skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are some ways to learn deeply and be relevant:

1. Pick a data structure (such as a hash table or LSM-Tree) then read all the literature there is to read, every single paper that's great, following the best conferences year after year, and implement a 10x faster or more scalable version for the std lib of your favorite language.

2. Pick a fault model (such as storage faults, network faults, cryptography faults) then read all the literature there is to read, every single paper that's great, following the best conferences year after year, and write a fault injection or fuzzing harness to break some of the most respected storage/network/cryptography systems (for examples, see the work done by Remzi and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau on storage faults, Kyle Kingsbury on Jepsen, and Guido Vranken on Cryptofuzz: https://github.com/guidovranken/cryptofuzz).

3. Pick a software field (such as web applications, mobile applications, native applications, file formats such as Office Open XML, or protocols such as SMTP, MIME, HTTP, QUIC) then read as many CVE reports and bug bounty reports as you can find, and then start participating in bug bounty programs within this field. Pick a target and give yourself a goal, e.g. DoS, RCE or read/write access, and do the work to make it happen. Chain as many steps as you can. Automate and enumerate. You'll find a way in if you keep at it. There's nothing like crafting an exploit to change the way you think about programming.

As you gain experience in data structures, storage/networking/cryptography, and security, you'll find this translates well to most software engineering work. You'll gain a speed/safety/security way of thinking, you'll have fun being curious and learning along the way (and hopefully you'll earn a bounty or two and get some CVEs under your name).
I am only getting various product websites. Is that intentional?
Hi StavrosK, Thanks for your suggestion. I will merge this feature to main soon. After rectangle created, you can drag the corner or edge to adjust it
Suppose an mRNA vaccine is developed for some virus, but it fails to clear phase 1 safety testing.

Question: what would be the likely reasons for that? In particular, is it almost certainly going to be due to whatever carries the mRNA, or could the mRNA itself be the problem?

If it is the carrier in which potential safety issues lie, does that mean that once we have one successful safe mRNA vaccine for virus A, then when some new virus B comes along an mRNA vaccine for B that uses the same carrier is going to be as safe as the vaccine for virus A?

If so, does that mean for future new viruses, the mRNA approach will let us go right into effectiveness testing, skipping phase 1 safety testing?
They've reiterated the same promises for years and years. Stop fanboying, mate.
What does their opinion mean though that they left the committee? It means, directly, that there is one less dissenting voice about AMP.

Congrats we the author is so brave but the issue got worse and we'll forget it's a thing in about a month.

The internet is so predictable, love for people you temporarily agree with even if that love is fake and detrimental to the actual goal of getting rid of or fixing AMP.
Was it this bad though?
I'd like to add that Steenbergen knows networking from more than just the OSI layer 1 part of the optics - he's one of the relatively few people in the ISP backbone industry who knows the optical part of it and also the routing, BGP, router side at OSI layer 3.

There's more than a few router guys out there who mentally abstract away the inter-city links and everything underlying that forms the transport circuit for a router-to-router BGP adjacency. At big ISPs this is handled by a separate team responsible for transport systems, DWDM and metro ethernet circuits.
reminds me of that forest scene in return of the jedi but much slowwwwer
> Federer's tennis is an unkind learning environment; the rules aren't as clear, the feedback isn't as quick, and the skills are more murky. A lot of tennis is the mind-game aspect and in elite tennis, you don't get the same person very often.

The Inner Game of Tennis [0] for folks interested in learning more about this.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Tennis-Classic-Performance...

PS Novak's probably more clutch than Rog.
I love Nitter, but I can't help but feel like it's on borrowed time. Eventually Twitter is going to decide it's a problem.

