skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
200 years ago, railway was the big thing. Everyone was interested in building railways, steam engines, etc. Companies sprung up, many people got rich. Nowadays, the railways are already built and transport many goods. Building new railways is extremely expensive now because we have lost the know how, workforce, have higher labour standards, bureaucracy etc. Nowadays we are mainly considering how to operate railway tracks instead of building new ones.

Nowadays, software is the new economic frontier and enjoys explosive growth. The land that software embarks into is still virgin, and it's comparatively easy to build a new software company. It's a growth market.

In such an environment, bootstrapped companies are generally at a disadvantage to VC started companies, as bootstrapped ones can focus on capturing the market before becoming profitable, while bootstrapped ones have to keep both in mind. So people turn to VCs.

This situation of explosive growth is kinda unique to software, and VCs aren't the only solution to the problem, but the dot com bubble has shown what happens when companies go public more early on in the process.
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Do you do social skills coaching? Plenty of tone deaf people (myself included) who would gladly pay for this.
Then don't preoder. Making such a fuss about wanting the game right now, then making a fuss that the game is rushed and incomplete, that just makes people sound like a petulant child.
> if it doesn't come out that they were using it off the books, either they're suckers or we are.

Or it doesn't come out because they are good at keeping it secret.
App Store prices vary by region. Developers can have lower prices in less developed countries.
That only proves GP's point. What the author of the blog-post did in 3 months does not meet the expectations of a CS program from even a half decent school (think bottom of the top-100 list).

You know what also doesn't meet those expectations? a degree from a diploma mill.

So what you're saying is that, since outside of academia no one cares about quality of education, employers don't mind (or maybe shouldn't mind, according to your opinion) degrees from diploma mills.
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The key is to accept those limitations. They should have just kept to the street kid start.
Have example cases re-affirming the constitutionality of civil forfeiture? It seems to run counter the 4th, 5th, and 8th amendments, at minimum. This layman's reading and understanding is generally what people mean when they speak of "unconstitutional". Nuances found through the courts are then not "obvious" and more detail is helpful to have a helpful conversation on all sides.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated"

Seems right there, in plain english, in the 4th Amendment. I don't know what you're on about.
Zoom? I think...
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The Pfizer vaccine was developed in Germany. The Oxford vaccine was developed in the UK. Of the approved vaccines, only the Moderna vaccine was developed in the US (and it's actually being manufactured in Switzerland). The J&J vaccine is being developed in Belgium.

That's not to say that the US hasn't been playing important roles, both now and in the research that enabled this. But "without American ingenuity" we'd be using vaccines from several other countries (including several more that are currently in development, as well as China and Russia, who have approved vaccines already in use).
Ask HN: Technology-Based Cults?
Some programming languages and tools seem to have, and this is meant in the most loving way possible, cult-like followings. This probably interests me because any unknown technology of sufficient advancement feels like magic.

I was wondering, do any of you know of a technology where the following actually acknowledges or jokes that it is a cult and leans into it?

Closest thing I know of to this is Temple OS, though I feel like there must be a programming language (maybe one of the lisps?) or library in this kind of mindspace.
The endless mission markers and incoming phone calls you CAN'T ignore (seriously, the fixers will just blab at you forever even if you don't press T) is what really put me off. I got ten hours in and said forget it
"The first example of a disorder that appears to be similar to ADHD was given by Sir Alexander Crichton in 1798."[1]

Mild ADHD was less of an impediment before industrialization. It's less of an impediment if you have a secretary at the office and a wife at home. Self medicating can help.

What does a severe case look like if you don't know what you're looking at? Maybe shiftless, maybe dim, maybe accident prone, maybe hot headed, maybe a drunk.

Do you think people didn't get PTSD before the name was invented?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000907/
> I just think it would be misleading to imply that this is a path that most people can take.

Yes, but if focus just on computing, in that field, there is, long amazing to me, evidence that "most people can" and, in a significant sense, do: I've long been impressed the degree to which the learning crucial for computing in the US has been obtained via self study much as in the OP.

Okay, say what you will about an ugrad computer science degree and then move on to graduate degrees, Masters and Ph.D. Uh, reality check: At the grad level, the material to be taught is often not all polished up and instead has rough edges, loose strings, things left unclear, etc. The fundamental reason is that the material, the work, the education, whatever, are supposed to be at the leading edge, or, if you will, the bleeding edge. More, the profs are paid mostly for their research (which for teaching is a path, with some efficacy, of quality) and not having all polished up, with good pedagogy, course teaching.

