skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In practice, candidates who are best at selling themselves are also great at selling ideas to coworkers and maybe even clients.

Confident and wrong people are the ones who will try their ideas out and get it right eventually. Those who are not confident will keep passive learning and planning and get stuck in self-doubt, and hate others for succeeding by just doing things "wrongly".

I think there's a meta DK effect in light of DK effect: those who learn about DK effect and think that it is favorable to them are the ones to whom it doesn't apply favorably to.
I don't think any of the businesses that would spin out from Google would be anything close to "little".
You might enjoy "Chess960" (or Fischer Random Chess): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess

The order of the back-rank pieces is randomized (but identical for both players).
This makes sense for big, well researched investigative journalism. But that is not the case for the other 95% of the drivel on most news sites -— the engagement driving crap that keeps the lights on.
There's a good amount of prebuilt office computers floating around still.

Obviously they won't have the latest Zen 3 Ryzens or 3000 series Nvidia GPUs, but they are solid office & light development machines.
> That's a compromise.

No, that's a default. You doing your thing and me doing mine.

That's not what a compromise is.
Hopping on the IntelliJ love train. I've been using it for the last five years. It is the one piece of software I still get excited about. Heck they've even made fonts interesting.
To be clear, those drones are more akin to unmanned planes than they are to quadrocopters.
Highly recommend HealthyGamerGG's videos "How to Deal with Your ADHD ft. Mizkif" and "Solving Laziness with Asmongold". (Her's a Harvard psychology professor who has surprisingly-wholesome live therapy sessions with famous streamers).
The presentation is a tad corny in some areas--like awkwardly phrasing psychological phenomena in terms of RPG mechanics--but that doesn't make up the bulk of it, promise.
I'd be lying if I claimed to be coming from a place of any more expertise than you, but I suspect that some of the framings he discusses will resonate.
ye but for sandbox games I feel like its pretty important because the scope of them is far too broad (especially if you add in all the platforms and languages).

Maybe save the main questline as the first major piece of DLC to avoid that problem?
Mac wifi lag happens due to location services. Disabling it fixes most of the lag.

https://community.stadia.com/t5/Stadia-on-Chrome/Fixing-stut...
That's good to hear. I can usually get things to work well in matlab/octave, but it takes a lot of time thinking about how to restructure a calculation as vectorized. What I'm hearing is that with Julia I can probably just write what I mean directly and skip the pondering/iterating about how to vectorize. So I think I'll try it. Thanks!
Devs want composable blocks and design is all about context & harmony, so padding/margin depend on the context, eg I want a flex gap and not margins on elements. Without flex you had to do hacks, like negative margins on the parent row. CSS also doesn't have constraints or relative measurements. For example flex containers without a width can't have equally sized children https://codepen.io/brettdonald/pen/oRpORG). And this is a common theme, you can't elegantly style things based on existing dimensions, number of elements, etc which then you need to work around with media queries or hacks. Also, flex & grid have the same problem as async in JS, when you start building your layout with it, it's turtles all the way down, everything becomes flexbox or grid.
That's what I think people complain about, instead of having tools that solve the few dozen common scenarios, CSS gives us thousands of rules that need to be carefully assembled and still not solve the standard layouts.
Does anyone have a good sense how online degrees are perceived by employers? Or graduate programs? I wonder if the pandemic will be shifting these attitudes.
It's been surprising to me to see my wifes deep knowledge of git, SVN, and perforce be so cherished in her organization. Surprising because she works for a place that is routinely featured on the frontpage of HN, where very nearly every single person on HN has used their software sometime in the last ~30 years. It was my view, originally, that these people ought to already have the answers to the questions they're asking. I was wrong.

Her and one of her colleagues are the de facto git gurus in her entire department of over 100 people. She's ended up owning tooling in their build pipelines that is quite complex, using libgit, etc... That tooling was eventually exported around to the rest of the engineering teams (~1,000 total engineers). Now she gets random, challenging git (and perforce, to a lesser degree, and she stepped in to help with some SVN issues at one point in time, though those projects have moved over to perforce, I believe) questions from the entire engineering organization.

