skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope they success.

The traditional higher education is becoming more and more a scam. Federal government is backing almost all the student loans, but universities automatically increase their tuitions. The student loan crisis is a clear indication that this model is not working. For the past 20 years, in-state public university tuitions have increased more than 200% [1]. Now the total student loans count to approximately $1.6 trillion [2].

In the past, America had a tradition of wealthy people create new universities. Now we only have the rich donating to established universities, but no longer building new ones. Elite universities are all about powers, instead of educating more people, that's why they don't make efforts to expand their campus or create new campuses. Ever heard Harvard build a new campus in a different city? Or Yale acquire an not so successful private university to level to it up so that their success can spread out and more students can be benefit? No.

I cherish people who want to build a new model for higher / technical education. And wish them the best luck. There certainly will be trails and errors. And I hope them can power through.

1. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-co...

2. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/08121...
I think it is perfect because it assigns blame at the right place in my mind- the people that had no idea what they were doing and hired too many people in the first place.
As mentioned, this is a kinetic attack.

Attribution will still be hard, but the motivation to attribute (correctly) will be much much higher than most cyber attacks.
Some version of that debate has been going on since roman days.
Java 8 Stream API on arrays
A short read on a few ways to use the java 8 stream api on arrays.
I was just looking at registering my name on https://ens.domains that give you a "decentralized" .eth address. The registration fee was like $10, but the gas cost was like $80. So I didn't do it.

Ethereum needs to move to Proof of Stake ASAP.

Edit: Also, it looks like this deal doesn't include ENS. I thought "unstoppable" was just being used as an adjective at first, but it's a company.
I kind of suspect it's a bit of a light-weight Pareto principle: you can gain 70-80% high-level knowledge (note that I said knowledge, not understanding), which is enough to get started with some real-world applications with sufficient handholding and mentoring.

I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, but expectations should be set appropriately.

If you've pre-screened to select for candidates who would be able to take that and run with it, I'm not suprised that you could achieve a sufficient amount of decent outcomes.
Who knew regulatory compliance would have a net negative impact?
I got an entry level SWE position. A bunch of my peers have also landed really awesome positions. It's all about what you put into it, but Lambda School as a whole is just very chaotic. I think if executed properly it would be a pretty good option for people.
I think one of the reasons bootcamps get away with this kind of thing is that, for at least many people, traditional schooling also fails to teach this material. So if you're going to just teach people enough to get a job, but not actually to do it, better to do it for "cheap" in 6 months than, say, expensively in a 2 year masters program.

I think the problem above is probably somewhat worse for data science than software engineering in general, but it applies broadly to quantitative jobs in the tech industry, in my experience.
Gitlab CI is already basically that
> Introductory statistics and linear algebra are two separate undergraduate level courses.

Lol why?

What difference do you think it make which topics you put in which courses?
In addition to selecting for people with related backgrounds, the goal is not mastery; it's getting to the point that they can learn on the job.
A decline in population is not necessarily bad. All population all over the world is far too high, it needs to be reduced to roughly a quarter of the current level.

If you reduce the number of people, the GDP is spread over fewer people and the GDP per head is higher.
Smokers save Governments money on healthcare, because they die earlier.

"According to the research, a person of normal weight costs on average £210,000 over their lifetime, a smoker just £165,000 and an obese person £187,000."

https://taxfoundation.org/new-study-shows-smokers-and-obese-....

By this logic, there should be no tax (or indeed a subsidy) on cigarettes.
That freight didn’t so much fall overboard as get pushed.
is there some real "bottom up" curriculum? in retrospect I feel lucky to have grown with the tech:

* TI58C programmable calculator, a handfull of registers, load store, conditional jump, that's it, essentially a very simple assembly-like language.
* then CBM basic, two letter variable names, only globals, line numbers and goto/gosub
* then (turbo) pascal with scopes, still single process unicore everything
* then a little 6502 assembly (not my cup of tea)
* then OS/2 and unix, and Linux when it started, multiprocessing (and multi user) on unicore
* ...and proper computer science (as in von Neuman, Turing, Chomski hierarchy, compilers, sorting searching and complexity, graphs, etc)
* then chroot
* then virtualization (on the mainframe lol, but with Linux)
* then containers
and in parallel to the virtualization axis threads and green threads

I'm grateful this allowed me to grow into the concepts step by step and grow an intuition for what's happening.

and I wonder if there is some kind of "bottom up" curriculum somewhere that follows such a path?
Depends. Mathematics? Chemistry? There's some room for compression there, but not much. If you ditched all of the absolutely useless "general education"[1] classes, and kept class sizes small enough to allow time for individual coaching, I think most STEM undergraduate degrees could fit nicely within two to three years.