And in Ph.D. programs, and sometimes in Master's programs, the student is expected to write something, original, hopefully publishable -- usual criteria, "new, correct, and significant".

So for the work, it's, in a word, new. Right away can assume false starts, dead ends, encounters with brick walls, unpredictable rates of progress, unpredictable results, etc. So, we're back to independent work or, if you will, self study.

Main point: In education, self-study is not only helpful but at times crucial. In particular, independent study has been especially important in the US computer industry. So, in a sense, the independent study in the OP is not very surprising.

Oh, by the way, the OP mentioned a Georgia Tech Master's degree for ~$10,000. Secret: Commonly high end US research university graduate programs are very short on good students and long on tuition scholarships -- tuition should be about $0.00 for the whole graduate school effort.

Evidence: I was a student and a prof in applied math and computing. From a world class research university, I got a Master's and a Ph.D. For the grad degrees, I paid nothing in tuition. Independent study was crucial.

E.g., of the five Ph.D. qualifying exams, I did the best in the class on four of them, all four made heavy use of independent study, and three of them making heavy use of independent study before the grad program.

E.g., the work that did me the most good in grad school was the independent study with results that were clearly publishable.
I was planning on holding off on getting this for my Xbox One X until I can get ahold of a Series X, but I wasn't sure if I'd be able to hold out. But now there is no way I am playing this game for six months or whatever it takes to make it a good game on consoles.
Nooo I don’t want GitHub pages to get new features, it’s perfectly tiny right now
Did you miss the sentence before?

>Plus the PR was all about that stunning AI but it’s not there at all. Just compare the 48min E3 demo with actual gameplay.

He's talking about the AI that got a downgrade, not the visuals.
Yes it's the business-y equivalent of calling one small-minded.
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> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
Article says avian flu. Not important to OP's point.
Strip it for parts and sell those? Not sure if there’s a market.
Lots of schools, and not just in Nursing. Google “remote phd”
Sorry, it was "avian flu". From the article...

> In 2006, citing the threat of avian flu, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the state would invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a powerful set of medical weapons to deploy in the case of large-scale emergencies and natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires and pandemics.
I look forward to hearing the arguments from the opposition.
No I am not arguing for a trade school approach. My impression from 4 years of undergrad and 4 years of graduate studies is the material in my classes could be much better focused around the key questions that created the topic in the first place and why it is important. And this would significantly reduce the content in the classes, while making it more accessible to a larger audience.

Also, while not reducing academia to a trade school, there are non faddish stable practical skills that should also be taught in an academic setting much more.

My ideal curriculum would maintain fundamental results that are not directly practical, like proofs of the halting problem, no free lunch, and np completeness, to delimit the realm of the possible. It would also teach practical skills around systems programming and software development, and well established widely used protocols.
Sure, but this point is not the same as the author's. The author was saying how every option is bad, when they didn't even look at all of the options. There are clearly some very good options, as I pointed out. That one might have paralysis in choosing one of them is incidental to the main point that, yes, there are better options than Wordpress.
For a thousand bucks of CPU, motherboard and RAM, anyone with a modicum of clue building x86-64 industry standard PC hardware could set up something based on Ryzen that runs circles around that. Probably at least quadruple the performance in any integer or floating point benchmarks.

$659 ryzen 5800X

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Because I'm a cynic, and because at the executive level this is how things work. I could equally ask you to justify your cynical view of "big tech companies". But I won't because I'm perfectly fine working with your chosen bias. Especially since you were so up front about it.

Personally, I'm no fan of Google either, and I accept this cynical view of them. But there's plenty of space for cynicism on both sides in this situation. She was pressing the nuclear option by threatening to resign, so I assume that the relationship was already strained. And I severely doubt that it was entirely over the one cited instance. Therefore, I doubt she's going public to try to win her job back.

She could solely be trying to give Google a black eye on her way out, whether out of disgust or altruism. But doing so requires her to paint Google as "the bad guy", and that in turn requires her to paint herself as "the good guy". So net effect is the same, regardless of motivation.
Which is fine if you don't care about those things, I do. You said:

> Walled garden is just an anti-marketing term

Which is what I was arguing with. For me, it's a big anti feature, big enough to always choose Android over iOS. I won an iPhone at a company xmas raffle and gave it to my mother rather than keeping it. She also doesn't care about those things, so it's much better fit for her.

> you just fight with your phone’s bad habits.

No, I make my phone do what I want it to do. You accept that your phone does what Apple wants it to do. I don't like being forced to change my habits based on some 3rd parties whim.

