skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I did computer engineering and not computer science, I frequently come back to how useful of an intellectual foundation my college education was. It's basically a whirlwind tour of humanity's greatest hits in a given domain. While it's hard to tell which ones are going to be a big deal for you, there are certain collections of skills that have been super useful to combine in the past, so getting the whole cognitive standard library under your belt is a great use of time.

While I thought I'd be focusing 100% on discrete math in my computing life, I was really happy to have been exposed to gradients and convolutions when neural networks came to prominence. I've also recently gotten interested in power electronics and have been really grateful for having previously been exposed to several varieties of transistors and having had half a semester of thermodynamics. Not to say that this background was really enough to be productive, but it was really nice to already know that these subjects exist and be familiar enough with their broad outlines to not have to completely bootstrap multiple fields at the same time.

I'm a little salty about this though because, at the time, there were a ton of classes that I thought were boring and useless. I was wrong (at least about the uselessness) about for vast majority of them.
Here's something to consider:
"xjet - The real reason Google is delivering stuff by drone"
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=asJ8GSQZjGk

Some speculation into the pricing reveals that they are doing deliveries well below cost and perhaps free as an investment to get their number of successful deliveries up. Google is vying to gain license to be the de-facto ubiquitous drone flight traffic control service.
Agree.

People should get paid for work.

Whether that work is having a job. Or making a website.

Someone who does useful work deserves wages.

Even 2,000 years ago the Bible said: "the worker deserves his wages."

Most of the people who are again monetization are perfectly happy to get paid by their employer.

Is direct employment the only morally upright way to receive payment for hard work?
if they're gonna do this you'd think they'd have the courtesy to spiffy up the ancient dialog a bit at least
Good code all looks the same. Modular, name what you meant, clear boundary, relevant stuff got grouped nearer.

Bad code is each bad in its own way. There are just infinite combination of bad. Good luck on that. It is like telling kids what not to do. They still won't behave. It is like bring people with an "unfit culture" to your team. You might be able to work with them, you might be able to change them. But you also only got so much time
We just did months of testing on a bunch of dbs for a time-series workload, and whilst we really liked the story and devs behind clickhouse. The ops burden of not separating storage and compute ended up being a turn off. Good to see it is progressing and will hopefully get more investment, although I wonder what this means for companies like Altinity.

We compared Timescale, Clickhouse, Snowflake and Firebolt. Ended up really liking Firebolt, some amazing tech with a few roughedges (its pretty new), basically Clickhouse speed meets Snowflake simplicity definitely one to watch.

https://www.firebolt.io/
I’m on iPhone 12 Mini using Safari.

The left and right of the three buttons are chopped off. And it just lets me scroll right into a white oblivion.
That rule does not work in Australia, Canada or the UK :D

Median salary is about 80k AUD in Western Australia. Median house price is 840k.

Even with 2 full time salaries of 80k your maximum would be 480k.
> Monetizing a browser is not easy if you are not in the data-monetization game.

How do we know that they aren't?

It's like free money for a tech company. There's little or no disincentive, and they don't have to do a lot of extra work - the data is already sitting around waiting to be collected.
> I would agree with this if this is something that they paid for or is for govt services. Govt libraries/buildings/hospitals, definitely not for private services. And they do accommodate in majority of universities. I disagree that whatever is available for free should also have accommodations made for people with disabilities for which it costs extra for the person providing the free service.

For the sake of your argument, it doesn't appear to matter whether the service is "free" or whether the service provider is charging. You reason that if it's not the government, then there should not be a requirement to provide "reasonable accommodation". Can you explain why it matters whether the service is free or not?

> I'd wager that's the more economically easier route

Well, of course. It's almost always cheaper to not build ramps, provide captions, hire interpreters, ...

> For any free service, there is no obligation for the service provider to do anything to accommodate anyone unless they want to. The argument feels like someone who has peanut allergy suing someone who hands out free cookies/biscuits.

What if someone is handing out free hand grenades? Again, why does it matter whether it's free?

For a better analogy, consider a local company that provides nice restrooms available for public use for "white people only". Along comes a piece of legislation that says you cannot discriminate on the basis of skin color. To remain compliant, the company has two options

1. destroy the bathroom
2. remove the discrimination

Suppose the company destroys the bathroom. You want to sit here and talk about how it is a free service and how does it help anyone if the company destroys the bathroom? Are you going to ask why this anti-racial discrimination bill is targeting a _free service_? If non-white people do not have the opportunity to use the bathroom, don't I think the actions of this civil rights act now resulted in opportunities being lost to everyone instead of a few? How is that a good outcome or even a win for non-white people from the eyes of general society?

I'm banking on the expectation that those questions sound absurd to you. If they don't we have too fundamental of a disagreement to carry on.