The day Nitter is killed is likely the day I stop using Twitter. Yes, I know you can host your own, but if Twitter decides to actively fight against it the best case scenario is an annoying cat and mouse game that makes the service unreliable.
I think the problem is that once you're working in the field, not having a bachelors can be perceived as you lacking in skill for the positions you're applying for, regardless of if that's the case. And the bachelors is (improperly) being used as a gauge for competence rather than being shown as a jumping off point toward a career in software development, which can be reached by alternate avenues.

I also discovered that if I want to move to basically any European nation, despite having years of experience in the USA, I would not be able to work in software or emigrate without some sort of bachelors.
Interesting... it sounds like an odd choice though, because you wouldn't be able to progress the same story in all 3 platforms, as you can't sync between them, right?

Also, I really think that Steam is the superior platform at the moment in terms of features compared to Epic and GOG, but in this case I think it would be better to buy it in GOG since not only all of the money goes directly to CD Project Red instead of 30% for Steam, but also there's some goodies if you buy it in GOG...

Anyway, I think if you bought the game 3 times you more than make up for that 30%.
I believe it is regionally accredited.
Would it not be possible for a very focused, hardworking individual to take all the course on MIT for free then enroll in this school and finish fast?
You usually only get the fat checks in SV though, where homes are frequently 6-10x national average. So unless you plan to move away (why would you when you spent your entire career there and all your friends are there), you won’t retire any earlier.
> In reality, the effort for producing a deep investigative story can be equivalent to an a mid-size software engineering project in terms of person hours and expertise.

Investigative journalism is 1 or 2% of the budget of most media companies. Saying that running a media company is expensive because of investigative journalism is like saying that running a tech company is expensive because of the free snacks.
Czech Startup Founders Turn Billionaires Without VC Help
If you can turn your monitor sideways (portrait mode) and then full-screen the security video it will be a lot more entertaining.
I was gluten free for a few years due to intestinal problems until I got tested (was negative) and I found that the restrictions made me more creative and resourceful when it comes to cooking.
I spent $600 on a PS2 from an eBay-based scalper in 2000. I can only imagine how much more organized and pervasive the practice is twenty years later.
ICC rejects Uighur genocide complaint against China
Making a claim like only large companies can afford "brute force advertising" is full of fallacies.

There are many other methods marketing that do not use personalized "adtech." "Adtech" is a very small fraction of ways to engage you audience. To top that off, "adtech" is inaccurate, ineffective, and overpriced. Just think about all of the lies people put into their profiles, and all the ad blockers people have installed.

We shouldn't accept that "adtech" is cheaper and more effective on face value, and we certainly shouldn't accept that the only alternative is to do mass "brute force advertising."

e.g. look at what Tesla has done without spending any money on ads, they used Musk's twitter reputation to amasse great publicity. This method, among others thanks to the open internet, is available to all creative marketers.
> massively reduce chances of glitches and bugs

Write it in Rust. (/s? idk.)
It depends on the type of company. Its hard to out-innovate some companies just by throwing more money.
Using cocaine to do programming is a waste of cocaine, in my opinion
This is what burnout looks like. My advice to folks is to make moves well before you get into a headspace where quitting an entire industry is your last option. Once you've burnt out, you might not be able to stomach even the best possible job for you.

I've been there before. I burnt out as a teacher and almost burnt out on software development, too. What has worked for me is to spend a lot of time introspecting my own motivations and needs, and then working hard to identify places that are good candidates. This took longer than it sounds like it should. But it's hard to break out of the impressions I built from my lived experience of what it seemed like work had to be like.

I'm really happy with work now. I don't have the Thank God It's Friday or the Sunday Scaries, which characterize a job I have to endure, rather than one I mostly enjoy.
if JetBrains people are reading this, I love your products, but waaaay more code navigation and pane splitting/management features need to have keyboard shortcuts.

VS Code gets this very right. It's generally not as powerful or friendly as JetBrains products, but the far superior keyboard navigation experience gets me to attempt to switch once a month or so.
Cool idea and landing is sick!
Btw, iPhone images have been loading for me for too long
> I know the cynical take is "you need to stop letting yourself be surprised / disappointed by this kind of thing" but we should be able to do better, especially in a federally run hospital in the USA.

