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Harvard Extension grad here. Even though most people taking Extension School classes are casual class-takers, the liberal arts degree programs for undergraduates and graduate students are well established (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/10/7/extension-schoo...).

While the Extension School does offer certificate programs, it's the Harvard Business School that has really benefited IMHO. They are really pushing hard to grow them (https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/hbs-online-certificate-of-s...).

You are correct about the growth of online degrees. HES degree programs received a massive boost when online classes were offered and "professional" concentrations (business, technology) were made available at the graduate level starting about 15 years ago. The number of new degrees awarded every year has tripled as a result.

Note that the University does not allow the Extension School to award MS or MBA degrees, and there is a lot of controversy over the convoluted and demeaning designation that's used on our degrees (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/3/9/extension-school...).

The other area in which the Harvard Extension School is well-known is its post-bacc. It's highly regarded, and people who complete the program have been admitted to top-tier medical schools across the U.S. (https://extension.harvard.edu/academics/programs/premedical-...).
I completely disagree. Knowledge recollection of school taught concepts is irrelevant to practically every job. Yes, most jobs require you to remember various work-related things, but those are not taught in school, they are taught and reinforced on the job itself.
Incredible they got away with this for so long!

I worked as a developer, then architect, at oil and gas tooling companies for several years, and got to know many parts of the business. Something of note here is that they took their supply chain very seriously - some of their equipment will sit subsea for decades, and failures could be catastrophic for the environment as well as in monetary terms, so you can understand why.

For suppliers involved with fabrication or testing (e.g. pressure testing, weld inspections and xrays), our logistics people would routinely physically visit the supplier to audit their records and watch the process with their own eyes.
> No. You already have 24x7 staff at this scale. Hardware requires thought and skill, but then so does software. It isn't voodoo.

Not necessarily. Hardware requires people to physically replace failed drives and otherwise do on-site maintenance.

In the unlikely event that an AWS volume fails, I can (and have) automation to fix that. While everyone sleeps.
It changes so fast that "when" is largely irrelevant. I started with crypto in 2013, just getting to play with Bitcoin a little bit. Was never a big holder, but waiting for the day it would see bigger adoption. I lost interest in BTC after the block size debate. My first exposure to ETH was shortly after they launched, but it took me a while to really understand how it works. These days I use ETH every single day, mainly via NFTs and side projects. I'm also interested in new and emerging chains with niche use cases, getting in early as a validator as a way of placing bets on potential future success... but I'm in no way a fanatic. I don't think crypto will "replace" fiat. I don't think NFTs will disrupt ownership, and I optimize my gains towards traditional investments. I find crypto fun, and I think it offers interesting ways for folks to interact with each other using programmable money. My gripe I suppose is how easily some folks dismiss it, but to each their own.
The expenses of wikipedia itself are miniscule compared with wikimedia's total revenue and expenses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
1. The same thing could've been said about the Covid-19 pandemic back in February 2020. In fact, a certain American President said as much. The fact that people are incapable of envisioning major disruptions to their lives does not prove that scientists are wrong; it's proves that humans can be blindsided by their own biases.

2. Countries don't plan their economies half a century ahead. Most struggle to plan beyond the next election cycle.
This comment thread is about someone specifically calling out having an offline copy of music and movies.
I don't know if this is possible considering many of the big SV companies demand their talent to be on-site. Even Amazon which has become a cornerstone of cloud hosting is basically stuck with on-site/office attendance policies. So, I really don't see remote work being the silver bullet to kill the on-site/office beast. It'll be a generational change and not simply a change due to one pandemic.
"I'm not quite sure what you're trying to express, because all I'm reading in your comment is "you can get none of the benefits today with no changes", which doesn't seem like a very interesting statement?"

You can get some of the benefits today with no changes to Go. You can create a package-level sealed interface: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2917

"I don't understand why you insist on quoting "sum types" when literally just mentioning them."

