skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess he is actually getting downvoted because he is pointing out an uncomfortable truth.

The majority of the people that frequent this site are above the median income. Being in the tech field gives you a huge leg up economically.

You can either squander that, or you can use it to stay out of debt and build wealth.

Having someone point out that you maybe don't actually make the best financial decisions is uncomfortable and makes people defensive.

Doesn't make the statement any less true. Most people on a tech salary (even outside the unicorn tech hubs) have the means to be debt free and live quite comfortably besides.
It sounds like start trek’s transporter beams may be more accurately described than we thought.
It is, at least in the Valley amongst the get-rich-fast crowd, which is not a small portion of the people working here.

There are a lot of things I don't like about the tech culture in the bay area, and this everything-but-unicorns-is-trash attitude is close to the top of the list.
I am in my mid-thirties right now. I dropped out of university in my early-twenties to pursue a career. I saw a lot of initial success in my career and was flying up the corporate ladder. But I always felt like I had this skeleton in my closet or dark secret of not having even a bachelors degree.

Early on in my career I could compensate for not having a degree with my experience and work history. I was mostly competing against people with Bachelors Degrees who had little or moderate experience, and I simply had more experience and could compete well for jobs against them.

I found that as I have started applying for much higher level positions now, the degree skeleton has come to haunt me much more. A lot of the positions I have been applying to lately actually ask for MBA's or Master's Degrees. I am competing against other applicants who have Master's Degrees, while I have a high school diploma and some nice experience. The disparity is getting much wider and I knew I needed to get rid of this unnecessary blemish on my resume/CV.

For any other young people reading this. You might feel like you don't need a degree because your career is going great right now. But I will say that life is a lot harder without a degree as you get into higher positions. I am not saying it isn't possible to get a VP or Senior position without a college degree, it is possible, but it is MUCH harder than simply having that paper. There are definitely jobs that you are more than qualified for that you want and you will be turned away simply because of the lack of degree. It is a sad stumbling block that I was sick of dealing with.
> if your company is … not seeking rapid growth, … then it isn't a real "startup"

Isn't that the definition of a "startup"? If you're not seeking/expecting rapid growth, isn't it just a "small business". There's nothing wrong with that, not everything has to be a "startup".

(Wiktionary tells me "A new company or organization or business venture designed for rapid growth", but Merriam-Webster Collegiate 11th ed tells me "a fledgling business enterprise". Of course, the Merriam-Webster only recognizes "start-up" not "startup", so how much could they know?)
And as a user I avoid them.
Seems like a really good read, but I only have 30 minutes.
What sort of non-stem degree field did you get into and and what point in your life did you learn the skills necessary for whatever career you have now?
Maybe Columbo has "From bad to worse" shape. The main protagonist isn't the detective, but the murderer. He starts badly - with a murder - and then it's downhill from there.
The school may be accredited but not the degree. This is the case for CS degrees from several UC schools including Berkley. My CS degree from a slightly less prestigious UC is not accredited but no one has ever said anything about it.
If property has no rights than the justice system should have no claim of authority over it.

Property lacks agency, property lacks an opinion, property lacks an ability to express oversight and input on the system...therefore property should not be subject to that system.

Same goes for juveniles, frankly. If you can't vote for the system or participate...why the heck can it take away your liberty? It already has.
Deus Ex puts the player in an extremely small, dense area where they have tons of options. The game reacts to the way the player approaches each situation, sometimes dramatically warping the story depending on what they do.
My understanding of “testing out” is that it generally refers to standardized things like CLEP where there are only a handful of subjects you can test out in, typically prerequisite academics.
WW3 and we live in huts. The US would implode before giving up military dominance in asia pacific.
>It isn't unconstitutional as the courts have affirmed over and over again.

Well, the US courts had affirmed slavery as constitutional at some point too, time and again, until the 13th amendment. And then you had e.g. the declaration of independence and its "unalienable rights". What a farse.

It makes sense to think about the spirit of a constitution, not just what some judges has historically or thus far accepted as such.
Which is why RSS (and by extension the kinds of open standards that facilitate things like aggregation) is dead

I blame marketeers trying to control the brand, messaging and experience.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Joe Biden in RICO Investigation
Detecting Vulnerabilities with Vulnture
When I last looked, Argo was nicer to run on k8s, though I still ended up writing my own system https://igor.moomers.org/building-etl-kubernetes
I know HN hates AMP (overall), and I understand it from an ideological perspective (they trying to be the 'gatekeeper of the web' and all), but I think it's because the audience here includes many content 'creators', not consumers alone. Purely as a user, I love the fact that when I click on an AMP'ed page, it loads almost instantly on my mobile, as opposed to a few seconds that I have to wait before they load completely. How it could have been done in a way that didn't hurt publishers is not a consumer's concern. For an end-user who doesn't know much about tech, they 'made the web better'.
The problem with most of these is availability of a Linux operating system image that is as mature, and close to 'stock' debian as raspbian is. Usually it's some two year old version of Ubuntu that's been cobbled together by the vendor.
You definiteyly shouldn't strive to DRY for everything. The tricky part is to understand when duplicated code can be abstracted away and when it is duplicated "by chance", i.e. the code is the same but there is no real underlying abstraction.