If the questions sound absurd, and you object to my analogy because there is no "real" basis for a bathroom being only for white people, then we can continue. You might think there is no additional effort required to make a bathroom more broadly accessible, and it's just a blatant display of racial discrimination. I hold to the analogy because you can be sure that a business will try to argue that it is more expensive to manage such a bathroom (perhaps claiming that white people are more economical with water, or whatever). We don't even have to go through such contortions if you consider that the bathroom has an automatic soap dispenser that is not reliable with darker skin colors.

The ADA is 100% a piece of anti-discrimination legislation. It exist because of advocacy effort foremost by disabled people, along with allies.
+1, Bitbucket search often returns results from older versions of a repo. Wouldn't be an issue if syncing to the current master didn't take a few days...
Yet the condition you claim will give rise to widespread adoption of energy storage already exist in Hawaii: fossil fuels have to be imported making it expensive, and daytime energy prices regularly go negative due to widespread solar adopt. These conditions have existed for years. Yet people aren't storing and reselling this energy. Why not? If hydrogen storage really costs only $1/KWh then a company can reclaim their investment cost in less than a week of operation, with an average price of $0.30/KWh in the state. It's basically free money.

The reality is that hydrogen storage costs nowhere near $1/KWh. People making predictions about what a technology will cost and actually building it are two totally different things.
Add enough storage to the system and the on-demand problem is solved.
Does Your Organization Have a Security.txt File?
It helps me in the sense that if some object is moving (I can artificially make it move for the sake of the argument) then I just change it's coordinates instead o how it 'would look like to m eyes', I don't know, that makes me sleep easier
Regolith-linux

It's a ubuntu based with a i3 desktop manager but with newer perfect configurations out of the box.
If we want to get really pedantic...WebRTC will support SW H264 if you enable it explicitly in the compilation, since you're technically on the hook for royalties if you compile it yourself. Footguns galore :)
What happens if you don’t own a smartphone? You’re disenfranchised from society.

My grandmother is 81, makes about $23k in pension and SS income. Why does she need to invest in a device the she cannot use?
> You are equally infectious vaccinated or unvaccinated.

I don't think that's entirely true. There is evidence that there less viral load in vaccinated individuals, also vaccinated people appear to be infectious for a shorter period of time.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02187-1
there are of course unknown risks associated with putting anything into your body. But it's probably still a good idea.
How has anything described in article has to do with freedom?
This was my experience too. I worked for a while in tech support for my university and while from time to time we'd get frustrated calls from professors that couldn't upload their grades or where frustrated by how things looked different, it was super satisfying finding ways to help solve their problems.

It was kind of an unique situation because I was also a developer of the system that I was giving support for thus I really had inside knowledge and when things "looked different" I could tell them way they looked different and how it could benefit them in the new way they looked. I don't remember a single case in which after explaining the way people actually preferred the "old look".

I see that time as a highlight in my professional experience (should emphasize on my resume now that I think about it!)
Unless anyone pulls a Stalin and intentionally mismanages things to starve people we'll probably be fine. Modern communications and commerce channels should let us route around stupidity unless we're prevented from doing so.

If someone does pull a Stalin at any meaningful scale that's probably not gonna be possible to keep on the down low and heads will roll, likely literally.
How do you mean? Not enough hacker spirit in the FOSS world?
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Since there were so many TLS security bugs due to it's complexity, is there any push to replace it with something simpler and with less choices and attack surface?

Google gave us HTTP/2/3, but don't seem to care about fixing TLS.
Has anyone found a 5 or 6 minimum degree search? The longest I have found is 4: Triumph TR-7 to Apple iic
Insurance companies and hospitals employing tens of thousands of people who play endless cat-and-mouse games of trying to avoid paying for actual healthcare and "optimizing" so that they don't end up holding the bag.
So you're saying that if the government only steals money from a few innocent people, that's OK?

And "Chances are many of them are either criminal money": we have a process for determining if someone's a criminal. It doesn't involve the government just deciding that on its own.
But apparently not effective in all cases. A friend of mine in their early 20s has Covid a second time, having been vaccinated after their first infection.

(To catch it once is unfortunate...)
> Passwords must be shared to work, therefore they can never truly be secret.

A disk encryption password doesn't need to be shared with anyone for it to work?

> WebAuthN is here now and has been ready for a couple years now.

At last, I can give my users all the inconvenience of 2FA, but without a second factor.
This is how predicate transformer semantics views programs. An executing procedure is a walk through the program state space.

For example an instance of a struct with n fields is a point in an n-dimensional state space. A method that modifies that struct is moving that instance through that space. Where this gets cool is that it's possible to prove that for all points in the state space, a given program will reliably establish a defined postcondition.

