skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason, the Go example reminds me of the monolith in Clarke's 3001 and the protomolecule in The Expanse. The book authors describe both as very advanced technology that lack consciousness. They do what they're designed to do, but they do not experience doing it, and thus lack the advantage of a certain kind of relfective awareness the conscious constructs they create, such as Dave or Miller, do possess. The Star Trek holodeck also sometimes accomplishes this.

I have no idea whether it's possible to create a machine that can generate conscious simulations without itself being conscious. But there's no Bayesian reasoning to apply to such scenarios, since we have no idea as of yet. They're philosophical arguments. And applying to that to current technology is misplaced.
I don’t have a source off hand but I definitely read an article about how Mods are routinely contacted by advertisers. I’m not saying every subreddit is a bunch of corporate shills but we are basically trusting unpaid volunteers to not take payments to look the other way.
The inclusion of industry certifications with the degree programs at no extra cost is interesting, do any 'regular' colleges integrate certifications like this?

https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/it-certifications.html
Wondering how many people will try to time their sounds to the soundtrack for maximum stealth.
Is it impissible to select those who are good at management from the pool of thousands of people who are good at that proffeshion?
I'm a EE/hardware engineer, so this may be a bit different than a pure SWE perspective.

I worked in computer hardware for oil & gas, there was a turndown around 2014-2015 that slowed the demand for a lot of our products. Not quite enough for layoffs or anything, but that industry can slow down quite a bit depending on market cycles.

Healthcare is also a tricky one, I'm in that now. You'd think it's safe because "everybody needs healthcare", but hospital capital equipment sales slowed a good deal due to lots of elective procedures being cancelled for months on end during different periods of the pandemic. New product launches delayed, incessant supply chain headaches on everything electronics (and other stuff too), it's a rough time for low/mixed volume manufacturers like you see in most healthcare.
This is basically why I keep hesitating when I see all those building blocks just glued together in presentation to executives and clearly done in a hurry.

I shit you not. The other day, almost finished project was shown to our team to sign off on. It is only after some basic questions about the 'how exactly does it work' and some 'umms' from salesguy, we got a separate meeting with an actual tech guy, who started incorporating our requirements as a draft... and that was the end of the project. We actually have project manager after us for holding them back.

And this is not an unregulated Fintech.. I shudder to think what happens elsewhere.
>Medicare ... will give them a blank check with tax payer money?

Whoever gave you that idea, you should stop listening to them.

Medicare payments are subject to a medicare fee schedule, which is typically much lower than a traditional private enterprise's fee schedule. What that means is medicare gets billed a lot less than a regular patient with insurance.

https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/how-much-more-than-...

"Private insurers paid nearly double Medicare rates for all hospital services (199% of Medicare rates, on average), ranging from 141% to 259% of Medicare rates across the reviewed studies."

"The difference between private and Medicare rates was greater for outpatient than inpatient hospital services, which averaged 264% and 189% of Medicare rates overall, respectively."

"For physician services, private insurance paid 143% of Medicare rates, on average, ranging from 118% to 179% of Medicare rates across studies."
Sure you can. You can decide that you are not going to enrich an industry that basically does nothing for you in the long run. Everyone ends up dead, and I for one do not plan to spend my final years under constant care from a industry that is designed to drain every last dollar I have before I pass on.
No parts for anything older than an iPhone 12?

This doesn't help anyone trying to get mileage from their phones.
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It might have to do with the title. "I got a Computer Science degree in 3 months" makes it sound like it isn't serious. As you note, reading the article shows that the author worked hard, learned the material, already had an associates degree in the field, already did a semester in CS at a major university, and took 4 study.com CS/IT courses and 3 Sophia Learning CS/IT.

So the headline makes it sound like "look, here's an easy way to get a piece of paper that says you have a CS degree" when the reality is that they'd already done a lot of the work before enrolling and as AviationAtom notes, WGU works off demonstrating that you have the knowledge.

This isn't "go from zero to CS degree in 3 months". This is "if you already know a lot of your CS stuff, you can work really hard filling in the remaining gaps and showing that you know what you're doing and get a degree in 3 months." Between the associate's degree, a semester at Concordia, and the pre-WGU online courses, they'd probably spent 2-3 years learning.

I think the issue is that the title makes it seem like it's easy. It probably isn't the hardest program, but a decent amount of the author's ease comes from the fact that they had already filled most of the requirements - and just needed to demonstrate their competency. Which seems like it's part of the point according to AviationAtom.
The patient already has absolute power. They don't have to accept any treatment they don't want to.