My issue isn't that you prefer not dealing with these things, it's that you entirely dimiss the notion that someone does and that a "walled garden is just an anti-marketing term".
Does anyone have a sense (or direct experience) of whether goverments are tougher on immigration applicants that get degrees from online institutions like this?
I think the issue is rather that it's nothing like Deus Ex which has immersion. Getting augmentations were meaningful choices which alter ways you can approach explorations (such as picking up heavy items blocking vents). Stumbling upon critical information from hacked computers not only fills background info for you but makes your character more knowledgeable, and lets you use that information in dialogs to alter the direction of quests. Important story altering decisions aren't presented as important decisions, they're just side effects of regular gameplay. A hack centric or stealth centric or dialog centric character build are all viable.

In this sense, Deus Ex has "content". And exploration and gameplay are immersively impactful. A more apt comparison might be with Tomb Raider.
Ask HN: Are there any publicly traded companies that specialize in RISC-V?
Upheld but with limits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_v._United_States

This was the push that got the snowball rolling, so to speak.
Yes, The Hero's Journey seems a subset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
> Hmm. You're dodging the question: Why would a cofounder want to start a company with you? No handwaving.

> People cofound to get rich. Can your company offer that to your cofounder?

I don't know. Why did Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple together?

I feel like you're laboring under a very limited model of how and why companies are founded and how people behave.
Seem to be a lot of people downvoting this because they’re unhappy with the legal precedent being described, which is weird
What’s the death rate of COVID-19 compared to for example common flu for working age people (30s, 40s)?
That's irrelevant because it's being sold on that console. There is an explicit understanding that if it's sold for a console, it's going to work at a certified quality level.
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I don't think that's the issue. With any virus, your immune system grows countermeasures exponentially (memory t-cells, antibodies, protein complements) to stop it. These stick around after the virus is gone. It's an immune system "memory"

In another infection, your cells still get infected, but the infection is just stopped very quickly. HIV has inscription and reverse transcription enzymes in it, so it can actually glue its sequence into your DNA. It changes your DNA enough to replicate it, but not enough that your cells change their structure so your immune system can't recognize them as infected (and those changes can cause your immune system to fail over time: AIDS).

Even if your body is primed to deal with HIV infections, if the infection happens, it's already too late.

I'm not sure who antiviral drugs like PREP work, but you'd need something like that permanently in your system.
I never claimed US was fastest in spite of my skepticism about Russia and China, but it's the US vaccines that would get wide spread use in ending this pandemic.

3 is a good number and perhaps more will come from USA.
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Seriously, what an amazing comment. Imagine if we had someone like this in every discussion on the internet.
True, but I think this is disingenuous on their part, as they don't need the IDFA since everyone using their services is logged in with an AppleID
Shameless plug for my thing which reimplements the Wordpress API over static websites to solve this very problem.

https://perspect.com
Don't take peoples money if you don't know when you are going to release a product. It's not a hard concept.
I don't get why HN is hating on AMP so much. Yes, Google's force feeding AMP content to its users is not everyones cup of tea, but it enables devs with little experience in SEO to built fast, well ranking sites much more easily.

It is a great subset of HTML and JS and Web Stories do look like the next best (open source) solution to compete with Instagram, Snapchat and Tik Tok. There is basically NO OTHER CONTENDER in this space...

Why is everybody always hating on the effin' AMP Viewer on Google, if you do not like it, just don't use it.

AMP is great micdrop
its a cdn first and a framework second.

The whole point of amp was suppose to be that google could host the amp'ed pages on their servers. They claim that by hosting it on their servers they can prefetch it from search results (they could otherwise, but it would expose details about the user and their searches to sites the user never ended up visiting) and that this would make it faster. in practice this rarely leads to more then low 2 digit MS improvements over normal because the cache servers are so overloaded dealing with all the prefetch queries. Googles CDN is not what it used to be and i've even taken the step of moving my google fonts off of google and on to my cloudflare'ed domain for my 70mil/ppm website because it made things faster.
I do not think that "240k in debt" (he clarifies it was 140k in another comment) actually means owing 240k more than your total assets.

As far as the median net worth, that's just someone most of the way through paying off their mortgage...
I hope IBM/Red Hat have more sense than this, but time will tell. It may not make sense for them to maintain Keycloak with all of IBMs identity solutions.
> the shift in consumer expectation (that they help create) that news and journalism should be free

OK but they created that expectation in the 1890s. The Internet isn't the cause of the media companies' problems, it's just beating them at their own game.
There's a sci-fi example of this in the TV show Counterpart. Kind of surreal watching it and then becoming a part of a real life pandemic.
For the recreated you, sure.
The thing is, 90% of the value of a 4 year degree (at this point) is the credential. I support broad and quality general education, I think it has value, but I don't suggest anyone put themselves deeply in debt for the rest of their lives over it. But to have any shot whatsoever at a decent job? Yeah, maybe.

