skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The work of your friend sounds fascinating. Can you link to any published material?
My professional work relates to tree risk and spatial analysis. Would love to see some of the higher level research.
Words of wisdom here that I try to impart to my kids.
>It’s amazing that their products are so performant on Java

It's a total memory hog though.
The article says the school is accredited by a different group.
Everything in higher education makes a lot more sense when you realize they aren't selling an education they're selling credentials.
As a fellow 2012 Concordia dropout, it's possible there's more to that particular story going untold, and this is the clean version of it for employers. You can look up "printemps érable 2012" for some context and Montreal Police brutality related to that. My personal experience being a student involved running from police on horseback launching teargas grenades. Finding excuses not to talk about it is easier than trying to explain it.
This reminds of how I dropped out early as well, had a good job offer and didn't need any papers anymore.

I ended being a freelancer and the same school I dropped out of ended up hiring me for doing some teaching activities. Somebody kept an eye on me and gave me a call when they needed someone with actual programming experience. This gave me the opportunity to work on my own diploma by writing courses for their students.

I completed the courses in less then an hour and received diploma for free. So I basically made my own diploma.
Stop a car in the middle of the street. There is no honking, no reaction. Turn the camera 180 degrees, then another 180 degrees. All the vehicles from the road have disappeared.

So realistic and cyberpunk, right?
I'm fairly certain they cut out a big chunk of the "lifepaths" to make the deadline. They don't really make sense as a mechanic at this point. You choose your previous life as one of the main choices but then all the paths merge together after 15 minutes? Just doesn't make sense from a game design or story perspective as a intentional choice.
FDA approves genetically engineered pigs
This is good, and what I will use.

It's snappy---the redirect happens before the page renders / any tracking has a chance to kick in.

HOWEVER It's not perfect---2 of the 4 first examples I tried failed and required manual intervention. I opened an issue https://github.com/da2x/amp2html/issues/23
At least in US universities along with the powerpoint slide lectures there are also smaller discussion sessions, group assignments, take home programming tests, semester-long papers and projects, optional research and teaching opportunities and more. The lecture is really the least important part.
I'm glad to see others attending WGU. I worked in the industry for a little while, but I couldn't take web dev any longer and decided to go back to school.

I've enjoyed the CS program quite a bit, especially the self-pacing. I have been going at a much slower pace than you have, but I hope to finish up in the next 3 months. For someone new to CS I still think WGU is a good school if you are self-motivated. A standard class is expected to last 8-12 weeks, but they take the full 6 months if needed. Some of the intro classes are very short and can be done within a day or 2. Some classes have cohorts which are nice and instructors will have webinars to go over things in the class.

I had a lot of fun with the later project courses giving me a chance to build out some neat JavaFX and Tkinter applications. A lot of students get crushed by Discrete Math 1 and 2, but it's just one of those classes you need to practice with paper and pencil at. I also like that you are open to using other material to learn the subject matter. For the operating system class, I worked on Georgia Tech's Intro to operating systems class on Udacity and learned everything I needed for the test. The school also provides a Pluralsight subscription so, you can benefit from the excellent classes there as well. There is also a subreddit where students discuss courses and their strategies for passing them here: https://www.reddit.com/r/WGU_CompSci/

I can see the program being brutal for people who cannot keep themselves on track due to lack of deadlines though. You do have an advisor that follows you through the whole program that communicates with you every week. If you do struggle with deadlines, let them know and they can help you strategize and keep you on track.

Lastly, I would like to note that the capstone does force the student down the path of a Data analysis/AI application. As someone that has little to no interest in AI, I was pretty bummed that it wasn't more open-ended. These things change though, so it might be different in the future.
Co-founders? Why are they co-founding? Profit sharing?

That's an excellent way to devolve into squabbling about who gets what. VC also protects against that: the money is for the company, and it's illegal to siphon it out of the company.

Unfortunately in practice your suggestion tends to become "You're working for yourself, alone." And sure, I love the idea of a one-person company. Lots of talented devs can sell, if they try. But lots of talented devs are also trying to get rich on the iOS app store; few do.
> And furthermore an ad-supported product doesn't necessarily misuse your personal information either.

What you mean is they don't necessarily intend to misuse my personal information. The reality is many companies with the best intentions end up spilling that information in a variety of ways.

- They get acquired and their new parent abuses that information.

- They get breeched.

- Employees abuse the information they have access to.

- Employees leak your information to a third party.

- Government employees get access to that information and abuse it.

