skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? I don't mean to come off as blaming anyone for anything. Trying to offer a work around for their problem with InfluxQL. They usually exist. They may not be good enough for some but offering them doesn't hurt. In this case, I certainly misunderstood the need though.
> But this shouldn't lead to them finding out too much as him as a person

Well he may want to look again, because his real name is pretty strongly tied to SSC now, via a tweet and some other articles that pop up. Google even autocompletes it.
I believe that could also be the case because of the amount of practice your colleagues could have had during college.
I find it funny+, that well into XXI century, somebody on hackersnews is trying to persuade me that digital native disruptor has very high bar to disrupt brick&mortar old fashion behemoth, WHEN goliath is forced into digital space by external force (covid).

+) or significant, why US edu is so bad in terms of price to earnings ratio comparing to what you can get elsewhere. time to say that king is naked.
They clearly means successful businesses.
With Covid prevalent in the United States, I don't know what the situation would be for students looking to take the fall 2020 semester.

In college, we were told to spend at least three hours studying for every hour in the class. So I am not sure what people mean when they talk about "DIY degree". Over 75% of a standard BSCS degree is already "DIY". What we get in the other 25% is lectures, office hours, discussions with the professor before and after class, discussions with other classmates, access to a library with many volumes on math and computer science, access to computer labs. Also verification that someone had learned these things. We can look at their GPA and transcript as a loose indicator.

I have worked with programmers who went to boot camps, did "DIY degrees" etc. None of them would be able to tell me what a pushdown automata was, or how to deal with critical sections, or had ever written programs in Lisp, or could derive 8x, and so forth. I am sure there are a few out there who could, and there are certainly a number of people who somehow got a BSCS and who don't know these things. Nonetheless, people without a degree usually don't learn about the pumping lemma, or

> you’ll end up with a very impressive “DIY degree”. As a hiring manager, if I saw this on a resume (I haven’t yet) - I would be very impressed.

Well, with the US unemployment rate, this is a great time to test this hypothesis. From personal knowledge, only one of the college graduates in IT I worked with is unemployed (he has a specialized role, does not live in a major tech hub, and his job search has locally been in his local area), several of the boot camp grads I worked with are not working in IT at the moment. In times like these, when you're sending your resume in to the position alongside one or two dozen people who have a degree, it is better to have a degree.
Why don't we just spend the existing budgets in a better way than funding SLS, Lunar Gateway, etc? Those sorts of boondoggles are just noise for the DoD but are critical losses for NASA (setting aside the social value of keeping a significant percentage of Alabama and Mississippi off welfare...:)
HDR for astrophotography
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Watches Are Yet Another Easy Way Rich People Make Their Money Into More Money
But the model will eventually be updated to detect and process the new cloaking images. So, to stay ahead, you decide to create a model that automatically generates different cloaking images, and... The whole system is now just a GAN : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network
Every time you use Facebook, see an advertisement there, or click it, every time you share content on Facebook and get others to engage with that platform, you are contributing to a platform that is directly responsible for human psychological harm, in many different ways.

Same for Twitter, and for Reddit, and Instagram... and probably TikTok.

I don’t believe the use of these platforms can be considered ethical.
>Then don't start one if you can't consume the risk.

Absolutely mind-boggling when YC literally exists to support and incubate startups so founders don't have to take on life-ruining risks.
I don’t understand the requirement for college degrees for most jobs.

Regardless of your major, a college education will now cost over $100,000. That is at least $25,000 per year.

Unless you get grants, scholarships, or some financial aid, then the brunt of this is going to be paid in loans. Loans that cannot be discharged in bankruptcy.

Now, do you want a 19 year old to be making a life decision to go into such a heavy debt burden, of which they cannot escape?

Some low level business jobs earns less than $50,000, but yet, these jobs still require some college degree. Simply because the company is lazy, and wants the best worker they can get, without having to actually pay for it.

The low earnings, the tax rate, and the cost of living to pay for an apartment to live near that job, makes the numbers illogical.

I think America, and the world, would be better served, if we went towards some kinds of journeyman and tradecraft system instead. Businesses can instead hire people with a minimum of a high school education, and train them for the jobs. Those businesses can apply for some kind of federal or state assistance if they need to, to get credit for doing this.
And floss too!
CS degree demands are absolutely quite biased towards US company mentality. I self taught at 18 and have never had anyone from a European company, some of which would certainly be called globally known, mention my CV doesn't list any education, ask about it in interviews or subsequently mention it during employment, and i know a fair few people at those jobs had similar stories.

To be fair I'd note a number of people I got to know did have degrees in other STEM fields.

