skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your answer — I really thought it likely a typo.

Seems like a colossal waste of time and resources to pay for a school and not enjoy it much less learn anything. A modern bonfire of the vanities.

I still learn a lot by reading, but many things do require interaction and guidance.

> Did you go to MIT because you wanted a high course load or because you wanted a prestigious degree?

I lost my diploma within a couple of hours of receiving it and nobody has ever asked me for it. I went there to learn things I thought I wouldn’t be able to learn anywhere else. At the time (early 80s) my high school classmates didn’t even consider it a prestigious school — those were the ivy leagues.
Im pretty sure you would decrease wealth, if you force people to retire. The ones who earn a lot also bring the experience on the table. A good example would be a world class physics professor. Should he really be just replaced with some Millennials? Maybe they first should prove themselves…
I wrote "why not advocate for systems". Notice the plural form. Did you assume that by writing "all over the world", I actually meant the superpower of Belgium?

What all those systems have in common is that they are a mix of free market and strong regulation. The opposite of "let's do even more free market than what we have now."

I don't know how the US can get there. It's probably impossible, just like school shootings and the "No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" argument.
> Which network effects are you referring to exactly?

The network effects of people owning and becoming more comfortable with it. This drives the value, which drives companies to build on it, which further drives value, etc.

This will either: A) Level off at some point. B) Reverse and go to zero. C) Continue growing forever.

Because there's no counter party risk, there's no company that can go out of business and take it out. There's no revenue projections that Bitcoin can miss. No founder to attack. No foundation to sanction.

In order to reverse Bitcoin's progress, someone would need to somehow do something to break the network. It must be something really dramatic, like breaking SHA256, governments unanimously banning it, or creating some new monetary technology which is overwhelmingly superior to Bitcoin.

I agree BTC is not USD yet. My view is that USD is eroding, however, and Bitcoin is growing, and I see nothing on the horizon that can reverse this. Many other currencies are eroding faster, though, and most will collapse into the USD in the meantime.

> So you think it will start decreasing this year?

I would be comfortable saying this year. Major nations are adopting formal regulatory frameworks for cryptocurrencies, including the United States. Fidelity just announced that they will start letting customers buy Bitcoin with their 401k. I would expect other asset managers will be following suit, shortly. I know pension funds (big bit money) are looking at buying in. We will be seeing a major sea change in Bitcoin this year and next year.

By the way, I would expect Bitcoin to remain relatively volatile for quite a while, even if overall volatility decreases. Deleveraging the crypto markets will help a lot, but there's still much growth left to be done.

> 3. BTC hasn't gone through a crisis yet.

I think the network has gone through several crises. Do you mean internal crises, or major economic crises? If you mean the second thing, I would agree. We're about to see what Bitcoin is really made of in the next couple of years, since we're probably going to see huge global deleveraging event and a lot of economic/currency collapses.
> the fridge is still functioning and performing work. It is sensing temperature and pressure and time

I believe most fridges use bimetallic thermostats to control a relay to power the pump. And they don't sense pressure or keep track of time.
Define common. It's common enough that every single one of the 50 states and the Federal government has a variety of special arrangements at some level or another with multiple private entities. But uncommon in that most business aren't large enough, publicly popular enough, or have sufficient lobbying power to negotiate them. I wouldn't even contest your ratio.

Usually these will be around tax breaks but also special water rights, rights to self govern certain things, rights to use public land, exemptions from certain laws, etc. Usually the justification is that it benefits the local economy exactly the same as the justification for Disney's. Yet somehow here Disney is the only one being targeted. Apparently you are allowed to negotiate these things, but the government will renege on it's agreements if you later dare to speak against them.

If Florida was pushing to kill ALL of these arrangements it would be a non-issue (or rather a very different issue). Instead they are targeting only Disney, for daring to speak against their party line, in a clear attempt to silence their speech. No amount of trying to re-frame the issue changes that.
It may be a specific case, but then the article title should be "No, you can’t save £30 per year, unless you happen to have speakers like most people..."

But there are other things around as well. My old laserjet printer was another offender.
with fullscreen, you just swipe left and right without even touch the keyboard, moving the cursor or look at screen to pick window you want as long as you remembered the order.

The window experience is really scuffed on mac compares to the fullscreen/desktop workflow (and apple even decides to swap maximize with go fullscreen because they expect you to use it so you need hold opt if you want to maximize.)

