skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my understanding this specific gesture was turned white supremacist through 4chan's efforts to turn mundane and everyday things into hate symbols "because it'll be funny." [0]. It should be noted that this is more than just the okay symbol and they are trying to co-opt everything until everything is meaningless [1][2][3][4][5][I could go on, seriously]. They literally see this guy getting fired as a success because now people are using hate symbols and don't know it.

> DON'T FEED THE TROLL

[0] (ok) https://mashable.com/article/ok-hand-gesture-hate-symbol-ant...

[1] (LGBT flag) https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/f1g3m1/anon_creates_...

[2] (#) https://www.rt.com/news/460490-4chan-hashtag-symbol-nazism/

[3] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-okay-to-be-white

[4] (milk) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/white-supremacists-sci...

[5] (larger list showing co-option of several symbols) https://www.wired.com/2017/05/alt-rights-newest-ploy-trollin...
The author has a surprisingly naive vision of education, in spite of being a hiring manager.

I've recently finished a well-known online course, with almost maximum grade, and even if the quality of the course is good, there is definitely no comparison with a real-world college course.

Due to the nature of online courses, grades are automated, and definitely don't match the dynamics of a real-world course (eg. better solutions = better grades). It's also practically impossible not to pass.

Cheating is also a factor. I joined purely for learning, but I don't doubt that there is plenty of people taking shortcuts. I've witnessed somebody blatantly cheating exams without even recognizing it was cheating, and against the honor code.

Maybe, in a future where people must take the exams in qualified centers, with the papers/projects reviewed by professors, the points above would change - but the price would necessarily rise considerably.

Other aspects: as somebody wrote, top universitory teacher doesn't imply best teacher; forums are polluted with garbage/trivial questions due to mass (free) enrollment, causing valid questions to drown in the noise; face time, community, college life, structure are all one big package, which I think it's fundamental for the average young adult.

Finally, I'm very skeptical about the impressiveness of the DIY degree. I have the suspicion that only a few "learning freaks" (I don't mean it in a derogative way) would end up taking it - motivated people who decided not to take a degree [in their past], within constraints of limited time, would likely choose different, but still valid, learning routes.

All in all, I'm actually a big fan of MOOCs (loved the course I took), but they shouldn't be compared to traditional education.
>If you report a vulnerability affecting Apple products, Apple will provide you with a publication date... Until the publication date, you cannot discuss the vulnerability with others.

In addition to the mandatory bug reporting, Apple reserve a right to dictate the researchers a mandatory publication date. No more 90/180 days responsible disclosure deadline policy. I highly doubt any serious researcher would agree to work with such conditions.
I could see a proven engineer #1 with a track record of startup success maybe landing in the 5–10% range (but getting an under market salary), but otherwise I don't see how a number like that is possible. YC takes 7%, and if the first few hires each get 5–10%, that only leaves ~70% for the founders and subsequent hires. If there are 2 founders, they would end up with 25–30% each, and if there are 3, only 15–20%? The numbers only get worse if they've already raised a funding round in return for 20% of the company.

These numbers look more typical to me: https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation/sections/typi.... The article mentions that hire #1 typically gets 2–3%, and only more when it comes with a low salary.

If you want to do better than that, you'll likely have to be a cofounder, not an employee. I read PG's essays in the early 00s, prior to the creation of YC, and his whole shtick was that ambitious employees can't hope to capture the value of their work, that sharp and hard-working tech folks should fund startups to truly capitalize on their efforts.
We’ll see how the shipping ARM Macs are “fused” when they come out, but my guess is that they will be more locked down than these devices: their OS will be more permissive but you will not have meaningful kernel debugging.

> Nobody can/should be able to write an that'll get through App Store checks if they asked for PLZ_NO_SANDBOX_ILL_BE_GOOD or something (at least, that's what I thought before the whole Snapchat system call thing happened).

Snapchat (on iOS at least) is still subject to the app sandbox, no app has on iOS has been granted an exception there to my knowledge. On macOS there are apps that are “grandfathered in” to not require the sandbox on the App Store, but new apps are supposed to have it. Due to the way the dynamic linker works, until recently it was possible to upload an app that could bypass the sandbox, but Apple has said they have fixed this. Some apps do have an exception to this as well, as the broad way they fixed one of the issues broke legitimate functionality in library loading. You can find those hardcoded in AMFI.kext, theoretically they could turn off the sandbox for themselves if they wanted.
"Public figure" doesn't really go well with "wants to remain pseudonymous". He writes a blog as a personal hobby, he's not a celebrity or politician.

