skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article goes way too far in its conclusions. It points out some real problems with American universities (and makes some specious claims about their history), then generalizes this to saying that all universities must be destroyed. There are myriad countries that have both a strong university system and a strong vocational system and don't saddle any student with a mountain of debt. Don't mistake the dysfunction of the USA for something fundamental about The World and All Human History.

>In 2020, every white-collar business and college in the country pivoted over to distance work and distance learning because of Covid-19. This was arguably going to happen over the next decade anyway, but fear of germs caused it to happen in a year. As colleges struggle to reopen during Covid, students who are used to distance learning anyway struggle to understand why they have to pay exorbitant tuitions for a campus they never see, nor in fact need in any way, if their goal is to get the piece of paper. Chop.

I am going to assume this person has never taken online classes. They're horrible. I have never met a person who likes them.

>A wealth of free code boot camp options have erupted in the past two years, where you can receive every necessary educational element to become a computer programmer at no cost, the boot camp helps place you in a job,

The problem here is that programming computers is dead easy but we've convinced people it's on par with engineering or medicine. We are training scientists when we need technicians. Why teach people computer architecture if they'll only write Javascript? Why teach them operating systems if they'll run everying in V8? Why teach them algorithms if they'll only write CRUD apps and glue code? The long-term effect of bootcamps will be, I am pretty sure, not to dismantle universities but to drive down the salaries of programmers.

>and then you pay them on the back end as a portion of your salary. No debt is ever accrued.

that is literally what debt is what are you talking about
"their bureaucrats" - I don't remember a single election in CA/Bay Area where the GoP was in danger of winning in 10+ years. So the majority has been clearly happy with the state of affairs for a long time. They just decided not to use a unique opportunity to fire their governor. SF mayor/DA were elected recently, they never tried to hide their agenda, and they still won.

What is more puzzling is that the real estate prices show no correlation with any of this 3d-world stuff. The FAANGs don't show any sign of concern for losing engineers either. So apparently they don't expect much impact.
Happy to oblige. ;)
> Is it still viable to just learn plain html and do something with that? Have WYSIWYG editors matured so much that they can be used at least semi-professionally, or is that still "looked down upon"?

Are you trying to make a website, or a web application? That really is the biggest question. For a static website that's read-only (meaning no user login, or user-submitted data, no online store), the old ways work fine.

With modern CMSes, you can create ecommerce stores and other dynamic functionality, but it comes at the cost of flexibility. On Squarespace for example, you can only use the pre-build templates to create the site.

And even if you are building a website by hand where you have full visual control, you can you can add a lot of interactivity by embedding iframes for things like JotForm or a PayPal button.
Boing recently face real financial consequences from the 737 Max defect.

Holding companies to the same standards as members of the general public runs into an issue of how large an impact they have. A Surgeon is going to make mistakes that kill people, but just because people are imperfect doesn’t mean effectively banning surgery via sending every surgeon to prison after their first mistake is appropriate. Roll up to a single hospital and mistakes are inevitably common, roll up to a hospital network and serious mistakes happen every day. The only way organizations at that scale can operate is with quite a bit of slack.
If upper bound of their salary range is e.g. 30% below what I make right now it's very unlikely we can find an agreement and even if we could I'd be wary to accept an offer, because as an "expensive hire" I'd be less likely to get a raise in the future.
> Rather than taking a photograph, satellite sensors record electromagnetic radiation in the red, blue, green, and high-resolution panchromatic (black-and-white) bands (as well as several not visible to the human eye, as this Mapbox[2] post helpfully explains). When these bands are combined to produce a visible image

That's the same as taking a (normal, digital) photograph (sans additional non-rgb layers), just explained.
Hi Julian,

I don't think this is a productive narrative to be pushing. Many projects currently rely critically on COIN-OR software, and will continue to do so simply because inertia is often what drives project dependency management. Open source funding is not a zero-sum game, and COIN-OR getting financial support will only strengthen the ecosystem of open-source solvers.
Whaaat? That seems rather weird, sounds like they want to push you out.
The surprising definition of surprise, a conversation
I've been failing for about the same length of time. Had some weird ups, some weird downs, learned a lot, etc. I should probably write a book, but I really can't be arsed to do it right now. The important thing, to my way of thinking, is that I'm still here, still failing. As far as I'm concerned, I haven't really "failed" per-se until I quit (or die). As long as I'm still moving forward, still learning, and still chasing my dreams, I'm "in the game".

