skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it really matter if students change degree programs or go after an additional lower degree level than they already have? Being a student is still a full time time occupation, the university is extracting increased tuition from international students, and the local businesses around the university have access to more customers. I don’t see how it’s an abuse, I see it as a win for the community.
For those of you interested in programming related content, I created a series of videos that teaches the relationship between JavaScript code, stackframes and the heap: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDAMasrPN7fPs4dfKDUh...
Yeah, this article oozes of "we need to create content that gets eyeballs and backlinks to market our website/product", which unfortunately is all too common these days.

Next time someone tries to find youtube channels for programming, they will end up on this list, rather than finding some real recommendations by real persons.

The "author" of this article is even "Team Codegiant", it's a red flag when no real person wants to put their name on content. Which is especially funny since throughout the article the author refers to themselves in first person.

Edit: and check out the submitter's post history. 15 submissions - all for codegiant.io: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=spiderjako22
and what about the people who voted in that election. do they have any say in their own countries matters, or are just to believe american influence is good for them
> Are these (proposed) rule changes more in-line with other nations?

Why should it be in-line with other nations?
Thanks for identifying yourself as a supporter of repressive political power over freedom to hold governments to account.

Or do you think there's not actually a horrible precedent to punish whistleblowers here?
See also: https://dev.tube/ (DevTube is a free and open-source tech video hub as per their https://github.com/watch-devtube/contrib repo)
Did you read the article? They didn't say it was unique to Covid-19, and literally brought up long-term effects of SARS in some patients.
I need a lifeline. (3rd-world citizen)
Hello everyone, I'm a uni student from Egypt, a country where society is toxic, backwards, and corrupt. Living conditions are terrible. My mental state has been at an all-time low ever since I returned here.

I really need a lifeline. My goal is to live in any country where I can get by in English (eyeing Canada, NZ, AUS, and UK atm).

I'm currently a senior enrolled in an [IT-related uni degree](http://catalog.aucegypt.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=20&poid=3049) (it's essentially an MIS degree). My GPA is 3.4.

I am proficient in C++, frontend webdev essentials (JS, html/css), and some python. Most of this I learnt on my own.

I'm currently at a road-block and don't know what to learn anymore.

-I'm having a hard time evaluating what career/skillset would most likely help me land a job abroad as a 3rd-world citizen.
-I keep procrastinating on whether I should focus on webdev, backend, devops or data science. Heck sometimes I wonder if I should focus on business analysis/intellgience.

I've got around a year to learn something before i do my mandatory military service, so I need some direction. I'd like to know what you guys think gives me the best chance of getting out of here (i.e what career would be best to pursue given my situation)

P.S. Yes, I realize that I’ll definitely need years of experience in some sort of job. But my question is essentially which set of skills can reduce the amount of time needed for me to get the fuck out of here.
1. the entire point is to test the emergency braking features which are active by default.

2. I would definitely prefer a false positive where tesla brakes for human shaped balloons crossing the street than the potential for plowing through a human because of a bad radar reading.

this video is obviously not unbiased but here you can see a Tesla plow through a dummy that is obviously not made of balloons https://youtu.be/tkAtRw51jGY?t=81
A sufficient amount of lobbying and precedent from underfunded defendants will make a lot of things legal (in the US).

In some states like CA, shower clauses are void except for a few explicit carveouts (the ones you might expect -- do personal projects on your own time and dime, and don't directly compete with your employer), but in, e.g., a lot of east coast states shower clauses are stronger and more commonly enforced.

Even when unenforceable though, you still have the threat of a court case; your employer can attempt to argue that your personal project falls into one of the exceptions that would grant them ownership of your IP, and a court case is sufficiently painful that it's a bit of a punishment in its own right even if you would win.