[1] Students are welcome to "expand their horizons" when they aren't paying thousands of dollars for the privilege of being forced to do so.
How complex do you think most data science jobs are?
Where I think the imitations are a bit more useful than home cooking (besides the fact that we do like to have some easy imitation meals sometimes), is levelling the playing field with stuff like fast food, BBQs, restaurants whose cuisine isn't typically vegan. Substituting the only meat part of, say, a burger is easy when there's, well, a substitute.

While I also like black bean burgers, veggie patties, etc (though I can't personally handle portobello mushrooms as a patty, I know tons of people also love that), it's clear that people like having the pseudo-meat option.

I know I do like having the option, especially for cooking when I don't want to make seitan or grounds or something from scratch, which involves following a whole other recipe just to reach my "base protein" that I then cook with.
Security is not a Boolean. It's on a continuum from "You must be fucking joking" (early versions of IE) to "Not perfect, but workable with training" (literal weapons-grade air gapping).

Perfectly secure software does not exist. More secure and less secure software certainly does exist.

Which is why software should be expected to provide some basic level of protection.

In any org there will be a proportion of idiots who cannot be trusted to do the right thing, and software should be designed to minimise the damage their idiocy can generate.

This isn't enough to make an org secure, but it's a good start on whack-a-mole with the most obvious attack vectors.

The real problem is that too much of the industry - both management and devs - lacks maturity and professionalism. There's too much casual hobby tinkering, too much "But that's too expensive", and too much "Get it out the door and worry about it later".

There isn't enough conscientious attention to detail and far, far too little understanding of the disastrous - literally potentially explosive - consequences of serious security failures.

And CS courses teach far too little of all of the above. Academic algo noodling is one thing. But the reality is that computers can literally be as dangerous as weapons - and should be treated as such.
if you have a STEM degree, what value can you derive from short introductory classes on linear algebra, Python and relational databases?

Countless truly excellent and free/cheap resources on these topics exist and you don't have to give a way a significant percentage of your yearly salary.
I feel like there was some weird edge cases I was having with child pipelines. Maybe it was something with artifacts, don’t remember.
It seems obvious to me that a world where robots do all the work, and people spend all their time enjoying themselves, is better than a world where everybody has to work to survive.

I think it will be a huge step forward in human culture when we finally accept that that not everybody has to work, and the productivity of society at large will make everything so cheap that money is really not important.

The only question is how we get from here to there. That's not clear at all.

Can the government simply take from the rich and distribute it evenly to everybody?
Can the government even distribute money without inflation eating the value of everything, leaving people feeling miserable and poor.
Should the government provide food, shelter, medicine, infrastructure directly?
Does the government need to own the means of production?
Exactly! This is the "find out" part of "fuck around and find out". Kangjie Lu's research group is permanently tainted.
Anecdotally we are seeing a lot of slack at the junior dev end of the labor market, and a popping of the bootcamp bubble.

But make no mistake, this is mission accomplished not mission failed for some. We're the last best-paid skilled trade, and Capital is after us.
I think that’s an uncharitable rewriting. To Austen’s credit, he leads with the difficult, negative message (as he should) in the very first sentence.
> Worse, to pad hiring stats, lots of code schools also will hire recent grads that cannot find employment as instructors. They technically aren't lying when they say "95% of graduates get a job within 6 months", but their statistics would be a lot worse if you looked at those hired _externally_.

I'm aware that many other bootcamps and programs have done this, and it is obviously extremely misleading.

I have not heard that Lambda has specifically done this; are you claiming that they are as well? Your comment kind of implies it, without outright saying it.
Sometimes employer's interest coincides with the public, but I guess even voting isn't enough to convince some people of that.
> "they had to settle"

I am an outsider, but clearly looks to me like they chose to not fight that battle, which was just legal thuggery. Colleges in the U.S. are a racket that make the mafia look like a bunch of amateurs. The Bankruptcy Exception for student loans is one of the most corrupt scams going on in the USA today.
Well, I did buy a QNAP TS-419P many years ago. It's still running mainline Debian, that was why I bought it. I would have replaced it with a newer model if the new ones were similarly open, but they're not.