I'll go back to one of my all-time favorite pg essays:

If you can just avoid dying, you get rich. That sounds like a joke, but it's actually a pretty good description of what happens in a typical startup. It certainly describes what happened in Viaweb. We avoided dying till we got rich.[1]

And truth be told, I don't know how much I even care about the "getting rich" part anymore. I mean, sure, all things being equal, I'd rather be rich than not. But at this point, I'm just happy to be still growing, still learning, still exploring. Just being in the game is its own reward in many ways.

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
Big Data May Not Know Your Name. But It Knows Everything Else
Flutnet[1] - either a dream come true, or a nightmare.
[1] https://www.flutnet.com/
I've used noise functions as good noncryptographic PRNG. E.g. Squirrel3 hash
Fast and cheap with no apparent periods.
> Having worked at AWS previously, I can tell you that when you force your software engineers to do everything and promote them based on _what_ they deliver without caring about the operational load, you end up with crazy oncalls and poorly-designed software.

I work at AWS. While it's true that promotions can create all sorts of incorrect incentives, the reason why AWS oncall can be brutal on some teams isn't because of promotion-orientated architectures that disregard operational load.

The reason is that the company prioritizes moving fast and shipping stuff to customers. We have a deep backlog of customer asks and we want to ship them quickly. The systems need to be secure, durable, available, and fast - those are non-negotiable. But do they need to be operated automatically? Well, no, that's the easiest thing to compromise - ship quickly, have initially shitty oncall, improve operations behind the scenes.

This is usually why customers are always confused/concerned why AWS ships something new then releases no updates for a year. We don't compromise on security or durability, but we do compromise on engineer happiness during oncall for the first release. So after shipping, the immediate next step is to start improving automation and operations.

This is done with open eyes, and most engineers are happy with it to ship things big things quicker, rather than releasing a new version of chat software every year.

None of this is promotion-orientated. It's working backwards from customers.
Thank you for an honest answer. I've also observed that cryptocurrency enthusiasts have a orientation towards high-risk, which is a different mindset than most engineers who prefer reliability and predicability
Exactly. And this story will be used to harm. Ppl will say „look they can just get out and collect cans from the side of the road“. I had a high school teacher that vilified ppl on welfare and said this. My parents and my siblings did this and my parents especially my mother and me are scarred by precarity. I hate the these stories they just do harm.
This is the first explainer in this thread that makes me see the issue. All this time I'm thinking along the lines of "Okay you're, projecting video in a wedding. Now there's an orange dot on the screen. Boohoo."

So, apparently, I gotta dream bigger. Like museum AVP or concert/live performance/DJing type of live visuals. Yeah now an orange dot is a showstopper.
> We cannot trust some of our devs to deploy directly to production

Neither can FAANG - one of the reasons why SRE is a thing.

> We are also in Europe where you can't just fire people if they e.g. deploy 3 bugs to production

This sounds like a process failure nobody should be fired for.
> - What sort of chilling effects will our future hold where governments can shut down any sign of disagreement, without you even having to step out into a public forum?

After being harassed for daring to jog around my neighborhood at night after some busybody saw me on their Ring camera and called the cops, I'm much more cautious about when and how I walk. I tend to not jog or walk at night anymore, and I'm cautious about not walking near cars in a way that might look like I am looking to steal from them.

I do not like thinking or acting this way, but I also don't like having the cops called on me for existing outside in the neighborhood I live in. I don't like knowing that even if I feel like I'm alone, there's probably someone watching me through a camera system that assumes everyone seen by it is nefarious or a criminal. I can't imagine what that'll be like with the systems pointing to the inside of private homes, now.
I think on top of all that, the two largest demographic groups, millennials and boomers, are no longer working together as the latter start to retire en mass (that's already been accelerated as many took early retirement during the pandemic). It will indeed be exciting to see what happens now...
I'd argue that modern day EUSB etc. are what we see, precisely because they've eaten the corpses of the referenced failures.

EA today isn't EA of the late-80s / early-90s. It's essentially something named "EA" that managed to smartly buy assets of failed companies.

The funding difficulties and cyclical nature of revenue is real, but I guess that's why you see a similar model evolve in movie production.

Take a look through the developers during the early part of EA's history (for example): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Electronic_Arts_game...

There were none that I could find that hadn't gone through this exact pattern: (1) be bought by larger publisher, (2) lose key creative talent, (3) close as an entity and have remaining employees folded into larger corporate teams.

You'd think if average "big game publisher-developer" management were beneficial to developers, you wouldn't get subsequent failure so reliably.
I remember it because it was an amusing and slightly weird interaction in hindsight. I remember all sorts of odd actions from me and others over the years. If you don’t absorb and remember how others act around you (and how they react to your own actions) then you can’t improve your own actions in the future.