Also as a practical matter, some companies have shower clauses that additionally stipulate the company can allow you to retain IP on your personal projects if you ask permission. That could be abused, but for large enough companies that touch enough industries that can work out in your favor because a loose interpretation of the law would actually grant them ownership of your IP anyway, but if they have a policy of generally allowing side hustles then the fact that they've explicitly signed over any ownership claims to you will give you a strong leg up (and peace of mind) in any potential court cases -- potentially allowing them to be thrown out before they start.
As an online coding educator, here’s my beef with online coding education:

Most videos, courses, and articles you find don’t teach you much. They’re a recipe for you to follow. Do this then that then this.

If you’re building exactly what the author is building, great! You’ve built it.

Then comes a new problem. Or an interview question. It’s actually the same thing you just built, but you don’t have the understanding to realize that. So you look for a completely new tutorial to follow.

This is a losing proposition. You’re learning a lot of recipes by rote and not understanding much. With months or years of pain, you’ll start to pick up patterns by induction.

Not a great way to learn.

It’s like learning to cook an italian risotto and then being flumoxxed by veggie rice. Even though they’re the same thing.

Now here’s where it gets worse: It seems the market (or at least google searches) wants these rote recipes. It’s what gets you the most traffic.

I don’t know that there’s a solution. It’s probably the same problem as crash diets and everyone asking for the best font to use on a VC pitch deck.
The dummy in no way looks human in the context I’d expect a self driving system to have. Humans don’t have a way to move their legs back and forth that way while remaining stationary (unless on a treadmill I suppose).

You can infer that it is meant to represent a human, and thus likely to move across a crossing, but there’s no reason to expect a computer to read it as a human right?

The most obvious characteristic is distinctly not human (Legs don’t work that way), so it looks like some weird windmill, or one of those hot air moving men.
Sure that happens in any big city. It has more to do with systemic poverty and gang violence than it does with imaginary "antifa" bogeymen Fox News keeps yammering on about.

Also OP mentioned American cities burning. While 40 murders is awful, nothing is "burning". And keep in mind this 40 is in a city of 4 million... ie a bigger population than the 20 least populated US States.
Sure. Buy a domain for a few bucks a year and you own your own email address.
Two reasons.

1. Many Mainland Chinese people have the view that Taiwan is illegally occupied ever since the KMT fled there at the end of the civil war. It's as if the Confederates fled to Puerto Rico or Hawaii, still exist to this day, and claim to be the legitimate ruler of all of the US.

Although nowadays fewer people care about this, since China has surpassed Taiwan economically. But it's still a significant portion who cares. So many, that if the CCP lets Taiwan go, CCP's legitimacy will be called into question, and many people will revolt. If it's up to these people, China would have launched an invasion a decade ago.

2. Geographically, Taiwan is a military significant piece of land. The US can set up base there and blockade all China's naval traffic. China wants to prevent this.
Did you read that study? I'm surprised that you think it's relevant to parent post's question.
I agree with this sentiment in general. Of course, we have a ton more features than we used to have, but I think given the newness of software in years past, we were OK with bugs and issues because of the novelty of it all.

Now we are in 2020 and iPhone updates STILL cause battery issues. The iPhone has been out for 14 years...

Our expectations have changed. Tools like Excel should just work - and yet, when I try to save a file, sometimes it freezes and crashes. How is that acceptable now?
That's a straw man. I never said to do nothing. But at the same time, don't overreact. You don't think it's possible to overreact to this?

Why don't you 'do something' about car crash victims every year? Are you okay with all of them dying from something that is preventable? You're just going to throw your hands in the air? Of course not. Have them wear seat belts. Invent things to reduce deaths, like airbags. But it is possible to go too far, like closing every street in the country.
Simple solution use Gnome3
Yeah, but then you'd have to raise the price to pay for the testing and the jokers a block down the street who YOLO'd their competing product into the marketplace without testing would grab all your sales. You'd be out of business and your competitors would be laughing their way to the bank while the customers still suffered constantly from a broken product.
No contest. You've convinced me.