Because they aren't literally sum types, in that they have every feature that everyone associates with sum types, and people are very sensitive about that. So I don't need anyone replying with "but those aren't really sum types", either for my previous HN post or the blog post I just linked. Yes, I know they don't check every check box. But they do check a few of them, and, arguably the most essential one which is that you can indeed implement

type ASumType interface {
unexportedMethod()
}

func SomeFunction(thing ASumType) { ... }

and ASumType can be any of several types, closed and limited at compile time to only be things defined in this particular package in a way that can not be extended by any other external package.
Agreed. There is copious data, and substantial circumstantial evidence, that points to the fact that children who come from a single-parent (specifically single-mother) household encounter overwhelming obstacles in nearly every area of life.

Anyone (yes, anyone) who attempts to advance the idea of eradicating monogamy is flirting with madness.
Too bad the Zeitgeist didn't land on "Typed" vs "Untyped".
I didn't know Gates ran a non profit that provided you with food/content/whatever on a daily basis. Not sure in what other scenario this comparison makes sense.
> no one is going to want to dig through a pile of trash to find out what they're saying

People still use clearnet websites that do this every day. For some sites, read: news outlets, it is their business model.
Between content moderation, dev, security, infrastructure and such, then the support needed, I can easily see how Wikipedia can grow to 500 people. They're offering a stable product that has a presence in almost _every country in the world_, serving an insane volume of data. This is not a random startup, I'm actually amazed they pull it out with just 500 people
Wikipedia doesn't need money. Wikimedia wants an even bigger pile of money to light on fire, and trades on wikipedia's good name to solicit that money: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
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This is where RocksDB or other SSTable storage systems really line up well with SSDs. The write amplification reduction can improve throughput and disk life by multiples.

https://engineering.fb.com/2016/08/31/core-data/myrocks-a-sp...
I can totally 100% see how transgender people might trip up some of these things. For the point of this discussion, though, all the other biases had a specific example in the linked article, whereas that one didn't.
Is there a point today to get a degree in the IT space? Universities are a thing of the past where the access to quality knowledge is ubiquitous. I mean most of thing that get you a decent job you can learn even on YT for free. Sure you are going to need some self-discipline and a lot of practice but it is perfectly doable. For $115k you could have plenty of funds to hire some pros to mark your home works or give some pointers.
I think only advantage of Uni is that you can get connections, but you can also get them by going to local meet ups.
It's not just MBAs it's M*, I have a close friend who works in the administration for a well known university, her department administration will not hire any junior person that doesn't have a masters degree, it doesn't particularly matter what masters degree they have, just as long as they have one.

In addition to requiring a masters degree, my friends admin department is way over staffed, having come from private industry my friend is shocked at how little people do. My friend has a boss whose screen they can see, and estimates that the boss puts in roughly 15mins of work per day and spends the rest of the time on Twitter & Facebook. My friend estimates that the headcount is roughly 3 times more than it would be in private industry
But I'm not really sure now If I reread my comment :(
> On LinkedIn I frequently see Harvard listed on profiles, but upon digging in, it is Harvard Extension School which mostly seems to offer certificates.

Harvard Extension started in the 1830s and became a formal division of the university over 100 years ago. They offer real degrees to "non-traditional" students. People that get admitted get the same student ID card that everyone else gets, has the same facility access, etc.

The biggest transgression is that Harvard gives those graduates a liberal arts degree in "extension studies" without naming the concentration.

People also seem to have issues with the fact that anyone that applies and meets the requirements is admitted as a student. But if you count the number of people that start with one of the "courses for entry" and compare to the number of people who actually get admitted, their admission rate would be even lower than, say, the Harvard Kennedy School (which by the way is willing to grant a master's degree to someone that doesn't even have an undergraduate degree).