To give a trivial example, imagine a state space with a few billion variables. Let's suppose one of those variables is called x and we want to establish the postcondition x = 0.

x := 0

The above program will establish x == 0 regardless of the initial state and we don't need to worry about the several billion other dimensions in the state space. To a mathematician I imagine this is immensely boring, but for a working software developer boring is great, because it's so easy to otherwise build cognitively unmanageable systems.
No vaccine is 100% effective and it is unethical to purposefully expose people to disease.
This is a way bigger problem in Canada, where fixed term mortgages are unavailable (and where price to income ratio is even more absurd than in the US).
Linux market share is more than double macOS in Greece
Four replies so far, all different. I'll add a fifth: Pop_OS!

Edit - now 9 replies, all different. Great to see so much choice!
The system is working as intended, which is to restrict the supply of physicians and thereby increase their salaries.

The pipeline is also restricted upstream by the limited enrollments at med schools (drastically lower than the number of qualified pre-med students) and downstream by restrictions on what other medical professionals such as NPs and PAs can do.
> One engineer can do a lot. Even in Texas we run slimmer. I'm the sole frontend dev. I created and maintain our iOS, Android, and Web app for a largish tech company.

What do you mean by "do a lot". Can you deliver as quickly as a team? If so, do you work more hours or are you just better? If you're just better, why do you decide to stay with your largish tech company when we're acknowledging SV pays more? A remote role would increase your salary, no?

Breaking this down:

Russia has a great mathematics and engineering education system. Many graduates, unable to leave, take jobs with Russian tech companies. Russian tech companies pay less than US tech companies.

That's why the situation may be as is with ClickHouse. You're not in Russia.

Texas isn't particularly known for running lean. Every Big Tech has a presence in Austin. Dallas is filled with legacy financial companies burning money on IT.
A good fingerprint reader is cryptographically bound to the fingerprints stored on the device through e.g. a private key available only to the fingerprint chip. Replacing the fingerprint reader would therefore require the user to add their fingerprints to the system once again.
I'm using ArchLinux with MATE. It pretty much got out of my way and I don't even think about it...
You would want the exposure to be nasal, so that would require a distribution system for inhalers containing the alpha variant.

From the date of the first vaccine, until 2 weeks after the second vaccine, the immune system goes through many changes enroute to gaining protection from serious illness. It is recommended to avoid immune system stress, exposure to any pathogens (e.g. visiting hospitals), physical exertion, etc. during the 2 week period immediately after the first vaccine. If one is infected with anything earlier than 2 weeks after the 2nd vaccine, it will be recorded as an unvaccinated infection.

Anyone (vaccinated, partially vaccinated or unvaccinated) who gets infected should immediately avail themselves of early treatment options, e.g. monoclonal antibodies (free and available in some states), upcoming antiviral tablets from Pfizer and Merck (in trials) or other therapeutics on the global market. Early treatment speeds recovery. Without early treatment, the graph of outcomes becomes complex.
> You might be able to work with them, you might be able to change them. But you also only got so much time

Recognizing this tradeoff explicitly might go a long way in improving how we approach the issue of training engineers. On a certain level, anyone motivated to do so can learn software engineering. But the amount of mentorship required differs significantly. And personally I'm not against doing that, but when organizations don't allocate time for intensive pairing/mentorship but expect senior engineers to somehow find time for it is what doesn't really work.
Windows 7 is horribly insecure now. Please reconsider.
The author seems to be say in the article that writing readable code, at least for yourself, is still an important goal. I think they are arguing against why a writer shouldn't be expected to take it further.

For example, should a new grad be able to read your code without help? Should a 5 year old? At some point, you are spending more time writing design docs, refactoring the code, simplifying the tests, and gathering learning resources than you are just writing code that works.

Newer engineers rarely hear about how much they need to learn to read good code, and how much disagreement there is about what good code looks like. As a result it is easy to get into the mindset that "surprising" or "complex" code is bad. Instead, it would be a lot better if engineers are encouraged from the start to see reading code as a challenge. Nobody starts off knowing grep, folder organization conventions, go-to-definition shortcuts, and architectural design patterns needed to understand certain pieces of code.

To improve yourself, you are better off focusing on writing code, but at the organizational level, it's better for the team if people are willing to assume that reading code and writing readable code aren't an easy tasks.
Should I trade false dichotomies for linkbait headlines that don't end in a question mark? How about if I throw in a pair of whataboutisms exchanged for false equivalence? The price requires absolving any kind of personal responsibility, convenience not withstanding.
IMO we are in an inflationary cycle that is being underreported. Everything is becoming more expensive including you. It’s just that housing is becoming expensive faster than you are.