I highly doubt where the 99.999% comes given apple itself don't really recommend it.
1.5%?? That's insane. Either their bar is ridiculously high, or they're letting way too many students even start, with false expectations. Or both, of course.
If you live in a climate where it's too cold for heat pumps to function, and rely on electrical (resistive) heating instead

That's the point where I'd strongly consider cryptocurrency mining.
If you use the IP camera app software I recommended it does not heat the phone very much, especially at 1080p stock settings.
For school groups, you really want to find competent people and register for the same sections of team project classes as them, so that you can work with them. (This might be considered networking). My school's student body was pretty small, so I had a good read on people after one year, but you should have some idea after three.

For Amazon, I dunno, maybe your expectations are too high. I have a bachelors in Computer Engineering, and took a couple courses in formal/academic Software Engineering. From my 20 year career in software at internet companies, I don't think anywhere I worked was even trying to be beyond CMMI Level 1. It's just not something anybody cared about; including me. You can't use formal methods without a comprehensive specification, and nobody is going to write a specification at all, let alone a comprehensive one, so there you go. If you work in aerospace or automotive, it would probably be significantly different.

My experience with tests were that they were useful only for parts of the project that didn't change, but most of the project was subject to change; so tests were mostly wasted effort (twice: once when you write the test, and another time when you have to throw the test away because the requirements changed). Full stack local testing is nice, but it's not free and if it's easy to test "in the cloud" or in production, then that's what you're going to do. I would focus on reducing the cost of deployment so that it's easy to push small things to production, so you can test in the real environment and rapidly iterate; but again, I'm not working on anything close to life safety.

As you gain experience, you want to be figuring out what kind of environment you want to work in, so that when you interview, you can figure out if the position you're interviewing will provide that environment. Having an internship somewhere where you didn't like the environment is great; it gives you a real anchor point to ask questions from. Of course, you have to work somewhere, so you can't be too picky, but you can at least be mentally prepared.
I work with a lot of Amazon AWS engineers as part of my job.
I find that they are no better than any regular non AWS employee with some AWS experience. In many cases the Amazon employees are actually pretty new and have a lot less experience than the contractors they are working with - but their egos are massive.

The main thing that is different about the AWS folks is they expect people to treat them like they are geniuses because they work at Amazon. Whatever solution they come up with becomes "the gold standard" because of who they work for, even if it doesn't work. The other thing that sets them apart is they can spin up free amazon accounts to test things - which is an incredibly massive advantage that they do not extend to contractors
Doctors and hospitals control some of the more powerful lobbying groups in the United States making it a bit strange they haven't worked on those issues.
Pretty cool, but without some clear plan for moderation, the site will be overrun with bots and misinformation very quickly as it catches on. There's already a post spreading vaccine misinformation.

Also as the user count increases and the number of active conversations increases, the first page is going to become extremely chaotic to the point that it will be hard to find conversations you are interested in. Is there a plan for adding some sort of filtering?

Additionally, the actual conversation screen seems to be using screen real estate extremely inefficiently. The left part of the screen is largely empty and wasted space. It seems like it would be a lot more efficient to put the two panes vertically.
Disclaimer: currently enrolled @ WGU.

This comment comes off really strongly to me in the direction of gatekeeping.

> These would not be acceptable in any CS department that I know.

Personally, some of the courses I'm taking now are just as hard as those I took during undergrad at a brick-and-mortar university.

I would say that the promised scope & depth of my undergrad courses at my brick-and-mortar university was greater, with interactive lessons, feedback, etc.

On the other hand, to learn that breadth of material takes two interested parties. Often I had professors who wanted to research, not teach. Sometimes the course was taught entirely by TAs after hours. Usually the pace was so fast that I never had time to learn one thing before we moved on to the next.

There were students who did the bare minimum, while others went beyond. That piece of paper symbolizing their "CS education" means much more to some than others.

> You did not get a CS education.

Hard to argue since you haven't defined "CS education", but I'll read it as "..the CS education that my university provides."

I believe it, and acknowledge that not all CS educations are equal.

> There are bootcamps that are much higher quality than this.

I think the goals are different. WGU allows me to study at a slow pace, go as deep or as shallow as I please (while passing a minimum bar) and will grant me a B.S. at the end of it. I already have a job; what I'm missing is the degree.

Perhaps I wouldn't feel such a strong need to get the degree, if it wasn't a prerequisite to even higher education!
Tesla Data Privacy Request
Not going to lie, I just learned moments ago it wasn't a fox, and honestly looking at tanuki images on google, is still looks more like a fox then it does a tanuki. For me it's the colors throwing everything off.
> Yes, we need more supply (by deregulating the profession)

So it looks like software development? Are you comfortable for your life to be in the hands of a rando who just finished a 6-months bootcamp?
If cold starts are at all an issue for whatever use-case, you can just do a warming job like we do (in our case it's built into Ruby on Jets). We find invoking every 30 seconds is enough to never have a cold start. It's still quite cheap as well. The lambda portion of our bill (with tons of platform usage) is still incredibly low / low double digits.

