skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never. I had a number of top certificates in the past, nobody ever asked about it even if they were very relevant to the jobs I had. The only ones ever useful were the Cisco network certifications that were required for some jobs, but even these became almost irelevant in the past 10 years.

I see these days lots of certifications on LinkedIn. For the people that I know well, it is a mystery how they get it because it is usually the weakest in the team that gets certified, while the best people never do it.
I do a lot of hiring and I dont particularly value them, except for near entry level jobs. Certifications rarely test real skills or indicate the ability to actually do a job. For low seniority roles they indicate dedication at least.

Where they are useful is as a structured learning syllabus for entry level knowledge of a topic. If you know nothing about a topic but want to get into it, starting with a cert is a way to get the vocabulary and build a base to actually learn it from.
FYI the LinkedIn URL on your website is broken
I agree with you, but also think for a linux experience on a device that wasn’t meant for it, it’s par for the course. Of the above, the only critical flaw would be the camera not working, the rest is manageable.

It’s been a while, but updating a DELL laptop ended up with flacky sound that wouldn’t work for video calls, and the video card drivers sometimes crapping the bed and bringing the system down with it.
Not a good article. Grammar and usage errors point to either sloppy preparation, machine generation,or SEO spam.
Check Moritzplatz and Schonleinstrasse and come back here..
I wish this comment wasnt so heavily downvoted.
Its a common perspective that US dems are a left party and I think HN is a great platform to tackle that illusion.

I live in europe and US dems are pretty much in line with our right leaning parties.
Except for a handful of extremes.

The US republicans are very unique to US in that their opinions are very close knitted to US specific laws.
So I cant really think of a similar party anywhere else.

But yea. A swedish left and US dems are very very far from achother politically.

Democrats are a right party with authoritarian tendencies.
Not left at all.
This doesn't answer the question by OP at all. You just listed two recent trendy certs.
China Accused of Weaponizing Its Covid Tracker to Stifle Dissent
1. Pence does no speak for the GOP. And while we’re here, a single individual does not speak for a party, be it left or right.

2. Notice he said state?

3. How come this hasn’t happened before when there was a republican majority?

4. And this is the most important one, republicans don’t believe in expanding federal law, only reducing it. Which conflicts with the idea of a federal ban.

I understand your emotional at the moment, but you’re spreading and becoming a victim of FUD.
Lack of a Masters pretty much ended my ability to teach some intro programming courses according to the accreditation board. So, the answer to the question in reverse. Damn shame given some future plans, but experience isn't the equivalent.
Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse?
I don’t think you can do much better than an iPad Pro in the tablet space, super refined tablet experience, combined with the Microsoft rdp app to a vm or other desktop for a full x86 windows env, apple rdp to macs/MacBooks, and blink mosh ssh to Linux systems. Yes running external systems is cheating but the actual end result is insanely functional. Say what you will about iPadOS but it still gets yearly major updates and new features for free.
Ive heard that hard security certs are somewhat respected, but i dont have experience to confirm/deny it
> Surely you need AHK because Windows is less configurable

No, but because it lets me do remaps, like having Caps be both Control and Esc - and I do the same with Enter being both Control when used with another key, and Enter alone.
My Alt keys are Alt keys when used with another key, or Home/End when used alone.

My physical Esc key is a "jump to terminal" key that takes me from wherever to my fullscreen terminal, then back. For example, from the browser: one press of Esc gets me to the terminal, another press gets me back to the browser - and likewise for every app (not just the browser). That's even better than quake-mode!

I have other sequences to copy/paste images as base64enc and other crazy things that make my life easier: like changing the system and app theme to dark (or back to light), applying a color inversion +- red filter (late at night, no white: it's all just red), an OLED-black filter (to convert bad greys to pure black)

> How are you using terminals in Windows? Like you want to SSH from a fresh install, what do I do?

Install openssh from the windows settings: check https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...

I'd recommend the latest Windows terminal from the Microsoft store, or mintty from msys2, but that's just for comfort :)

> I find Linux superior here, but interested to learn why you're the opposite; maybe I'm doing it wrong

I like sixels, so I prefer mintty, but even without sixels, I find the Windows experience better. Yes, I want sixels and cute fonts with ligatures in my terminal. But I want proper support of bold, underline, italic. I want multiple tabs. I want to map key actions to everything - like, I want my terminal to change its color profile and font with just 1 key. I want keyboard shortcuts to different profiles with different shells or ssh hosts (with color or other titlebar/tab indicators to know at a glance which is which)

That's very hard on Linux, and sometimes just impossible. That's easy on Windows.

https://github.com/csdvrx/cuteXterm#why-did-you-make-cutexte...
cool web app, commenting to save for later
> for knowingly setting up ill-conceived software to go viral

I doubt that was the intention. Linux just needed a versioning system tailored to its needs, and that's exactly what Git is. Can't blame its creators that other people used it for scenarios it wasn't built for.
I spent $35k on a domain
Absolutely not. Slavery is an inefficient system, otherwise it would still be the actual system.
Don't use the host FS for your work files. Use the Linux FS.
creativity is a function of specialized research and work, you can be the most creative when you have the most overview of what already exists and have ideas on how to improve it
This line of reasoning is but a small step away from eugenics..
> It's really hard to find fiction books, that are less than 500 pages.