For the record, I have little to no issue with "unauthorized copies", for the most part. I just disagreed with some of the phrasing.
Enlightenment is an aspirational goal that can never be achieved.

No human can fully understand any given situation. To do so, you must first fully understand the entire universe, as everything is connected. And that is of course utterly impossible.

I say this as someone who has found great value in Buddhist philosophy and a personal meditation practice.
Sorry, those were supposed to be two pronated hands, twice, which the internet tells me signs "excellent".

https://i.giphy.com/paRJJnkjPyKxHyTCAg.gif
- My macbook keyobard sucks, some keys dont press, other get pressed double or tripe. I deal with this using a bluetooth keyboard on top of the mac kb lol

- WSL Stopped working a few weeks ago after a windows update, I haven't been able to fix it, my only option is format and reinstall OS at this point...

- My phone screen broke a little first, then it stopped working for it's top half, Since it's an iphone x, I deal with this by using the little trick to reach the top parts of the screen with the thumb, and that's how I almost don't use my phone.

I can also get random stuff open if I leave it unlocked, since it's touchpad gets activated like crazy by itself, I luckily enough have an official cover which keeps it blocked if it's lid is closed.

LOL, and I'am a power user who can fix things and google for solutions, we're just f
Agreed, we seem to believe as a society that we can spew bullshit in all directions constantly (advertising, media, our legal system, our politicians campaigning, so many others) but then just turn it off when we want people to agree on some thing.

The individual things people seem to believe seem to be nearly universally idiotic, but I sympathize with them to the extent that they can see they are being fed bs narratives all the time and just decide to believe whatever they want if it's all bs anyway.
Aside from the part where I didn’t say that you had a good point.
> This paper is a pre-print and has not been subject to formal peer-review.
The Corona Cult is going to baselessly discredit your ideas which are valid and accurate because they have no logical response. Please vote in November! Keep the fanatics from committing additional human rights violations!
How is this test unfair? Any human would have swerved or at least braked.

This is not a difficult scenario.
The scientists don't get derailed, but I get too many forwarded articles with silver bullets. One of my friends suggested intentionally getting stung by bees. This is magical thinking for a complex illness.

On the other hand, tecfidera had as the active ingredient a chemical I can buy from alfa aesar for $22 a liter. There's a lot of things that no one has studied yet I guess, for better and worse.
A year from now.
Sure, if you're reading it as a book about motorcycle maintenance. In that regard, I also found the bit about a seized bolt having exactly the value of the entire motorcycle until you're able to free it very helpful—it helps with the frustration realizing that it's not just a stupid tiny bolt getting in the way of your progress, it is, in fact, a $3,000 bolt.

But, of course, it's not a book about motorcycle maintenance. Whether or not Persig's ideas and philosophy jive with you personally is another question, but it's certainly unfair to say that the bit about a beer can shim represents 90% of the value of the book when so many others (myself included) clearly extract a lot more value from it.
Building Great Engineering Teams, with Gergely Orosz
You also need management willing to prioritize engineering time to fixing that broken stuff, and engineers who actually know how to make non-broken stuff. My experience is that having all three of these prerequisites is pretty rare.
Beluga whale at US research foundation learned how to make human sounds (2012)
> Use the included ctags to generate a tags database (ctags -R), then jump instantly to any definition at any time. No need for that Language Server Protocol rubbish. This does not mean you must laboriously type identifiers as you work.

Kind of a contentious point being made here.

I come from an era where we would disable Visual Studio's intellisense because it was cripplingly slow on large projects. I prefer Emacs, and in the time between then and now I went from using etags, even on unreal engine projects, to global, and have landed on ccls.

_Only_ ccls was able to reliably comprehend and suggest dereferenced members; global could, occasionally, but usually not. And ccls is incredibly fast; even on my Pinebook Pro it seems to never be an undue burden.

