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I think the advice to avoid an MSCS should be taken with a grain of salt, particularly if you have an undergrad degree in CS and/or already know the material on this page.

While it is true that programs are cash cows and there is both potential debt and opportunity cost, you can learn a lot if you pick the right courses, such as well-taught graduate systems courses with a serious project component.

I have often wished that software I've seen, both commercial and open source, had been written by people who had a better understanding of computer systems, especially operating systems, databases, distributed systems, etc..
I am aware of his billions and the many ways he makes them. I have a machine sitting at my desk that never got close to an inch close to Windows, runs exclusively Linux, but a part of the money I paid for the hardware, ends up at Microsoft.

But if I donate 10 billion to promote child education does not make me an expert on it.

I am however, aware of some his efforts to restrict global access to vaccines something that will definitely be shown to be a mistake as new Covid mutations
emerge outside of the rich "triple vaccinated world"

"How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines"
https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-gl...
That's an interesting opinion.

I linked fox because it was the first link to pop up but the same news was picked by several other national and international outlets across the political spectrum.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/senior-who-adv...

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/who-taiwan-bruce-aylward

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8172031/WHO-officia...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52088167
Check out Probe Master 8018S test leads[1] or 8044S kit[2] in your choice of length. I've got a HP 3468A on the home bench and don't like futzing with lead compatibility when I want to switch to a 87V handheld.

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[2] https://probemaster.com/8000-series-kits/
> There's too much uncertainty and I don't know how to quantify and otherwise address risk from stranger

You know what would help with this? A randomized controlled trial. This isn't tricky at all, except that we can't do the science because it has become political, because people insist that they know the answer already! And if the study shows what they don't want to see, then they censor it, bury it, downvote it into oblivion, or...write missives about how they're going to ignore it.

Also, are you vaccinated? Yes? Then the answer is almost certainly no risk at all. This much we know from ~all of the data regarding vaccines and serious illness, worldwide.
We choose to die for/in defense of a lifestyle all the time. We call it war.
Veteran anti-consumerist crusader Reverend Billy takes aim at climate change
You should remember browser wars, PHP vs. ASP, Oracle vs Server, on and on and on. I am not saying I took already side with this statement. But I know enough about how Microsoft sneaks in the check under your glass when you are not looking.

The biggest dick move currently MS and Amazon is trying to pull off for example is forcing IoT world into OPC foundation together with Rockwell Automation which is originating from EU mind you.

There are absolutely better tools from EU and APAC (and from US too) etc. and if we follow your argument some IoT provider has to build a full cloud offering, compete with GCP, AWS and Azure just to earn the right to exist. That is not how leverage works. So in that sense, they are just pushing every service in your face just to install Windows to your own machine which you bought with your own money.

The statement doesn't ask for favors, it asks for level playing field.
machine shops are full of old mills. It's a capital item, you use it as long as you can to extract value, and they last a looong time.
Yes just type covid breakout grocery store in google to see all the local breakouts in your area.
> It’s mostly the US that has an insane vacine policy.

Source? There are plenty of other countries that require vaccinations and/or tests. I was recently checking Singapore, for instance, which still seems to require
one dose of a vaccine after recovery.
I will repeat myself one more time:

Facts simply do not concern themselves with your feelings. I know it feels like oppression (a new Third Reich!!111!) & like there is no metric to get rid of masks, but your feelings alone do not make these true statements. The fact -- and we should concern ourselves with facts, not vague feelings or bouts of hysteria -- is that all of these measures will go away once the pandemic has abated to such an extent that it no longer poses a substantial threat to human lives. It's as simple as that: given that masks do an excellent job of slowing the spread, ceteris paribus, wearing a mask is better than not wearing one.

This kind of "feelings logic" is why Trump lost, more or less -- most people are willing to undergo mild inconvenience to save lives & slow the spread of a deadly virus. Despite the feelings of frustration, which we all have.
Sweden kept its freedom and paid the price. Considering that Sweden is not now experiencing another wave while the other countries are, it remains to be seen what the price is the other countries ultimately will pay.
It's obesity.

We know that obesity is a large driver not just in severity, but transmission.

When you compare a world map of obesity rates to Covid death rates, you'll find a better match than any other single variable, far better-matching than income, masking, density, or any other single variable.
> Microsoft is integrating 365 deeper and deeper in their service and software portfolio, including Windows. OneDrive is pushed wherever users deal with file storage and Teams is a default part of Windows 11. This makes it nearly impossible to compete with their SaaS services.