So if you have the opportunity to pay a fraction of the cost for the credential, even if it means teaching yourself everything, that seems like a strategy very much worth considering for many people. It's dystopian that that's where we are now, but it is what it is.
I feel like some of the other comments are missing out on how it's possible to do this slower while still working, regardless: Thank you for this experience, it's super motivating. I recently got into the GA Tech OMSCS program myself. I had a non-tech BSc from a South Asian university that I barely survived because it wasn't my thing. Ever since I got out of school, I've worked in tech. I even managed to get a job and move to North America through my work, but the lack of a degree always felt off to me as well.

If I'd read this article a few years ago, I'd likely have jumped into this program before joining GA Tech's OMSCS program. But at this point, I'm happy with what I chose, and to be able to work and study at the same time, no matter how intense it may get.
Love whichever search engine you want, but "IMO" and "objectively" can't go together, by definition.
Some of the blame goes to the consumer though. The community here is really playing up the drama in a childish way. Many games have had far worse launches, and got panned in reviews (both critic and user), and haven't seen this kind of outrage.

The gaming community sucks, full stop. I'm part of several reddit communities for various games and in a majority of the cases those subreddits are a swamp, full of anger and bitterness. The more competitive a game is, or the more the game tries to monetize itself, the uglier the scene. It really is bad.

Years ago I worked close to one of Rockstar's studios. Sometimes I'd overhear RS employees talking over lunch, and more than once that chatting was them complaining about the toxicity they have to deal with.
I haven't programmed in Java since around 6 - when Spring was just about to cement its dominance. The ergonomics then were bad too. It seems lots of quality-of-life features borrowed from other languages went into subsequent versions
Same here. I use DDG as the default search engine on my iPhone just to avoid AMP
Not sure why you're being downvoted (other than by angry Trump supporters). This is a factually true statement.
Hopefully this style of university takes off. The traditional college system is an outright scam.
Did you get vaccinated?
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1% is a huge amount of people dying. Death rate doesn't matter so much as the number of people getting it, why is why SARS with a much high death rate killed far fewer people than Covid-19.
> The issue seems to be that there are just too many other factors with higher ROI for speed to be prioritized consistently.

That argument makes zero sense to me. Either they rank faster and lighter sites higher or they don't. AMP is completely orthogonal to that.
I did a regular PhD just didn’t ever go into the office. (I did at the start for a few weeks and did every now and again.)

And I guess every PhD is now a remote PhD for at least the next year?
I don't know what it will add to the conversation, but I thought it was worth adding in my two cents.

My family of five is supported by my income (~$100k / year).

I get paid weekly. Every Friday, I go into my bank account amd transfer anything in excess of $2000 into the stock market.

Some weeks that's quite a bit of money, some weeks it's not so much money.

As of a week ago when I did the math, we had $65k more to our names this year than we did one year ago.

Probably half of that was money we saved directly, and half was stock market gains, so I guess from a debt payoff perspective maybe that's closer to $30k.

But I guess my point is, I don't think it's unreasonable to think a two income household in a higher-income metro than where I live could have $80k/yr in excess income to pay down debt with.
While it’s true starting a blog can be difficult for those with little technical know-how, once you get past that, you’ll run into the challenge that is building up your following and brand.

Any successful bloggers want to chime in on how to overcome this?
Then I'm very curious to hear some examples of non-radical left.
> cases can be levied against property directly

This is where I (not from the US) stop and ask: Wait, what?

Yeah, I've heard it before, but I never understood this part. Does the property go to the court and speak on its own behalf? Does it have a right to stay silent? How does the case work?
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Muzzled, what an apt term in this situation
> courts have affirmed over and over again

I don't have emotions on this matter and I don't care what you think and I haven't stated my actual opinion. The authority on this matter are the courts.

The courts have evaluated civil forfeiture under

4th amendment arguments

5th amendment arguments

6th amendment arguments

8th amendment arguments

14th amendment arguments

and only found the 8th amendment argument against excessive fines to hold some weight, but not to undo civil asset forfeiture but only clarifying that the 8th amendment actually applies to the states.

if you want the executive branches to act differently and the courts to rule differently then you have to change what the legislature allows them to do.

like I wrote, just because something is constitutional doesn't mean we have to do it.
Is this accreditation accepted to apply to Georgia Tech's OMS CS?
Would they need to keep it a secret? Could their own employees have entered the trials?