skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's one thing to push for independence itself to gain full sovereignty, though with the implication they'd join the EU right away they wouldn't have it for long, but don't pretend like it's somehow going to make Scotland "better".
For an easy case: compared to itself before Brexit.
Nothing beats R's Shiny for making dashboards from my experience.
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Compared to what it was before brexit
Can’t say I blame them now (I will be sad but can see why under the current environment), in fact could we move the Scottish border a little further south?

Maybe just annex all but SW1 to be part of an independent European nation…
Second this, go deep on networking and platform tools. it's the plumbing of the future and all the plumbers I know are rich.
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I believe it's overvalued because most folks who are new to investing are making decisions based on hype and tweets, and believe people who will still tweet "HODL" the day of the big crash where they'll try to sell everything they have, hoping someone will buy the final dip... Fear everywhere.

I wish it was still a niche thing that nerds talk about in their circles, with very few miners using small PCs, as it was intended, where you could buy a coffee with it in the nerdiest bar of Paris even though it was complicated to do, and people were ok with giving it or losing all because they hadn't put all their savings into it. And they were no survivor bias douchebags yelling about how they bought a lambo with it, making late adopters think they could too when the party was already over. Then came NFTs which made it even worse.
criteria:prime minister, with whom: anyone ;)
Build a 800V DC neighborhood fast charging spot at the 11 kV access point. Maybe have a cafe there as well...

Some of these are quite nice I would say. https://www.vastavalo.net/albums/userpics/12399/normal_Kultt...
You should look up imposter syndrome. It sounds like most of your programming skills would make you a useful developer at many programming companies, even regardless of a university degree, but hey you have one which is better than none (like me).
What I mean is that a Java program is almost always sitting in a Spring container with most important stuff happening as "decorated magic"; this has been the case since even before 1.6. To say that it is somehow better now than it was, is therefore not worth much. Sure, I'm sure you guys'll put a map or a stream in there somewhere but it's ... still the same thing. There's no real evolution at all.

The springification is what I mean by it being externalized and you generally don't see that in C, no. The pre-processor might be sort of the same thing but you generally don't bootstrap the entire thing using it.
> I think Kotlin actually has the potential to dethrone Java on the JVM, it is that good.

No way.

I believe pron can do a better job articulating the reasons then I can so here is his comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24197817
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I worked for a company that used some crappy 2000s 4GL nocode tool to get started. Didn’t hurt them financially at all.
Will you feel the same way when the EU seeks the end of veto powers (as is currently happening)?

https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/european-parliament-a...
> As a Brit that didn’t want Scotland to be independent last time around

Not judging, I'm honestly curious why you didn't want them to be independent and thought that, "as a Brit" it was your position to have an opinion on Scotland's independence other than "whatever they want"?

Me, Australian living in England.
But Scotland (and the rest of the UK) were better before leaving the EU. On the whole Scotish voters didn't want to leave the EU, to the point that it was one of the primary arguments that Boris used in the independence referendum, that if they left the UK they wouldn't necessarily have EU membership any more. Well they lost it anyways, so why shouldn't they chart their own path back?

I really hate the word sovereignty beign thrown around because in and of itself it doesn't mean anything. At least not in the way that Brexitiers use it.
Two other macos breakages that I've recently been bitten by:

They never got round to implementing unnamed posix semaphores: sem_init() will always give EINVAL.

They never got round to finishing poll(). It fails on devices. Because this includes /dev/null, it can make using poll() on stdin and stdout in general-purpose command-line tools dangerous. It used to fail on pipes too, but possibly this is now fixed?
As they said of Engelbart.

Not only the demo has its technical worth: that "synth" can sound amazingly.
You don't need 22kW charger if your car has 50kWh battery. Those cars usually have 11 kW on-board AC charger anyway. In fact, for daily driving, 3 kW overnight charging at your home should be plenty - you would be able to charge up 30 kWh in 10 hours.

22 kW chargers are for cars with ludicrously large battery, like Tesla Model X which has 100 kWh battery.
Don’t most anti-Brexit arguments have direct anti-independence analogues?
But we have neural networks for NLP, who could read the spoilers.
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Your comment seems to be the definition of word "anecdotal".
For non-UK people:

There are four nations in the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland).

But England has roughly 90% of the population of the UK. So what England votes for in an all-nations referendum, the rest of the UK gets.

England voted for Brexit by a narrow-ish majority. But Scotland voted against Brexit by a huge margin -- 62/38, or approximately 3:2.

Ironically, the year before the Brexit referendum there was a Scottish independence referendum where "remain part of the UK" won, 55/45. One of the promises the remain campaign made was that staying in the UK was the only way to guarantee Scotland could stay in the EU.