Am I the only one that doesn't see what the big deal is here? The integration of cameras into smartphones wrecked the digital camera industry but I've never heard of a digital camera company petitioning the government to ban cameras from being bundled with smartphones to "allow a level playing field". How is this different?
In FORTRAN IV, multiple return labels could be passed to a subroutine. This
was carried into PL/I. In FORTRAN 66, this was not supported. But, FORTRAN IV and 66 both support assigned go to, which can be used to replace this -- WATFIV supported this (local routines that use ASSIGN, with a bit of syntax sugar).
Note that this is a LONG time ago (mid sixties)...
This has big "can you call it broken if it never actually worked in the first place?" energy.

EDIT: I have a soft spot for the person who is so over it that they sit around pontificating the meaning of the word broken instead of actually getting up and helping in the midst of an emergency. Because half the time that's me. When prod is on fire every day, eventually that becomes the norm.
It is called variant of *concern* not variant of *panic*. So while it may be wise to stop travelling (European here) it is absolutely useless to speculate about the doom it brings.
Doom is what we already do with ineffective measures to fight Delta (German here).
I prefer MAMAAN while we're there (which would translate to moom from french)
Ringworm is a fungal infection, not a parasite like ivermectin works against.
What stage of Julia denial is this?
Java has a massive ecosystem yet we continue to see rapid replacement of backends in JavaScript (Node now Deno) and Golang. Each of those language ecosystems rapidly became both large (arguably too large) and robust.

Rust has been eating C++ lunch. Same rapid rise of ecosystem story.

Instead of forcing Python to be a language it isn't it might be more efficient and ultimately the "right choice" to invest the time in Julia.

Julia is great for numerical computing, it needs faster time to plot and more hands in the ecosystem. The former will be solved and the latter seems inevitable to me. Pitch in!
I know this may come as a shock but the world is bigger than the US.

COVID strikes people of all backgrounds not just those from wealthy countries who can afford to eat well.
The issue with the 2020 travel ban was indeed that it was for a single country only (later added Iran too), and AFAIK only included direct flights, which kinda defeats the point. You have to go all in or nothing.
Much of Europe came late to the party, it’s hard to start a startup especially on the continent and even harder to get funding.

The UK is doing alright especially around fintech and some of the more academic startup tho the latter tends to be bought up rather quickly.

The costs of starting a company and the overall employment culture is quite antithetical to the whole fail fast startup culture. The cost of failure is substantially higher than in the US and the cost of scaling up astronomically higher and this is before you need to deal with unions and work councils.

The big nations in Europe as in France and Germany are trying to catch up but the next most likely spot would be the likes of Estonia followed up by Croatia.

Estonia is trying to become the Israel of Europe tech wise and they are on the right path.

Both Estonia and Croatia also have the digital nomad visa which allows you to come and work remotely from there for a whole year tax free, they hope that it would attract some talent that would like to settle and start companies there.

Estonia is especially well situated no corporate tax on unless the money leaves the country or is taken out as dividends, huge tax breaks on everything else and a flat 20% income tax rate that can attract a lot of tech talent from the rest of Europe.

Salaries in Europe are rising in tech they are still not anywhere near the US with the exception of some top talent in London and contracting but with 50% marginal tax rates and little to no compensation in the form of stock retaining top talent is difficult in this relatively mobile economy.

I’ve seen offers as high as €150K for senior self contributors and technical managers coming out of Estonia not many but a few, and even at half of that you’ll still be making most likely more than in Germany after tax.
Seems reasonable to skip Nu to avoid miscommunication. Maybe overthinking it a little.
People already have a free choice. I hate bullshit like that. And the last thing I want is governments making rules for API design.
1) There are a lot of comfortable masks which have high filtration. They're used widely in Asia. It's no >99%, but it is >90% when used reasonably. If both sides use them, that brings viral loads down by >99%, though.

2) You're right that Americans are idiots who mostly can't tell the difference between a piece of cloth, which reduces viral loads marginally, and a proper mask.

3) Vaccinations have minimal impact on spread for extended in-door socialization (~30% reduction in odds of spread at this point). They do pretty well for reducing risk to you (e.g. death or hospitalization), and they seem to do pretty well for avoiding casual spread (e.g. passing someone on the street).
Only if you want to lose money. Anyone who sold during the original Covid-related volatility (March, 2020) lost out. If you are a long term investor, this will be a small blip. There is no reason to think this time is any different.

Also consider this news had unfortunate time: the day after a holiday, the market closing early, low volume, etc. It would be the perfect time for large institutions to shake out any weak retail investors.
Great to see a startup figure that works out. Underserved in many ways as are small business. Lots of opportunity out there for a founder that is willing to learn about “the other half” and the opportunities to add efficiency to these types of businesses.
Surplus of all macronutrients - fat and protein, too. Mostly lacking in micronutrients - vitamins and minerals
Why the Christmas Shopping Season Is Worse Every Year (2014)
Diversity has actual value, unless you're only making software for educated white men.