The patient may be comprehending how they feel but that absolutely doesn't mean that they understand the complex interactions within their body, which the physician does know.
I'm surprised how long and deep the medical bleeding has been going. You'd think a vital organ bleeding would cause faster reaction..
I would think some hospitals have rooms dedicated for the on-call nurse(s) to sleep in. Especially with something as common and false alarm prone as overnight labor & delivery. Pretty sure the midwifery I went to had this.
>>Sure, but nurses are more like 30-40k/yr.

Not even close if you are talking about the USA (and actual nurses, not CNA's or MAs) - starting pay for 2 year RN degrees near me are about 55-65K, and you easily go over 100K in a few years.
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Yeah that's true. Although I guess the bank guarantees your savings will still be the same amount if their investments go down?
> I'm starting to think we should just not allow developers to use s3 anymore.

I don't know that the alternatives would be much better. People have inadvertently made folders on Apache wide open for decades now.

AWS does more than average to combat it, I'd say. E-mail notifications, default configs, scary warnings, etc.
> It was pretty normal to come out of freshman year engineering, CS, or chemistry with a sub-2.75 GPA

Was it normal, or was that just what you and your friend group experienced? Is there any hard data?

I find it hard to believe that a 2.75 GPA would be anything but the bottom 10% or less of students.
It's niche but still enough to have pretty big prize pools.
I have come to accept it and just ignore it. Many times there would be a long thread having to do absolutely nothing about the topic at hand. Not a tangent but like completely unrelated, why are we even discussing this here kind of thing.

I wish there was a good way to visually differentiate when a new top comment starts except by squinting and figuring out the whitespace from the left of the mobile screen, more painful than necessary I presume.
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> If someone is committing securities fraud, there are processes to resolve it

Like what? Reporting him to the SEC to have him arrested instead? Suing him (as Musk threatened to do)? Are those really better options?

> This doesn't justify musk's behavior, throwing his massive financial klout around to silence skeptics (even a crack pots)

When those same "crack pots" organize online brigades to bully journalists into deleting their Twitter accounts, that's ok? (https://jalopnik.com/wall-street-journals-dan-neil-deletes-t...)

I don't think you quite realize what a dirtbag this guy is.

To review: This is a guy who promoted misinformation (falsehoods) online, and did so for financial gain. Who bullied real-world people to suppress their freedom of speech and promote his own world-view. Who hid behind a pseudonym and made himself hard to contact. Who then (disingenuously) complained that nobody corrected his misinformation or asked him to stop (they did) at his pseudonym before contacting him in person.

I'm sorry, but I just have no sympathy for that. This is a bad person, and, frankly, I don't believe it's Musk's financial clout that forced him to stop.
If this reminds you of a game played in a PKD short-story, but can't recall which story, it's Galactic Pot-Healer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30701415
Yup, this exactly but with Google Pay for me. I have had an android phone since 2009, and I have all my credit cards attached to GPay so that I get alerts when they're used, etc. The only payment processors I end up using on an average day online are GPay and Amazon (since I have a prime subscription, AMZN has my info as well). I don't really get the existence of these startups since those these three options (AMZN, AAPL, GOOG) are all pretty much equally good and easy, and you probably have your credit card set up in at least one of them.
Looks like it could be replaced with Amazon Echo or any similar voice-enabled speaker which is 1/5 of cost.
But how does average Joe pay for the account, if the prices for groceries, electricity, heating and transportation explode?
If things go really south, average joe will be happy if he can afford food and heat his rented flat at least a little bit in winter.
I run two different private email servers, both set up pretty much identically with all the modern "best practices" as you say. One of them is on an address that has been stable for the past 10 years, and on a quality ISP that actually cares about reputation, and mail delivery is mostly not a problem. The other one is on a cheapo ISP, and mail delivery is so poor due to neighboring IP addresses causing me to get block that I gave up and resorted to using a free SendGrid account to relay my outgoing mail through.
> I've talked with folks who just disabled the garbage collector

Yes we did this too for a while. In the end it slowed down dev velocity too much and we could afford to trade off some slight tail latency. Mind you this was back in like 2016, I haven’t used Java in trading for a while..

> it's going to end up stealing cache lines from the application core's L1 cache

This happened but in practice it wasn’t a big deal, it could be pretty effectively mitigated by consistently running the fast-path code to keep the caches hot.
Some people recommend to learn some basics of Lisp to better understand JavaScript.

Though one of the core Lisp/Scheme books now has a JavaScript edition: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-...
2 years of school to be an RN, 4 for BSN - it's not a lot of school, it's an average amount of school at most.
> They confirmed everything I had read and told me that although they didn’t officially accept foreign students (I’m Canadian), they would try to make an exception.

Wait, aren't Canadian universities very affordable? Is the problem lack of university spots for students?
Report: 90% of people want to stop working.
I thought the same when I ordered a new macbook. Some of the delivery emails looked like an update you'd expect from a car mechanic.
You answered your own question - if money printing is not the only source of inflation, then inflation will continue even if printing stops.