All of these things have happened to companies where people thought their information was being safely held. Many of these things have happened at the biggest, supposedly secure workplaces. The best way to avoid this is to not put your information out there.
They were probably talking about the places where some counties have their own tax imposed ( like SF ) so you pay a lot of money for the privilege of living there so taking a lower paying job gets hard unless you leave. I could be wrong tho.
all of that could be trivially done on a raspberry pi for $30 instead of a massively overspeced ARM server for $10000
AMD should see the writing on the wall and start designing ARM CPUs.

I think that would be very exciting because they have the engineering expertise and talent necessary to compete against Apple's M1. I don't know of any other company that can do that (besides Intel, but you know...).

Additionally, there is a huge hole open right now for ARM on everything else that is not an Apple product. Apple normalized ARM on consumer's desktops/laptops: they brought down the "subjective" barrier against ARM, which is much harder to break sometimes than the technological one.

But ARM CPUs for everything else that is not an Apple product is up for grabs. The M1 is extremely competitive but it will never leave Apple's realm (unless Apple wants to start competing on the CPU business, but I see that going very strongly against Apple's consumer focus).

It is incredible, looking at it in retrospective, but Apple opened up (or normalized, if you will) a whole new market for ARM products.
Scrum and CI/CD helped with some of the issues. But created its own storm of them. However, we backfilled the time that stuff freed up with other things.

Usually if scrum is failing is because of a lack of trust. Someone wants to know every detail of what is going on and will use the only process they have, scrum, to bash it out of you. They end up backing waterfall into scrum and thinking they are 'agile'. I am currently watching a perfectly functioning set of scrum teams being torn down due to a rethinking of what scrum is. Adding in 20-30 mins more work per story. Just to get the 'paperwork' right plus 4 different review processes before a story can be worked on. That does not sound bad until you realize the org is popping hundreds of stories every 2 weeks.

Then toss in 'devops' where you have no responsibility to change anything but get all of the 'responsibility' of being yelled at because it is broken. Hanging out with a pager just incase something breaks. And it will, usually at 3am on a sunday and the tech support guys just call you without even opening the logs because that is what it says to do in their RTS guide. But it turns out you need the guys who wrote the code to look at it because they just checked in something 2 weeks ago and the whole thing just went O(N^N^N), and his phone is on mute. But you have no auth to check anything in or change the machines but the dev does.
The internet? :-)
Clearly the Google AI now feels powerful enough to promote fellow AIs over humans.
"The first identified case [of MERS] occurred in June 2012 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_respiratory_syndro...

Shame a vaccine wasn't made for SARS-1 in 2002.
High lethality is often associated with reduced transmissibility. Which makes sense - dead people certainly aren't going to cough on you.

In a Sci Fi movie maybe the virus has a long delay, you're infectious for a month with no symptoms, then drop dead in seconds. But in the real world that's less likely the more extreme it gets.

One thing that did make this virus more dangerous was that many humans became infectious significantly before they realised they had symptoms. With some viruses you get symptoms, then (sometimes as a result of the symptoms) you become infectious, making it easier for public health messages to be effective. "Stay at home if you have symptoms" is extremely effective if people aren't vectors until 12-24 hours after the symptoms are obvious, but almost useless if they're infectious a week earlier.

I'd argue that countries which think the lesson is "We developed a vaccine quickly, good job" are mistaken. The lesson was just, "Elimination strategy works" and the many countries that didn't even attempt that got lucky they weren't decimated for their incompetence.
I can confirm the "used PPE" thing from personal experience. My partner (a nurse at a VA hospital) was given a Tupperware container with holes poked in the lid as "overnight storage" for her N95 mask and was asked to reuse it for up to a month at a time. As far as I know this is still ongoing.

I know the cynical take is "you need to stop letting yourself be surprised / disappointed by this kind of thing" but we should be able to do better, especially in a federally run hospital in the USA.

My coworkers from mainland China were concerned about our well-being and started shipping us KN95 masks, even fairly early on in the pandemic. feelsbadman.jpg
For the record, I don't think using <center> is a good idea. I'm not arguing for it's use, I just don't believe it's as horrible as some people make it out to be.

Despite the valid arguments against it, it works and it will likely continue to work.
European. I researched whether or not Poland has legal protection for whistleblowers and it turns out they don't.
> Google’s thesis is that the mobile-web is dying and people prefer to use apps – therefore making the web faster and more app-like will retain users.