So there's a strong sense here in Scotland that we were misled, and presented with a bait-and-switch last time round.

Finally, Scotland has a very different political climate from England, with a much weaker far right, stronger far left, and a dominant centre left government. While since 2017, England has increasingly drifted towards the far right.
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You might appreciate Stuart McMillen's The Amusing Ourselves to Death comic: Neil Postman’s ‘Orwell versus Huxley’

https://biblioklept.org/2013/06/08/huxley-vs-orwell-the-webc...

Note from the creator, who had to remove it from his website at the request of Postman's estate: http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/amusing-ourselves-to-deat...
I'm 44 and I feel like an old person now on the iPhone. I am constantly tricked into hitting "x" on a search bar instead of sending the action. I find myself typing phone numbers and things into the wrong app like a chat app. I am often staring with a befuddled expression at the screen because I don't know where to go immediately to do what I need to do. (Contacts is particularly bad for this).

On the iPad I always end up with the stupid files overlay thing that is hard for me to get rid of. Usually I was just trying to scroll or drag.

I thought iOS was supposed to be grandparent friendly!

I can't tell how much of this is related to getting old and how much is just saved-up expectations from a more civilized time.
Because fracturing your country and making it poorer and smaller probably isn’t desirable?
> Scala has a lot of interesting features but also a lot of complexity

I really don’t get it - I am fairly certain that feature wise Kotlin is actually a bigger, more complex language with many exceptions/edge cases.
Scala is a really elegant language in that many of its features are solved by a singular base, for example implicits. And frankly, other than that it is a very easy language - programs written in it can be complex due to its high expressivity.
People who end up with billions and lose it are fools. If those same people made it out of nothing, that makes them thieves too.

"Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of G-d? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, THIEVES, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of G-d." (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
I voted no last time round as I was not convinced on the economic side of things.

Truthfully I'm still not convinced but I'm finding it hard to justify staying on the sinking ship of the UK.

I'd rather fail as a country by our own decisions rather than the Scottish government always being able to point to Westminister for failure.

I wish more world wide economists took time to write arguments for/against Scottish independence as I find it hard to see the longer term plan.
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I believed that the UK is better off as a united country. Not all that different from the logic for the UK staying in the EU: larger economic markets help everyone. A union of likeminded nations is better then isolation. I also have both English and Scottish relatives (one reason I consider myself a “Brit”) so you could say the concept plays into my self image.

> it was your position to have an opinion

I suppose I could have pretended that I didn’t have an opinion on it, but I did. The important part is that I didn’t have a vote so my opinion wasn’t anything other than my opinion.
What you're describing is over consumption, and it's what got us in the mess we're in and trying to fix. Everyone have a legal right to buy more than they need because they want it, that doesn't mean they should.

Flying on vacation, buying new clothes from the other side of the world each month, replacing a fully working car with a new one, having the AC blasting in a poorly insulated house, etc, these things all have a cost to the system but people have started thinking of these excesses as rights.
It worked yesterday. Something broke in the meantime.
As an Englishman I say good luck to them. If it means them leaving the UK to join the EU then it might force the rest of the UK to rejoin as well!
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I would argue that Rust is a great choice for startups exactly because you can find people who will either take a pay cut or work in a hectic environment, just so they can use Rust. Rust has been on top of everyone's "want to learn" list for half a decade, and it feels quite mature.
it's not a review article - it's a sponsored advertisement
If you have the space, you could install close to 20kW of solar PV for $20,000. On a sunny day this would help power a 22kW charging station, and even on a cloudy day you'd probably get around 2kW for trickle charging.
I'm not sure what this really means in practice, though. Going to them for support is an entirely different thing than feeling distressed that they are insisting on a major life change you disagree with. I don't think it'd be healthier to always agree with them. They're an independent mind, it's inevitable you will butt heads every once in a while
This is why I can’t get into podcasts. Too much fluff.
> stronger far left

I’m not sure there’s any significant ‘far left’ in Scotland. What groups are you thinking of?

There’s also of course a very large nationalist component.
Let's just hope the Enhanced Variable Introspection Levels one never gets built.
> For context, Sriracha is a name of a district in Thailand. As it is classified as geographical name, it cannot be registered as a trademark on its own in both Thailand and USA

Weird. Literally hundreds of food items across the EU are trademarked by their origin. Brie de Meaux can only come from Meaux with cow milk from Meaux-inhabiting calls. Same goes for Coulommiers ( a type of cheese that has to come from the village of Coulommiers), Parmigianino Regiano, Gouda, Edam, Gruyère, Gorgonzola, etc. etc. etc.
Not only that, but human vision has a variable zoom - objects we focus upon receive a zoom, an enlargement distorting physical size. The human vision variable zoom is similar to the "3D hat" of a sine curve. The Fovo Renderer people discuss this here: https://www.fovotec.com/the-fovorender-story-part-1
I don't see it happening, we've been through far too much in the last 10 years to inflict even more damage.