I do agree with you, though, that git is probably the wrong thing to focus on and that she and her colleague are outliers. But, it's interesting to see nonetheless.
I don't have a degree. I feel that not having it has cost me some opportunities. Someone once said that when someone has put in years to get their degree they want the candidates they interview to have done that work as well.
My 2017 MBP got bricked trying to update to 11.1. Shut down for reboot, and never came back up. None of the troubleshooting steps worked. Apple won't budge since it was out warranty and wants $725 to fix it. They literally told me that maybe I should consider getting a new one. Such a joke.

Really stuck, tbh, as i'm not sure if I should just fix it or forget it and leave the macbook world.
The issue was with a consumer unwilling to learn how to use a tool that was totally adequate for the job.

This same story could of been made about an Apple computer the windows internet setup cd didn't work on.

I once had to go use a library computer to learn how to get the computer I had at home online before. There is always a choice other than whining to get other people to solve your problems for you.
Any luck finding an online PhD? I've been looking for those. As much as I'd love to do a formal PhD program, I cannot with family, but the qualification (from whichever accredited university) would open up a lot of opportunities.
For all the negativity surrounding this game I have mostly positivity for Google Stadia. I bought the game + free chromecast & controller and Stadia has truly surprised me. It's amazing how low the input lag is on a streamed game.

For this game in particular the bugs and performance issues don't seem present as they are on PS4 and Xbox One.
PG is a VC. He isn't a god of entrepreneurship.

Why is it that this argument only seems to apply to software and not to all of the other kinds of businesses out there?
Apple isn't altruistic, they're a business. However their business interests can be aligned with privacy.

Back in the days, Microsoft was evil, and FOSS was good. That's what sprouted Facebook and Google. They contribute to FOSS, as does Microsoft. They have proprietary applications (including web applications), as does Microsoft. They're into advertising and profiling, as does Microsoft. Microsoft's software stack is partly FOSS (e.g. Edge), just like Google's (Chrome, Android, ...). I still prefer Unix/Linux over Windows but other than that its more of the same these days.

I was one of these people who was happy with Windows 10 free upgrade. But thinking back of it, perhaps I'd rather pay and then keep my privacy (without hassle).

The danger is that the poor are indirectly paying for devices and services with their privacy while those who are wealthy are able to afford privacy-friendly Apple. Its already more or less like that. The cost of privacy when it boils to Android devices, and how much profit it yields, isn't transparent.
Maybe it is actually km/h
I know. That's why I recommended that the interviewer notes that fact, but presses on.

If OPs hypothesis is correct that their rambling is a symptom of "just-got-laid-off-panic", then letting the candidate discredit herself due to that temporary condition is unhelpful for everyone.
I think the subheading may be a better title -- 'This is the story of how I prepared for a decade to graduate in 3 months.'

This seems feasible only for a specific set of people: those with previous experience & looking specifically for the credential and not so much the learning experience that comes with a traditional 4 year degree. Not to take away from the author's achievement, I just think it would be misleading to imply that this is a path that most people can take.
Matrix is a generic realtime data sync protocol, so yes - we always built it with general social media uses in mind as well as chat (as well as VoIP, VR/AR, IoT etc). Hopefully someone will build an ActivityPub bridge now that Cerulean exists! :)
It's nuts seeing how aggressive the anti-China sentiment online has gotten in the last 2-3 years.
I highly doubt it.

The gaming industry today is very different from what it was even ten years ago. It used to be that games made a healthy chunk of their income in the first month of launch. Back then it made total sense to rush a crappy game out before the holiday season.

However, today, the best selling games do so at steady rates over the span of years. The first month or so of sales may only represent 10-20% of total sales over five years. The Witcher 3 looks like it sold around 1.5 million preorders, but almost 30 million units in total.