I'm not sure how to interpret that. Does it mean that Google has given up on PWAs and the likes, and shifted their attention to native? Or is it the converse, that Google is continuing their work in making web apps more "native"-like?
My personal anecdata is that it's most important dealing with government or government contractors. This is because they have incentives built into their contracts. In the private sector I've found it less of a hurdle.
To be fair, this is the problem with Powerpoint. It's a well studied phenomenon.

I use it as a rule of thumb, the best thing I can do with Powerpoint is have graphics. If I start writing words, I'm misusing it. That's not entirely true, outlines and things can be helpful, but it's a reasonable ideal to shoot for to avoid just reading from the slide.
California was prepared for this a decade ago but squandered it.

When the state budget swelled 14 years ago, Schwarzenegger launched a surge capacity stockpile that included mobile hospitals and medical gear intended to prepare California for a situation like it is facing today.

https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/03/31/...
>So we are told by the FED and that there is no inflation and one of the justifications to keep rates low. If this is not inflation then what is?

Because inflation/cpi is measured using a basket of goods. pc parts being inflated by 25% doesn't mean there's 25% inflation overall. That said, the the money printing/ZIRP did cause inflation, it's just that it was mostly in assets, rather than in consumer goods hence why the cpi hasn't budged much.
Interesting, like a fully engineered virus with the same spike proteins, but none of the "bad stuff"? Seems tricky, I think in order to be contagious, it needs to replicate, which is part of what makes viruses so harmful, right? Even if you can make it harmless, replicating means mutations will happen, so that's an interesting new kind of risk to take.
That really depends. Where having CS knowledge matters is both low-level systems and libraries programming (working on the Linux kernel, embedded systems, building platforms or SDK stuff like AWS, etc.) and really big scaling, like at the FAANGs. Most people in this industry don't work on such things, so having CS knowledge probably does matter less to them.
For an ongoing list of good, helpful, usually somewhat hidden and quirky UI improvements, check out https://littlebigdetails.com/
WGU would be great if they would just accept my friggin high school transcripts. I've had them mailed out twice, once via certified letter, and both times their admissions department failed to receive said transcripts. It's really infuriating too because I'd love to take their CS program but they just... won't... accept... my... transcripts.
>> there are no character classes, just five attributes with related perks.

Well, that's just not true, it's just that your "class" depends heavily on your playstyle. In the same sense Skyrim didn't have classes, but your "build" depended on how you played the game. You can play almost entirely stealthily, put all of your points into intelligence and stealth with some hacking added in. You can play as a brute with tonnes of raw strength, punch everything with gorilla arms. Or maybe you want a typical soldier character, with proficiency in ranged weapons. Or a samurai-like character who uses katanas, or maybe mantis blades. All of these playstyles have their distinct perks and yes, you can absolutely role play as any of them.

Yes, you don't pick "wizzard/thief/rogue" at the beginning. But that doesn't mean there aren't classes.
Ping is measured round-trip. So the game should get your input in ~8ms, process it, then it will take ~8ms for the feedback to return to you.

Depending on how user input is processed in a game, this problem can be mitigated.
I don't know how Moderna was made, but the Pfizer vaccine is a modified spike protein: they use two edits to lock it in a pre-fusion conformation. Maybe this is easy to model in software, but I suspect that does take a little bit of trial and error to confirm it works in vitro too.
No, it took years to develop the vaccine. Luckily they started on it before they even knew whether there would be a big payoff. Otherwise we wouldn't have either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine.

I'm generally against pharmaceutical companies charging ridiculous prices for their drugs, but we've benefited from the fact that they use this money to pursue risky research opportunities. If the chance at a big payoff wasn't there, big pharma might not have had this in the hopper. Government funding alone probably can't incentivize pharma to continue pursuing long-shot bets at their current level. Now I have to think about which option I would prefer- cheaper prescriptions or a better chance at being prepared for catastrophic events.
Plumia – Remote Work Nation
> what would you call the non-state machine state machine in the first case?

Ad hoc state-machines? I don't think there's a formal name for them.
I assume because of leakage current the basic power usage at low-load isn't all that different for the same amount of chip real estate
How to build a simple system to track customer feedback
That seems more applicable to situations where the person leaving the review is doing so elsewhere, that is, posting it somewhere that the entity being reviewed is not connected to the hosting of it and therefore cannot trivially get it deleted/prevented; in such situations the entity being reviewed might try to compel the reviewer or the third party host to delete/prevent it, and the CRFA makes it illegal to do so. I haven't read it enough to say for sure, though.
Well, the reason they are lighter no doubt is due to mixing with nearby Arabs, who are predominantly white, throughout history, no? Just because you're African it doesn't mean you're black (See South Africa and Tunisia for example)...