The latter tends to happen for business logic: suddenly requirements change and your beautiful "abstraction" falls like a castle of cards.
You are spot on.

The original comment was so oddly worded, I'd assumed the other poster had mis-spoke.
This hits so hard. All the technological advances, yet how much progress have we _actually_ made?
Apple published guide – Device and Data Access when Personal Safety is At Risk [pdf]
I completely agree here. I've never been poor. I can't imagine how some families feel that grew up in the south Chicago projects. The stress has the be very brutal.
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Anyone who has played some tennis can attest that it's more mental than physical specially when you're playing against opponents of the same level. No magic about that.
Correct, cloning in even the simplest sense of a single particle state (let alone a whole human) is impossible in quantum mechanics.
Lucky for me I'm in a country developed enough by all standards yet largely not affected by this circus.
I'm normally onboard with that guideline, but c'mon, when you're demanding a citation for a fact that's in the second paragraph of TFA, you've got a little "didn't read the article, did you?" coming your way.
These are all user-friendly static site generators, basically. They connect a user interface to the backend which is basically a CMS.
Going to college is this peculiar process where what you get out of it is commensurate with what you put into it, 100%.

I was a math major in college. A lot of my exams were open book - because exactly like you said - it's mostly about do you know how to think about something, do you know how to unfold something, do you know what to search for, and how it's useful.

Over the years I've had to help nieces and nephews with calculus homework, and it's been interesting to see this at play in the "real" world. I approach math a little differently now than a high schooler would, and usually my mind starts to wander around thinking, "you know, I'm pretty sure I remember xyz theorem that we can use here, let me look it up." Most of the time it works every time. From there it's easy to put it into the context of their current lesson and go over it in a way that makes sense with how and what they are studying in class.

When looking at job applicants, if someone has a degree, at the very least it means they had an opportunity to put a lot of effort into it and HOPEFULLY it means they got a lot out of it.

Sure, it's possible, maybe even most common, for it to just be a piece of paper - and that's OK. That's why we interview and a degree isn't the be all end all.
You should read the actual proposal. I think you have a few facts wrong.

1. Data sharing on app store downloads is now opt in.
2. Apple apps are exempt because they are managed by different settings. You cannot opt out.
3. FB and Apple both plan to use this data to target their ad networks.
In real electric car markets, other brands than Tesla run the show. In Norway, one of the biggest western electric car markets, Tesla is way at the bottom of sales. Only 95 Teslas were sold in November, while single models of other manufacturers had multitudes of that number in sales.

https://insideevs.com/news/452441/norway-plugin-car-sales-oc...

I think Tesla's main contribution lies in the past, by being an early pioneer of EVs and pushing them in an environment where nobody considered EVs viable. This definitely deserves an entry in the history books. But competitors have waken up.
A really good book around the same subject is Human Scale by Kirkpatrick Sale. The book was written 40 years ago and talked about how society was getting too far out of scale for humans to control.
Why are you being downvoted for telling the truth?

Eastern Europe is extremely xenophobic and misogynistic. Have you seen the far right rallies in Ukraine and other eastern european nations? It doesn't matter that the Nazis murdered them years ago! A significant minority of the population of Ukraine is embracing nazi iconography! Seriously!

Listen to how the hungarian, romanian, polish or virtually any other eastern european nations head of states talk. These are not the friends of social justice warriors.
1. The USA (SpaceX) needs to grab the peaks of perpetual light on the Lunar South Pole. That will sustain the rocket fuel manufacturing plants needed for the Lunar Gateway.

2. Venus is going to be better than Mars simply due to earth-like gravity. No need to go to the surface, float our colonies in the clouds at earth-equivalent atmospheric pressure.

3. And then colonize Phobos, above the Mars gravity well. Put fuel manufacturing plants there too.

4. The USA needs a 100 ship fleet of armed Starships to patrol Earth orbit and the spaceways between Earth, Luna, Venus, Phobos and Mars.
AMP does not fit all types of content, so prioritizing it over non-AMP pages penalizes websites that don't make static content or forces them to make all searches a landing page in AMP to the actual page, making shit even more of a mess on the web.
AMP Forces publishers to put their content on googles servers giving google more data about users (that it doesn't share with the publisher) and its the equivalent of a yellow pages phone book provider making the text of all companies smaller unless the company gives yellow pages exclusive access to their front door security camera. Don't defend it.