And yes, that's pretty often true about subjects of articles that do not get doxxed, because "Maria, NYC, Nurse" is enough to give you an idea about the person but far away from being enough for individual identification. And, of course, it doesn't matter for the story, just as the name doesn't matter for any profile about SSC.
Or that whoever manufactured the device didn't care about supplying/maintaining drivers for Linux so the community is left maintaining them. There's nothing stopping the device manufacturer from spending the time to support the device like they do on Windows, they just don't think it's worth it due to the smaller market share (which makes sense from a business perspective).
> Maybe they’ll be introspective about this

Strange request of an entire organization. I imagine this ebbs and flows with the individual employees that join/leave.
That was good article and I think something really needs to be done to make content moderation more humane.

This quote from the article

“It gets to a point where you can eat your lunch while watching a video of someone dying. … But at the end of the day, you still have to be human.”

reminded me of a similar article published by WIRED six years ago [1].

Eight years after the fact, Jake Swearingen can still recall the video that made him quit. He was 24 years old and between jobs in the Bay Area when he got a gig as a moderator for a then-new startup called VideoEgg. Three days in, a video of an apparent beheading came across his queue.

“Oh fuck! I've got a beheading!” he blurted out. A slightly older colleague in a black hoodie casually turned around in his chair. “Oh,” he said, “which one?” At that moment Swearingen decided he did not want to become a connoisseur of beheading videos. “I didn't want to look back and say I became so blasé to watching people have these really horrible things happen to them that I'm ironic or jokey about it.”

[1] https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/
Is Facebook worth it? Is it worth the trauma?
> It's like I could spell but didn't know the first thing about grammar.

Love this analogy for programming...

It also reminds me that English and Public Speaking are very important skills I picked up in college which are easily neglected in a DIY program.
Yep you're right -- oversight on my part. To be clear, the "not sure why you'd run a query like that" was referring to doing it the InfluxQL way (which is not the same thing)...where your results would end up being the same controlling for time range.
Thank you for sharing this. I've been slowing down turning my idea into a startup because it isn't much more than a CRUD app for a specific market. My interest has been diminishing because in my day job I work with growth companies that are built upon revolutionary technology, leading me to falsely conclude that a CRUD app isn't good enough anymore.

I needed the reminder that the technology isn't what's important, rather solving a problem that people will pay money for is what matters.
The Rust RTIC framework for embedded code (previously named RTFM) works rather like that.

https://rtic.rs/0.5/book/en/

It's designed for working with interrupts safely rather than threads (so the "initialisation phase" is basically "before enabling interrupts"), but I suppose the same techniques could be used to make something more mainstream.
In this regard, isn't there also a "true" main function somewhere if you look at the Python interpreter? Wouldn't that count as well?

To my mind, the question is "does the programmer have to write a main function", not "does the toolchain create a main function somewhere".
These only seem “vaguely connected” if you haven’t studied them together. IAM and S3 are intricately intertwined and you should understand both at at least an intermediate level to work with them in sensitive environments. (Note that IAM has permissions specific to each Amazon service, all documented in detail.) None of the rest of the systems you mentioned gate write access, though certainly if they’re in your production flow you should study and review them as well.
I don't think there is any clear or morally unambiguous answer to the first part ("we will let people die"). It simply is either people die now of virus, or die later of economic fallout. Also see the Trolley Problem [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
> Also not sure you're not joking.

I will admit that line was a bit tongue in cheek.

It's not that a "uniform experience" is better in every instance. It's more that a tool whose purpose is to convey information is more efficient when you don't have to deal with formatting that may or may not interfere with comprehension.
Would be interesting to see if Google Project Zero joins the program, given their inflexibility in disclosure.
I don’t really agree to this, the end result is going to be a large number of YouTube tutorials instructing people on how to do this with captions like: watch free movies on iPhone, “popular mobile game” money hack, and Snapchat take screenshots without notifying hack.

Half of these developer / root mode required secrets are going to be occasionally working mods and tweaks except with tons of baked in spyware and ads that can no longer easily be removed.

Perhaps some sort of per device profile which requires a paid developer account could work, but I’ve gotten a number of odd calls about YouTube videos involving Kodi from family before, so I’m not sure trusting in the give users freedom front.
I'm pretty sure I'd be much better off had I taken my first course in CS Theory on Udacity [1] or Coursera [2] rather than at UCSB where it was extremely confusing and/or boring.

[1] https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/cs313

[2] https://www.coursera.org/learn/cs-algorithms-theory-machines
I appreciate their complexity and applaud your efforts. Good stuff.
YouTube tried doing something like this with YouTube Heroes and got tons of backlash for it. Then YouTube tried automating everything away and I'm guessing now people wish they had implemented something like YouTube Heroes instead.
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> InfluxDB is purely proprietary (paid, closed source).

And clickhouse is not. I just suggest skipping the timescaledb step to someone migrating from influx, and going straight to clickhouse.

