skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can contribute a bit here-

Would suggest there are two distinct motivations that should be teased apart. One of them is self-worth, one of them is skill/expertise development.

Self-worth: just about all of the folks I know who don't have a BS and are working in tech feel like they are imposturing. The absence of a credential impacts their personal sense of self-worth and qualification. A number of these folks are very, very senior, extremely skilled, well respected, etc. From what I have seen, it does not and has not impacted their career development/potential in the areas where they have skills. The imposturing is purely in their minds. I relatedly see folks who have a PhD from a second or third tier school and have a self-perception of being failures. In reality are incredibly sharp, organized, competent- ideal colleagues. Your mental health and self-image is your own, but this is a vote not to spend time/money for a credential primarily for a sense of worth.

Expertise: this is a different dimension. The areas you mention- some kinds of ML, 3d graphics, distributed systems, many others- to work there day to day requires deep and specific expertise. It does NOT require a degree. Just skills.

To learn deep things, you need to do deep work. There is no other way. You need to carve out the time and brainspace to devote serious attention. An academic environment with guidance from faculty following a curriculum can be an excellent- tho expensive- way to do that.

As someone with a BS who in their 30s felt the same pull towards depth and went back to grad school- I definitely felt the psychic weight of being far and away the oldest student in my cohort. I got over it. It was great to be able to do the work.

In terms of opportunity cost- life is long. You have the rest of your 30s, your 40s, your 50s, your 60s- at least- to be doing productive interesting work, even if you don't need to be doing it for financial reasons.

Concur with others that the best option is to work for an employer who will fund some or all of an MS. Schools- even top 10 CS programs- in reality DNGAF whether you have a BS. For many, MS programs are critical money makers. They care that prospective students bring the $ and can demonstrate technical, organizational, and communication skills. There is an admissions process- their faculty operate a human-limited scale so your $ will be ranked against other candidate $. But some school will want your $. Start to make lists of schools/programs in areas of interest to you. You deserve to give yourself the chance!

Best wishes.
If you have a point, just make it; name-calling doesn't advance the conversation.
That still sounds like somebody went on a liberty binge.

Why are towns competing for clean water sources by how much they can pay to a provider?
> To be fair Apache Spark, which started long before either company existed

Databricks was founded before Spark 1.0 released by Spark's creators.

Hadoop was created at a time when network and disk were much slower, RAM was less abundant. Bringing compute to the data made sense, but it typically doesn't anymore.
Yeah but this is the classic type of bureaucratic effort-justification hurdle that leads to tech debt or just general crappiness never getting improved.
Maybe don't hammer it so hard?
Disaster.radio has planned for this [0]. I really like what they do.

0 - https://disaster.radio/
Richard Werner is a bit nutty but his work does have value. He takes a heavily heterodox position on interest rates, some of this is him being misleading in order to be controversial. But his points about the impact of interest rates on bank profits are very trenchant (and btw, the reason why he is a bit nutty is because his professional experience was Japan in the late 80s/90s, that scenario tested all the assumptions about macro and found a lot of them were false, his book Princes of the Yen is good...although, again, very heterodox).
That was the entire source code. There is a project file, but it's incredibly simple and they are meant to be human consumed/edited nowadays.
Visual Capitalist on Largest Sovereign Wealth Funds
For a fair comparison you have to use an equivalent priced device sold by Microsoft itself (so a premium Surface), and that has none of the problems you described.
I don't think your analogy is a good one. Women go on maternity leave, not men. So if one group of people are the only ones who get hit by busses, and are in-fact expected to be hit by busses, who in their right mind would hire them?
Making synth gas or ammonia would give them a multitude of markets competing for the product, vs. just China at the end of a wire.

But Chile probably needs a lot of capital to build out the solar arrays. A guarantee like that might be necessary to get China to pony up.
Well of course, but the society at large, including the media, and most people on here and other social networks act as if the current situation is the actual final truth. I remember the start of covid, when we were talking about single digit total cases in european countries, and a few people ("conspiracy theorists") wore ffp3 masks, respirators, etc. to stores, and they were made fun as "stupid idiots", "conspiracy nutjobs", and that we should believe(!) science, and wash our hands.... then bam, almost overnight, mandatory masks everywhere.

> "There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there's some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly," Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies program, said at a media briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-mas...

Same with vaccines... all four approved vaccines here were perfectly safe, until they weren't. The mandates basically forced you to pay for testing unless you get vaccinated, and while all other vaccines need two doses, J&J needs only one, so a lot of people got vaccinated by that, because paying 12eur for tests every 48h to be able to ride a bus to work was expensive... and a 20yo girl died due to the vaccine (blood clots), bringing the death toll for girls under 25 to "1" because of the vaccine and "0" due to covid (with around half of ~2mil population getting infected). And what did people say? "why didn't she take the mRNA vaccine?" Why... because the science, our ministers, doctors and the government said that J&J is perfectly safe... a few days after, vector vaccines only for 50yo+ and those who explicitly request them.

