skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey can I talk to you about that course? I’m switching into a new job in supply chain management (I currently work as a sys admin/IT admin) and feel pretty overwhelmed trying to figure out how that industry works
That sounds really interesting. If anybody finds it, i would happy to learn better how to use their products.
Does anyone know about similar programs for non-US residents? I understand the original author is Canadian, but it seems they got granted a "special exception" that is unlikely to be available to, say, people from the EU (my case), or other countries.
This is actually good advise! Could you link the podcast episode?
I've had a hard time with some of my hobby projects, but now I think my approach could be very different. The ones I've completed have sort of fit the notion 'Im doing it because I want to do it', not because I have to do it.
> The GP is right, those who rated it low often didn't do it because of the bugs, but because of "this near-future dystopia shows people having to make desperate decisions to survive." .. yeah, thanks

Can you point to such reviews? Of course, random people on reddit or your family don't count, since GGP mentioned media.
The sanctions for (Crimea, MH17, chemical weapons attack in Britain ans so on) are the reason these companies are not based in Russia.
I'm pretty sure (well hoping) that all of the advice to go deep into one thing would always be in addition to actually being able to code. I completely agree with you that understanding git very deeply is not needed or useful to the level of detail suggested here in other comments.

The level of understanding of git you need to stand out is very very limited in my experience. Most devs in "regular" companies struggle to understand even the basic rebase. Even on a logical, abstracted level. Never mind how and why it actually works as well as it does.

The types predicaments I see people get themselves into even with git vs say subversion is mind boggling. I have never gotten myself into a situation that wasn't resolvable by simply making sure that everything I try is done after committing my changes. You can just always go back and retry. And just slapping a label (branch in git speak, sure) on a commit before force pushing after that rebase with lots of conflicts so that I have a backup. And even that is not strictly necessary. I've fucked up conflict resolution only to notice when the build server tells me and I had to go find a commit hash in my terminal output somewhere to resurrect it (I guess I was lucky I didn't hit an auto cleanup of dangling commits in between ;))
“ an app wouldn’t get pulled from e App Store if a dev produced a significant upgrade”

App’s don’t get pulled for significant upgrades.
I'm no expert, but AFAIK one thing is secure communication, in the sense that the recipient can detect if anyone is eavesdropping.

As I've understood it, to "listen in" the eavesdropper has to destroy the entangled state by measuring it, and there's no way to perfectly clone the entangled state before doing that.

The recipient can compare the entangled data with the measurement results (sent via classical means) and detect statistical inconsistencies if there is an eavesdropper.

edit: I see their page[1] mentions quantum metrology, which I found reference to in a page[2] describing work to improve GPS and similar detection using quantum entanglement. Not sure if it's directly related but seems like there should be room for some interesting work using this quantum network in this area.

[1]: https://ieqnet.fnal.gov/

[2]: https://news.engineering.arizona.edu/news/quantum-entangleme...
No, we didn't co-evolve with plants eating their seeds. We found out ways to process them to make them edible and domesticated them, much later and have been doing so for a very short time. Most of the ones we eat are still toxic to us. Some of us are affected more than others.
Almost seems like the writer treated the process like playing a video game, without all the pretty colors and sounds that give you that dopamine hit.

I feel like I did get a lot out of my Computer Science degree. I got it in 2004 and I picked up a lot of stuff I don't think I would have learned on my own. I also went to a small state University in the middle of nowhere that' wasn't very expensive, and I didn't rack up any debt (a little in grad school, but still not more that I couldn't pay off in ~2 years).

But you get out of your education what you put into it. I worked with people who went to 2-year associate programs who didn't understand BigO notation, and people who didn't go to college at all, but who knew their algorithms inside and out (one who even got in at Google in the early days).

I'm glad I got my degree, but I'm not sure it's worth the cost some people are paying now. I shared my concerns with my nephew and he ended up getting his CS degree at a smaller/cheaper state university. I'd say if you can't get a degree without going into excessive debt, it's really not worth it today.

I know I'm just guessing, but the writer of this article seems crazy driven. Maybe, this is the type of person who could start their own small business out of nowhere, or survive long hours at SpaceX for the pure thrill of successful rocket launches? If you have the drive to run through something like this, there really aren't any limits to what you can do. I've done pretty well at all my jobs and have learned a lot of cool stuff, worked in three countries ... but on a scale of Wally (from Dilbert) to Elon, I'm certainly more towards the Wally side.

