skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least among journalists/analysts/other "influencers" in that vein, I'd say that Twitter is probably what's come closest to replacing RSS. If I'm being honest, I have an RSS reader that I sometimes use but mostly I figure if there's something especially interesting out there, I'll read about it.
So it's a privacy trainwreck now instead?
It depends on what value you care about - the deep experience of 4 years studying not only your subject, but broader academics... no, it does not compare with that at all.

But if you just want a piece of paper to help you check off a requirement for a job? This absolutely meets that need. And there is nothing wrong with seeking that value - when you get into higher level jobs that require a Master's (or in academia, PhDs), these are exactly the programs people look for.
Thank you! Damn you’re right. Need to compress those images. :/

I’m spoiled by fiber
You're being downvoted but the point is valid. To say that this was built in two days is to completely ignore the near decade of investment into mrna vaccines. Total nonsense.
Easy access to code to run your own bot doesn’t help. In 2000, the internet was pretty new, but now, YouTube exists and can teach anyone to set up their own bot for a chance to “get rich quick!”
I watched that video. It's not that bad? It looks like its on the medium graphic version of a PC game.
These are not mutually exclusive concepts.

You can pay for what you use and have sound regularly bodies policing user privacy.
That post was all over the place but it reflects that we have good people trying to improve things everywhere. In some places, the company agenda doesn't allow the team to do what they think is best, and that is okay. As long as we have people trying to do good, despite company motivations (which are important as well), we will keep moving forward.
>is like saying that running a tech company is expensive because of the free snacks.

A more apt analogy would be that it was like saying Google was expensive to run because of theoretical CS basic research.
That fucking AMP even makes it hard to find the original link of the site it is wrapping. I just hate and abhor its existence.
I didn't say it was the only reason, but it is a big reason.

Even if you use a depth map to exit early on fragments you are still going through all your geometry twice, once to get your depth map and again to do all your shading.

The history of renderman (prman) went in a similar same way, though not through using actual g-buffers. Originally it would shade and then hide because of memory constraints and displacement of micropolygons happening in the surface shader and not in a separate displacement shader. Eventually the architecture shifted to try to do as much hiding as possible and split out displacement shaders into a separate type.

Another thing that can be done with g-buffers is using mip-mapping and filtering of the g-buffer to do some sampling or effects on lower resolutions. Pixels can also be combined into distributions instead of just averages, though I'm not sure how much this is done currently.
There was much hoopla about the Pfizer vaccine scientists. I'm sure they're smart but maybe not geniuses.
Is python a good arena for any language features? Just as I wouldn't use C++ to show off garbage collection (Conservative M+S), Python seems like a bad place to show off reference counting because the compiler can't spend a practically infinite amount of time on data flow analysis to elide RC ops.
Honestly I think it's a "feature" because as it goes, each new version of macOS introduces a bunch of problems that never existed before or should've been resolved during the beta version. The fact that Big Sur prevents from upgrading to future problematic versions is really a good thing :)
This is very cool, although every additional use case for Matrix makes me wish there were ways to grant access to a subset of my account.

Worst case scenario logging into a Mastodon client is that it wrecks my microblogging data. Worst case scenario logging into a Matrix microblogging app is that it wrecks my microblogging data and drops my admin privileges on all of my Matrix chatrooms.

OAuth scope by room type, maybe? https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1840
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It's been very frustrating lately searching for errors in obscure software. Search for ERROR_42 ExampleSoft and you get dozens of pages with content like:

"This is the world wide resource for information on ERROR_42 ExampleSoft. ERROR_42 is an error that happens on ExampleSoft. In this blog, you will learn about ERROR_42 and how to fix it. First, let me say ERROR_42 ExampleSoft again. ERROR_42 is a very difficult error to fix in ExampleSoft. You first need to make sure you are getting ERROR_42 when running ExampleSoft. I know this because I am an expert in ERROR_42 ExampleSoft. This is the world wide resource for information on ERROR_42 ExampleSoft."

...and on and on and on.
every person who downvoted this is a bootlicker
One source for his legendary productivity:
http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivit...
I totally see this viewpoint for Tech/Bio/etc R&D and teaching...but I'd love to hear whether this viewpoint applies at organizations which uses PhDs just as an entry filter.

So many people I've worked with both in Gov/Intel/Finance had random PhDs.
> "I'm looking for stuff that optimizes more for personal enlightenment than a credential"

The point of accreditation is to assure that various minimum standards are met by the educational institution. (Whether that works or not is a different discussion.) Lack of normal accreditation is usually a sign of a diploma mill and, more importantly, that the student will not be getting their money's worth either in terms of a credential or personal enlightenment.
Keep in mind that Intel also has to compete with AMD... and AMD is also x86_64.