That seems like such an obvious thing to do I don’t think it needs stating; I’m surprised you even thought to bring it up.
I guess being part of an attempt to break the stalemate would qualify as "dumb".
> But then wouldn't the similar brain structure between monkeys and humans point towards monkeys' qualitative experience being more similar than humans than the other way around?

I'm not sure what you mean. Did you forget a word?
I'm a non-gamer, but my impression is the opposite.

We programmers expect all our tools and libraries to be not only free, but open source too, and then will bitch if they have bugs.

Gamers, though? AAA games release with loads of bugs, clunky DRM/anti-cheat rootkits, often have cheat problems anyway, hundred-gigabyte downloads, online services going down on christmas day, online voice chat full of race hate? They'll pre-order before a single review has come out, at a cost of $70.

These are some of the least fussy customers in the world.
> well immunized population, some remaining x% will land in the hospital.

Compare that to that 8% fatality rate for the common cold amongst the vulnerables. Here we have 1.4% so far. It's a a ride, yes, but this ride looks good. We have such rides every single year.
I've always wondered why worker co-ops aren't more common in software. It seems like the industry would be particularly well-suited for it.
> if Apple is even remotely interested in addressing this use case, which they should be.

I think the reality is that the set of people who want the feature and who would use it in a live professional environment with expensive hardware and who can't afford a $100 dongle from BlackMagic is so close to the null set that Apple is unlikely to care.

For goodness sake, Apple's own HDMI dongle costs $70. Just spend $30 more and buy the BM one instead.
> Even if you think the hierarchy is useful for practical purposes, a cooperatively owned business can give voting rights for everyone so they elect a manager and can fire or demote them as needed.

So, when has that ever worked, apart maybe a small startup between friends?
Pretty sure none of that is relevant to my comment, Politicians have been trying to persuade the public to allow the government to take over health care since the 1990's, and have enacted a number of policies to worsen the health market making it harder and harder to operate, to extort the public in to accepting the government as the solution to the problem they have been slowly creating for the last 40+ years. (or really since WWII if you want to count creating the link between employment and insurance by enacting wage controls during the war)
Yes. SWC is being used by Next.js to replace Babel. With SWC, compilation is about 17x faster than Babel in v12[1]. We created a CSS parser in Rust (through SWC), as well as ported many of the common Babel plugins to Rust[2]. Work is still ongoing here[3].

[1]: https://nextjs.org/blog/next-12#faster-builds-and-fast-refre...

[2]: https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/compiler

[3]: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/30174
I was blessed by a low flyover in Lancaster, CA back in '94 or so. It's absolutely stunning to have something that big and that quiet glide over you.
The best answer to this in my opinion is universally: Learn things that compound.

Learn stuff that will enable you to be better at what you are doing. This might be

* tools, techniques for development

* techniques for learning

* understanding of the underlying systems

* understanding of the processes involved
Do they actually use satellites for their "satellite" view? I always assumed that it was done by aircraft.
Wheeler Dealers: Trading Up, season one, episode three shows these off and Mike buys one.
Yes, i've heard it from some people already. Will add this to the benchmark tomorrow. It's late here in germany and running the benchmark takes roughly 30 minutes already. With gzip, i expect it to go up to 45 or 60 minutes, as we all want good compression rates!
Ask HN: Will we ever see “the great simplification” of the Web 2.0/3.0 internet?
Show HN: I've made a Figma plugin that converts design to HTML with TailwindCSS
AWS's mindset is software is useless without customers. Google doesn't seem to have the same care - it's a charity for academic software engineers to spend AdSense revenue on abstract high level computer science problems not caring about practical applications.

It's why most Google X ideas flame out. It's why there's a new chat app every year.

But - it's a net positive for humanity. Google publishes a lot of papers, and I think genuinely has moved humanity forward in the last few decades.

I don't have a PhD and I don't do L33tcode, so I don't think I'm smart enough to be at Google, but honestly I don't know if I would want to be.

I prefer shipping.
In my most recent job search:

1) Acting surprised I wasn't going to do the coding exercise in Java, when Java wasn't on my resume

2) Not believing that JavaScript doesn't have some of the string functions that Java has

3) Ghosting instead of formally saying they aren't moving forward

edit:

From my working experience though, sometimes HR and recruiting are really in their own world and not indicative of the whole company. At a past job that was the most amazing place work, recruiting would do things like double booking people on multiple simultaneous interviews, sending meeting invites at night for the next morning, refusing to cancel interviews for candidates interviewing for jobs that were already filled "just in case" and other fun adventures we had to figure out how to try to navigate in the moment.
The following are my own opinions and feelings on this matter.

Security cameras on the property, good. Pushing said content to a cloud without end-to-end encryption, not so good. To each their own I guess.