Seriously considering a Helios64, once they get their supply issues resolved.
Quite cool
Gotta respect that, he seems to have a vision, and keeps it in focus. Nano as a simple text editor is a blessing.
In my experience consultants are hired to tell the clients the inconvenient obvious or reinforce someone’s position who wants to win.
Sorry if this sounds too grumpy, but if you're outside the EU then you don't know what "real feta" tastes like because you've only tasted imitation feta from cow's milk. Real feta is made in Greece with sheep and optionally up to 20% goat's milk and even a lot of the feta that is exported from Greece with the PDO symbol on it is awful and tasteless, like a block of watery, salted gypsum. So I can understand why you'd say you think Violife "feta cheese" is more delicious than "real" feta. Because that's not real feta, either.
im gonna start a music project called sounding fun at techno parties
I think the value is similar to the value of a personal trainer. There's no rocket science involved in maintaining fitness, but many people find value in the added accountability and planning support.
If you could do it over, what would you do instead to get the job?
I've never been laid off before but I think you can be empathetic of the people laid off here without treating them like emotional simpletons.
Text form, with emojis!
I didn't put much thought into that phrasing. Changed it to "settled" instead to better reflect reality.
But not the results and the consensus on them.
Hmmh, auditing doesn't seem to be mentioned in that paper. I'd think that's a mandatory feature of an authorization service.
I don't use gnome, so I have no knowledge there. Just going my experience of going from what I considered the perfect desktop (KDE3) to what I considered a major downgrade. I'm glad KDE is good again!
YMMV, but I have been living in Japan for the last two and a half years and I experienced the three things he described. Renting a place was particularly difficult.
Yes, I’ve been doing this for 20 years, I’m aware.
It's possible, but for very few people. I went to MIT and there were stories of people there taking ~12-16 classes a semester which theoretically averages out to a course a week (though they ran concurrently and it's a crazy course load for the average person). To be fair, the people who could do that were way on the right of the distribution and it's hard to convey just how fast they could pick things up (think of them as the equivalent of an NBA player vs the average MIT student as a D1 athlete).
It seems possible. Timing would need to be right though so you would probably need to purposely infect that person with the dangerous one at the right time.
If you look at how much these bootcamps charge (both in terms of tuition and income sharing), college is by far the cheaper option.
It's not what you need to learn, but you must unlearn all those fishes well-meaning ignorants handed you in the past!
I think they had a chance until they started calling it Medicare for all, it’s horrible branding since “good doctors” are known for not accepting Medicare
Surely the hot take should be that the kernel is at risk of a malicious actor introducing bugs that can be exploited, not "Oh, we already write bugs so it's not a big deal."

This seems like a rather lackadaisical take on the situation.
> The Impossible Burger has about 12% fat which is quite lean. As far as I understand, the meat in most burgers is around 20% fat.

Depends on the beef. I looked the numbers up before I commented, and a simple beef burger made with lean ground beef weighs in at 11% fat, slightly less than the Impossible version (though yup, I admit, basically equivalent, which is what I should've said).
Finding vegan cheeses that work well on pizza is a monumentally difficult task. Miyoko is one of few I've liked for pizza use. I generally don't eat much store bought vegan cheese as I don't love the Kraft singles-type ones my vegan wife has nostalgia for, and buying the nice vegan ones is usually pretty expensive.

Making homemade cashew cheese has pretty great results for vegan pizza. It's not the same as dairy, obviously, but it's a good main topping for when we share a pizza.
Almond sherbet is the sherbet itself, not the milk drink, but I take the point. And I guess almond milk wasn't the best example to focus on, but I was referring more generally to the trend of intentional misnaming that I have observed.

So, e.g., given your 'quacks like a duck' theory, I could happily cook a "mushroom risotto" with mushroomy chicken instead of actual mushroom, and that would still be a perfectly fine mushroom risotto, right? Except serving that to a vegan claiming it's a "mushroom risotto" would probably make me an ass, and all linguistic subtleties of what constitutes 'mushroominess' in chicken would probably fly out the window.

Note I'm not arguing about what ingredients are substitutable for others and thus comparable. I'm arguing about naming, and specifically about naming intended to produce confusion and blur the definitions for the purpose of marketing. So while I partly agree with the 'quacks like a duck' thing, I think a big part of why it's fine to have non-dairy 'cheese', but not fine to have chicken-based 'mushrooms' comes down to which direction of duck-quacking feels more 'defendable' than what constitutes acceptable substitutes in terms of flavour.
99pi's podcast episode on "Reefers" (refrigerated containers)

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/reefer-madness/
Uber doesn't inform drivers what they will be paid for a trip. Except where mandated by state law, they don't even inform them of the trip duration or destination until after it is accepted. It is hardly a marketplace when one side of the exchange knows next to nothing about what they will selling until after it is sold. Uber may not "fire" them, but failure to accept gigs will significantly impair your ability to be offered more in the future.
Show HN: Jupyter Cells for the Command Line
GCP takes a really flexible approach with their cloudbuild CICD offering.
Each build step is just a docker image URL, entrypoint, and args.

Want to do something fancy and complex? Just pull in a python image and call your python script. But you can still implement simple build steps directly in the build file. No need for a multitude of language bindings, everything you want to do is probably implemented with simple shell commands.
a real bottom up would start from transistors, universal xor, flip flop memory, code execution, algorithmic complexity, data structures, abstraction, recursion, graphs, concurrency, distributed system design.
They're not really though. We should regulate those as well as companies are also using those to cause addition. I'm even saying that as a fat dude.
Why would they have not used them before the acquisition?
It’s one of the best books I’ve read in the last 10 years. The discussion about the traffic to the Manhattan docks by itself was wild.
> for-profit incentives of dairy industry

The fact that demand for dairy was "manufactured" is somewhat orthogonal to whether or not it is for-profit.