Most money is created by private banks, and velosity of money affect inflation more than money supply does
No worries, the tanuki and kitsune (fox) are often associated together, as friends or rivals, and have similar folkloric powers and trickster natures. In fact in recent Mario games, when he acquires a tanuki leaf, Luigi transforms into a kitsune.
I'm sure Amazon isn't processing voice data to target ads. Why would they need to?

They're using skill interaction, order history, listening history, etc to target ads.
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What a recieving mail server should do is reply immediately after the DATA command with “That mail is spam and I refuse to acknowledge recieving it”. This would be fair, as the sender would know that the mail was not passed on. What it should not do is to simply say “Yep, I got this mail now, I’m good!” and then later, silently look at the contents of the mail and decide that it’s spam and delete it.
> Physicists have this nice saying: "Shut up and calculate".

Some, but not all. Some want to know what it is that makes it so we can calculate the probability of a measurement, or whether a black hole loses information. Some are/were quite philosophical, including Feynman, despite his protestations.
I'm not surprised.
America really has a different culture than Europe, and takes pride in that fact.

Traveling across the country has really shown me, America is really a bunch of different countries held together loosely by corporate "cultures" like mcdonalds and coke.

As the institutional trust keeps dropping, you can expect laws will be changed so regional sections can protect their own historical culture.
After all nations, countries, counties, states, etc are not sets of abstract laws and economic zones, but groups of people.
By the same logic it also means everything has to be marked as constexpr, i.e. you have to type everywhere, people who don't make their code less pleasant to use. The end game is that everything reasonable will be constexpr anyway, so there's no point.
Most ovens are hardwired, true. Washers, dryers, and dishwashers, however usually aren't hardwired (at least in countries with 240V AC) - might depend on the country, though.

Personally, I've yet to come across a washing machine, dish washer, or dryer that's hardwired. Typical appliances in my region look like this [1], [2], [3], [4]. Note the cords and plugs.

[1] dryer: https://elektricks.com/Stromanschluss_022.jpg

[2] washing machine: https://image.architonic.com/img_pro2-4/117/4868/waschgeraet...

[3] dishwasher back: https://www.kuechenjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ku...

dishwasher front: https://img.moebelplus.de/xlarge/gaggenau_df251160_szene.jpg

[4] dryer: https://image.coolblue.de/840x473/content/5a1961ba7ab2e4818d...
This is a Borland -> Inprise tier shift in marketing.
That's the norm in school for sure. Many kids take a degree for the perceived value on paper but are never truly into the subject, don't try much, etc... At Amazon are you with other interns or what? Or maybe your sense of perfectionism is getting in the way of you simply getting things done...

Anyhow from the tone of your post I'd say it's both: yes you are probably ahead of some of your peers. At the same time however you have to accept that in life there will always be those less competent and motivated and you have to deal with it.
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Have you ever tried to start a super old fridge or AC that you unplugged without waiting the full 3 minutes before plugging back in? It sounds like a diesel truck shutting off in your kitchen.

Modern fridges absolutely keep track of pressure and time.
> … all the major predominantly English speaking counties will use mostly hyphens in the dd-mm-yyyy format.

Yes, which makes reasonable the complaint about mm-dd-yyy.

> So although there is ambiguity, it’s easily resolved by picking that as the default mentally and only back tracking on failure.

This is both more work and also error prone in the general case (although it works out fine in this case).

> Now in the more general case, this whole thing feels like a lieutenant/leftenant situation.

Not at all. Whether I read "lieutenant" or "leftenant", I know what you're talking about. If I read 2-10-23, I might miss your birthday party.
I feel your tiredness.

But I don't understand why you'd say it'd make you cringe.

You can have a discussion about how the industry (usually motivated by non-technical reasons) is moving towards. I was talking specifically about those "one-off" languages that some people find fun to investigate and/or work on.
>How much more do nurses need?

Something something freemarket no longer applies when it comes to paying peons?
Anecdotally, many of my partner's coworkers have been on the school setting therapist -> hospital setting therapist -> burnt out craft store employee pipeline over the last couple of years, and my partner is desperate to join them once we have enough savings to allow her to quit her job. This is within the Speech/Language, Physical, and Occupational Therapist realm, so not nurses exactly, but it's similarly bad for a lot of medical-adjacent jobs right now.
Our mortgage is ~11% of household take-home pay (moved up in job, did not move up in house)

We live in rural Minnesota, wife is a nurse, I work remotely for a company out of NYC.
My mom was a RN (Registered Nurse) for 30+ years. She quit doing what most people think of as "being a nurse" about 10-15 years ago and switched to related work (home checkups, teaching, medical billing, etc.) because of how stressful and demanding working the floor in a hospital was.

