skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a parallel here to the "Shaman's Journey", which might be the oldest story pattern out there (see e.g. [1]).

The original pattern had the Shaman travel into the world of the supernatural to complete a kind of quest to solve a problem back home. In the Western world, the "supernatural realm" stopped catching on after a while, so we got first the Hero's Journey (vice Campbell) and the modern version of that myth, the MIH/BMG story where the protagonist gets into trouble and out again, possibly while staying in the same town all along.

[1] https://sites.google.com/a/bc.edu/healing-our-world-shaman-t...
Marvell/Cavium just canceled their server processors.
> However, even if I feel blogging is about to have a come back, a place for bloggers to blog is limited more than ever.

You've got to be joking. Starting a blog has never been easier. You can use Wordpress, sure, but there are many other options like Ghost, Quora, SquareSpace (and other website creators like WebFlow), and even some more niche ones like Posthaven.
Well, not that short range! We are talking about where you have to transmit the qubits at least a few dozen meters.

So perhaps distributed quantum computers spread across a university, city or country.

Also, remember, you still need wired or wireless transmission of bits to do the teleportation protocol.
I went to a public 4-year university and transferred in community college credits that I'd previously used to satisfy high school graduation requirements.

Requiring courses from a university is assuredly too high a bar, given that it would exclude anyone who, say, transferred from a community college into a 4-year program (several of my brightest peers fell into that category).

Several of these courses (Calc 1, American Government, Environmental Science, Stats) are comparable to taking AP exams (cost of $95) for credit, which you could ostensibly do without taking the course in the first place.
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> why do they still think it's OK to ruin the life of some twenty-something selling cocaine to his friends

I think they think that he’s ruining their lives and hope to deter him.

But I think the view that there’s no limit to how badly his life can justifiably be ruined (or ended) is receding, there was multi-partisan (& independent) support for the First Step Act. And I think many reasonable people across spectrums could agree on more steps like the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act, but some politicians love to laser focus on racial tensions and divide them.

(Edit: expanded second sentence)
I’ve not used this tool before (am excited to in the future though because..) having done a lot of API diffing with text diff tools in the past, they break down very quickly on things like: JSON key order can be random, causing false positives. Some headers will always be different (any sort of timestamp based header for example) while others must not be different. URL query params can be in any order, etc.

I think if you do api diffing at any reasonably large scale you’ll find yourself immediately building tools to help cut the signal from the noise, and this is an exciting step in that direction.
I'm not arguing for/against WGU.

My argument is that ABET accreditation isn't relevant to how "good" a CS program is. It does establish a minimum baseline, but lacking it just means you have to determine the program's value in other ways.
Oh yeah, that's for after work
The FTC Can Do More Than Sue Tech Companies. It Can Regulate Them
Is that in Germany?
Legislation is the entire point.
Probably not because they weren't supporting old consoles. imo any open world game with complexity, that isn't Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead Redemption, is going to be a mess for the 1st two years. It was like this with the Fallout Series as well. I have no clue how Rockstar has done successful releases consecutively
Where can it be bought from a reputable/reliable retailer? I’d love a link.
ha, yes. looking back, I don't know how we did it as fast as we did. we kept our expenses low (20-25k/year low) and poured every dollar into the debt. We didn't live in a fancy house or have new cars (beyond when we got in to it with the new car loans).
So normal that I indeed forgot about it, and nicer bottles of alcohol are considered a classy item to have on your office table
You know the things you learned exist, at least approximately what they're useful for, and what you have to search for to look them up. I think it's definitely not a perfect system, but having programmed a long time before I started studying computer science, it did fill a lot of knowledge gaps I didn't even know I had. If you're working in a team you might not notice this as much, though, as long as at least someone knows what they're looking for.
> I don't think it's a coincidence that Jetbrains has created a beloved product without the help of VC money

I don't think the surprise is that they made a good product without VC, I think the surprise is that they made ten figures off the back of nothing but a good product

...which should tell us something about the industry
> Interesting; my strategy has been almost the polar opposite of his ('learn widely', not 'deeply'), and it served me well so far.

This whole kind of advice is not very useful in practise. Copying a recipe for success from a person that is wildly different in personality than you will not lead to the same outcomes.

If you've read Masters of Doom, it is evident that Carmack is not neuro-typical. Few people have the ability to concentrate like him. There is no point trying to become like him, this will only make you miserable. Don't fall for post-hoc rationalisation: he naturally gravitated towards it and became successful. 200 years ago he might have been a scholarly monk, or a watchmaker tinkering.