You're talking about California, the literal state of poorly run government.
There is nothing stopping any app developer from displaying non-targeted advertising.

And there is no evidence to support the idea that targeted advertising is actually more effective.
This is a serious problem. On-die interconnect requires insane bandwidth and lots of caches. We're talking TB/s to keep cores fed. This is significant challenge (source: I worked on Intel Xeon Phi) and at the time I worked on it in 2007 (pre-name-change), there was not a lot of empirical data, just lots of simulations, guard-bands and finger crossing.
These are all excellent reasons.

People that want to follow in your footsteps should also think about why they want to do it and to only do something like this if it makes sense for them.

My brother in law did a degree at WGU too, but not in CS. It was to finally get the job he wanted and had always been qualified for but was unavailable without the degree. And yes, he made up the cost in less than 6 months of his new job. It was 100% worth it.
> Co-founders? Why are they co-founding? Profit sharing?

Because they had an idea with you and want to work together to make it happen? Or all kinds of other things like that?

And yeah, if you're going to do that, you're going to have to be careful make sure you're not the kind of people who will need adult supervision to avoid squabbling.

VC might have its uses, or provide some service, but that shouldn't be misunderstood to mean that it's essential or alternatives aren't worth considering.

The other thing to note is that one of the things VCs do is sell the VC paradigm, so they're going to try their hardest to make it seem like it's essential or at least the best product out there.
This is brought up every time this subject is discussed. Is a burner phone a normal thing that regular people have?

But no, I don't have a burner phone. I'm not going to buy a phone and a SIM just as some kind of non-solution to tech companies having a hard-on for invading peoples privacy.
Show HN: Auto generating SEO-friendly URLs with Scrapy pipelines
I (used to) play go competitively (European 4dan). AlphaGo took me by surprise, but apart from the occasional cheater, its consequences are mostly great:

- I have a superhuman teacher available anytime, ready to analyze all my games and answer all my questions (though the "why?" question sometimes takes a fair bit for the teacher to explain).

- A lot of widely accepted dogmas in go were shaken, that was just a whole lot of fun.

- Learning joseki (corner sequences) finally makes sense (they used to develop and change every year, which on my level wasn't worth keeping on top of).

- It's a sneak peek into what's coming with AI. I watched the Lee Sedol match live, some of the AlphaGo moves were amazing. The human commentary was enlighteningly wrong: "oh he lost the first game, surely he'll win the next four"
This is great. I work with a number of API providers who are sometimes less than consistent with their output.
Where do you see that caption? The pictures are captioned only with dates on the page. That one is captioned "July 17, 1985".

In any case, maybe the "old electronic device" is a reference to the Coleco? It looks like it's being used for word processing, which at the time was pretty novel.
Sure! I'm assuming if we have the means to fake the one turbulence, we can also cancel the other. Or the arrow is just not moving, thus no "natural" turbulance to cancel.

I'm not saying that air turbulence wasn't a very strong indicator for motion! And I am not sure the technology to fake them completely does exist. But I don't see why it shouldn't be possible, maybe with a very elaborate set of fans, air ducts and loudspeakers.
Saving up money to start a business is just one of the many (many!) difficulties you will face when starting/running your own business.
Flex Lighting Raises $9M in Funding to Launch LCD 2.0 Eye-Friendly Display Tech
Satisfice - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
The coronavirus vaccine has brought hope to New Yorkers
CDPR used him a lot in marketing material to hype up the game.
They are Russians who preferred to immigrate to Czech Republic. Cool story!
On the other hand, the fact that it stays unsolved and isn't predicted to be solved in the near future (and it's not sure whether we'll one day have enough computing power to solve it by brute force) indicates that it probably has a long life ahead. Games only are really ended when they're solved.
I would not pay 400k/year or whatever for additional years of college.
> Habitus is important.