Just doing a warming job with no other usage falls well within free tier usage, I can confirm.
Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
‘Bossware is coming for almost every worker’: the software is watching you
What annoys me most about email is that it's painfully hard to deploy. Other things are pretty straight forward, you just run them as service, probably some database with them, some http proxy and that's it, you're good to go.

That's not the case with email. You have a lot of different components to it, like postfix, dovecot, opendkim, and wtf else with as many confusing configuration options and DNS fiddling. It is so overly complicated for what it does that I'm starting to think that email was a mistake....
Terra (YC W21) + Cadoo = Gamified Fitness
I had a look. Germany has this database:
https://anabin.kmk.org/no_cache/filter/institutionen.html

So Georgia Tech is rated H+ which usually means all recognized (but a lot of text one should read, to check if online degrees are ok)

WGU is H+/- with a warning for online degrees which recognize life experience. One should expect to get the recognition application rejected.
Are pull requests holding back your team?
I see a good number of commenters mention that they also went through the same program/went through something similar.

I was wondering if getting the degree translated into any professional benefits? The conventional wisdom is that degrees don't matter, but the author in this blog post says otherwise and they unfortunately have not written a follow-up. I personally have a degree, so don't have perspective.
- What distinguishes a defense startup apart from just some nerds "blowing things up in the desert"?

Security clearances

- Aside from accidents in testing, what are the common pitfalls of this field of study?

The government can be very difficult to work with and slow. They may love what you do but vetting and delays and lazy people can sink you

- Are there stories that come to mind about notable contractors that encountered problems? Notable successes?

Yes. Bits Systems and Zeta Associates.

- What legal risks are there in the development and procurement process? I'd assume just by virtue of searching certain topics or even acquiring parts you'd be having some very serious conversations with officials. Do these startups have a formal way to announce their intentions ahead of time before trouble erupts?

Everything falls under a classification regime and even unclassified stuff is usually subject to ITAR

- What is the general consensus of this field when it is not war time? Is it generally feast or famine, or is the demand for defense tech relatively constant?

Depends on what you do. The IC is always looking for better tools, and there’s huge overlap between defense and space. Can’t build missiles? Build satellites

- Are these startups typically VC funded on the open market, or does your government typically fund ideas it needs/wants?

Both. The government may give a contract where they pay as development happens. But there’s also groups like In-Q-Tel which operates as a standard VC fund focusing on defense and intelligence.

- What are the limitations of the concepts that may be researched? Surely you can't just come up with an idea for a particle disintegrator and start vaporizing cacti in the wild. Are defense contractors generally limited to missiles and things of that sort?

No. Most of defense contractors do work on software in some capacity. For weapons, you leave it to the major defense contractors.

- What are the dominant traits that contractors generally have that make them a good fit for this field?

Understanding of the legal regime they operate in. Having an existing security clearance. An appreciation for the mission.
> puppets for Putin

For non-Americans who don't know, accusing someone who wants something you don't of being a puppet for the Kremlin has been a popular activity for the past century?

Support the fourth amendment to the US constitution? Puppet for the Kremlin.

Don't want to get into a nuclear arms race? Puppet for the Kremlin.

Support the civil rights movement?
Puppet for the Kremlin.

Don't want to pick up France's colonial subjugations in Indochina? Puppet for the Kremlin.

And so on. The social security act of 1935 was called a Russian plot. Those who wanted to wind down involvement in WWI a few months into US involvement were called Bolshevik supporters.
RTX3080 and a 12 core i9-12. Yeah, I’m obsessive about power consumption as we’re off-grid - it’s more like 650W at peak, when running a modern game at 4K on maximums. Doing nothing much it draws about 50W.
My house is a mess. -> My house is fine.
Humans are pattern recognition machines. We are so good at it that we even pickup on what seem like patterns but are actually random noise.

Maybe not the best example (please chime in if you have a better one!), ha you ever shopped for a specific model of used car? Once you're on the hunt, suddenly you'll start seeing them everywhere when you're out and about, even though previously you didn't notice. There aren't more of that vehicle on the road than before, but now you're attuned to the pattern.
Strong consumers laws have a lot to do with it. In India, an entrepreneur started an all-brand service center, and some of the auto-mobile manufacturers ganged up against him and refused to supply him parts. He took them to court and won.
I hear this a lot and I just don't understand. People in Stockholm seem about as attractive to me as the people I see in the US in NYC. I sometimes think it is just a blonde-fetish or something.