You have to choose your own path. Doesn't mean you cannot learn from the mistakes of others, but this will probably be about how and less about what.
I was wondering if this was intentional somehow.
I did notice the classes themselves were accredited, and I also like the possibility of rapid iteration and refinement of the course material that these online classes can offer. ie. A university has one professor following an unchallenged lecture routine, whereas online can be very competitive and update and have the most useful style of visual aids.
> When American use the word “people”, it primarily refers to groups of Americans. Should they be more inclusive and invent a term, say, maybe peoplxs, that includes also non-Americans? That’s absurd, of course.

Sorry, but this makes no sense to me at all.
Cool. I applaud your achievement.

In my case, I have often considered going back for a degree (I had a "redneck tech school" education), but I could never justify devoting the time and money to get a degree in tech that would already be at least three years out of date by the time I graduated, qualifying me for a job, paying half of what I was already making.

Nowadays, the point is moot. I have spent my entire adult life, relentlessly self-teaching (still at it), and no longer need to prove anything to anyone (the biggest issue with not having a sheepskin, is looking up noses everywhere).

I love learning, and do wish I could have gotten a "more rounded" education, but the mitigating factor is that I have been shipping software, since I was 22, and that has taught me some stuff that I wouldn't have learned otherwise.
It’s amazing what you can do when you earn way more than the median household.
Also I assume OpenCourseware and edX.
My understanding from earlier reading of HN was that it takes months (closer to 1 year than 1 month from what I remember) to standup a new production line for N95 masks. With the supply chain constraints & presumable demand for such things that could possibly take even longer to set up, I think it is understandable that we haven't seen an increased supply on store shelves.
I remember wrapping entire content blocks in table markup to center them :(
The only reason the public was impatient, is they promissed the game back im April, and have been taking preorders for ages..
We could define intelligent life as being any of a sapient species, regardless of physical composition. That's helps do away with only carbon-based lifeforms.
Does anyone remember The Witcher: Enhanced Edition ? This strikes me as similar, potentially. For those that weren't around back in 2008, if memory serves CDPR earned a lot of good faith in the video game community by investing heavily into making an already released game (The Witcher) much, much better, and then releasing it for free to anyone who bought the original.

I know that AMP contains stories about how reviewers were misled, or duped into misleading prospective buyers of the game. Maybe it's true, but I take anything that shows up from AMP with a good pinch of salt.

All I'm trying to say is not to write it off yet. It doesn't seem to be an irrecoverable disaster, not that I have played it or will play it in the next decade, probably.
Rails, Django vs. Node.js, Go. What Back End Framework to Use?
Heads up: this is a common pattern of expression that makes you come off as really obnoxious to people who will never tell you that that's what's happening. If you can't understand why people have a problem with this, here's the explanation: there are almost certainly smarter people than you who happened to be more unlucky than you.

You were lucky-but-stupid before, so you stopped being so stupid, and now your messages carry the undertone that anyone else is some variation of the person you were back in the stage before you wised up. It's a view that doesn't provide any space for people who were wise from the beginning. When you say things like what you said above, you're not highlighting how smart you are or getting down to how dumb other people are; you're just highlighting how lucky you were to even have the circumstances where you were allowed to be that stupid in the beginning.
It's unreasonable to see causal relationships without rigor, always.
> With enough wind even chickens can fly.

Off topic: I'm not familiar with this turn of phrase, but as anyone who has ever chased after free range chickens as a child knows - chickens fly fine with no wind at all. The can only fly a short distance though.
https://blot.im is a nice alternative. I played with it last spring and loved the immediacy of making an edit locally (in iAwriter) and seeing those changes made on the live blog within seconds.
Doesn't the California Nurses Union strike almost regularly, anyway? Assuming that nurses have a better understanding of the virus than average laypeople, and given the facts of the number of positive cases, plus the facts which undermine the claims (California seems to actually have a stockpile), it seems unprofessional and unethical in the extreme to strike at this time.
I've road tripped around America extensively and was surprised at how empty most of the country is. I knew it had a lot of space, but the amount of empty space is staggering. I agree with the premise that we should allow more people in, but the problem comes down to utilities (not food.) Where's the water, gas and electric coming from and where will waste go?
What the hell? So you're literally earning $80k above your living expenses. Waaaaaay above average

I'd be more surprised if you couldn't pay that sort of money off

Re your edit: I'm even more sceptical now. Your figures were off by a third. I know exactly the value of my mortgage when I took it out. That figure is burned into my mind. I don't know how you could be out by $100,000
It isn't unconstitutional as the courts have affirmed over and over again. Property is not afforded the rights of humans and cases can be levied against property directly.