Agree, though I think the value will depend significantly on the person. For some folks this will be the majority of the value, others it'll be wasted on.
It won't turn on at all. Completely dead.
> like overwrite the `Array` constructor (which became a particularly nasty JSON attack vector).

Yikes!
You don't even need to do that. I found a demo for the page visibility api[1] (presumably what they use to detect whether the tab is focused), and found that having the window not minimized is sufficient to make the tab think it's focused. That is, all you have to do is move the tab to a new window, and click your main window. Now your training video is in the background and not taking up any screen space (you can mute the tab if you want), but the page doesn't realized it's not focused/visible.

[1] https://jsfiddle.net/0GiS0/cAG5N/
His last recorded interview, in July 2017, five months before he died at 80: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:paKSla...
Remember developers, you have agency.
Python honestly reminds me of C more than any other language.

I'd never really used it much before a year ago so I was quite surprised how flat most abstractions are.

I wouldn't write my website in C but equally it wouldn't need many features to be python-esque.
Right? "This platform does/does not run my software" is a huge checkbox when buying computers. The viewpoint of people who actually specify, buy, and operate servers at scale is severely underrepresented in these discussions.
I've used this tool fairly often, it will generate the code you need to center based on your browser requirements, etc http://howtocenterincss.com/

I basically only use flexbox now, but even flexbox does some really stupid things I don't get. Like if you want one element to go against the parent's rules of say, aligning left, you set the left margin of the object you want going right to "auto" which will push it and every object after it right. But this can create some annoying problems.
It's also possible for a amateur jogger to join an ultra marathon and run until they pass out.
Great article. Not sure they ever come back to the early suggestion that orbits would be wrong if gravity was delayed.
Oh, I didn't catch that, thanks! Maybe add "drag" markers, if you don't already have them?
>And given that, her behaviour is likely just trying to introduce spin in order to land her next job easier. By making it about race and gender, it's not something behavioural and so clears the situation for future employers.

What's the point of this cynical and baseless speculation? They hired an ethicist who they wanted to toe the line. If you are truly an ethicist, it is your job to speak up about unethical and immoral behavior. I am glad that at least 1 person in SV is willing to bang a drum about big tech companies making superficial moves to look good on paper, but then keep everyone quiet inside the castle walls.
Arnold was elected in a special election after a career politician was recalled.
I think the title alone might be a bit misleading, I'd rather state it as "it tooks two days to develop a vaccine candidate". The mRNA vaccine method does mean that you can design a vaccine this quickly, just based on the sequence and some general knowledge about the virus. But what you don't from this are safety and efficacy, you still have to determine those the hard way. Which the article of course also mentions at length.

As far as I know Moderna and Biontech tried different variants of their vaccine. And to determine how well those work you have to do some animal experiments, and that is always much slower than designing and synthesizing mRNA sequences.

The mRNA vaccines were the fastest ones, and they worked better than expected. So I think there is a lot of promise in the technology, but further speedups are hard because they're in the clinical study part.
Perhaps I should have cited the official reference which makes it clear that the viewpoint in this article was at best too optimistic:

https://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/
Career advice for Carmack: don't work for Facebook. You are much better than that.
And Valve does better VR anyway.
NMS just wasnt finished at launch. Cyberpunk is a finished game. It just doesnt play WELL on SOME devices. Very different beasts.
A user on my platform costs me $0.02 per year.

If you can't compete gtfo.
That's what I've been trying to do. Resetting SMC and PRAM did nothing. It's completely dead.
Interesting. That's not a vaccine anymore that's a strain of SARS-CoV-2 that's never produces symptoms, but is still similar enough to the original to prime the immune system. Presumably it would out compete the original in a Darwinian sense, because people who caught it would never get sick and stay home.