My only run in with a similar issue was not being suitable to be presented as CTO for one company because it was STEM related and everyone else has PHDs.
Also the self direction is neither taught nor encouraged in the existing model of education
> It's like I could spell but didn't know the first thing about grammar.

That's a great analogy and I think often missed by many people. Spelling and arithmetic seem obvious as limitations in more complex fields (where communication and mathematics are involved). No one would say: "I can spell 'journalist' so I should be the editor-in-chief of the Washington Post." or "I can add 2 and 2 so you should hire me as an electrical engineer." (certainly not once they've grown up a bit, at least)

You have to advance to grammar, geometry, algebra, and more to find success in those fields.

But with programming, many people seem to stop at the point where they can program, and don't realize how much more there is to it (or not until much later). Programming is just the spelling/arithmetic level. Being able to design systems, select between different data structures and algorithms, understanding what a state machine is and how to structure your program using that concept, etc. These are the algebra and calculus of the field.
What I am wondering, and this is probably a dumb question, is why this has not been automatized? Can't content moderation be done with modern and strong machine learning based systems? There must be plenty of training data on this, and just like a spam filter which does not require humans in most cases, this should also be automatable. Why is it not?
If you don’t mind, here’s a comment I wrote recently that I think is very relevant and I figured it just be easier to link to rather than retype: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23784763
Like the common theme all this wiki and outline are having 3 pane window any for Bootstrap it.
Yes. A huge fraction of modern culture takes place online, through Instagram or Youtube or Facebook or Twitter. I think most people would rather go bankrupt than be barred from all Internet access.
Yup. I think it's Flip or Flop, where you start to realize that many of their flips only really break even or are marginally profitable. They'll tout "We made $30K for 6 weeks work". But $15K of it has to go to our investor who fronts the cash (he would occasionally show up on episodes), and there's two of them...

And then you remember that most of their income comes from the show itself.

I remember drama around 16 And Pregnant, and glamorizing teenage pregnancy. Says MTV, "Oh no, we only cover costs, we don't pay them for this". Fell apart when one of the girls, living in her trailer, working minimum wage at McDonalds, started appearing on the show in a brand new Saleen Mustang.
No, you need to be ready to die for your YC-backed startup according to some fascinating takes in this thread.

Funny this gets flagged but not the comments insinuating that life-ruining risk should be acceptable* for founders who aren't wealthy.

* Not just acceptable, preferred! Amazing!
This reads like an argument, but it doesn't seem to contradict anything I said. Am I misinterpreting you?

> Currencies existed well before governments minted them.

Sure. Nevertheless, to accept a currency as a medium of exchange when it has no value to you personally (bank notes, gold, etc) you need to have confidence that you can exchange it to somebody else for something you do care about, regardless of who mints it.

> Plus the dollar was once backed by gold: you can transition from a convertible system to a fiat system, which has nothing to do with fiscal policy.

Yep. As stated, "[taxes] aren't the only method" to bootstrap a currency, and in practice transitioning from a gold backing to fiat seems to work smoothly (somehow...it's not hard to imagine an alternate reality where the public heard their dollars wouldn't be exchangeable for gold, the public lost faith in the dollar, and the dollar tanked as a result).
Ask HN: How is your company supporting working parents during Covid-19?
What strategies, safeguards or support is your company providing to help ensure that working parents' careers are not negatively impacted by the attribute of being a parent during a global pandemic?
Perhaps because the training of these systems requires human supervisors?
> too far for the ruling class to care

Why would the "ruling class" care less than everyone else? Don't they live on the same planet?
It has already spread to villages. The ridiculously haphazard implementation of the lockdown led to a widespread migration of people back to their homes - which are often villages. Lucky for the government, theres no one there to challenge the official numbers and story.

In the urban centers at least it's now being questioned https://scroll.in/article/966898/how-many-people-in-india-ha...
Well no. Controlled bankruptcy is restructuring.

Anyway, how my last sentence went? ;) who couldnt care less?
True.

I'm stuck at my current job. I would have quit a few years ago (I've been miserable for 4 years) if I wasn't married. I'd probably move to my parents', do LeetCode and Hacker rank for a couple months, then land a high paying job to save as much as possible, and then retire early to a small farm in a low cost of living area.
Many college classes are lightly attended and only mildly paid attention to already. I had a professor in college who would religiously take attendance every morning then after mid-terms and finals he would show a scatter plot of attendance versus test scores. There was mild correlation, but still plenty of cases outside what you'd expect (perfect attendance + terrible scores, or low/no attendance + high scores)
>Maybe the point of economic filtering is to only accept single young men, who can devote every waking moment to their startup without any concern for dependents and such.