But just because something is constitutional doesn't mean we have to do it, which is why simply getting the legislature to say "hey don't do that" is the approach left right now.
Hold on, that ending was a surprise. Rolling back most of the war on drugs and focusing it just on the sellers of class a drugs (once classification is corrected) is a fair summary of what most of the rest of the first world is heading towards. It’s the balanced option.
I think you're getting downvoted because you're missing the point somewhat. You had the opportunity and means to change your mentality and become 'intentional' with your money, and learn how to prioritise your spending, because you've had such a surfeit of wealth compared to the average that you won't have faced the same problems others would (and still) have. That's fantastic for you, don't get me wrong, but for many people it would sound quote tone-deaf.

If you can afford to put aside almost 100k a year and still live comfortably you are decidedly not in the class of people for whom saving is, if not an impossibility, a luxury.

We're not just talking about Pratchett's Boots Theorem[1], but also the fact that such people are quite literally only one or two paycheques away from total disaster. These are the people who can't afford to save because every penny is spent on merely surviving, and they can't amass the bare minimum amount of wealth it would take for them to be able to lift themselves out of that situation.

[1] https://moneywise.com/a/boots-theory-of-socioeconomic-unfair...
> When it comes to China, everyone is impotent taking actions, because they rely on China too much

Because they are a major world power. What has anyone done to stop our invasions of iraq, afghanistan, etc? What has anyone done about Britain/France and their invasion of libya? What has anyone done about Russian annexation of crimea or the EU's "annexation" of ukraine? Has nothing to do with trade. Even if we stopped trading with china, we aren't going to attack china.

> Thank you UN for not being able to do your job!

The UN was created by the US, Britain, France, Russia/Soviet Union and China primarily to prevent wars between US, Britain, France, Russia/Soviet Union and China. They are the 5 permanent security council members with veto powers for a reason. So the UN has actually done its job well if you understand why the UN exists.

> UPD: it makes me sad so many Uighur people detained in camps

What people? You mean the terrorists/separatists? By "camps", you mean prisons/detention centers? Why aren't you crying over the libyans, syrians, kurds, etc?

> People seem to forgive anything if they can get things little cheaper

And everyone is getting a bit tired of the "uighur" propaganda. The top comments here are literally propaganda. What happened to your lies of genocide? Funny how you people talked about "genocide" and now are beaten down to "camps". What happened to genocide? Can't really pull of that lie anymore when the uighur population has increased 10X?

The chinese had detention centers for uighur terrorists/separatists for nearly 20 years now. Why are you all off a sudden "upset"? And stop hijacking threads that have nothing to do with china or uighurs to peddle your disinformation.
Need way more than 9 years for it to really get into your bones and fuck with your head
Blaming the consumer is jot the way to go.
A friend of mine works at Skydio, which is an autonomous drone company. You give the higher-level instruction like where you want the drone to go to, or get it to follow you, etc and the AI navigation system figures out how to get there while avoiding obstacles and keeping the subject focused in the camera: https://www.skydio.com/

Following an ATV through a forest: https://youtu.be/mXeUHD-eVMs?t=329
It's not dumb, it just hides a cynical compromise. Companies need to wade through tons of applications, young people want a path through which they have some degree of certainty (pun semi-intended) that their work will lead to social capital + being with other people their age in a common setting. The college experience leaves no one very satisfied but many chunks of society tolerably satisfied.

Of course, the social contract is weakening and a new compromise will have to be found. That may simply be the broader acceptance of online degrees and certificates.
Hospital management will do all sorts of stuff to undermine unions. The conflicts vary from pay to operational practice. One of the issues I heard about is that some hospitals are accused of keeping PPE supplies tight so that they can reuse them and save money. If supplies aren't tight, they cannot reuse.

In a local city in the northeast, a hospital working to break a nascent nurses union took the step of shipping in scabs from Georgia and Florida, housing and feeding them in a hotel, transporting in shared vans, etc in the middle of a pandemic.
Not surprising given the clean internet movement that gained steam over the last decade. However this caught my attention:

> “I wouldn’t even type the word ‘sugar daddy,’ I would type ‘sugar daddi’ and things like that lol.

For those who aren't aware, a "sugar daddy" or "sugar relationship" is a term for compensated dating in North America (and maybe elsewhere in the Anglosphere). A wealthier man compensates an attractive woman to be a mistress, essentially. There's a near-universal expectation of sex, so this could easily fall afoul of FOSTA-SESTA regulations.
Good link.

> ... Battelle Critical Care Decontamination systems to decontaminate N-95 respirators, allowing for their reuse ...
There are some universities that require you only to pass exams, and don't check attendance. You'd still need to "wait" for 3+ years. I've never seen such a course myself, only heard some stories, so it may be an urban myth.

There definitely are universities that allow taking courses at your own pace. I'm currently doing Bachelor of CS at University of Wroclaw, designed as 3.5 year course, and there are people finishing it in 2.5 years (though that's rare, it's much more usual to see 3.5 years turning out not to be enough time). Sadly, offered only in Polish, and requires a lot of time and effort.
Congratulations on finishing the degree and being proud of the effort you put into it.