> For the TSL version, what it primarily restricts is the cloud providers like AWS and Azure from offering TimescaleDB-as-a-service (e.g., TimescaleDB Community on AWS RDS)

If there is some kind of emergency and I need to have the database on the cloud, this is a serious restriction. It limits my choices and constrains my actions.

> Many thousands of companies use our community version for free to build SaaS services running on their own AWS instances.

We have our servers, so it wasn't an issue. It was more of a long term concern, a chilling effect: what else may be restricted in the future?

Again, I think timescaledb has a wonderful place. It will certainly become the entry level database for timeseries.

It is just not suite for our workload.
Thanks for the feedback here! We recently started looking into mobile apps through the lens of react-native-web but that's still not a priority on our roadmap yet.

Was there another specific format you had in mind?
This should be the top comment:

If you don’t recognize it, “rest of world” is a ridiculous corporate term commonly used in global business operations. It’s a catch-all phrase that means, basically, “everyone else.” And it generally represents billions of people outside of the Western world. We know that their stories matter. The term “rest of world” is a symptom of a larger problem: a Western-centric worldview that leaves innumerable insights, opportunities and complexity out of the conversation.
How Civilizations Collapse
That's why it is important to have confidence intervals, or intervals of some kind that captures the uncertainty in the estimates of whatever numerical metric one is tracking.

Without those its easy to fall into the trap of tilting against windmills.
That’s quite niche and by and large not the majority of wood workers...
Yeah, my advice was squarely aimed at those who are struggling with the base game difficulty. Your advice is sound for those who get better for sure, the game will definitely punish you for being greedy and trying to keep your deck too clean as you ramp up the difficulty.
>this is probably a dumb question

Not dumb, but I do think it's not thought-through. You're proposing a simple solution to what is a hugely complex problem, and throwing ML at it just isn't going to work. To get "plenty of training data," a human still has to classify all of that, leading to the problem of viewing that much unpalatable content by a human. You also have to train your network, which requires humans to verify the accuracy of training, hence viewing the content again.

If it were as easy as text-based spam filtering, this wouldn't even be a discussion.
> yes, there's a search for 5 components

I mean, the 5th one isn't even available yet, just a teaser. :)
Sorry, my main point was: If you press a believer on why there must be a god in order to explain things, they will always point to the necessity of a god, that things had to come from somewhere. But there is never any necessity for god to come from somewhere. Of course, the definition of "god" is different than "things that are not god". The point is the intellectual dishonesty of arguing that their definition of the nature of god necessitates the existence of their defined god.
Yeah, that's a bit nonstandard order but multiplication, of course, is associative and commutative, so it doesn't really matter.
Out of curiosity, what would such an API look like? Would you provide xpubs for various coins and get back current balances and transaction history?
Brushing and flossing does also damage your gums depending on the force and utility. Thats worst then doing nothing because now bacteria can enter your blood stream and hitch a ride to the other parts of the body.

Much better option is to not eat carbs which universally damage teath.
This is also relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/11/microsoft...
well, just as in spam filters, some supervisors would be necessary to automate things in the beginning, but eventually this should be less needed?
> the algorithm for floating point addition is very complicated

Ah yes, of course. I think it is slightly misleading that the article is mostly about large integer multiplications, while that remark holds for floating point operations.
I did read it. My point was that it seems to me that Sweden and NY are at about the same place now. Sweden basically just let it happen and NY locked down and imposed significant measures. Both had significant deaths in the elderly population (although significantly more in NY than Sweden) and both now have very few new cases & deaths, so the outcome has been similar.

Also interesting is that CA took very similar measures to NY with very similar timing and now are seeing the exact opposite to NY (although the media seem to be a bit quiet on that!).
I think you can go a long way towards grokking data structures and algorithms by solving problems on competitive programming sites. I don't have a CS degree, but some time ago I became somewhat addicted to SPOJ (an "online judge" with problems taken from ICPC and the like) and solved hundreds of problems, filling the many gaps in my knowledge with lecture notes from .edu sites.

Definitely made me a better programmer (even though I've never actually used stuff like dynamic programming in the "real world").
A Dolphin Has Been Living Solo in This Irish Harbor for Decades
Rethinking retirement finance with external pension plans
I'd agree that "computers" is almost certainly not the best example. Self-teaching how to program is probably one of the easiest topics to jump into out there. And it has the benefit that, if you're really pretty sure you want to major in computer science (which may or may not actually be the best choice for someone who is just "interested in computers") learning how to at least program and doing some projects, etc. is one area of self-study that will be very valuable when you start university.

As has been discussed here at length before, for better or worse, good university computer science curricula tend to assume you know your way around a computer and can program--or you have to get up to speed very quickly on the side.
should we (could we) compress higher education ?