I've asked this question many times but how is it feasible for Scotland to become Independent:

1. They currently don't meet the requirements to join the EU. Are they going to skip the current waiting list?
2. How will they create a military?
3. Still a big question mark over currency and Scotland's debt.
4. Ownership of Natural Resources?
Interesting. Whenever I talk about Quality, the downvotes appear. It's almost as if people are actively against the concept of high-Quality software.

This is not some idle boasting. This is a project with a great deal of history.

Here's the app, itself, in the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ambiamara/id1448933389

It started off as "SpeakerBeeper," in ObjC, ten years ago. Here's the codebase for that: https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/speakerbeeper

It then became "X-Timer," in 2015-17, after Swift came out. Here's the codebase for that: https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/x-timer

This is the current codebase for the "AmbiaMara" app, which has been out for the last three years or so: https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/ambiamara

The codebases show a lot of learning and growth. You can easily see how fast I work, and how I'm able to maintain a fairly high level of Quality, throughout the project.

Yeah, it's just a silly timer, but it's a good one. I use it constantly. I basically wrote it for myself. A lot of my work is like that.
I’d say post-Brexit England has drifted away from the far right. The whole EDL/Britain First/UKIP sentiment has only waned massively since then. The ruling government has not come close to far right at any point.
Traditional media coverage of this stuff is cringey. It’s always bound up in some “vs” narrative. And the worry over systemic bias is kind of ironic because the tech companies they demonize are aware of it and trying to combat it, but the media outlets themselves have bad biases and they don’t really make much effort to combat their own writers selective portrayal of data (Vice’s coverage of the Depp-Heard hearings as insanely biased)

I understand given the scale why we should be more worried about an AI model writing stories or sorting and ranking queries, but I am also concerned about the weird way political biases drive journalists on each side to selectively ignore evidence that contradicts their narrative, and this too tends to create an atmosphere that makes it difficult for people to debate nuanced issues, because no one wants to admit data which complicates simplistic narratives.
Yes. My view on the EU is that it is far from perfect but the fact that we collaborate on a larger scale is necessary and we should only try to enhance it. At some point (500+ years?) we should be one planet, that should the goal. (Sorry; I am out-of-this-world-super-left).
I sometimes play with a simple experiment that I think illustrates this quite nicely:

Cover one eye and look at something, then uncover the eye, and notice the added "depth" information. Personally, I don't observe the depth information from stereo vision in a way that I can easily describe in terms of a (single) photographic image.

Apparently the images from the two separate eyes are combined after processing some of the depth information. My consciousness does not seem to have direct access to the entire pipeline.

(I made some goggles to experiment for longer durations. Great fun.)

Similar things apply to face recognition, instantly comprehending words from letters, mathematical formulas (possibly only for trained mathematicians), and perhaps even fear of spidery images.
I feel like the Scotts only push hard for independence when the price of oil is high....because it balances the budget and makes independence look more attractive..
A few years ago one of my neighbours asked for a socket in the underground car park.

I assume they paid the full cost themselves, although it probably wasn't that much -- the electrical supply to the building including the meters for each apartment are just behind his parking space. They installed a normal 16A 400V 3P+E plug (the big red one), which is an easy 11kW. There isn't any sort of 'car charger' on the wall, just this socket.
> …just be generous to English folks seeking asylum from Tory rule, yeah?

As you know, UK asylum policy is horrific at the moment. The UK is sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, copying Australia's repugnant offshore policy. I hope we (Scotland) do better.

In 2014, the independence white paper had a points based immigration policy. I want a much more open immigration policy this time round. Scotland is enriched by migrants, whether from England or elsewhere. Moreover, we generally depend upon immigration to maintain modest population growth.
I'm exclusively talking about sovereign debt, I am not talking about personal debt at all.

The problem the US has is that it is one of the largest creditors of its own liabilities. The US prints its own money to issue itself debt with it. History's biggest ponzi.
These are the same non-argument statements EV opponents bave been shoveling for decades.

Any large scale change is necessarily going to be an enormous undertaking. That's self evident.