AMD and Altra are trading blows at the high end of performance, as seen in this article, while Intel is... not, except in extremely specialized applications.

Intel servers don't even offer PCIe 4.0 at this time, which is just a bad joke when it comes to building out servers with lots of high performance storage and networking. For now, Intel offers (relatively) poor CPU performance and poor peripheral performance.

So, if your software can't run on Altra, the other choice for high performing servers is AMD, not Intel, unless you're just locked into Intel for historical reasons.

Intel does have some nice budget offerings for cheap servers, though, such as Xeon D.
This. At work, on a Windows PC with a wired connection, the experience is seamless. At home, on macOS over WiFi, it's only playable (without hiccups, I mean) during the night when people are asleep, but it's still not as smooth. I've played through the entire game, as well as RDR2 and the Metro series using Stadia. I have a high-end gaming desktop and would still not want to install these games. Makes the work/play distinction clearer and my machine cleaner.
Bigger and better actually worked pretty well w.r.t. MAD. Now we are developing smaller and better, which seems almost more dangerous since we're already using drones more flippantly than conventional military arms.
A lot of the demand is induced from work-from-home and lockdowns. When they end, so will the demand.
Yeah, I assumed as much. I doubt anyone is calling those languages "kids" at this point, even with PHP's reputation. I just found it funny to word it like that.
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I have heard exactly the opposite from people who work in the administrative side of academia. If your future job prospects are research-based, sure it matters. But if you just need to hold a doctorate to apply to be a president of a local college, or to get a leg up on a superintendent job at a school district? Any doctorate is fine.
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oh, found it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8wRC7Qkcb8

It's old , but it should still help a lot.
It's not a dumb question; it's actually the defining characteristic of performance for large systems.

In a shared-memory multiprocessor, all cores and all memory are logically connected along a massive shared bus, and both inter-core communication and regular core-to-main-memory communication takes up slots on the bus. In practice, of course, it isn't physically a single bus but a more complex topology (usually meshes, I think) with protocols that make it like a bus for cache coherency purposes.

One of the readily apparent consequences of interconnect is NUMA, non-uniform memory accesses. Historically (my information on this matter is a few years out of date, so I don't know how much this is true today), this has been a bigger issue for AMD than Intel, as AMD had wildly divergent memory latencies (2-3× between worst/best case) even for a 4-core processor. So if the OS decided to resume execution of a sleeping program on a different core, your performance might suddenly drop by ½ or ⅓.

For some benchmarks (such as classic SPEC, or make -j), multicore performance is approximated by running the same binary on every core and there is no sharing between different copies. The interconnect here matters only insomuch as the cross-chatter on the interconnect may impede performance. But HPC applications tend to be much more sensitive to the actual interconnect, since reading and writing from other processors' memory is more common (transferring halo data, or having global data structures that you need to read from and occasionally write).
Sure, and that website I made in 24 hours was only possible because of DARPA's funding of the first Internet and decades of efforts into programming languages, etc.

The point being, if a novel deadly virus was discovered tomorrow, how fast could Moderna develop a potential vaccine?
What you’re saying is like “I have never won the lottery, so therefore it must be impossible...”
> The iframe also reduced engagement as reader would only read the embedded article and move on.

The entire point of RSS was to put the reader into exactly that position though.
The layman's explanation I've seen about how these mRNA vaccines work is that they get some of your cells to manufacture a protein that is characteristic of the virus, which the cells release and the immune system takes care of.

Then later if you get the virus, the immune system already recognizes that protein and takes care of the virus.

Question: why do we need to have our cells make the protein? Couldn't we synthesize and distribute the protein itself and inject that?

Question 2: what happens to the cells that take in the mRNA and make the protein? Do they just make a certain amount of it, then go back to normal?

Or do they keep making it for the lifetime of the cell, and stop doing whatever that cell is normally supposed to do?

Or do they get killed doing this, much like if they were infected by the virus (except, of course, that unlike the with the virus, what they are making is not viral, so the maximum number of cells that would be killed making the protein is equal to the number of mRNA strands in the injection)?
Someone wanting to frame the Russians, or the Russians.
I would call the former an implicit state machine, while the latter is an explicit state machine.
I have the experience you are describing except with the opposite game. I have sunk like 80 hours into Watch Dogs Legion and it is entirely bug free there's nothing remotely game-breaking about Watchdogs Legion.
It's like they're speaking a completely different language..
> And I would like the choice of ad supported apps (albeit with better transparency around data collection)

This is in a nutshell exactly what Apple's changes do. They preserve ad supported options and increase transparency.
That is completely immaterial to the discussion
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As an outsider this is basically exactly what I would expect to happen in US healthcare.
> I am old enough to remember ADD/ADHD did not exist.