I found a lot of redundancy by splitting things in modules. (uml, oop, sql felt like 3 sides of the same hypercoin, granted the first 2 may disappear from books soon).

algorithmics and mathematics (and other topics) may be merged into one ?

or maybe that would be pedagogically detrimental.. I feel that it would allow more time to spend on a concept since you don't have to see bits scattered in different courses.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917075)
If you're actually poor you can't even get a credit card. Because of a lack of credit history the only card I could get at one point was a $300 credit card where I had to send in $300 as a deposit to the bank. Let me just pay a couple of employees a somewhat livable wage on that...

I really hate this condescending "if you really wanted it the money shouldn't matter" coming from millionaires.
Each component page has live examples. e.g. here's Button https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-spectrum/Button.html
A decent portion of his wealth came from his early investment in facebook. Literally the second example I gave of capitalism rewarding harm.
> "Didn't I just take a cancer screen? What was the result?"

“The result was ‘probably not,’ but the other option is ‘almost certainly not’ so we’d like to do more tests to make sure.”

(If the patient presses for more information, you don’t need to pull out the textbook yet; a simple analogy to explain why a cancer screen needs more tests might be by analogy to a rock screen, which sometimes catches clumps of dirt that need to be prodded a bit more to determine that they’re not actually stone.)

The important bit is to present it as routine and not yet a cause for concern, to avoid causing excessive alarm.
> Apple pioneered the 30% cut

How so? Wasn't it the standard brick-and-mortar rate, and Steam had already been taking 30% for a few years at that point.
I think it’s an artifact of how widespread the contagion was when restrictions were implemented. Stockholm has about twice the death rate as Västra Götaland, but lower case incidence. This is all plausibly explained by the observation that the epidemic started in Stockholm, and there were already hundreds of cases there when restrictions were enacted on the 18th of March. Protective gear was in short supply, supply lines were disrupted and the spread spiralled out of control. Other parts of Sweden had a far smaller case incidence at this point, so the restrictions were more effective, and by the time it became widespread in, for instance western sweden, supplies weren’t as scarce, certain lessons had been learned etc.
Yeah, I definitely don't mean to imply that the comparison to your current cards is a hard and fast rule, but more that it's a good thing to start thinking about if you never skip cards.
> "100% winnable" just means that you have a chance of winning if you do the right things

This is not the definition of winnable that the OP (and having listened to him discuss this on-stream, I'm pretty sure Jorbs as well) is using.

From the article,

> “Can a perfect player win every game of Slay the Spire?” (alternatively, “Is there a strategy that achieves a 100% win rate in Slay the Spire?”)

"100% winnable" means that you are _guaranteed_ to win if you do the right things, not that you have a _chance_ to win under optimal play.

What you're saying is the same thing as saying "a coin toss is 100% winnable, because you have a chance of winning if you do the right things". I don't think that's a useful way of defining "100% winnable" in the context of this discussion.

(There is a loose conversational sense in which your interpretation could be valid; 100%=absolutely, "sure, 100% it's winnable" but these discussions are all using the technical narrow interpretation.)
I am guessing that by now plenty of data has already been generated which could be used to train future systems..
I'm sorry, our documentation is not ready for primetime yet (an OpenAPI spec for this RESTful JSON API managing PostgreSQL test databases is still missing).

However, I've just updated the Background - feel free to file an issue if some aspect is totally left in the dark.

https://github.com/allaboutapps/integresql#background
It's crazy how this can be economical with economics of scale=1. Every replacement part for maintenance must be custom-made, there must be no market for trained pilots and technicians on that particular plane, etc.
I distinctly remember moving to Silicon Valley as a developer from out of country. Realizing that the standard of living bump due to my 2x Salary, was actually a standard of living drop.
Then looking around at the company, seeing the IT support guy with the brand new Porsche. Wondering if he 'struck it rich' with a previous .com and finding out it's just because he lives at home still.
This is nice work. I am amazed at the advances in planet discovery from "other stars 'might' have planets" to post Kepler "more than half the stars have planets."

The other "unknown" is under what conditions can intelligent life evolve? Once you know that window, the Drake equation gets even more interesting.

The notion that we are the only intelligent species in the galaxy seems more and more unlikely.
I didn't mean to insinuate that all Trump supporters participate in the QAnon thing.

I have yet to see a QAnon follower who didn't also support Trump, so from my perspective being a Trump Supporter is a necessary but not sufficient condition for being a QAnon follower.

> Both far right and left have extremists that shouldn’t be tolerated by anyone.

I'm not sure what you mean by "tolerated" here. I'm fine with calling them out for their silly ideas and actions. Perhaps even "canceling" them if they get too extreme. I'm not interested in actually adopting their techniques.
I think the article is talking about floating point addition. Integer addition it is very hard to beat.