Going back to games; I wonder if this type of education and training would be more accessibl if it was gameified. McDonalds Japan briefly tried to turn their training program into a Nintendo DS game (failed terrible and the game is very rare). That might be a model for new typed of education going forward.
I read something ages back about a lesser known process called 'testing out' where you are basically able to just do the exams at universities to get a degree. It's suppose to encourage life-long learning and its based on the assumption that many professionals and adults accrue relevant experience outside of academia. I had always wanted to look more into this myself but it seemed to require too much bureaucracy. OPs university sounds like it might be an actual working alternative to this. I find this fascinating and wonder what other degrees might be possible
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AMP is a concern, but I am more concerned about HTML.

Google holds a large amount of sway over HTML's direction. This is derived from the fact that WHATWG is the standards body for HTML. (W3C is just a rubber stamp per the agreement between the two last year.) And this group is directed by four companies--Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla.

The power balance in this relationship heavily favors Google. It controls the purse of Mozilla. Microsoft's browser is based on Chromium. And Chrome already owns the majority of the market.

What Google wants from HTML, Google can get. Even if there is push back from others, they only need to release "beta" versions of their changes for the standard, wait for developers to take advantage of them, and then reintroduce the suggestions. At that point, Apple and the others will have little resource.

Google is simply too powerful and a threat to the open Web.
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On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules (1972) [pdf]
I have to disagree. More often than not, when I send someone a link to a thread, Twitter decides to show only the first post or few. There's a link to see the rest of the thread but there is zero indication as to whether this link will reveal 1 or 2 or 1,000 further posts. I forget the exact text, but it's something small like "See replies" or similar. A plain link, no icon. For someone unfamiliar with Twitter, this is completely undiscoverable and it has caused me to no longer send Twitter threads to people I know that aren't on Twitter because of the confusion it causes.

For me, I have no problem reading threads on Twitter. I look forward to the daily one from Foone. But if you put someone who hasn't used Twitter much before in front of this interface it becomes apparent very quickly how poor the UX is for threads.

Right now, we're discussing the various symbols people put in their posts (which are severely space-limited!) to indicate that there is a thread. Why is this necessary?
One of the best $25 million in defense spending ever.
Huh. Interesting!

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/spec/amp-f... says that as of April 2020 self-hosted pages don't pass validation:

>The AMP Project is looking into options for validation of AMP pages that use an AMP framework hosted outside of cdn.ampproject.org (#27546). As of April 2020, these AMP pages do not pass validation.

The linked issue is still open:
https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/27546

And if I look at the official Specs page ( https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/learn/spe... ) it says this:

> Any AMP document MUST [...] contain a <script async src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js"></script> tag inside their head tag.

So it seems they're planning on supporting self-hosting, but it's not there yet (and it might be complex to get working).
This is a fascinating peek into the unglamourous administrative moving parts of supply chain risk management.

Octave [0], Cygwin [1] and GIMP [2] mailing lists were also fortunate enough to be included in this process. Given the timespan between the posts this seems to be taken rather seriously.

I also found the likely reason in [3]: since 2019 they have a new supply chain risk management proces. Slide 10 gives some additional background.

[0] https://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Country-of-Origin-Verif...

[1] http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Country-Of-Origin-Verifi...

[2] https://www.talkend.net/post/75432.html

[3] https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Projects/cyber-supply-chain...
>the example you selected (git) is rarely the right thing to choose

It's clearly just an example, but whether it's a bad one or not is debatable. Git is used by most shops, and most people have challenges with it at one time or another. Further, it is IMO an excellent example of how choosing the right data structure for a problem can have a profound impact on the resulting application. You could do worse for broadening your knowledge of ComSci than by a deep study of Git.
Does anyone know how Apple plans to solve this? I updated to 11.1 yesterday, so this is a concern for me going forward.
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Works great on my PC, instant buy
Brilliant in the same way that cults are brilliant when they redefine a lot of meanings.
The discussion around centering an element in CSS brought back repressed memories of IE's HTC format and, in particular, this usage of it.
Hardly. The only people who care about your GitHub are technical people. Most of the gatekeepers at any decent size company are not going to care one bit about GitHub, but they will recognize the degree. By the time you get to the hiring manager the degree doesn't matter. It's getting to that level that's the obstacle.

And frankly, when you have more experience, GitHub is also useless, because your network matters 1000x more than your portfolio.
They don’t even make most of that 95%. It’s licensed from wire services like Reuters and AP.
I wonder if any, or if many, Moderna employees have been walking around off-the-books immunized since January. I know I would've been tempted.
Except for the one that is a quadrocopter (I guess use in the conflict I linked is not verified, but it's in use today none the less):

https://www.stm.com.tr/en/kargu-autonomous-tactical-multi-ro...