I guess you were walking around a city and had to see thousands of people to see multiple women taller than you? The average female adult height in Sweden is still only 165cm, with > 95% of women being less than 178cm. I'd imagine 99+% of Swedish women are < 184cm.
Correct. ONet data puts the median lawyer at about $127k. From what I could find, 90th percentile of income is around $126k.

While I know HN is probably SV and software biased, saying "only" $120k comes across as out-of-touch for the way most people live. For comparison, the median SF lawyer makes $191k according to BLS data. I could not quickly find 90 percentile data for the area.
It's the opposite for me: the old one was playful with that gem/animal in-between, whereas in the new one only the animal part remains. And what's left of the gem-like lines makes it an animal with a mean/aggressive expression on its face.

It's funny how a few simple lines can create so much opinion, I certainly wouldn't want to imply that mine is more correct or something like that. I'm actually surprised myself, because if I was told "much like the old one, but with some curves replacing angularity" I certainly wouldn't have expected that outcome.
> things loaded fast

Did they really, though? Or did we just have more patience for general slowness back then? Things were simpler, no doubt, but the computers were also much slower (if you didn't have much RAM, loading a webpage would probably result in paging to the disk), the network was slower (even if you were lucky enough to have a T1, you were probably connected to it via 10 Mbps half-duplex ethernet), the servers you connected to were slower...

Don't get me wrong, I adore the simplicity and hackability of older systems, but I have a PowerMac G3, and even after maxing out the RAM at 768 MB (at launch, the max was 384 MB because there were no 256 MB DIMMs to test with), swapping the old 12 GB IDE HDD for a 32 GB CF card, fixing the ATI extensions to enable the dedicated GPU, and connecting it to a multi-gigabit network with symmetric gigabit fiber internet, there's only so much performance you can squeeze out of these things. Even loading 90s-era webpages on 90s hardware (with 2000s upgrades) is slower than loading many modern webpages on modern systems.
Mandatory retirement is a thing in a lot of professions. Should be in government as well.
In France, 18% to 22% of the money given to our public insurance is used for administrative stuff, which i thought was a lot. Then I learned that 31% of what my company pays for my private insurance is used for administrative purpose. So either private companies are way less efficient than public service, or i should immediately buy shares from Swisslife and others.

Guess what my first major investment was?
Maybe you will like https://svelte.dev/, I find it more close to good old html. For example, a component that is not interactive is basically an html file with an <style> tag and some html markup.
Turns out about 3.25 billion hours of Youtube is watched per month. That's 9.75bn in a quarter. Youtube's latest quarterly ad revenue was $6.869bn, or approx 70 cents per hour
That case goes far beyond med error and I don't understand why people keep bringing it up as an example.

She pulled the wrong med, and then injected it and walked out of the room rather than observing for effects. Also the med she pulled had warnings on all sides of the bottle and on the top saying very clearly that it's fatal to administer without ventilation. This went beyond a mistake to negligence.
If the toilet is not the best place for those sounds, I don't know where. As long as the odor is managed, the sounds are inevitable. Maybe a loud air extractor?
Not directly related to the post but I am almost certain the Georgia Tech OMSCS would be accepted for EU blue visa. So will UT Austin OMSCS.
There's absurd insanity:

https://silodrome.com/ej-potter-v8-dragbike-widowmaker-7/

The illusion of absurd insanity:

http://www.bosshoss.com/

And blessed excess:

https://www.throttlextreme.com/48-cylinder-kawasaki-one-insa...
From a Canadian stand point you American nurses are already highly paid. My brother works in the US and was recently thinking of coming back to work closer to where he grew up. The best deal he could get here was $20usd less then what he makes there. So on top of making $20 more then a nurse here he is also making it in USD. He is making huge amounts of cash as a nurse down there. How much more do nurses need?
I did IT support in a hospital for a year. Nurses do everything. Their job is both hard and thankless. I do not doubt satisfaction is low.

But this sounds like the employee satisfaction corollary to Sturgeon’s Law [1].

“90% of employed people are considering leaving their profession in the next year.”

This survey would be more compelling if it compared nurses responses with the general employed population over time. I only skimmed so maybe it does and I missed it.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law
That article doesn't add anything new. Again, a statutory promise is not a contractual clause and cannot bind a future legislature.

I'm sure there will be interesting court cases out of this.

That is, whether cancelling the special district interferes with the extant bonds will be an interesting question for the courts, but if Disney can pay... And anyways, the legislature could always make it so the counties inherit the bonds (and the 3x tax power until they're paid off, maybe), so it seems unlikely that the legislature can do nothing here.
come to southern germany and see how your premise is wrong. they absolutely are.