And also... a lot of masks actually dont help at all:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/

> Penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% and medical masks 44%.

For a year now, people were wearing masks, which let through 97% of (influenza-like) viruses, and that was "perfectly ok" (except in few countries, that mandated ffp masks).

TLDR: If we remove every skeptic (eg. people who wear masks, even though WHO says that there's no evidence masks help, and might even even be worse, if you handle them incorrectly), and then science "changes", and we ban all those, who say masks don't help... who's left?
> Why not let the rich where they want, and let the poor commute to high-job areas by solving the transportation problem? Why there is so much ado and drama? What am I missing here?

You're missing racism and greed.

"We don't want those people in our neighborhood" has been the reason for not allowing fast, dense, efficient, usable public transit to exist in the US.

As for the basic laws of economics, they explain that the benefits of public transit are a positive externality; and therefore, public transit has to be subsidized by the government to actually serve the needs of the people. "Not on my tax dime!", says the US. "Who would even use this, poor people? Of color, even? Not in my backyard, and not with my taxes!"

In the same breath, we pay for the ever-expanding highway systems which don't solve the problem, but without which all the Teslas and Porsches would not be of much use.

On top of it, the higher-paid peons (tech workers) can get to feel superior to the people they depend on for living (service workers) by wasting fewer hours of their lives in traffic each day.

See comments in this discussion saying "I don't believe anyone is entitled to live within a short commute from work".
Good riddance. I don't think KYC/AML are a force for good. Its just more box ticking laws that serve to give a false sense of security while poor people are being excluded from the banking system and normal people have their all their data stolen from centralized databases.

Real dangerous criminals don't give a damn about KYC/AML laws and operate freely within the banking framework. The European Central Bank chairwoman is a felon convicted for massive government payouts.
With a datawarehouse, you can only interface with your data in SQL. With big query and snowflake, your data is locked away in a proprietary format not accessible by other compute platforms. You need to export/copy your data to a different system to train an ML model in python or R.

With the lakehouse, you can use python, R and Scala, (not just SQL) to interface with your data. You can use multiple compute engines (spark, Databricks, presto) so you are not locked into one compute engine.

I recall being a junior programmer, and wishing I could talk to my MySQL database in python code to do some processing that was difficult to express in SQL, that day is finally here.
It's easy to build something better engineered when you don't have an installed base. Getting adoption is the hard part. Chia is doing pretty well for a new chain but we'll see what happens long term.
Delete code yes, features only if obnoxious.
Speaking as someone actively hiring here and having worked with top teams on the PhD + industry side: Pick an area, get dangerous over say 6-9mo on your own time through a mix of planned practice (vs random noodling) + projects, then get more dangerous via an employer with senior talent happy to train some junior talent over 2yrs. From there, you're firmly in.

That's not an option for everyone (aging parents, needy kids, ...), but for software engineers with modern salaries, it's often approachable.

Ex: We'd bite if someone demoed us some impressive GLSL JS work, discussed how they'd get another 100X of scale, and their code style looks like it'd be practical for us to collaborate around. We require the same from someone with a degree. To your advantage, it shows (a) you can hit the ground running (b) you've got the "slope" / drive we're looking for when choosing to invest in someone new to the area.

A degree does unlock some things for us. Some US Gov grants needs it. But more important, degree or no degree, is the independent projects/papers/grants/etc. along the way that demonstrate they can do more of the same. But much of that is about going beyond research engineering (=> RFPs, ...), and you get much of that experience on-the-job... if you've already show you can do the core coding.
Trust the s̶c̶i̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ politics.
I use to feel the same way before I started working at a larger Silicon Valley company as a software engineer. I graduated from a state school with a degree in Industrial Print Management and always felt like I was at a disadvantage because I didn't have a CS degree. Most of what I know about software engineering is self taught, I felt very self-conscious about this.

My performance did not match my perception and I was consistently outperforming my peers; getting recognition that I never felt I deserved. It turns out that practical experience is actually more valuable than academic experience. I would rather hire someone who's humble, driven, and ambitious but didn't go to CS school then someone who's none of those things but they have fancy degree.
I don't use my iphone for email because I get 200-300 emails per day, and there's no way to mass delete the inbox. I have to select-delete for every email.
Because they have happy, contented (if poor) populations who enjoy better health than Americans, despite the fact that they can't import internationally available health supplies due to crippling sanctions? One suspects that someone feels a little weird about that...
> But to say that it "just works" and has no problems is simply false.