I suppose the different types of drones will cause different types of tactical shifts.
This is probably it. There are some companies that just can't be bootstrapped, the up-front cost is too high. There are some that would suffer from the high-growth demands of VC.
If you've got a plan that starts with high-fixed costs that over time becomes low-fixed cost at scale, then VC is probably the best way to go.
If you've identified low-hanging fruit to solve problems for people, bootstrapping makes the most sense.

Any arguments for or against seem to imply either way is a one-sized fits all solution. It's not.
Could I do the same with a masters?
> In 2012, I studied computer science at Concordia University and dropped out after 1 semester.

> On my first day, I attended 2 lectures. I quickly realized that a 2-hour commute to listen to someone slowly recite a PowerPoint wasn’t the best use of my time.

It's so depressing that a lot of expensive higher education is this pathetic. I wish our education system worked enough like a market that it could hold lecturers, programs, and schools that to a higher standard, and destroy them if they cheated their students like this.
In that case the desired competition might not happen -- or could come from China which is the worst-case scenario if you're planning a sort of economic cold war
I'm interested to see how a new PS4/XB1 runs it vs an old PS4/XB1, I have a first day XB1 and it started bogging down on games a few years ago, so I got new one. The reason I bring this up is that I have some friends with PS4/XB1 consoles that say it's playable with a few bugs...nothing like the videos of potato quality graphics. I can only figure the difference between the two could just be the age of the console/dust build up, etc. I'm not sure.
I don't see the rebuttal.

The article seems to be only about what the best way of selling your company is (whether or not you technically sell).

There isn't even anything in it about just running your own company indefinitely.

And the article does not mention "user" or "good software" once, staying only within an economical framework ("how to get rich") - which is literally the point of GP.
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I find the opposite to be the case. AMP websites often don’t scroll down in my mobile browser (Firefox), so I have to click on the link to the original article in order to be able to read it.
Qt Design Studio 2.0 released
Converting the output of a narrow-beam transmitter to EIRP for comparison with radiation sources in the universe makes the assumption that the user of the transmitter knows where to point it.
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Also as humans we are myopic and can only understand everything as a relation to us. His tweet (https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1129897694984646657) about how you don't need to be rich to run a startup invariably shows that as humans we are poor at judging almost anything out of our current circle of understanding.

The major major thing that makes a startup successful in almost all cases is money. With enough wind even chickens can fly.

There are millions of brilliant people all over the world whose ideas we never see because they never had their opportunity or funding to bring their ideas to life.
When you're given a resume, do you look at the education, other that briefly? If it doesn't sound like an online program (e.g. University of Phoenix) I doubt most would notice.

But then again, I never see resumes until someone asks me to do a phone screening. Even then, I kinda glance at them enough to figure out which set of questions to pull out.

So I guess that decision is made well before me. Getting to the actual phone/in-person interview is the challenging part. I've discovered it's often more about who you know than anything else.
> stupid toy that is never going to be a practical weapon.

Have you not heard of the recent Azeri invasion of Artsakh? It was a major war between modern armies that was won by small drone warfare, just a few weeks ago.
This makes zero sense. If the information must be conveyed classically anyway, what's the point?
> but the qualification (from whichever accredited university) would open up a lot of opportunities

I'd caution about this - if you think you can apply to jobs requiring a PhD I would think that when you apply the first thing they're going to do is to ask you who your advisor was and what you did.

Unlike a bachelors just having a PhD isn't worth much - they will want to know what you actually achieved. If you have a PhD on paper but didn't really achieve much they're going to say 'huh but I've never seen your work in the community?'

> from whichever accredited university

I'd say the single most important thing on a PhD is where you did it and who your advisor was, so I would caution about this as well.

Having said all that, I did all my PhD remotely, and I did it while working mostly full-time for half of it, and while buying a house and building a family and serving part-time in the military on top of all that, so it can be combined with other things.
Still better than Jira!
The plugin lets you choose between 12 alternatives, or choose randomly every time.
The course collection required for your graduation is fairly good, assuming the student actually learned the topics covered as opposed to simply prepping for exams.

It is however not at all comparable to what's required in traditional programs. You can compare the course requirements between traditional curriculums and this one...the gap is wide.

Of course one can argue that a lot of time and money is wasted pursuing traditional Comp Sci degrees:)
The average customer of Cyberpunk 2077 doesn’t know or care what the video game media is saying, nor do they know or care who CDPR is.

The game will be fixed with some patches in a month or three and it will continue to be exceptionally popular.
> "Reducing the interference signal by some percentage (likely a very, very high percentage) goes a long way."