Why it gets such flack for being "Harvard, but not really" doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Harvard College - the undergraduate school - is the super exclusive part. Harvard University - the collection of graduate schools plus the college - is huge with a wide variety of exclusivity and completely uncorrelated ability.
I didn’t know Peter thiel is Indian
I have deuteronopia (basically see almost no green), and to my eyes, the blocks marked Marchado, Vlenot, and Brettel are nearly indistinguishable from the original, but the Coblis blocks are not as close. I can see a difference.
My very catholic mother has always been very picky about going to mass with Priests she enjoys.

She enjoyed getting her pick via streaming during the lockdowns. Could attend mass from many different churches virtually.
>the vast majority (> 80%) of eligible whites turned out and voted 68% in favour - with the gerry-mandered districts in my original post voting 85% in favour.

This stat seems to support teacherdan's point. Even at a time where it had become clear that the apartheid system could not continue (regardless of whether or not people supported it in principle), almost a third of whites votes to maintain it. In other words, a whole lot of white people supported apartheid right up to the bitter end, and that is one of the reasons that it was possible for it to continue for so long.

Also, the referendum appears to have been in 1992, not 1990.
Probably metrics saying that a lot of traffic with cookies from ycombinator are searching for "bear"
Plenty of American companies, including small businesses, have already overhauled their systems and business processes to comply with GDPR. It's not the Ghost of Tech Future that some politicians apparently think it is.
All you need to do is work with a remote or offsite team once to disabuse you of this idea. It is extremely hard to make remote work...work. Also, cost savings are often negated by having to set up parallel structures in X or Y country. Suddenly your cheaper dev costs are being eaten by legal, finance and HR.
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For comparison, OpenStreetMap has roughly $800k in reserves and their expenses are a couple hundred thousands dollars per year.

I agree there are probably more justifiable expenses at Wikimedia than that, but that there is a middle ground between the high water mark they're targeting and what other non-profits are operating with. The Internet Archive's annual budget is ~$10 million.

EDIT: @dylan604 (replying here due to HN throttling): Section 230 shields Wikipedia from most liability/exposure: https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230/successes/wikipedia
Despite all the talk IPFS is just voluntary content mirroring. If people feel you're spamming, they'll stop mirroring your shit. Which of course illustrates the worthlessness of the platform for "Anti-censorship" and "Free Speech."
Any specific features that stand out to you?
Microservices: Reasoning about Boundaries
How else do you think they are gonna make money?
Based on my understanding of PSLF, that's a feature not a bug
Been a while since I worked with Go but I'm considering it for an upcoming project.
Is there any word on a new, updated version of "The Go Programming Language" (Donovan, Kernighan) to cover all the new features since then? I really enjoyed working through that book.

If not: Any tips for a good resource to really get up to date with the new additions/changes since ~2015?
What job can you get after liberal arts degree? I am guessing politics?
According to their 2019/2020 statement they spend 5M$ in "donation processing" and an additional 5M$ in wages for the donation campaigns.

10M$ in expenses to get 120M$ really isn't so bad.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/f/f7/Wikim...
It certainly wasn't a big enough deal to prevent everyone else from enjoying the platform. Things worked out. There were problems here and there but by and large people discussed most topics with each other civilly and the system worked without any central authority approving each post.
And this is why Europe will never tear down America's hegemony.
Did not manage to get any result. Is the service down?
> But open the email and you don’t see that text anywhere!

In the email industry, we call this a "pre-header". The bit about "multi-part email" is pure nonsense. If you put any text above the body, it won't render in the email but will still be parsed by the inbox preview function (since it ignores any html it sees). This was mostly an exploit back in the day, but clearly email clients love it because they doubled down on supporting it.

Having a different from and reply-to is also built into the way email was designed. Both of these features are built into every email client and service.

I thought this was going to be a complaint about their clearly hyperbolic messaging, but OP is really frustrated about some of the most basic features of email. I wonder if he has yet learned that the letters he gets from the White House are not actually sent from the White House.
My main take aways from this are that cloud vendor lock-ins are real, and they can be hard to break free from.