I'm sure this ideology gets lost in some departments and it feels like a checkbox exercise, but that doesn't make it meritless.

It's not just who's the best, it's who's best for the team and the company.
That was my initial reaction when I saw the post, but then I realized how often very knowledgeable and level-headed people share and discuss very deep topics on HN. It's possible there has been less of this as HN has grown in the last few years, (I'm more than a decade old on here), but there are definitely people who understand this topic very deeply. Even software engineers. People who don't get all they know from 30 second news snippets.
It's heavily underreported. I have tons of friends who never saw a doctor, but have a long covid without any doctor. To me, the most striking things I notice among people is their cognitive capacity has changed.
And Lambda took over South America and people were worried it'd also overtake Delta in the USA.

Lambda didn't win however. We were right to be concerned but don't panic about it. Lambda clearly had some 'superpowers'
Mutations are happening in vaccinated people. It's similiar to what happens when you spray a new poison on an insect group. Most die but the bugs with mutations live replicate and quickly spread making that poison useless.
> How is this different?

It is pretty hard to install a camera in a phone, but it is pretty easy to install a program on a computer. That makes a really big difference as to where we should accept bundling as a good thing and where we should see it as a bad thing.
Thermapen
Considering covid spreads through wildlife, unless you succeed in vaccinating every monkey in the jungle that’s never going to happen.
Doesn't really make sense. The US is still producing new unicorn companies, so you can't claim Europe wasn't able to do that because of the US monopoly. Since those are new services, there was no previous monopoly, as the kind of service didn't exist.
Funny how they skipped "Xi"
Wimps.
The previous edge (at least the latter versions) weren't that bad. I had about the same amount of issues with safari and the edgeHTML edge, but the big difference for me was that at least I could test edge legally on a non-windows machine while I cannot for safari. I also ran into some issues of corporate policies holding back updates, which seems like a "unique" "feature" of windows.

Not being able to legally, without paying, test safari compatibility is crazy to me.
Facts don’t dictate policy. Even if masks were incredibly effective so some point we’d have to stop wearing them. Now that we have countless effective medical interventions, I’d say that time is now. Vaccinated individuals have zero business being required to wear masks. They’ve done their part and should be able to return to a fully normal life.

COVID is never going away. There is so much more to live for than being treated as a vector for exactly one disease.

And what I said is a value statement. Facts or science have nothing to do with it besides they guided and informed my opinions.
It's also worth noting that a lot of the narrative makes it sound like people called him racist for the ban, but it was mostly his use of "Kung-flu" and "china virus" that people had an issue with, not the ban itself.
A few things in hindsight that probably wouldn't work

* Government declares war on this thing and pays people to work as nurses

* Don't ventilate people

* Focus more on treatments early, spray and pray with drugs that already exist

* US centric. US is huge. All hospitals won't get over run. Only in certain parts of country. Move people out of big cities and into mid west

* Focus only on older people quarantine. Everyone still keeps their jobs and everyone can help their older neighbor or older family members financially.

* Start fitness surveillance on people. Only people eat well and work out can get "passports" to go places.

* Government calls it like it is, declares war on obesity, gives everyone a peloton and you have to ride it every night. If you have BMI over a certain amount you have to quarantine. Fast food is banned, smoking is banned, soft drinks are banned. McDonalds and other fast food restaurants pay for treatment and everyone killed by Covid. Deaths would be similar to a bad flu season since only generally healthy people would get it.

Some of those are more tongue and cheek.
Really excellent numbers. Anyone there before their Series C (and probably many even up to D) is going to make life changing money. Congrats to the builders of this company.
And seems reasonable to skip Xi because reasons.
Kinda tacky. What's been going on over at MS the past few years? Lot of short sighted decisions being made, then rolled back, that are damaging their reputation and seem counter to the brand Satya started building.
ByteDance, Alphabet, Netflix, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Apple

BANAMMA or NABAMMA
Hey, only 8 variants left until we are done with this shit!

Pi, Rho, Sigma, Tau, Upsilon, Phi, Chi, Psi, Omega

Right?!?!
The more I use Python the more I hate it. It’s genuinely a bad language, with a stellar ecosystem. Ironically, the most valuable parts of the ecosystem are often written in C (NumPy).

It’d be interesting to see how much of the Python ecosystem is actually necessary to move PyTorch to a better language.

I’m afraid we’re stuck with Python for the next 20 years. That makes me very, very sad.
This is disrespectful to the countless people who have suffered injuries and death from the covid vaccine.
Didn't mean to imply it was a disaster; but without being familiar with your work the main signal in your comment was that your supervisors didn't push for publishing it, which might be a hint it's not a good fit for arXiv either. But if your supervisors will endorse you then by all means go for it!