Last year she retired from the profession entirely, a few years ahead of "normal retirement age", and now she works part-time at a local farm/fruit stand. The main things that drove her to retire early was management insisting on 12 hour shifts and not hiring enough staff.
What's the distinction between DevOps and CI/CD? I thought CI/CD is DevOps.
But the electorate continues to reward "tough on crime" prosecutors. Their incentives are all towards maxing out the savagery towards defendants, systemic repercussions be damned.

From the article:

> Janie Harvey Garner, the founder of Show Me Your Stethoscope, a nursing group on Facebook with more than 600,000 members, worries the conviction will have a chilling effect on nurses disclosing their own errors or near errors, which could have a detrimental effect on the quality of patient care.

> "Health care just changed forever," she said after the verdict. "You can no longer trust people to tell the truth because they will be incriminating themselves."

That's the exact opposite of how the NTSB operates. It satisfies the infantile urge to blame and shame a supposed evildoer, to the great detriment of everybody in the long run.
Apparently quite a bit if 90% hate their jobs
At a high level, email is two-way (email hosts have to accept your email servers' communication if you choose to send to them), but navigating to a webpage is one way (client initiates an HTTP download from the server). Therefore email needs some kind of 'web of trust', since email servers have to trust that other valid email servers regulate their spam and aren't malicious. Not saying the current situation is ideal necessarily.
Branch Education is another channel that does this brilliantly:
https://www.youtube.com/c/BranchEducation/videos
Hmmmm... I'm not terribly familiar with watches, but a $200k car is well within the reach of most people with 7 or low-8 figure net worth. Those people aren't so wealthy that their spending habits are recession-proof.

What percentage of Aston Martin buyers are 7-figure buyers as opposed to 9-figure buyers? I'm wildly guessing it's a big percentage, since there just aren't as many 9-figure buyers? Do we have any way to know?
Many state universities are forced by state law to reduce the admittance requirements, especially for in-state students. State taxes are paying part of the university budget and it is politically valuable to keep those universities widely accessible. As a result, the schools are forced to do additional screening in the first year.

I think this is actually a reasonable policy since it allows for someone who has great potential but lacks the maturity to apply themselves in lower grades. They still have an opportunity to turn things around and become substantial contributors.
Ooo! The cache-miss operator. Sweet.
Which things do you thing should change back and what should they change back into?
Outage seems to be limited to their website as I'm able to access my data through their native apps & extensions
I think it looks much better. very cool
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> In Germany, this thinking has let to one of two things: mandatory smart meters, which may spy on you, and require an Internet connection. Beefing up the cost by a factor of, idk, a lot.

My house (in CA - but not PG&E) has a 'smart meter'. Which means that they don't have to send people every month on every single residence to collect usage data for billing anymore. Cost has decreased for them. They do require internet connectivity, but it's the power company's responsibility (they have spread wifi access points across the city for this purpose, that also doubles as free wifi).

What 'spying' are you worried about with your meter? What can it report, other than your power usage, that the power company would know anyway? Presumably it even is located outdoors?

> In the same vein, landlords will soon be required to provide a monthly overview of heating costs, e.g. by email.

Well, too bad they have decided on a crappy implementation.
I mean, if it was really a very high security system, ensuring that confidential info in memory cannot be written unencrypted to a swap file, does seem like a reasonable requirement.
Self-managed GitLab won't have this user limit. You can run GitLab EE without a license (which is the Free tier then), or GitLab CE (only open source components), on a cloud VM via Omnibus package installation or in Docker containers, in a Kubernetes cluster, or on a Raspberry Pi.

https://about.gitlab.com/install/
Yes, it's like someone held up a mirror when you look at what has happened in Higher Ed when the professors stopped running things, and Health Care when doctors stopped running things. Costs skyrocketed, outcomes stagnated or declined, satisfaction plummeted.
That seems like a bad take. It's more likely that they are the newest designs and it's easier to set up a supply chain for this with the current models than it is with previous models.

Wait a few years and then you can see if your cynicism is appropriate if they stop supporting them when they are older.
Basecamp's CEO seems prescient these days.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/30/basecamp-employees-quit-ce...
> I have a follow up coming where I use go in a container, and the request speed got a lot better.

My team transitioned a lightweight python based lambda from zip to container based and we also saw a small (but definitely real) speedup in request time. I'm not the one who did the benchmarking, but iirc it was about 10ms faster. From ~50ms to ~40ms or so.

edit: originally phrased it backwards to seem like container method was slower.
It hasn’t been an issue so far, but we have our own ingestion pipeline on our roadmap that will address this and other issues. (Renat from Kraftful team).