All the bad publicity around this game is going to reduce gross sales of CP2077 and ensure that the public is leery of pre-ordering a CDPR in the future.
Why were you dismayed if your idea was implemented, but better (larger scale, no iframe) ?
Somehow McCarthyism is acceptable in woke America.
That's brilliant. I wish something like this had been available back in the late 90s when I was getting my CS degree from Oregon State. I pulled it off in a couple years by taking a heavy load and working through summers, I'd have been ecstatic to find a fully self-paced program.

I also think the idea of capping it off with OMSCS is a great idea. I did that myself but 20 years later. And mostly just for entertainment rather than boosting my career.
Gotta multiply it by two though, since you need a round trip from your computer -> Stadia -> your computer to get feedback right?
Yeah, I finally got all of my medications dialed in, so I am a ninja at concentration.

And my Elo in chess has skyrocketed, while my job performance has stayed flat.
Customer Experience in Healthcare
Note: They haven't released the next-gen console versions yet. PS5 version isn't out yet. That comes out in 2021. You can only buy the PS4 version, which happens to also play in PS5. Any suggestion of dismissing the previous-gen as not important is a non-starter.
>My most hated thing about the industry: the amount of people who do not give a shit.

This is why they're not burned out.

And IMHO, this sounds a lot like sour grapes. To be rewarded for good work your management needs to know you're doing good work. For them to know you're doing good work you need to tell them. This is just a basic fact of life. And it's not super hard. You just need to maintain a relationship with your boss and ideally your boss's boss.
Maybe I'm just super dumb but I don't get why such simple examples should be made so difficult. Take for instance the following: "Here were are introducing the 3 main critical pillars of Behavioral Programming; the request, wait and block semantics.".

Except the previous block of code does not exhibit the 'block' semantic at all.
Well, their share price has dropped and they've taken a huge reputational hit — it's not just about one-off sales.
Maybe... depends on the virus. This won’t work for things like HIV or rapidly mutating viruses. It will probably work for any relative coronaviruses
I don’t mean empty of objects. I mean barren in the sense that it fee lifeless, due to nonexistent AI. It’s just pointless exploring. Even GTA3 had better crowd AI, better police AI, etc.
Cerulean doesn't have E2EE yet because it deliberately doesn't use a Matrix SDK but just talks simple raw Matrix directly via HTTPS. However, it'd be easy to swap out for a real SDK like the one in https://github.com/vector-im/hydrogen-web to get E2EE (or pipe it via pantalaimon :)
New Yorkers Want to Change the Streetscape for Good
I'm 60 hours in, and have been enjoying it alot playing on my Macbook through GeForce NOW. There's lots of areas where it feels unfinished and fails (AI, emergent gamplay, details, real choice), but I think it is a fantastic game.

I think the problems boil down to rushing the release for xmas and poor expectation management. The idea that people will be able to play something as well on a SEVEN YEAR old console as well as recent hardware is absolutely ridiculous, and PS4/XB1 users really need to get their head around that. However, CDPR didn't manage that expectation and one could argue that they mislead people for sales.

Whether this was a good business decision (loss of money for damage of trust and refunds vs money gained by releasing it early and misleading) we have yet to find out.
(more importantly, surely we need a HN bridge!)
When you watch footage of it on last-gen consoles, it looks nearly unplayable. It clearly wasn't optimized for those consoles at all, and definitely deserves to be refunded/pulled (not passing judgement on CDPR, just pointing out that it was very clearly developed for modern hardware and then shoe-horned backward)
Microsoft Says Its Systems Were Exposed to SolarWinds Hack
This is very interesting to me. I have an EE degree but have been doing software full time since I graduated in 2009. Even though I am mostly self taught and feel competent enough compared to my coworkers, I frequently have pangs of self doubt around not having a CS degree. Mainly worry about not having a deeper knowledge of algorithms and data structures. I have been thinking for a while of an online CS degree and this looks pretty good!
"Prebid Server" is a standard made up and invented by Google, an ad publisher. This is like appointing the head of Cola Cola to the FDA.
Was it Glasgow airport by any chance?
The only difference between apple and any other company is that apple wants a cut of the privacy violations
Speedometers are mph, while distances are in KM. Another bug, I guess. Regardless, vehicles drive very slow. There is zero sense of speed.
> Invidio.us

This domain is dead, I currently am using invidious.xyz
Twitter uses a static buffer size of 280 characters to avoid this problem.
> Facebook seems relatively easy to me as well, although I have few friends/family who are regular Facebook users at this point. Maybe if I had extended family or circle of friends who all used Facebook daily, I'd feel differently.