When yelp started replacing the phone number of restaurants with their yelp delivery service partner's phone number to intercept the sales and use their own provider, everybody on hackernews rightly called it out as shit, but when google does the same shit its "not everybody's cup of tea".

No, you can't divorce AMP from how Google uses AMP. Google made AMP and Google shaped the core foundations of AMP that lets them do this. You can't just hand wave that away.
My problem is that what I love to do changes a lot, so I get burnt out and/or bored with a thing before I've mastered it (and certainly before I've spent a full year at a company doing it day in and day out).

Also, most of the things I genuinely love (like reading whatever strikes my fancy at the moment for pleasure) aren't things anyone will pay me to do.
This was essentially my experience with WGU as well. I started in November and was done by the following August. Most of my classes from community college were transferred and I had ~90 CUs (EDIT: Just a guess on the number. It's been a while...) I to complete. I was able to complete several courses a week for the first few months, but started tapering off to about 1 course a week as time went on. I was exhausted by the end, but it was worth every penny and minute spent.
Well PG also loves the smell of his own proverbial farts.
The US government is very big on requiring ABET accredited degrees for engineering. I've never gotten a straight answer on whether this is the case for CS or not.
I'd like to understand how these guys make money, I've used the free version of IntelliJ for years and never required anymore than this! Does people actually buy licenses ?
I don't think Americans would align more to stop it if it were deadlier is my point. There would be the same stupid outcry. Look at the history of the Spanish flu. It's the same crap.
You can only get downvoted on a post to -4, fyi. I stopped caring nearly as much about being agreeable once I learned that.

For what it's worth, congrats on what you did. I'm in a similar position and I completely agree that for the majority of people here it wouldn't take anything beyond stopping making bad choices.
Isn’t the point of ABET mostly so that you can obtain engineering licenses. I don’t imagine most software development jobs would even bother looking up if your program was accredited because you aren’t going to need a license.
Its not so much "processors" talking to each other as caches.

The basic theory is called "MESI": Modified / Exclusive / Shared / Invalid. When a remote core reads a cache-line, if no one else has that cache-line then its the Exclusive owner. But if multiple caches have the cache-line, then it is a Shared cache line instead. If a remote cache changes, then your current cache-line becomes Invalid, while the cache line that's valid is placed into the Modified state (cache is correct, RAM is incorrect).

MESI isn't how things are done in practice: additional messages and states are piled on top in proprietary ways. But MESI will get you to the "basic textbook" concept at least.

EDIT: Oh, and "snooping". Caches "snoop" on each other's communications, which helps keep the MESI state up to date. Now you can have directory-based snooping (kind of a centralized push), or rings, or whatever. Those details are proprietary and change from chip to chip. In practice, these details are almost never published, so your best bet to understanding is "Something MESI-like is going on..."
Bio Eats World: The Machine That Made the Vaccine
Dating app Bumble files confidentially for IPO, could seek up to $8B valuation
In this case it's basically just used to mean 'reset'.

It should also hopefully be the last one required with all future changes able to be OTA updates (as most updates were previously to the breach).

People love to argue about the names of things, but I don't think it really matters that much.
People talk about ethics or "right thing to do" as long as they are not directly involved in a controversy. As soon as they are directly involved and at the receiving end the only "right thing to do" is forget about all ethics and save once a$$. This is exactly what Google tried to do and rightly so seems to have backfired big time!
AWS Serverless Express Is All Grown Up Now
> The game could have taken a lesson from Kurt Vonnegut, who said to start a story as close to the end as possible.

I hadn't heard this maxim before, and I haven't played Cyberpunk, but this actually strikes me as something a lot of games do to a fault.

The original Mirror's Edge (a personal favorite) is a good example. That game's story has many obvious issues, from stilted characters to cutscenes that look like cheap flash animations, but I think it all could have worked a lot better if you spent the first few chapters as a normal Runner doing standard deliveries, before things started going to hell.

This would ground you in the world and provide a sense of what it's like to be a Runner, so you'd care about preserving their way of life later on. Games as a medium are uniquely good at this sort of thing, from the early days of Final Fantasy.
Might be because it's ludicrously expensive ($30/mo for the cheapest possible plan), unlike WP, Mediun, or Blogger, which are all free.

There are hundreds of paid site hosts, and none of those are good options if you just want to start a blog, rather than a business.
A shockingly high number of people who would have been journalists 20 years ago now work in Public Relations. Many journalism school graduates try to find work in the trade and end up as corporate mouthpieces.
I don't really think that's a supportable statement. The Xeon's outlier latency on specjbb is superior until it hits its throughput limits. A lot of machines are bought on the basis of latency, not throughput.