Another option might be to put it on Zenodo.
You get offers for Apple Fitness+ when buying a new Apple Watch. At the minute they’re very much on the boundary between ads and useful reminders/offers, and are still easy to dismiss. But I worry that as services continues to become a bigger and bigger focus for Apple that they may end up just like Samsung.
iCloud storage subscription when your phone is running low on space.

See this mini thread from a few days ago on the same topic -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29291166
For values of "a few" greater than six, perhaps.

Girls born recently will continue to have children of their own, and life expectancy is rising along with incomes. Google "demographic momentum". (Wikipedia: Population momentum.[1]).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_momentum
every large ingest app i have worked on had something akin to kafka, from raw 3d seismic broadcast via sat, to RF tower motion detection, to carrier grade cellular billing. common denominator was a replayable ingest queue. yes, kafka is a "great" idea. however, it is not a replacement for querying.
That's a ton of hot air and speculation that's going to feed FUD.
I remember when 60 seconds was the target time to finish loading a web page with images over a 14.4.

I remember scrolling on an unaccelerated SVGA card and watching the screen repaint.

I remember being impressed at how gopher would only redraw the parts of the screen that changed, making browsing gopherspace bearable at 1200bps.

I remember queuing downloads of shareware games over zmodem and waiting an hour or more to find out whether they would even run on my hardware, and having to go do something else while I wait because my OS couldn't do multitasking and even if it could it would drop bits because the 8250 UART didn't have a buffer.
We are all going to have to live in the metaverse at the rate things are going.
You're missing the forest from the trees here; no one's suggesting that. Instead, we're saying that perhaps you shouldn't use Sweden as evidence supporting non-intervention when their deaths per capita was an order of magnitude higher than similar countries with more aggressive policies.
If the market declines, then it may be a good time for you to buy. Over a long enough period of time, the average house price in modern history only increases.

The concerns for you in this scenario may be:

1. Has the property been poorly maintained for some time because the previous owner could not afford repairs after buying at a high price?

2. Has the property recently been poorly maintained because the owner knows it will be foreclosed on?

3. Will prices continue to drop, potentially putting you into the same situation as the current owner, or is now the right time? It's generally impossible to time the exact bottom of the market -- and what seems like the bottom may be far from it.
Neither language have proper tail call elimination, which, is absolutely insane to me.

Yall really just write procedural code for everything?
summary link

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.188...
Why shouldn't a company promote its own products? It is not "abuse of control", that is such bullshit. Also I have been using Windows for decades and never touched MS Office or Teams. It's not that hard.
With this the language gets a little more beautiful. On a related note, I just switched from a C# job at Microsoft (microservices) and moved to a Java shop where we're all really just starting to learn Kotlin and migrate our work there. I'm shocked how many times we've learned a fancy feature and I get to say, "actually, C# has something just like this too." (i.e. operator overloading) It is a surprisingly modern language keeping up with the other ones.
In a lot of places in Germany public transport was only restricted to using N95 masks. This summer in Berlin all the stores required N95 masks, as did universities. They have relaxed the rules since then and you can see in the recent infection statistics how that worked out for them.
The Servo browser engine was one of the first big applications of Rust. (Maybe I’ve missed a joke…)
Everything from Valco Instruments, where the founder and CEO (Stan Stearns [0]) launched using his own engineering designs and continued to maintain a prototyping bench indefinitely, long after he had numerous gifted engineers employed.

[0] https://www.vici.com/heritageaward2020/
I love watching C# slowly grow from a boring MS Java clone into something elegant but still useful
In general it boils down to "the distributed storage is buggy/not performant".

The standard experience I want as a user is that my "cloud" files should be treated like my "local" files. However, in practice this is not the case. There are constantly syncing issues, files go missing from device or another, old versions appear/disappear randomly, the syncing server can't connect for a very long time (say upwards of 20+ minutes), etc. etc. And of course as Murphy would have it, this usually happens around the time where you critically need to share files across machines with a client or something. It's just generally a really frustrating experience.
Indeed. If you assume that earlier years are worth more, the point is even stronger.
> We shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of better.

well said, in my opinion
[I should add that this was posted in 2012, and differentiation from first principles was apparently emphasised far more in the syllabus in 2017 onwards.]
Those actions are precisely what one might expect of a multinational organization aiming to build consensus. It sounds like you’re implying some sort of behind-the-scenes loyalties, whereas I would suggest they’re more of a necessary feature given this mission.
> To date, I'm aware of no study that has quantified a difference in infection, hospitalization or death that is attributable to travel bans.

Why would you need a study to tell you that if nobody with covid travels to a country, that country remains covid-free? Perhaps you are unaware, but there are countries on this planet that covid hasn't gotten to, and those countries have travel bans.
"Omicron" also has the advantage of being easier to hear and understand in english - "Nu" can cause confusion because it sounds so much like "New".