It's also become a bit like "Agile". Take ten companies doing some sort of OKR process, and I bet most of the overlap is in name only.
Rowhamming would be a better pun, as DDR5 uses a Hamming code for error correction.
Right now, it's still unclear.

Initially, it seemed like a done deal because of the likely support of the major opposition (PSD, centre-right), which has advocated for wider surveillance in other contexts. Its leader also has a history of being strong on policing and surveillance as former mayor of Porto.

However, in the last few days the PSD is apparently distancing themselves from government, e.g. recently u-turning and siding with the left opposition to approve compensating pensions for the disabled against the ruling party's (PS, centre-left) position against it.

Today, the PSD demanded that only the bodycam mandates and wildfire monitoring portions are put forward in order to vote favourably. This means putting aside the AI, biometrics and surveillance provisions. If this stands, the most concerning parts of the law would not go forward.

But in Portugal we're now in a pre-election moment, where positions might flip and statements easily get reversed, so we're bound to have a thrilling few days ahead until the final vote by the end of the month.
They're not when it comes to health care. There is a clear majority in favour of universal health care benefits in the electorate on either side of the political duopoly. Most representatives are just not listening to their constituents.
Ask HN: How do I get out of kdb+/q (and other niches)
Hi HN.

I have worked as a kdb+/q developer for 3 years now. I enjoy the language and the money is good, but I hate working in finance.

I was wondering if anyone had any experience getting out of an odd niche into general SWE?

Maybe you were a COBOL / Fortran / Common Lisp dev and you managed to transition to Python / Java.

Any and all advice would be much appreciated!
It’s not an Apple problem, it’s industry-wide. This talk [0] is a great warning about the general decline in software quality. I think we are at some sort of second software crisis. We need to get rid of the OOP and DRY mindset and build things with a focus on speed, stability, security and minimal dependencies.

[0]: https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko
Who decides what's bloat? macOS ships with Apple News, Podcasts, the App Store, Books, Garageband, Stocks, iMovie, Keynote, etc. A lot of their stuff is even pinned to the taskbar by default. Should be consider that bloat? I don't need any of those programs (or prefer alternatives), so it seems like it's bloat for me.
that involves creating a bunch of project files etc. so it's not quite the same!
Safari Technology Preview Updated with 120Hz Scrolling Support on M1 MacBook Pro
Off-topic but why do people in the US say "we are pregnant" and not "my wife/girlfriend is pregnant". By basically all definitions only a woman can be pregnant so I don't understand why and where this usage emerged?

EDIT: I can see now that the question was either poor taste considering the topic of the article or sensitive by a lot of people. I had no idea that this was a controversial question and I am sorry.
This situation doesn't seem cruel to you?
On that note, google-ing "WarRoom podcast" doesnt' return as the first result a link to the website itself [1], the first page is occupied by other podcast websites that "re-publish" (is that the correct word?) said podcast. Yandex does the correct thing, the website actually behind Bannon's podcast is the first in the SERPs, DDG has it as the 3rd result, still ok, because visible.

So it looks like the people at Alphabet/Google are well into suppressing political discourse, in which case I think a break-up of the company once this administration is voted out is totally in the cards.

[1] https://listen.warroom.org/?__cf_chl_rt_tk=gIeuKWPwW6dBmcIkh...
... but "medicaid for all" is the proposed medical coverage reform.
Perhaps. My challenge probably lies in finding out what my requirements are, it sounds like.

In the situation I’m dealing with presently, I don’t necessarily need this stakeholder to take any action other than make a decision on two similar options with different outcomes only they have the business authorization to make.

For my part, I’ve documented, and shared documentation with the stakeholder, and had multiple sessions with them about requirements and next steps to complete this project, and asked them repeatedly if there was anything that prevented us from moving to the next step. Each time the answer is no. By every measure I’ve tried so far, it seems there’s no question marks or missing inputs from me on actually executing the next phase of this work, and the stakeholder understands the options/risks/trade offs by their own admission…

Yet when I ask “then what is your decision on these two options for the next step?”, we end up going back to questions if the previous requirements have been met-which we already found a consensus that they were and the stakeholder suggesting we aren’t ready until those are met.

It feels…cyclical.

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a forced analogy: it’s like you and your friend are working together to build a custom bike, your friend knows a little about bikes, but asked you for help because you really know bikes, and after you finish putting the bike together, the last thing to do is wrap up the handle bars, so you ask your friend what color grip tape they want, but they start asking you if the tires have been inflated.
At 20% iOS deactivates the powersaving mode, I think.