And ccls is just _loaded_ with other handy productivity features. Not using it, or an equivalently powerful tool, is to choose to reduce your productivity.
The definition of non-sucky technology is not having to waste time on any of that.

If you think tinkering and configuring are fun you should stay as far away as possible from software design, because you have no insight into what most users expect from tech.
username should give u some hints
Having to ask DHS for the authorization to continue your PhD after 4 years. Crazy.

It’s already far from guaranteed to be allowed to stay after a PhD. Now you won’t even know if you’ll be allowed to finish.
I especially love the weekly report showing 25% of my week or less as focus time.
Russian firm NTech Lab plans rollout of “aggression detection” features in 2021
You can’t say that they have a leg up in general because It Depends. I’m an engineer and my job is computational fluid dynamics (CFD). My dissertation involved developing highly parallelized solution algorithms for a specific type of problem. As such, I am quite well versed in low level Fortran/C code and MPI because I wrote code to do that, “that” being to solve an equation. I know this set of equations like it was second nature because of how much time I’ve invested in it. Not only that, but I would consider myself somewhat of an “expert” in the underlying mechanisms to solve these equations. Those being finite element methods. I can talk to you about tensor spaces and discretization and derivation of the numerical algorithms to solve these problems. I’d consider the code that I wrote/extended to be tech.

My current job role is “just” an engineer working for a company where all I basically do is run and analyze models using commercial software. Even though I know the underlying low level code/algorithms of what I’m doing, I would be the first to tell you that a 21 year old mechanical engineering graduate could do my job as effectively and as completely as I could. Because none of the above paragraph actually matters in what I do. Maybe it gave me a leg up in the hiring process, but the knowledge I am applying for my job (which I enjoy) is what you’d learn in a 4 year degree with electives in eg numerical methods and fluid dynamics.
... which is why the Democrats keep losing easy elections, like against Donald f'ing Trump.

Clinton almost won with an absolutely horrible campaign that failed to excite anyone. She even through in that awful 'deporables' comment. I know what she meant, but it sounded like she was insulting the entire US working class.

Donald Trump is one of the most consistently unpopular and widely disliked presidents in history. He has his fanatical base, but that base is no more than 30% of the population at best. Most other people can't stand him and the only reason they'd vote for him is if they feel there is no better choice. The fact that there is any question at all about the outcome of this election shows just how pathetic the Democrats are at connecting with the electorate.
Are these (proposed) rule changes more in-line with other nations?

Yes and no. In other countries visa (or a permit card) == status. You can get it renewed in a week in the country of residence (meaning they don't have to travel to their home country for renewal).

In the US however, visa and status are two different things. You can remain a legal resident with a valid status but an expired visa. You only need a visa to re-enter the country.
>There probably is a pro Taiwan bias in Wikipedia, but ironically a big part of that is from China blocking access to the Chinese Wikipedia

>pro Taiwan bias in Wikipedia

I have previously seen these baseless accusations of Wikipedia and Reddit being pro-Taiwan and pro-India.

There are tens of thousands of pro-Chinese Leftists in the US and Europe. Just take a look at r/GenZedong and r/Socialism. They are China's main propaganda arm in the West. They are far more organized and agenda-driven than Taiwanese and Indian Internet users. They have completely taken over Wikipedia and the comment section on reddit. Anything even slightly critical of China's government gets accused of being CIA propaganda.
That's a good call-out. People did use phones for significant things when there wasn't a reasonable alternative.

But you wouldn't break up a relationship over the phone, for example.
Thanks I wasn't aware of the differences, just use wikipedia randomly but never been part of the community or active contributor
Did anyone see the Dan snow documentary trying to identify anther Viking settlement? Sadly it wasn't a ceremony but we an interesting program
I came to point out the same thing. Is it just to make it look long? Or is to appeal Google/Medium algorithms?
As others have pointed out, the arms not moving shouldn't prevent the vehicle from braking.