How does the general public express outrage over privacy

For some it may be a trade-off of convenience and accepting the risk. For some it may be a matter of following the masses. People seem to fear being different. There are probably a smaller sub-group of people that secretly want to expose themselves without fear of being seen doing it on purpose. There may also be some that like watching their kids get undressed or letting friends and strangers watch. I would bet that is a thing given how often cameras are publicly listed and how trivial it would be to secure this data.

What sort of chilling effects will our future hold where governments can shut down any sign of disagreement

The agencies you mention may chime in here but we are steadily marching towards what used to be considered a dystopian world. I suspect that younger generations are conditioned into seeing it as progress rather than technology that is configured to be abused by design. I suppose we can study these people and publish scientific papers on it for posterity sake. There will be a documentary on this some day. Maybe you and I can be like Statler and Waldorf providing grumpy commentary in the background.

Is privacy dead beyond resuscitation

I think that is up to you assuming you can move some place where other surveillance systems are not able to watch inside your home. What you install in your home is for now at least up to you. Sadly it is harder to take batteries out of the newer cell phones but metal boxes are cheap. Finding dumb TV's that don't greyhat their way into internet access is also a challenge.

...where people like myself must become digital hermits

I choose to have fun with it and my friends know better than to invite me over or have me on zoom as a result. Alexa has ordered a lot of toilet paper and added many fun and disturbing items to shopping lists of anyone Amazon can listen to.
> I believe the primary skill is observation

This. But you also need to be good at evaluating your ideas in the harshest light before executing them.

None of the ideas presented are unique or good enough (also not trying to be mean, just honest), the first thought that comes to mind with each is "Doesn't this already exists in some form, if so what's the USP? and is it strong enough"... That doesn't mean it's impossible to make something of them, but it will probably be incredibly difficult and not be worth your time, something that is a variation or combination of existing products is not usually a strong enough idea, and executing it is a punt. Equally, something that is entirely unique but there is little demand for will also be incredibly difficult to and not worth your time.

It sounds as though you made a lot of MVPs, but there is a stage before this which has a less tangible process: Minimum Viable Idea - trying out an idea even as an MVP has a cost (as you well know), and you cannot afford to try everything randomly.

The fact is that most people are not good at evaluating their own ideas - it's a learned skill - you need to move past the initial emotion of "I came up with this amazing idea", then evaluate it in an unbiased light regardless of who originated it, be completely detached from it and able to drop it as soon as you realise it has no legs (which most ideas don't). I'm kinda good at doing this (shooting down ideas), but, I absolutely suck at generating unique and executable business ideas... if you can do both, you will probably do great things... if not, maybe pair up with someone who has the things you lack.
Country A cheered decades ago and is now not doing well; Country B (the most modern of LatAm) is cheering after an election therefore they will not do well? RIP to every country then.
Just bite into it and look at the cross section. You are out of your mind
But that's not what I had in mind. When an inverter fails, it has to be replaced, and meanwhile a few panels don't produce power. A few, as opposed to all. You get many small failures that cause the plant to produce ninety-some per cent of its possible output instead of the nuclear kind, where the plant is down and produces zero energy, and can't be turned back on even with several days of advance warning.
What kind of coding assignments are people asking be completed that take 10 hours?
Large game companies make a significant percentage of their revenue from the so-called "whales", which tend to be lonely people with an addiction control problem.

Most developers want to make games like they would want to play them. That means no grinding, no pay to win, no taking advantage of your players. But if you run your studio that way, you're way less profitable than the competition which is managed by greedy sharks and fully "monetizes" (=exploits) anyone who's willing to touch microtransactions. For stock market companies, having competitive numbers is a big deal or else you'll pay through the nose for borrowing the $200 mio that a AAA game will cost.

In short, "the market" makes sure that game companies become exploitative, and true believers leave to fund their own indie studio.

But that means I disagree with you that senior management adds no value. They do precisely what they were hired for, which is to make sure the studio has a good stock price and, hence, enough money to finance future games. It's just that most developers hate em, and for good reason.
That's poor reasoning - there are several million people willing to be president, but 99.999% of them (possibly 100%) aren't capable of doing the job
Looks really interesting!

Can TinyVG be converted to other image formats, such as PNG?
Actually since it was the gaming industry, they were probably 4X engineers. Which would also explain whey they went to a different industry, because that genre frequently seems to be on the brink of dying out.
Those guys can probably crop at the projector though and not lose too much? Last I played with projectors was around 2010 and back then crop controls already came standard
Fair enough. I suppose I would characterize it more as Apple not trusting developers, rather than not trusting users.