If you don't mind me asking: what motivated you to pursue it?
That's basically all of the game industry - from testers to PR to HR to art.

When I onboarded at a global AAA game dev place in Japan, I got a separate sheet detailing my rights as a whistleblower - it's lucky to have these, but I doubt anyone would risk their standing/future in the industry because of something like this, especially during a pandemic.
I disagree with the author when they dismiss Message-ID as unreliable.
I believe that rather than trying to get everyone to fix POP3, the right way is to download the message again on failure, and de-duplicated based on Message ID.

In practice, it is pretty reliable -- even when it is not set by the sender, most MTAs will add it if missing. So your origin "sendmail" will generate one, and failing that, the smart host will, and failing that, recipient's MTA will. And the common format often includes GUID or high-precision timestamp, so the collisions are pretty unlikely.
Scott H. Young completed entire 4-year MIT curriculum for computer science in one year [1]. That was in 2012 when MOOCs was still a new thing. Good luck, I hope your WHY is strong enough to push through difficult days.

[1] https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/
I would say that the idea is you pay for those things. Sadly however a lot of Universities put together programs for the sole purpose of offering that program. Often times CS programs (like the ones at my University) are put together for that reason.

I've had an inordinate number of instructors who treat the lecture as the only teaching duty they have. No matter how much you would like to engage outside, the instructors have to participate as well. Many do not, and have no interest in doing so. As a consequence, the end result is often that you're just buying powerpoint slides and an optional seat in an auditorium.
An Animated LUT for Lego Saturn V Model
How many times have you written code because nobody told you to?
How to Use Props to Pass Data to Child Components in React.js
The sad thing is that no one cares abou the quality of the degree outside of academia. All they care about is seeing the BS on your resume.
Cyberpunk Game Maker Faces Hostile Staff After Failed Launch
In 2006, CA Gov. Schwarzenegger spent $200 Million dollars on stockpiling PPE and ventilators. This was on the heel of the Swine Flu in order to leave the state better prepared in case of another pandemic.

The stockpile took about $5 Million a year to maintain after the initial $200M purchase.

In 2011, CA Gov. Brown got rid of the program to save that $5M/yr.

https://revealnews.org/article/california-created-a-massive-...

https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/03/31/...
Maybe, but this is one of the few games that were targeted to PC and then just "ported" to console.

Usually we get a inferior console port on PC (GTA IV, Batman game etc.), so I'm glad this time it was different.
You've got over 18000 people a week dying in the US from Covid-19. How many more people do you need?
I went to WGU. I spent 6 months and got my degree.

I really don't think it is possible to go any faster than about 3 months max. Even that is a slog and you will need to be going full time.

Most of the exams are 70-100 questions and you will need to do 2 exams per course. The final exam is proctored, which means you need to make an appointment and go through this whole process of verifying your identity, going through an anti-cheat process and so on that burns another 20-30 minutes between setup and take down. So I would say expect a minimum 2 hour block of time per exam. That is just taking the exams.

So even a class that I finished in one day because I knew everything still takes a FULL day minimum because you are taking 2 exams totaling nearly 200 questions. It is mentally exhausting even if you know the material.

But truthfully you are going to need to study at least somewhat for at least half of the classes. Plus you can only grind through full day exams for so long until you reach exhaustion.

Burn out is also very real. I was averaging 3.5 courses a week for the first month or so. Then 2 classes a week. And by the end I was lucky to finish 1 course a week. It really is a TON of work, even if you come in with a lot of knowledge and experience like I did and don't need to study as hard as other people. The courses are still a lot of effort and take a toll on your energy and brain.

But if you are VERY motivated, you can do it in one term. The way that WGU charges you, you pay per 6-month term. It is a flat fee that covers all proctoring, text books, exams, etc for as many courses as you can complete during the 6 month term. So you would pay the same amount of money to do it in 3 months as 6 months. But if you go into 8 months, then you have to pay for the full second term. So I would set your goal on getting it done in 6 months and if you come in prepared I think it is practical. But you need to have a lot of time to dedicate to it during those 6 months.

Edit: Oh, I forgot to add that not all the courses are exams. About 1/3 of the courses are "performance based". These are courses like History, English Composition and stuff that require you to do several graded assignments. These often culminate into a final assignment to do a large research paper to pass the course. All of the assignments are required and must be graded. So you will need to submit them, get a plagiarism scan, and wait for an instructor to grade it (usually 36-48 hours after submitting it). So these will also slow you down. The good thing is that these courses have less time dedicated to studying, but more time dedicated to working on all the research papers and written assignments. These also can slow you down.
Probably connected:

https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/317329-tsmc-will-ope...

Not sure if it has to be absolutely top-tier for defense purposes though.