Sure, that's true. But the point is that even a high percentage may not be sufficient; a 90% reduction only improves the situation by 10 dB; a 99% reduction is an improvement of only 20 dB. As the sibling post illustrates, today's receivers are very, very sensitive; cell phones, I believe, have sensitivities below -80 dBm.
The vast majority of the truly negative rhetoric comes from #2 on your list, along with the fact that CDPR clearly knew about the performance issues and hid them. They only gave out advance copies of the PC version to reviewers, and forbade reviewers from using their own captured footage (and I assume that the provided footage from CDPR came from an expensive computer). This wasn't a coincidence. The issues with performance on base spec PS4 and XBones could not be discovered until after launch, and was clearly motivated by the fact that not all of the console customers would pursue a refund because of the inconvenience. Similarly, reviewers might have mentioned that PC required a fairly modern/powerful system but couldn't show their own footage to illustrate it, and they always had the excuse of "we'll assume that performance will improve with a patch and some more driver optimization." It appears that some bonuses were tied to getting a good review score, which also led to the dishonest behavior. Otherwise they might have released console versions to reviewers and taken the hit on the review score, but at least buyers could have known about the performance issues in advance. Then buyers wouldn't be complaining as much.

CDPR had even hinted at the problem before when they delayed the launch, citing difficulty with getting a game that performed well on two generations of consoles and PC. But then they never mentioned it again. They never said in any further updates that they had managed to make the game run well on every system. They just went silent about the issue and rushed the game out before Christmas.

The other issues (gameplay different than expectations and the bugs) are frustrating, but were never really the problem. The bugs can be fixed in patches and most people are willing to swallow the fact that a game is different than what they expected as long as it's still a good game.

Fixing the engine so that the game runs well on consoles will take more time than normal bug fixes, and the reputation hit that CDPR has taken will take more than just fixing the game. They've shown that they are willing to sacrifice community goodwill in search of short term profit, which means that it is now a company ran by business types and not people that care about putting out a good product. I don't blame a company for caring about profit, but I can blame them for all the shortsighted bullshit that they pulled. I wish more business schools taught people to care about the core product and let the profit take care of itself, rather than the current approach of caring about management incentives, ignoring the product, and running companies into the ground.
I've had a successful career without a degree, and while I'm unaware of any opportunity I've missed out on, there's no way to be sure. No one's ever mentioned it at an interview, but there may very well be interviews I never got because I didn't have the credential. At this point, it's not worth the time or money for me to get a degree the traditional way. If I could have done it in six months for a few thousand dollars, it would have made sense earlier in my career.
Yes but if they don't do phase 1/2 safety trials ahead of time we will still have the months-long regulatory wait.
Cavium ThunderX2 is a 205 TDP chip vs a circa 2017 i7 (~105W) so probably not.
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Let us opt out of AMP and we will give you a lot less flak.
I would love to know where these good jobs/companies are. I work for a company that is consistently highly rated as a best place to work in IT by Computer World. I hate it. They don't even follow their own policies.
The trees seem to be have white paint applied to them.
It’s crazy that a radio emission could in theory and out of random luck be decoded into a coherent message, sent by no one. Very improbable though.
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It clearly makes no practical sense at the moment outside of research.
I suppose I need to explain myself. Alas I purchased the game on PC/Steam, Stadia and PS4. And yes I play on all of those, depending on what OS I am booted into and running and which part of my house I feel like playing.
Certainly. Email is on my website and link is in my profile.

At a high level for anyone else following along, I'd highly recommend the MITx SCM Micro Masters. I learned a ton from those courses and then followed it up with a 1 week SCM bootcamp in person at MIT. The bootcamp was more expensive than the entire previous 5 classes but it was a great way to fill in some additional things that you can't really do online, specifically doing case several case studies and having awesome group discussions.
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And notably also didn't publish his work on calculus until after Leibnitz, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%E2%80%93Newton_calculu...
That could be true, it might be more theatre than threat.

I only know that anytime the US reduces (or Russia increases) the military presence in some area, it's in the news for weeks (as examples, Turkey, Syria, Estonia, Germany come to mind).

Also, the "theatre" can also work, as politicians want to be re-elected and if enough people believe that their country is in risk because the US troop numbers are reduced, then it becomes a way to pressure the EU even if the real military threat is not that great.

Though I still think my point stands, as the US must have ways to pressure the EU to not take a strong stand against tech giants.
No, after the Cold War, countries that had been under the control of the USSR decided they didn't want Russian tanks rolling into their capitals again.

Those countries which joined NATO ended up being vindicated when they saw what happened to Georgia and Ukraine.
Yes and no.

Yes, information can travel with infinite speed.

No, cause-effect relationship cannot travel faster than light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_nonlocality
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/dec/16/cyberpunk-2077...