Maybe I am missing something here, but why can't women do that too?
The 'tests' YC is focused around are getting users and customers. Startups are strongly discouraged from working on anything else, including fundraising before Demo Day.
Bamboo grows extremely slowly and can actually emit CO2 in hotter climates during the warmer season. Hemp grows extremely quickly and sucks down CO2 like a vacuum. Hemp doesn't require harsh chemical pesticides, and it doesn't require really high irrigation. It can fully replace cotton. While bamboo can be made into clothing (I do have a bamboo PirateBay T shirt) they just don't compare too well.
What changes to the neighborhood could cause that?
Lets start with Oscam Razor then: its wast universe. Even on Earth, there are untouched places. All other theories compared to this one, which is easy to understand and also already known to be in effect on this planet, are as close to the truth as theory that great filter are evil pink elephants in the center of the galaxy.
When you're comparing your client to Ticketmaster you are in trouble. You're out of touch: go work for a politician that needs a few Mooks.
Is making it easier for a middle-aged person to start a startup something that YC has to care about? There could be a separate organization that focused on that.
>The original spirit behind YC was let's-hack-the-economy with an experiment in the mass production of startups.

If the experiment is no longer working as well as it was, it's time to change the parameters. That's how experiments work.
Very context dependent.

If you're at a small startup, you'll want a lot.

When you're at a larger company, things typically get specialized, there will be dedicated product folks, and you'll find programmers with 0 product knowledge.
It also sounds (from other articles) like people are seeing specific clips multiple times. Surely a bit of semi-AI filtering should be able to blacklist the regular stuff
This hasn't worked the previous times it has been tried. https://anildash.com/2020/07/21/a-federal-blue-checkmark-won...

I wonder if prosecuting people who post horrible stuff would have a deterrence effect, though.
Facebook&Inria Propose High-Performance Self-Supervised Technique for CV Tasks
I don't disagree with you on feature detection, but there is no feasible way to encode all browser bugs that require workarounds into a library. By nature, these are usually extremely niche.
I think computer science is the university subject with the best availability of publicly available online courses.

Available courses range across the entire undergraduate curriculum from distributed systems to operating systems to cryptography. The number of different courses available within each area varies a lot, and some only have 1-2 options, but at least they are available.

The situation is much more stark in other subjects, such as mathematics. Many upper-division courses aren't available, so the best you can do is find a book for self-guided study.
Ask HN: What do you write in your daily engineering log?
Fun with Simulated Typestate in Python 3.8
If you need the army patrolling the streets to enforce the rules, I think that riots are not too far away.

I also learned in this thread they happened in other countries like Serbia.

I would expect them to happen in more european countries if there is indeed a second wave, and they do not have the foresight to deploy soldiers in the streets.
It really wasn't a nice office. My wife worked there from 2005–2008 and I'd occasionally pick her up after work. I think the big thing was just that it was MySpace and at the time, it was the epitome of cool. They even had a record label https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace_Records Unlike Facebook, MySpace was heavily tied into the entertainment industry, especially music, but to a lesser extent film and stand-up comedy which probably contributed to the cool factor. The engineering culture was pretty heavily bro-grammer in a way I've never seen anywhere else.
There are several physical limits to how small objects can be resolved.

Here is a discussion thread with regards to the smallest lunar object visible - seems to be around 350 meter resolution for an earth bound telescope.

https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/712653-what-is-the-smalle...
Hello - I may be blind but I don't see any examples of what the components look like on actual screen. Is there a storybook or something?
Unless you want to work in internet facing stuff, there are many places where IT is part of another domain. For example, bioinforamtics, simulation, finance, etc. Many of those requires computer science + a good understanding of maths (calculus is useful in many geo stuff, discrete maths is useful in many computing tasks, entropy is useful to understand where you are when you compress data, etc). So, many of the maths courses that usually go with a computer science degree are helpful. Unfortuntaly, understanding maths by oneself is not easy and online courses quality greatly vary (I've tried to understand expectation-maximization algorithm using various online courses and it's not easy : sure, you'll get the big picture, you'll understand how to apply the algorithm, etc. but if you want to understand why (not how) the algorithm actually works, then that's another story, maths are necessary and the way they're explained is very different from courses to courses, and with different level of quality.)

It also helps to not reinvent the wheel : many problems were analytically solved long before most of us were born.
I don't disagree, but not sure how you can make that claim given that you didn't ever experience your idealized version (which never existed after the 70s)
No one's trying to make anyone feel bad about their loving family. We just don't want it to be a selection criterion for entrepreneurship.
I was looking for this exact thing a few weeks ago, and couldn't believe how difficult it was to find a decent, free API for crypto exchange rates (I just wanted to write a little script that tracked my investments, nothing huge.)

(Also, I'm the founder of ReadMe; we do API docs... if you want to use us, my emails in my bio :) )
There is no cancelling.