There are a number of reasons a person's arms may not move as expected, a couple of primary ones being the person is holding an object or has hands in pockets. And of course, some people don't have arms, and they shouldn't be left out either.
Wikipedia doesn't require things be at the country level. For example, it has Esperanto: https://eo.wikipedia.org
I wonder if this is a case where camera+radar sensor fusion gets confused. Radar in Tesla's is supposed to be only supplementary sensor but it's there and contributes for decisions.

>Something made of wood or painted plastic, though opaque to a person, is almost as transparent as glass to radar. https://www.tesla.com/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-world-...
Also going to sound like an ad, but I stream PC VR from a cloud Shadow PC to my Oculus Quest over 5GHz Wi-Fi (effectiveness is really dependent on your proximity to their data centers) but it is really remarkable how effective it is. It is more lag than streaming from a local PC but not to the point where most games are unplayable. I can also play the same games with the same saves from my phone with their app using a Bluetooth-paired gaming controller. Couldn't be happier with their service.
Most likely the article uses the word Visa to mean Legal status. So it’s about the time you’re allowed to be in the US, not the authorization to enter.
> 19 minute read

Yikes.
I love Gaurav Sen's approach towards teaching system design. Have been thinking about taking his paid course. Any experience HNers?
I can think of four reasons:

A. It's only speculated that Trump has some sort of special relation with Putin; it's by no means certain, and if so, this might not be part of their relation.

B. A relation between Trump and Putin doesn't have to mean much for the rest of the administration.

C. Assange is just a pawn.

D. Why would Trump draw even more attention to himself?
What and Why of Performance Metrics: Commitments to Performance and Reliability
And the 5400RPM drives most of them had. There was a lot of clearing out of old stock going on. Also sp1 fixed a lot of issues too.
> think of the CDC as an organization that tells you to do a bunch of onerous, in-the-aggregate impossible tasks that you disregard for your own health and sanity.

This is the central dilemma of public health policy and public health messaging everywhere.

I read a fascinating book once about public health messaging.

The gist was, for the health of people, messaging from public institutions has to be extremely over-simplified and made rather blunt, because people in aggregate just won't follow nuanced, "more correct" advice effectively.

But if they overdo the over-simplification, then it's not useful any more.

People who are looking for nuance see that the advice is blunt and over-simplified, and may point out to each other that the institution is giving such advice, undermining trust in it.

So it's a difficult line to walk.

We have seen this recently in the England with Covid-19 advice to the public: It was too complicated, now it's changed to the "rule of six". The former advice was probably better advice if people had followed it, but people didn't follow it, for many reasons. So it had to be simplified into a simple, catchy message, in order to take into account people's reactions in aggregate to the type of advice.

I tend to imagine this is frustrating for well-informed public health scientists.
Probably best NOT to stop in that scenario.

The car should slow down for that scenario. It doesn't know if the situation is 100% safe, so it should apply the brakes and steer to avoid a collision using data from around the car to determine the safest course. Driving through a hazard is only an option for a self-driving car if there is literally no other option.

Cars are not people and they're not capable of making decisions in the same way people do. They should be taking the safest route all the time.
> Median family income adjusted for inflation was $29,000 in 1955. In 1965 it was $42,000. Today it’s just over $62,000. We think of the 1950s and 1960s as the golden age of middle-class prosperity. But the median household today has roughly twice the income as the median family of 1955.

I mean, sure, but I'm pretty sure the median household income today is from 2 working adults, where 1955 and 1965 are a single working adult.

There's also purchasing power, which isn't touched on here. Yes, TVs and such are super cheap compared to that era, but owning a house is nearly out of reach for a family living off $62k/year. In 1955 and 1965 it was completely normal for a single-income family to own a home with a yard, etc.
But this feeds to prison industrial complex and having private prisons in your district is a good way to raise campaign funds from those lobbies. It's in the (certain) lawmakers interests to keep the war on drugs going so they don't lose their own dealer.