Risky, though, because if it turns out to be less benign than we thought - or mutates in such a way as to become lethal - we've just started a second pandemic.
How do you guys feel about this?

He signed up at an accredited university and then used non university resources to transfer credits in, which weren’t universities at all

Is that concept new? Is this something we can all be doing for other degrees or is this barely accredited and will come under fire very soon and stop being respected long before
They are going the No Man's Sky route. An incredible game years after it was released.
I had some rich experiences going through computer engineering at Notre Dame. I very much didn’t come from wealth, and received some amazing scholarship. I left with a relatively small student loan. (Now, USC on the other hand - offered me no financial aid! Which I rightfully understood as they didn’t really want me to attend.)

One of them was doing an internship after sophomore year with the Air Force Research Labs (Hanscom AFB, though I ended moving off base and subletted an apartment in Boston). I built a system with GNU radio (software defined radio), a free attenas, etc. and was able to take it to “production”. My peers in the program came from other great schools like NC State, LSU, a couple historically black colleges, etc.

Now, this program was only available to folks considering going through the office candidate program (which, I don’t think any of us ended up pursuing). But sophomores in college.

I returned to campus and found an opportunity to be a research assistant with doctoral candidates doing SDR work on Zigbee - so I hopped on.

There were many more rich experiences, too: studying abroad in London, meeting the girl I’d marry, realizing I was not the smartest person in the room and inheriting a bunch of culture that I’m better off for having.

I don’t know how you replicate these experiences outside a formal program; that’s the uphill battle for any of these programs. I also don’t think that it would’ve been best for me to pursue any of these modern alternatives. But, the articles approach, and programs like Lambda School do provide interesting value to their own customers and on their own merits. They also provide appropriate competitive pressure to keep Unviersity programs honest.
‘beetlebots’ keep flying, even after crashing into poles
Democratic Establishment Strikes Back
> Only after the election did bookmakers reach the “taking candy from a baby” portion of the proceedings. Mason tweeted the day after the election, when Trump’s odds at BetOnline were +525 and 80 percent of the bets were still coming in on Trump, “Our massive liability continues to grow.”

They still do. These betting sites are now part of the conspiracy against Donald Trump.
The RISC-V ISA would be the better bet.

a. They start investing now and they can have some leverage in the spec.

b. The spec is minimal and open to expansion that it sets itself up for more domain specific processors. Which we will be seeing alot more of thanks to the slowing of transistors per dollar growth.

c. There is a pretty big theme of moving toward more open and democratized standards in tech.

d. They would be the big dogs in RISC-V where as ARM already has big players.

e. In both ARM and RISC-V they would be saving the need for extra transistors. My understanding is that there are extra transistors that basically translate x86 machine code to some internal RISC ISA for performance reasons on x86 processors. Due to the slowing of transistors per dollar growth and the maturation of external Fabs Intel and AMD will no longer be able to 'hide' this deficit.

f. No royalties
Depends on the needs of the team too. In most of my roles, having good breadth has been more important to keep an eye on the big picture and to be able to contribute in various areas and tell when the Jr's are doing something unwise.
Physical qubits are much more sensitive to transmission noise than physical bits. If you want to transmit qubits, teleportation allows you to do it with higher fidelity than by physical transmission.

Why do you want to transmit qubits? For various emerging quantum information technologies, each with different potential economic impact.
I'm curious, what are the illegal (and the highly unethical) ones doing? Dont need to name the companies, but what sort of activities are you seeing?
Yeah I mean, sure you 'construct' and 'architect' the web page but you definitely still 'style' it and using different words doesn't make CSS any less annoying to use
This can easily be solved with a tiny bit of sense. The state of California has large stockpiles. Now would be the time to distribute some.

EDIT: shows the state of Hacker News readership that this is downvoted when the article states this. Furthermore, here is a second source: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/07/22/governor-newsom-announces-...

hitting the downvoted button because it offends their sensibility without reading articles or doing their own research.