It existed, but it was undiagnosed and untreated.
Sure, but not in 3months.
This is not true. I played it at launch and there were no warnings and contained the seizure inducing Brain Dance sequence. It was fixed about 3 days into me owning it.
I'm always impressed by how strong the WebStorm intellisense is on pure javascript projects. Somehow it mostly gets jump-to-definition right, even in AngularJS tarpits that are full of ngInject magic.
OP is Canadian. If they want pursue an opportunity in the US- a degree is a requirement for the TN Visa (technically you can get the visa with "equivalent experience" but that is much more cumbersome and unpredictable where as the process is a breeze with a CS degree). Since he mentioned in the article something about "overseas opportunities", I am guessing that is part of his consideration.
Unfortunately the most optimal thing to get your career started is not deep study of fundamentals but "grinding leetcode".
Im doing OMSCS at GaTech and once you graduate you just have a Masters degree from The Georgia Institute of Technology, it says nothing about online or in person or anything. My resume just says Masters Degree, in progress. People asked about it during my last round of interviews but nobody seemed to care it was online.
College students are all amateurs.
So, not a specialist in US laws, and the last time I tried myself at it, it made me a laughing stock.

But...

If civil forfeiture is as such against the law already in current form, would that just mean that courts who kept okaying it will just keep ignoring the law?
A man paying a prostitute doesn't necessarily misuse the prostitute.
So you're never going to consider moving to another architecture because your software (currently) doesn't run on it?

So Amazon made a huge mistake with Graviton then? Last time I checked Amazon 'specify, buy, and operate servers at scale'.
Different Ways to Flatten a List of Lists in Python
Leave the Mac behind. Run with great speed in the other direction. Things are SOOOO much better without Apple hardware in my house.
> about 9 years in

I'm personally offended.
This is real reform.

But it will die probably because too many people benefit from the misery of others.

Civil forfeiture is unconstitutional. Assets are seized based on “suspicion.”

Individuals in many alleged “authoritarian” countries or dictatorships have more rights than the victims of civil asset forfeiture.
The US and EU are in the middle of passing various laws and sanctions. One day the switch will just flip and this will become a crisis for the CCP.

(FYI: the camps are funded by organ harvesting and slave labor, and the goal is genocide.)
I paid off $240,000 in 3 years by not being an idiot with my money. I got on a budget with my wife. We cut up our credit cards because we always double or triple spent our money. We budgeted for things like Christmas. We followed Dave Ramsey's plan. We're 2 months from paying off our house now.

Edit - I went back and checked, it was $140k.
I haven't looked, because I would get too depressed, but I'm sure YouTube contains videos teaching people how to get rich quick by creating videos that teach people how to get rich quick by…
There are game theoretical proofs that show that you can use entanglement to enable better-than-classical performance on games that reward cooperation but disallow actual communication.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_pseudo-telepathy
I would join the committee but I don't think they'd want me. I'd spend all of my effort trying to get the project shut down.
Citation please? I find this incredibly hard to believe.
Yes of course, but could someone pull it off in 1 year if they take all the free MIT courses ahead of time?

College debt is a huge burden on kids these days.
Big pharma companies have wanted mRNA vaccines for years. Others have been developed and even gone through trails that never got approved for markets.

There are also trials for therapeutics such as inhaled steroids; something doctors in certain regions have been prescribing off-label for months and claim to have very high success rates. Yet organizations like the NIH are saying they shouldn't be used until the trials/studies are done... and they've been saying that since August.

Honestly, I'd rather more effort be put into seeing if existing therapeutics can be used to reduce the effects of moderate/severe COIVD.

Let's face it. The drug companies got millions just to attempt to develop these vaccines, many of those attempts which will be failures. They don't care. They already have tax payer money from countries all around the world. This is a push to the first mRNA vaccine out, so the Gavi Health Alliance can start pushing more of them.

There is a huge money incentive we're ignoring. It's not on this particular vaccine; it's on all the future vaccines--some which have already been developed and never made it through all their trails/approved--and the billions they stand to make from them.
> When did smart people start taking PEDs?

When did ill people start taking antibiotics?