At 80% iOS notifies that it is charged enough, so you can unplug if you want to avoid supercharging it.
I believe it’s just in System Preferences -> Keyboard, but may be mistaken.
Heh - It's hard to answer these questions when they are posited as loaded questions so clearly :D

I don't think it's about Google or Chrome winning. I believe Google is pretty clear that a healthy and open web where anyone is able to freely publish, monetize and consume content, as well as build and use apps is important for it's business and success. I think Google has a part to play in the success of the web, I think I can help be a force for good in the success of the web, however we're just parts of the ecosystem whole and the web will be around still long after Google.

I don't believe new features in Chrome will ever stop because we still believe the web should be able to do everything that other platforms can do and we want to keep offering that to people.
If I had one of those krell brain boosting machines I'd learn CUDA.
You can't just "stop" someone with deadly forth because he appears to have "gunned down" someone before. You dont know the whole story and you are not in the position to declare who is the victim and who is the "bad guy". Its not self-defense if you chase someone. A fleeing suspect even if you would have witnessed an execution style murder is not legal to just shot. It must be reasonable to believe that you or someone else is in imminent danger of harm. Like a terrorist who just randomly shoots at anyone. Commonly referred to as "an active shorter". In this case there was no doubt he was fleeing from the mob.
I still type 'ip a s' on osx machines multiple times a week, even though I know it doesn't exist for many years.

If on wifi one can also simply option click the wifi icon in the menu bar. Maybe some people don't know yet, it was a late discovery for me option click shows more information there.

For quick internet access check I like 'curl ipconfig.sh'
To OP: @basedgod

> "health insurance shouldn't mean we'll do whatever it takes to keep somebody alive no matter what"

Yeah, I bet when it comes to your own healthcare you'll want your provider to do whatever it takes to keep you alive. Because you think your life matters.

You care so much for the value of your own life but so little for the lives of others. You really do think you are some kind of "god" saying who should live and who should die. You need to look in the mirror and realize that you aren't God.
Yeah, because surely governments and medical institutions have never lied to, hurt, or killed anyone. They say they want to help us and no one should be allowed to say otherwise. And I'm sure YouTube's only motivation is to protect us.
>We as a species have progressed further than anything else because we do not leave the weak ones behind even when they have no chance. This is what makes us human, not the individualism that modern society promotes.

I don't think OP's point was to leave sick/disabled babies to die, but rather to prevent them from being born. There are some people (ie. anti-abortionists) who think the two are equivalent, but there's also people who think they're not.
> from a society rather than being a single evolved entity

Evolution happens to populations, not entities. I think this is one assumption that's pretty firmly grounded.
I'm curious about this myself.

I activated the feature today, and my Indexed DB for mail.protonmail.com now has a table "messages", and each message has an ID, a time, and an "aesGcmCiphertext" object with 2 child objects of keys "iv" and "ciphertext". The "iv" object has 12 integer keys from 0-11, with integer values between 0-255. I don't see any data in the "ciphertext" object at all.

I am not well versed in indexeddb so can't shed more light.
I do a lot of Rust programming, I personally find Rust more productive right now.
Does that not encourage people to then become baby factories? If you know you get 8 months paid leave every time you had a baby, why would any man or woman go to work again? They would just sit at home and breed.
Cant editorialise title as per HN guidelines, but the real reason for the submission was the support of lazy image loading.

And Apple uses the same URL for all of its release note doesn't help submission either.
Who could forget the Unbreakable and Unhackable Campaign...

The "Unbreakable" Marketing Campaign:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-oracle-hackers/9780...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/invincible-oracle-not-so-secur...
Yep, my first one. If you don't count .BAT programming.
I think because they're the most extreme example of what
you could plausibly be talking about, and I do actually in my personal life see leftists who defend them.

Like most things there are layers of complication. I think a lot of people would admit that say France, Germany, the UK all seem to have better healthcare systems than the US (though not without their flaws). Moving down a bit maybe Iran and China do too and plausibly that might be what you meant, but I'd wager most countries you might be talking about have worse 50th percentile and maybe even 95th percentile outcomes than the US.
As someone who's teaching themselves C could you elaborate?
Every company should be able to do without any employee. If not, that's a failure of the company. What if they decided to quit? What if they died?
Is there any higher level language that compiles down to COBOL? Seems like there would be market for such a thing.
Many functions return foo AND the error. This is occasionally very useful.
> This is exactly the type of thing we dreamed about when we were first creating the internet

This is one reason why I think P2P tech like peertube will not only be around longer but even thrive.
ie: there would be no "application process" as everyone would have it.
it's to show their relationship status as intending to raise the child together.
How many counties are sanctioned and are championed by some for their health care? OP also mentioned the CIA.
But you know you can have a global menu out-of-the-box on KDE?