Instagram and WhatsApp are how Facebook really gets its hooks in these days. They manage to avoid the stink of their parent company's brand.

That said, Instagram is falling out of favor with the yutes. They're moving into TikTok now, which is just as invasive with the added bonus of Chinese state censorship added on.
Wonder if he will go for a masters degree next.
I think he was not referring to you, but to your parent poster.
I have noticed kids playing PUBG all the time what you suggest on this?
Hi, I have noticed kids playing PUBG game all the time even kids under 16 are playing this game but nobody cares what is your suggestion in this matter?
Companies = profit.

VC/Shareholder driven companies even more so.
This sounds very debuggable - PyCharm is basically the same product as IntelliJ + Python plugin. There's no difference in how it handles project indexing, so it's probably a specific IntelliJ plugin or functionality causing the freezes.

There's a built-in CPU profiler, but given that you're a paying customer, just contact their support and they'll help you figure it out.
Have you tried installing Linux on it? It's bricked already, worth trying to salvage.
I certainly tended to do that as an undergraduate when I could. Credit hours or the equivalent correlate pretty loosely to difficulty and the time you'll need to spend. (And, of course it's even truer when you mix in non-engineering classes which aren't necessarily easy but were relatively speaking for me for the most part.)

>On average, I studied for 40 hours a week and completed a course every 3 days.

I will say that when I was in university, there were very few courses I only spent about 24 hours on. In fact, there are probably a fair number of courses which, even had I taken them a couple years earlier, would still have probably taken more time than that to do assignments and brush up for exams.
I don't see what's stopping these developers from lowering prices for users in less developed countries.
Could we get a title change? This is a private company and it is not actively being marketed for sale. The founders are not billionaires.
Targeting works by adjusting itself to advertise more to people who look similar to those who have responded (clicked) on the adverts already.
I have pointed out both paid and bait and switch reviews (where the seller uses a cheap product to be able to use a farm for fake “verified purchase” reviews then changes the product). Never been rejected, but maybe that’s because I review product too. Amazon seems to bump up positive reviews though so I suspect not many people see mine unless you’re like me and explicitly focus on reading negative reviews first.
Hah, I had the same exact issue with the guard in the elevator, except he just went through the wall a few feet and ended up being equally unreachable. It really broke me out of what was otherwise turning out to be a good action scene.

I’ve been playing a huge amount of God of War (2018), really just an absurd number of hours, I’ve completed almost all the side quests, and the number of distracting bugs, glitchy character animations, etc. is zero. (It’s the closest to a perfect video game I’ve ever side, really quite an accomplishment.) This contrasting example causes me to very much notice the almost minute-to-minute minor graphical glitches in CP2077 and be very frustrated by the more frustrating ~hourly bugs.

Maybe if I wasn’t playing GoW concurrently concurrently it wouldn’t bother me so much, but really, CP2077 is not up to the standards of what Good Games are supposed to be like in 2020.
Google is getting some serious flack.

From NPR this morning... https://www.npr.org/2020/12/18/947918291/google-researcher-d...
Did you find any other schools that offer a similar opportunity?
I do hugely recommend playing it on GeForce now instead. It works like a dream, you can max out all the settings, and you don't get locked into an ecosystem that Google will inevitably abandon in the next couple years. I've been playing Cyberpunk using it and have no complaints, very little if any lag on my 100Mbps BT line.
Speaking as somebody who has been involved in tech sales for a long time, 'communicating' is not the main problem. You need a monetization model that channels users into paths that oblige them to pay for content. And it needs to work at scale.