> My guess is that software development is a field where it is more common for folks with the ADHD hyperfocus to excel

Your guess isn't quite right. Hyperfocus is not something that can be turned on and off, and the subject of hyperfocus is not chosen at will. It's a symptom that demonstrates that "attention deficit" is an unfortunate misnomer. The problem in ADHD is not a lack of attention, it is reduced ability to govern attention.
So that must mean they feel their values are worth more than billions of dollars? Really? Give up all that over some feelings about developer tools?
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I think that was faulty reasoning back then, and it is no different now.
Seems like the biggest accomplishment here is getting to the top of the front page on HN.

But seriously, if you have 10 years of software engineering experience, what do you gain by doing a bachelors CS program?
Why turkey the bird is named after Turkey the country
Here is one example of an automated drone charging base: http://www.edronic.com/

Others are working on drone charging systems that are faster than the unit's flight time:
https://dronelife.com/2020/08/01/a-drone-battery-that-charge...

To the best of my knowledge, all SAR drones operate above the tree canopy. The forest I live by has, even at peak occupancy, more people sized animals than people. It makes thermal imaging through a dense canopy difficult at best. A good friend spent 2 years as a coast guard pilot stationed near me, and he spent the majority of his time doing SAR training. He was the one to describe the issues with thermal imaging above the canopy. We discussed using drones at length, and his main issue was the risk that they might randomly enter his flight path and damage a rotor. Operating below the canopy would eliminate this risk.
In another comment you said,

> At some point, they even removed the "RPG" description of the game, in favor of "open world action"

So which is it? They have been revising their comms, or reiterating them? I can't keep up.
Good grief, maybe it's time to change to a different native language! Or if you can't for some reason, you could try if using a less strong word to express your displeasure will actually make you feel less of it and make happier - more gruntled, so to speak.
Excellent video and summary, thank you for the links.

I explain this same concept to people at less software savvy businesses frequently, so it's nice to have an external reference to point to. Going to borrow her nomenclature.
Another anecdote: in 1990s, Sun servers had relatively "weak" Sparq CPUs, contemporary Intels would wipe the floor with them in integer performance tests. But they had superior interconnect and I/O channels, so e.g. in 4-core configurations Sparq-based servers showed much better application performance (say, running Oracle RDBMS) than the beefier Intel 4-CPU machines.

The connection fabric is utterly important, and expensive.
Already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25466304
You can't. There's a theorem and everything. If there is some way to do it, QM must be wrong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
One example is taking the patent bar in the United States. A CS degree from this school cannot be used for that purpose. I'm not saying it matters to employers (I don't know either way) and I expect its regional accreditation may be fine for some purposes.
The idea that QM means anything can happen is a popular misconception, at a very basic level the probaility P(X) of X happening can quite happily be zero.
What they mean (IMHO) is that Intel pricing on Xeon Platinum SKUs is so disproportional to their comparative performance that they would be foolish to purchase.
I just checked and it looks like they now recommend hitch-mounted ones as their top picks. And they have a whole section about the pros and cons of different types of racks. So it looks like they revisited the category and improved their reviews.
Why?

I've had my job outsourced, been subjected to office politics, been passed/screwed over for promotions, seen the company violate its own rules to my detriment, etc ect.
20 weeks of 40 hour weeks is fast. Exams and assignments are going to consume some time and you probably won't know every nuance of a course even if you've taken a different and more rigorous variation.

It also probably depends how big a deal the 4-year degree is to you. There are other options like edX MicroMasters that may make more sense (and it wouldn't shock me if they carried more cred in at least some circles).
Ping to stadia.com? Is that where the stream is coming from?
Let’s say I’ve picked a data structure. How would you suggest identifying the great papers and best conferences related to it?
I can only assume AMP is dead if Google Analytics 4 doesn't even support it. Not only do they not support it, but you get a run-a-around by anyone and everyone who is simply ass kissing google and insulting you for asking valid questions.

I'm removing AMP from my websites now... it is terrible.
Reputable colleges won't give you credit for that, beyond skipping first year prerequisites. But you can get "a degree" for employers like government that pay based a formula based on credentials.
AMP allows Google Analytics which all these sites are using anyway, and disallows the dozens of other third party trackers typically seen on these sites, so no, it's a net improvement, or at least not worse.
You don't pay for the slides, you pay for the course design, the office hours, and access to experts in the field that not only know the course material but can also guide you to further learning outside the syllabus.

...But you have to actually show up and talk to your professor.
This is a huge achievement because "without VC help" literally means "All VCs and all their corporate friends actively working to destroy you".

Maybe they succeeded because they got things going a long time ago. I doubt they would succeed if they started only a couple of years ago. They would have been crushed by the VC-corporate complex.
Well, it was "a bit" closer to EU than Russia :)
Actually, Moderna is working on an hiv vaccine using similar tech. Sounds like they're pretty early on in testing though.