Vegan cheeses aren't subsidized at 73 cents on the dollar, dairy is.
I am not sure I understand the technology, but personally I like the idea of an immutable/unstoppable Internet as it is sold here. I am guessing that those with deeper technical expertise will be able to show that this is all just marketing and things are still ultimately, "stoppable", but the goals seem right.
I really like the idea of a talented tutor helping with subjects I struggle with. Even if it costs thousands of dollars this can be a great investment. The offer would have to be focused, customized and beyond the basics. Given the materials that are out there (MIT open courseware comes to mind) it is really beyond me why people spend so much.
Geez Bitwig if your a fan of Ableton. Some of abletons OG dev team left and made it a few years back.

Also if you want some Ableton training geez https://www.youtube.com/c/TomCosmNZ/featured
I've been watching him play sets for > a decade. Blokes a wizard with Ableton.
>You assign precourse work that rejects 98% of applicants.

I think a good model for this is the Insight Fellowship. By selecting mostly STEM Ph.D. graduates, the pool of students already has some relevant background/foundation. The focus can then be on the tools and methods for applying DS in a corporate/business setting, which is actually relevant for jobs.
Why do they use Broadcom silicon for their wireless stack?
I usually use the surveillance-line of disk drives. That's WD Purple, Seagate Skyhawk, or Toshiba S300. Theoretically, their firmware is supposed to be tuned to a higher queue depth and lower latency, which should be beneficial to RAID performance.

Haven't run any performance numbers on them, though.
I mean, ground nuts are a classic "replacement" for cheese, so I don't really see how this is at all different from what the vegan cheeses are doing.
Anatomy of how you get pwned
GP is doing cases of blood clots rather than deaths. (209/22e6)

Regardless, you're both doing it wrong (as mentioned in sibling).

To find the correct denominator of persons-fully-vaccinated (second doses), visit the regulators YellowCard report for the vaccine adverse reactions.

It's a sobering read.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid...
Hi, I didnt bought a domain yet and no https and its all in finished but have a look lol http://ideatron.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
Explain your reasoning, and I will explain mine.

While some of the leetcode questions have tedious edge cases and ambiguous logic, there is no doubt in my mind that lists, trees, arrays, queues, maps, graphs, sorting, binary searching, and memoization are crucial for being an amazing programmer
There are in fact reasons to distrust the Chinese state which have nothing to do with race.
Maybe a silly question but what’s the CSV card?
>legal thuggery

Lambda lied to their students for years about loan dischargeability. They were told to stop by the regulator, so Lambda did. The regulator did nothing to penalize them.
I dunno, if Google was sold to a Chinese company (so, essentially controlled by the CCP), would that in your mind be grounds to avoid using their services, or just another case of "China bad"?

I'm guessing you're perhaps conflating criticism of China/CCP with recent idiotic attacks on random asian people in the US?
At work I use fortigate equipment and keep it updated.

At home I have sold my soul to Bezos and just use an Eero.
In Greek you don't tend to say that, you'd say Γάλα Αμύγδαλο instead (similarly Γάλα Σοκολάτα for chocolate milk, and Γάλα Τριαντάφυλλο for rose milk).
Later versions of Catalina remain not great. The problem is that each version of macOS compounds onto the next, since there's no time for the "tock" after the "tick" anymore. Sure, catastrophic bugs may get fixed, but some stuff just seems to degrade forever (I can't remember the last time drag and drop worked like I expected to... even on Apple apps). The OS usually launches around November, and By WWDC, we're already being told about macOS N + 1 and getting betas of that, so you basically get half a year of "bug fixes," before focus shifts to the next release. There's no "stable" period anymore.

Tiger through Lion had a 2-year release cycle. Ever since Mountain Lion, it's been a 1-year cycle. Further complicating this is that these have included unintuitively "ambitious" (or at least "labor intensive") changes. Big Sur was a UI redesign that touched the entire system. But let's not forget that Mojave was also a huge undertaking to get everything working with Dark Mode (both for Apple developers and third party developers). Meanwhile entire suites of apps get thrown out and the rewrites are used to dogfood Catalyst. It's just infinite churn. The core of the technology has taken on the properties of fashion. And that is just not a great recipe for stability.

I've personally chosen to try to approximate the missing "tock" cycle by upgrading to every other macOS. Clearly this is nowhere near the same benefit of Apple actually dedicating a full year and a half to a release, but at least I don't have to go through the (largely arbitrary) UI changes every year or so, and I have the "bugs I know" to deal with vs. the ones I don't yet know about.