Imagine telling someone in 2007 how many billions of iPhones and Android phones would be made and put into the hands of nearly every person on earth. They could have made exactly the same weak arguments you are making here of how it's not possible. But that's nonsense.
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While as someone living in London, I fully agree that Scotland should have sovereignty without the English BS, I do find it chuckle worthy the url they created for this cause:
"independence-modern-world-wealthier-happier-fairer-not-scotland".

I think their marketing team needs to do some work on that one and maybe a bolder call to action than "Why not Scotland" while they're at it :D
As a Brit who voted for Scottish independence last time, against the wishes of many of my family and those around me, if this happens again then I'll vote against the SNP's wishes. They said it was a once in generation vote. I made my case, as did everyone else, we all had the chance to vote on it, and my side lost. Democratic votes need the consent of the loser, not I didn't get my way so let's have another vote. Brexit has nothing to do with it, a third of those voting for independence also want(ed) independence from the EU, it's just an excuse.

I don't even think they have the support this time as much as they did last time. It's opportunist, mendacious, unwarranted and ill-considered politicking that I will fight tooth and nail against.
As a freelancer/consultant, I find LinkedIn to be severely lacking. The focus on job titles and roles means that people like me don't get to showcase our skills and capabilities.

Imo, it feels like a solution for the world a decade ago than the world a decade from now. Would love something that focuses more on skills, projects, and capabilities than job titles.
Perhaps the fringe far-right parties have all but disintegrated, but the Tories have certainly drifted rightward and they're essentially untouchable in England in spite of ... well, everything
As a Brit, Scotland is part of Britain - and independence would be (in a sense) losing a part of a birthright (to live and work in Scotland).

But it’s always been a separate country, and people are sovereign over history so it’s their choice.

Would be nice if there was a Common Travel Area with the UK afterwards, though.
I don’t know the third one, but feel similarly about the first two. Excellent books.
>Sometimes people just need to do the hard work of finding happiness on their own.

I mean.. it's not like most people haven't tried that. Things are just more complicated than that in real life, and not all problems can be fixed. Consider perhaps you guys are lucky to not have any such issues and are therefore both able to find happiness on your own
Not sure the gap here is computer science. If you've done a decent computer science course even just scraped past all the exams you should be able to easily do the easy problems on leetcode. Maybe the problem was that the course you have done just had a simple learn a, do exam on a move on to the next thing. In your case you never really learned a you just learned how to pass the exams for a.

To me it maybe sounds like more that you didn't apply the learning so the course was a mechanical pass exam get piece of paper with degree on it. Now that you've looked at jobs they want you to use all that knowledge to perform. This isn't an uncommon scenario which is why companies use things like leetcode as they don't want employees who will take another X years to re-learn everything they should have in their degree / course / bootcamp. It's also why companies often pass on self taught programmers. There is a risk that they are just aping what they have been told and not really learning anything.

> It’s worth noting that I am overwhelmed, and even procrastinate when I don't have an overarching framework (like school)

Yes this is again very common. Education systems will spoon feed you such that it's very had to actually fail the exams. The reason being that as an organisation they are measured against those pass marks and so don't want 75% of the people failing. Same thing with bootcamps if they said on their website only 10% of people manage to pass this test you probably wouldn't pay their fees.

So yes sure work part time and start to relearn but I think the problem is about the approach here. You need to learn how to learn properly. I would look up this talk for a starter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd2dtkMINIw

Lots of info in that to help I think.

So my advice is learn how to learn properly first. Then re-learn the stuff you missed in your courses. Then try to use that in your own side project / portfolio pieces. You might have to go back and forward through that journey.

Good luck and it's a really good sign you have noticed this as some devs managed to actually get the jobs even when they have these serious gaps in knowledge by using something like Cracking the Coding Interview and cramming all the solutions.
Neither Brexiters nor Scottish independence supporters like to be reminded of this.
Wow - thanks for this! I had no idea. I just looked at our last bill from May, and the electrical usage was 517KWh and the cost was $68.25 ($0.13/KWh). I guess this must be the result of the on-peak and off-peak costs.
Yes, that is mostly because your education happened in a 3rd world country, where education standards are quite low. People will be upset by me saying this, but that's how it is and everybody knows it.

However, you already have very good base knowledge and you know how to adapt to new technologies. You don't need more programming experience, but as you have already noticed, you need in-depth computer science knowledge.

A bootcamp is definitely an excellent choice and will teach you more than your degree. You should try to find a camp nearby, so that you are there physically and get to know other coders. Being able to solve problems with peers is invaluable. If you don't have a good offering nearby, definitely do online courses like on Khanacademy.

If you spend a year on CS principles it will be very, very helpful.