$120 a year for a subscription might seem iniquitous to HN readers. From the business point of view you need over 1500 subscription to pay for a single dev working at non-large-city rate, e.g., in Richmond Virginia. That's just to run the website, not to generate content. It's a big hill to climb.

My estimate assumes a $150/year salary + benefits, $120 subscription, and 20% customer acquisition cost for each subscription.

150000 / (120 * (1 - .20))
> You can hide behind cover and headshot everyone with the sniper rifle on hard 10-15 levels above you can kill everyone with one shot.

to be fair, this is an issue with pretty much every rpg-ish fps. if you're good at aiming, deus ex is also really easy with a sniper rifle or assault rifle with max damage upgrades. hide behind cover, preaim, pop out and one-shot someone, repeat. ditto for mass effect. the only real combat challenge in these games is the hp-sponge sort of enemy, which isn't really fun imo. the difficulty scaling only works under the assumption that the player is pretty bad at aiming.
I have never understood how to use Twitter. I simply cannot follow "the flow".

I expect an RSS style newsreader. I just want to see what's new, in order.

IMHO John Carmacks' old school finger file updates was the pinnacle of human achievement. Just aggregate everyone's finger updates into a swanky offline mail reader style UI. Heaven.

I don't understand why links aren't links. eg Open this in a new tab.

I don't understand why pull quotes are images.

And tellingly, I don't care enough to figure it out, find a better way.

PS- One thing missing from Twitter is the drive-by downvote. Too bad.
David Epstein's Range has a lot to say about this topic. Carmack's idea of 'deep' work [0] is environmentally dependent. It works for him and for the places he has been at. But it is not a universal rule for learning in all environments.

Epstein uses Tiger Woods and Roger Federer as his headline case, but goes into many other forms of learning. Woods' golf is a kind learning environment; the rules are clear, the feedback is quick, the skills are straightforward. 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.

With programming and development, the environment Carmack talks about is a kind learning environment (rules are stated, feedback is a compile away, skills are practicable). Contrast this to the business/marketing people whose environment is unkind (unclear rules, long feedback cycles, skill overload).

Epstein relates the method to be great at a thingy is to know what environment you are in. This gives the keys to success. In kind learning environments like programming, golf, or chess, the key is practice and drilling, to do it until you can't be bad anymore. In unkind learning environments like tennis, jazz, or marketing, the key is to learn as many things as you can as broadly as you can, to gain a reservoir of ideas to use.

[0] not Cal Newport's idea of 'deep work', to be clear.
Graeber was one of my favorite modern writers. RIP. I hope someone picks up his torch.
> why not Pytorch?

JAX enables using (parts of) existing numpy codebases in disciplines other than deep learning. Autodiff and compilation to GPUs are very useful for all kinds of algorithms and processing pipelines.
Or, don't start a business with a loan. If you're gonna bootstrap (the "right" way) then step zero is have 12mo runway of your own capital and step one is start a business
We nerd types have made this mistake for the last 75 years or so. This mystique about chess has been completely misplaced in my humble opinion. At first the claim was that Smart people played chess, therefore if you made a computer that played chess well it would be Smart. That turned out to be hilariously untrue, but durable: nerds were finally relieved of their arrogance after about 5 decades only when it became clear even to them that the game-winning systems required brute force methods.

Thoughtful people absorb life lessons from almost everything they care to study deeply. You can make virtually all of his claims about martial arts, child rearing, studying and playing music, competitive video gaming, gardening, playing golf, meditation, religious study, farming, marksmanship, other board games, programming—the list is endless.
With my ThinkPad I had lots of problem with Stadia. My connection is perfect. But it seems because I don't have hardware acceleration for Chrome it doesn't work.

I was unable to figure out how to make hardware acceleration work on my T490.

I also bought the game on XBox, but I returned it to the shop.