for me is the ultimate proof that less talking is often better. The picture itself can speak volumes, I mean first 15 minutes of the movie there are like 10 sentences being said altogether, yet the story is well laid out.

This was one of few movies from the west that was allowed behind iron curtain, it became part of my childhood. I've seen it at least 15 times, it never gets boring even for a second. Timeless story, character, and the music... Leone/Morricone understood (in similar vein as George Lucas and others) that music can make one hell of atmosphere for the movie, much better than just awesome visuals and something mediocre in the background.

I like it even better than rest of Leone's movies, maybe a bit sentimental remainder from my childhood.
Pay 10% more than other non-FAANG companies (who are on a different planet) and offer a real mission and opportunity to make a difference in the product/world/industry. Make sure there's free coffee, smart people, and no jerks.
I noticed the last time I tried to buy a PSN gift card at CVS (which I do because I don't trust Sony to store my credit card information), the terminal actually flashed a warning about gift card scams.

It's sad that this has become so common as to actually need these kind of warnings. I understand if you're paying a ransomware threat and know that the guy on the other end of the line is a scumbag, but, I can't imagine how someone gets fooled into thinking the FBI/IRS/other three-letter agency would accept iTunes gift cards as tender, much less demand it.
Not OP but a quick Google search found this. I have also read plenty of articles of a similar nature. It doesn't take much work to find a reputable source for this type of information.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...