Also, the discussions around cancelling have been cancelled.
Thanks for chiming in. We're also looking to offer more than Heroku does w/ their Review apps feature :). I actually learned that the Procfile was a semi-standard on this thread, so maybe a move from Heroku isn't too difficult.

Also, happy to chat more if you're interested in the product, let me know! (you have my email ^^)
Perhaps it's a solution to use brainwave headsets. So whenever the viewer would get too much negative stimulation, the video would stop and the viewer could take a break.
FBI Uncovers 11 Years of Chinese Economic Espionage
Blessed are those who provide fully (or reasonably) spec'ed work to juniors trying to piece everything together against a book they read once.
I'm not insane ... you are just the type of person who will defend roman numerals. Maybe you just have OCD.

1. Socrates is mortal

2. Mortals die

3. Socrates dies

Deduction is really like amazing. Holy shit we really proved something spectacular here. I guess you would be really impressed if I used tau and sigma and defined death with vietnamese alphabet.

Almost the entirety of calculus was derived from problems related to physics. Volumes were calculated for doing engineering. Mathematics != Thinking. The last time I checked both logic and critical thinking were branches of philosophy.

All good mathematicians are physicists or engineers. Heck some even learnt maths on their own. All mediocre mathematicians write textbooks and hide behind notations. Come to think of it they remind me of OO programmers in their utter arrogant mediocrity. Most abstract mathematics is like the definition of protocols/interfaces and other platonic garbage. I suppose this debate will never end. Plato vs Aristotle, Deduction vs Induction, Analytic vs Synthetic ....
This, all this ^ (seriously)

I'm an Application Security Champion so I know what I'm talking about (sarcasm).
And even if they are tuned into autodidactism, self-study is not really an outcome in and of itself. So I pick some topic and topics to self-study for a year while staying with my parents. Maybe I get some part-time job. Maybe I even get fairly deep into some generally useful topic. Now what when I enter university the following year?

There are probably some core subjects I could usefully have studied. But, in general, I'm probably not going to place out of classes at many schools even if I've deliberately studied for AP tests. So it's not obvious that year of self-study necessarily leads to a shortened or improved degree program.

That's not a reason not to do it of course. But self-study doesn't necessarily lead to greater personal enrichment than volunteering or hiking the Appalachian Trail does.
In my father's case, our family doctor requested a prostate cancer screening after seeing PSA levels from regular blood tests rise over the course of a year. We received the cancer diagnosis after the screening.
The median wealth of African American households in the U.S. is $35k, vs. $150k for white households.

Yes - most people might be able to move back in with relatives, but among those people who can't, minorities are almost certainly going to be overrepresented, which was OP's point.
> 1) which classes I would come to enjoy, and 2) which subjects I would actually use every day at work.

Another thing that is easy to misgauge - how much work it takes to understand a topic. All told, across several classes, I probably spent a full semester studying mutual exclusion, critical sections, deadlock and so forth. I would not have known it would take several months of study to start getting a handle on that topic - although I see it all the time when debugging an error (created by myself or others) which turns out to be code that has a race condition.
Fundamental Philosophical Differences Between Bitcoin and the U.S. Dollar
I know this personally because I took Computer Information System in college and not Computer Science. So we covered databases, but more or less glossed over a lot of important algorithms which I'd have loved to have later in life.

Though there is some benefit to having a business degree as well so it's not all bad.
Start small. Keep Improving (screenshots of Websites' first and actual versions)
Bill Niman’s new startup takes antibiotic-free meat labeling to task
I found an Anthropology class very eye-opening, helpful to become aware of one's own ethnocentrism.

I'd echo the vote for Physics.
Lol. Ok, my entire comment went over your head. You say that "God is not a created being". But I say "Why is God not a created being? Why do you say that?" The only answer I've ever heard to that is "Well, if God created everything else, then how can there be something greater than God?" You say, "God is greater, of a different nature, etc. etc." But that's just what you say, there's no logical reason why that has to be the case. Yes, God's parent God created God, who created the Universe. Since God is fundamentally different than all "lesser things", there is no contradiction there. God-stuff made other God-stuff, which made non-God-stuff. You can't have it both (all) ways. I say: "God emerged from primordial God goo, and it will return to primordial God goo when it feels like it." Or whatever; it's just philosophical posturing. I can make up things that don't exist which have no foundational rules as well as anyone else. Nothing makes any of it true, or necessarily as someone says it is (it's all "belief by convention").
Don't Microsoft and Google create these tools too? They don't explicitly stop you from installing content from outside of their stores. I can easily install any APK on an android phone and any EXE on a Windows computer (maybe a bad example, because Mac).