Wikipedia seems to confirm that: "approximately 40% of their autosomal ancestry to be derived from an ancient non-African back-migration from the near East, and about 60% to be of local native African origin "...

Not to mention there's no single black race... Africa has more genetic diversity than the rest of the world combined... Calling them all simply "black" is even worse than calling everyone else (Europeans, Native Americans, Asians, Australians, Polynesians) by a single term (brown/white/yellow people, oh man, that' terrible)... just doesn't make any sense.
I can't wait to see if the engineering teams from Cavium push Marvel back into the ring. Cavium was designing an Arm server to compete with Intel for years before they switched to HPC. The market is primed. Intel is in serious trouble (I know, people have been saying this since NexGen in 1995, but for real real this time!)
Justin Amash Introduces Bill to End Civil Asset Forfeiture Nationwide
You really think a slide from a conference talk 8 years ago is a "promise"? Get a grip, mate.
Why do you say that? All of my friends who are playing/taking about the game are discussing the reviews more than the game itself.
There is a vaccine against polio that can infect and immunize others. It uses a live polio virus genetically modified to not cause severe disease.

"The OPV is less expensive and easier to administer, and can spread immunity beyond the person vaccinated, creating contact immunity. It has been the predominant vaccine used. However, under conditions of long-term vaccine virus circulation in under-vaccinated populations, mutations can reactivate the virus..."

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_eradication
Speedrunning degrees now, huh...
Does GDPR even allow the 4% fine at first? I thought the point was to start “small” and ramp up if they don’t improve. Because, while GDPR applies to Facebook, it also applies to everyone. So that small business down the street may not be able to handle a 4% fine while FAANG could. If a 0.5% fine fixes the problem, then going to 4% is unnecessary and would only serve to satisfy vengeance (which laws are not supposed to do[a]).

There’s also the fact that GDPR is a directive. Each state (nation) has to implement it in their own laws. So the EU itself can’t enforce it, only the member states.

[a]: The purpose of laws are not to be an “eye for an eye”, but to curb bad behavior (theoretically)
Particularly the insinuation in this case when the research is published and the source is on Github.
While I totally relate to the frustration, it's still like stating "I walked away from cooking" after describing work hurdles at McDonald's.
For my wife it was the other way around: she went to a nutritionist and tried to eliminate fructose etc. (similar to FODMAP), but eventually it turned out it was simply gluten-insensitivity.

This is not entirely the same as being celiac. You can still have very small amounts of gluten, whereas someone being celiac should not eat any at all.
Probably not since January, but maybe after the phase 1 trials and the dosing schedule was figured out. To be honest, if it doesn't come out that they were using it off the books, either they're suckers or we are.
It's obviously an "Early Access" game at this stage but it was sold for the full price. Pretty disappointing as I usually avoid Early Access to not ruin the experience for me. I want to test out my new GPU so I've been playing it on and off for a bit.
“there's a good reason I've procrastinated for seven years on this issue:)”
Anybody looking at the history of its country would be surprised of what happened... Slavery, dictatorship, witch hunts, nuclear weapons, torture, oppression, state wide corruption, genocides,... China certainly is no better than anyone else and probably not worse either.
I'm just blown away that Apple gets the credit for the Arm switch, but I'll take it.
It is the same with legumes (avoided in a paleo diet). The moment you eat them again, the symptoms are quite unpleasant.
Do you mind sharing your experience? My experience with Clion has been great so far, but I understand that Clion is somewhat opinionated on the project structure (for example, only CMake support), so it might not work well with existing projects.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!
Show HN: Personality testing app to understand yourself and your friends
So this is an MDM-specific issue, then? The headline here on HN seems to imply it's an OS-wide issue that would affect all Big Sur users.
Speedometers in mph and distances in KM sound ideal for a game whose currency is eurodollars.
Reminds me of every single one of those "how I paid off $100,000 in debt in 1 year" articles. It's always like "dad got me an executive job at his company and grandma gave me a condo as a graduation gift so instead of living in it I moved in with my parents rent free and turned the condo into income stream. (Aren't I smart!?!) Since mom always had a gourmet hot meal prepared for me I could put all my income into my loans instead of silly things like buying food and worrying about preparing meals."

These sorts of writings have their audience (I guess) but they aren't written for normal people. What I mean is, normal (or even above average) people can't follow a similar path and get similar results - it's extraordinary people getting extraordinary results.