Also you really have to grind your teeth to get past AnandTech's habit of comparing, on a performance-per-dollar basis, just whatever CPU that happen to have laying around. The entire reason the Xeon Platinum costs $10000 is because it scales to 8 sockets, a level needed only by people who have backed themselves into a corner with Oracle or SAP and who now need a gigantic single host at any price. Anyone who was actually planning to build a 2-socket server would choose the Xeon Gold 6258R with the same core count, the same cache, higher clocks, and less than half the price. Suddenly when you make a comparison to a comparable product, you find that Intel has the cheapest product of the three, along with certain favorable performance aspects.
While I agree with your objection to the comparison of AMP and iframes, I think "with the publisers' consent" is a tough phrasing to swallow in this context, given that many publishers were put in a position of having to do AMP or risk seeing their content pushed down the page and lose a ton of traffic.
Yes, even then. If that wasn't the case it would be trivial to circumvent the GDPR, as then basically any pseudonymous data would be considered non-personal. A Google Analytics user ID is also random and can be changed at any time, still the data that Google collects is considered personal.
I wonder what his earnings were last year to approximate his opportunity costs. A $100 an hour job at 600 hours would've cost him $60k in opportunity costs. In my personal experience (I did go to uni right after highschool and graduated) it was important for my entry-level job, but once I gained 6 years of experience, nobody cared, discussed or looked at your credentials. The hiring/promotion stuff was done entirely by network, reputation, work experience.
And for those who weren't happy with Java, JetBrains also gave us Kotlin, which fixes many of Java's problems without overshooting into the FP space.
> You can also get crushed by well-funded competitors who can innovate faster than you due to larger team sizes, salaries, etc.

Which is why VCs are evil and need to be crushed. Ironic, I know, posting this here
Thanks, will have a look
I'd feel bad for a med student halfway through that gets sick. 100k of debt and no degree. yikes!
To my knowledge, certain accreditations are easier to get than others.
It's true we don't limit alcohol consumption, unless one is at a bar, where a bartender legally must cut you off in some instances, and has discretion otherwise.

I think we should place limits specifically designed to prevent tolerance buildup or the ability to repeat said habit-forming behavior on a habit-forming schedule, basically. Like, I can do coke 1x a year and have a good time but not be addicted, especially if I can't get it again for a year. If one could just go back the Drugs'R'Us and pick up another g, well... we're even worse off than square 1.
The Internet: Yes! Social media: Debatable.
Microsoft offers Cyberpunk 2077 refunds, but it’s not pulling the game
> 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.

I mean, I've seen all those too and that was only like 2-3 years in. So?

It's normal workplace behavior.

I think most of us are just upset with capitalism, tbh.
Isn't it illegal to prevent them from voting on it, nationally?

>Editor's note: Amazon is among NPR's financial supporters.

Interesting.
I feel like this study doesn’t take into account the almost infinite tasks you can create for yourself on the Internet now. Boredom is nearly a thing of the past at least anecdotally.
Pytorch might be suboptimal but it's what's already there e.g. for Pyro. (PyMC3 uses Theano; can Theano drive JAX?)

OTOH I'm not sure most people know what tasks are GPU-worthy or not. I haven't the slightest idea of why MCMC/Variational Bayes is amenable to GPU speedups and Persistent Homology isn't.
I have mixed feeling about the hierarchical facility in statecharts. I've certainly found it helpful in some cases; for example, handling "cancel" events that apply to a group of states.

I've also seen huge, multi-level, multiple-parallel-region monsters that were impenetrable.

Now, no formalism is immune to abuse: "just because you can, doesn't mean you should". But I've often found that the simpler state model formalism - without hierarchy - has led to cleaner design and better separation of logic.

More generally though I do think state machines are somewhat underrated tools in the programmer's toolbox.
this idea doesn't really work if you actually like macOS/Apple products.
> 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 am not sure, if this is your opinion about Google's view on AMP or is exactly the Google view on AMP, but, Whatever it be, I almost died laughing - what's wrong with these people(Google)?

Either Google is assuming,

- people would only need 1-2 digit numbers of app in their device and rest all of the websites/platform are just hawkers on the street.

OR,

- world is going to be exploded with extreme scalable storage system on mobile/user's devices where people would be able to store hundreds of apps.

The only reason PEOPLE PREFER TO USE APPS in most of the case is the ability of OFFLINE USE CASE for FREQUENTLY used apps, and we know FREQUENT uses are for limited numbers of apps.

Such thesis that people "prefer to use apps" requires citation and contradicts Google's own "search engine" which helps people to explore the world for data. Is that a reason? google prefers to steal the data from various website and show the results in their search engine result page?