The US has a strong incentive to inflate their way out of debt post Covid. But the optics are catastrophic if they do it overtly. So they’ll keep reporting it low as long as possible. Look around you for reality.

If I’m right, you’ll want to take on as much fixed rate low-interest debt as you can stomach. Which explains why housing is getting expensive faster than you are.
I found one with 5 degrees.

Rostam to Hydro Flask
Right, and when doing such a large job, at least in the USA, the concrete would be getting delivered by a third-party material services company.

From what I recall (my dad had a concrete construction company back in the day) the material services co. played a significant role in selecting appropriate mix ratios and additives for the application and conditions. They're not going to be deliberately sending out a mix with insufficient binders, especially not on such a massive order.

The whole system runs on credit; the material services company doesn't get paid for the concrete they delivered until the whole job gets paid, sometimes years later. So they're incentivized to be quite involved and engaged in the whole process and ensuring success to the maximum extent available to them. The last thing they want is some finger-pointing lawsuits over a faulty mix getting in the way of collecting payment, or worse, get stuck with the bill of demolishing and disposing it all for a redo on top of it.
One reason amongst many others is the risk of a vaccine-resistant strain emerging. There’d be a pretty enormous evolutionary pressure for that outcome under those circumstances.
As long as most people in the U.S. buy houses with 30-year fixed mortgages, the total cost of a house will be 30 * 12 * monthly mortgage payment. When interest rates are low but home prices are high, they don't pay any more over the life of the loan. (Someone who buys when rates are high but prices are low does have the option to refinance, though, which is not available to someone who buys when prices are high.) The change in interest rates effectively shifts which portion of the buyer's income goes to the lender vs. the seller.

This is similar to how increases in local incomes are actually captured by landlords rather than workers. If housing is scarce and people need it to live, owners of that housing have the bargaining power to raise prices to capture available income.
You did a stellar job here thanks so much for this addition to the community !

On labeling, if you have a method statement or some go-by referance I am sure you would get some support here - I know I would help ! Maybe package a few blocks of 100 unlabeled comments with a readme & see what happens ?
Yeah, I use RN to do all the platforms. I spit out features pretty fast. They apply to all platforms since the codebase is 95% shared. I work normal 40 hours, never overtime. I could make more in SV possibly, but I like working where I'm at and I have a big influence (I decide the tech, style guide, some features etc.) Plus I don't like working with a team or too many meetings etc. I already work remote and I make a good salary. Cost of living would be much higher in SV and most companies would cut pay for remote work over there so it would be similar.
Another mail in the coffin. Why should I use Windows, when Linux is catching up and not using these horrific anti-patterns?
Actually no.

PCR tests will test positive for:

• COVID (maybe)

• Common colds caused by Coronavirus

• Common colds caused by Adenovirus

• Common colds caused by Rhinovirus

• Influenze A

• Influenza B

• "Dead" viral fragments of ANY of the above viruses

So the counts of cases and causes of death based on PCR testing are utterly garbage and grossly in numeric error.

This is well known by CDC and FDA. Which is why there is an RFP for new testing to replace all current COVID PCR-based testing technology/kits!

https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert...

This is also the reason why "flu" and "colds" disappeared in 2020. No we didn't magical cure them - they are entirely miscounted as COVID cases.
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Covid-19 was meant to start a remote work revolution in Japan-that didn't happen
I've had it disabled for years, without it reporting home. So far, Microsoft seems to respect group policy and disabled services on Pro edition.
It's not misguided, but it is distracting.

Many news headlines are using it.

It'd be interesting to check if it's a normal wording or mass psychology or mass psychology gone wrong where they think they are being subtle or A/B testing that is working.
Thanks and congrats on the citizenship lottery:)

However, be suspicious of anyone who hires you. It's very difficult to tell if we are smart or just easily manipulated by people who tell us we are. (hint: if you aren't already rich, seriously evaluate the likelihood of the latter) The time it takes to go back and finish your degree after you are 30 can work out to a few hundred thousand dollars in deferred wages/opportunity cost, meaning you aren't going to do it because it's not worth it, and you're going to be under that ceiling for good unless you find a way to really build wealth.

There is zero cost to you spending another couple years in school right now, especially if you are FB level talent. It's all there waiting for you.

Drop out to run a profitable company, never drop out for just a job, especially a fancy one. Prestige is what they offer you when it's not worth it.
I'm skeptical but intrigued. A lot of what is put forth in this article just seems like 3 brainstorm sessions by middle management, written out and editorialized.
Lunch can alter people’s faces. Facts.
Doesn't exactly fit your request, but maybe consider reading the book Suns of God too:

https://www.amazon.com/Suns-God-Krishna-Buddha-Unveiled/dp/1...