Perhaps that's more of a cautionary tale for new projects than a justification for the expense though.
An NFT cannot be a certificate of authenticity, because the content is hosted by a third party. The third party can replace the supposedly original content with a non-original copy at any time.
I can only speak for MIT, but its 5th year Masters of Engineering program does require a thesis[1]. It makes sense for a lot of students at MIT since many undergrads take graduate-level classes anyway (since they can also fulfill undergrad requirements and are often more interesting anyway) so it's only slightly more effort to do the thesis and get the Masters.

In my own personal experience, I was already done with the graduate class requirement after my 4th year, so I only had to concentrate on doing the thesis during the 5th year (though I also enrolled in a couple electives of my own choosing). For me, that year was relatively more chill than my previous years.

[1] https://www.eecs.mit.edu/academics/undergraduate-programs/me...
> ... and has far better documentation.

I suppose libraries to access the 'net (and WWW specifically) etc. are meant. CL the language is very exhaustively documented, even if much of that documentation is more than 20 years old (and a good share predates Google, so it might not be as accessible).
Does the fact that people digest food differently make a difference? I feel like the way food is digested is "knowable" in a way that physics is knowable, we just don't have adequate tools to measure all the complexity yet. As opposed to lots of things about sociology being "unknowable," like Asimov's Foundation being fantasy (probably).

In any case, I was attempting to make the point that hard science and soft science are anything but settled categories, which seems borne out by the responses.
I've got plenty of podcasts and am not really interested in this topic, but I'll definitely give you props for a clever title.
Librarian is a very high status job for “alternatives” in New Zealand. Because of that, libraries can demand high levels of credentials for low levels of pay.
The bloatware battle has come to an end...basically when you have 8-64 threads/cores. And 16gigs of ram or more. It really makes no difference how bloated it is
That's why other products have deduplication keys / aliases so you don't miss important ones.

Care to link to the docs? I'm interested.
very few people are paid for "poly-tricks"
It reminds me of the Mozilla Foundation.
I'm waiting for them to announce "permanent reality" next.
It’s more free than some places online but definitely less free than standing on a box in the park and making a speech.
Once I concluded that I have ADHD, I made an appointment with a psychiatrist, although it's still about a month out. I expect he will put me on medication. Actually, it took me quite a while to get the appointment; many therapists have very long waits for new patients, or are not taking new patients at all. Supposedly has to do with mental health effects of COVID. Also, the ADHD itself made the whole process of selecting a therapist much more complicated and drawn-out than it should have been.
What does “woke” mean?
You need to be asking yourself why you need so much documentation. Engineers writing docs is a bad use of time. Find a way to make the engineering obviate the need for docs is probably better.

Otherwise, maybe hire some technical writers
I'm happy you included that, my alma matter has also turned to this, the percentage of out of country compared to in state has changed drastically since I went there. I feel bad for the kids applying who in years passed would have been accepted but now aren't because of these perverse incentives.
Funny, I assume the exact opposite. I'm guessing many people oppose government data collection but because they are buying data on the open market from people who "opt in", they're okay with it.

I wish there was the ability to make a poll:

* This is fine, privacy is dead.

* This is okay because of private companies collecting and selling the data, even to the government

* This is okay because the government is using this data to enforce laws I believe in, even though it rewards private data merchants.

* Everyone involved is evil, the contracts should be voided and the companies dissolved.
According to this[1], Julias threading/task model is in part inspired by Go. I don't know about any detailed analysis on similarities and/or differences though.

[1] https://julialang.org/blog/2019/07/multithreading/
Sounds cool, do you also provide search capabilities for public datasets and their metadata (e.g. from Kaggle)?
Government policy and major aspects of the economy are inexorably linked. It doesn't make sense to consider them separately. And I think the structure of production is quite a separate question than billionaires' personal wealth.

Take EV adoption for example—the most successful countries are those with major subsidies for EVs and major regulations on pollution from cars. This simultaneously requires tax money and enriches some billionaires, like Elon Musk.