To play editor for a moment — your sentence needs no comma, and it’s easy to find fiction books with fewer than 500 pages ;)

Was a clause omitted?
The states rights thing is not a smoke screen.

They are not interfering with private life. They are in fact removing a falsely enumerated “right” and returning the decision to the states. States can easily say abortion is legal based on their voters thoughts and opinions. If the voters don’t want abortion legal in their state then why should those outside the state have say? Isn’t this democracy?
Writing your own cryptoprotocol has nothing in common with infosec certification...
>States can't just limit a persons rights because they aren't explicitly enumerated in the constitution

Historically, yes, they can. The BoR didn't initially restrict state action, only federal action.
What's a foxtrot merge?
Great, now all the supervisor-management-efficiency-productivity-optimization junkies have a perfect reason to mandate uniforms in workplaces that don't require a uniform. Way to go.
I collect a lot of certs for fun, but most have not been helpful. I still like to collect them anyway.

I think OSCP was the most legitimately useful in tech https://www.offensive-security.com/pwk-oscp/

PMP has been useful to take on Project Manager roles, but really PrM roles aren't all that exciting to begin with. Still helps when you want to run your own projects.

I'm currently studying to be a certified parliamentarian from the National Association of Parliamentarians. I'm interested in corporate governance and learning Roberts Rules of Order definitely helps.

I'm also a certified farmer (yeah its a thing), I have 5 sailing certs, 3 scuba certs, Wilderness Emergency Medical Responder cert, working on my pilots license, getting my real estate sales license, ham radio operator general class, almost done with my CDL, there's lots more I'd have to check my notes on.

I do want to get a Kubernetes cert done this year. Long term I want to knock out my CPA/CFA exams, but those are a huge commitment so we will see if it pans out.

Most of this response hasn't answered your question at all, because certs really are mostly useless. Still fun to collect.

I'd imagine financial certs would be the most useful (CFA in particular).

If anyone knows any other fun certs let me know.
True, but they'll feel it in their pocket eventually when people move to alternatives that do support it.
Might I email you as well? I'm a regular lobste.rs reader, but not yet a member.
Usually there is a membership fee for 10/100/1000$ a year, for people that want to regularly contribute.
What is the key tied to, the person, the organization, or the device? Where do you obtain the public key? Which certificate authorities will you trust to verify the identify of public figures? Will any of this work under wartime conditions when people are moving around, using random webcams and mobile devices?
Perhaps not what you mean by “certification,” but any candidates who passed electrical engineering or physics are at the top of my list for hiring.
100% this.

The problem has nothing to do with Roe, it has to do with how we've allowed all of these technologies to violate our privacy on the off chance the information would never be abused, which is insane. Information is power, of course it will be abused by bad actors every single time.
Any specific certs you have in mind?
British and American hyphenation rules differ. American hyphenation is at syllable boundaries while British hyphenation keeps etymological divisions together. And while typo-graphy might seem better than ty-pog-ra-phy, helico-pter comes across as a bit odd to most readers’ eyes.
AWS solution arch professional cert. A one eyed monkey could pass but it legitimately got me a lot of contract work as it’s a lazy tick box as most people only bothered with the associate level one.

Genuinely though certs don’t really add value just get you through people who don’t know anything about it and are doing recruitment.
I don't have a single cert of any type and have never needed them. My last role was at the Senior Staff level and I'm currently interviewing for a Principal position. I've found certs are mostly asked for by either very unusual jobs or bottom of the barrel employers that don't trust their own people. I'm not really looking for either of those things so I find I don't need certs.
The only time I have found certs useful is for a good laugh with colleagues (I have several including MCSE).

All certs are bootcamped. Pay money...get all answers...pass the test (maybe).

I got a lot of value out of studying for them though.
I’ve been using git command line for over a decade. I know the vast majority of options and know how to bail myself out when things go awry. I’m the guy that people come to when they bork a rebase.

I still prefer to use Sublime Merge, I’ve tried almost every git gui out there and that’s the one that “stuck” and I rarely use the CLI. I’ve ever used and it takes so much pain out of coming up with all the crazy command lines and all the switches.
That’s the provider, not the patient.
Certifications provide a structured roadmap of self studying a technology. As a hiring manager, I give them very little consideration because passing an exam doesn't mean the person actually understands the concepts.
This is a practical (at most you could call it purely utilitarian) argument and not a deontological one.
Write consistently and spend time rereading what you write before/after you publish. Read out loud. Any time you find a confusing or unclear sentence, rework it. Get rid of unnecessary words.

I've been doing this for 1-3 blog posts per month for the last 4 years and I think my writing is decent now.

It didn't come naturally. I hated editing all my life until I took a course in college and realized I could actually write clearly if I just spent a little time reading and reworking what I wrote.

The only directly related book I'd recommend is On Writing Well.

I'd also suggest reading clear and simple authors like Hemingway (A Movable Feast), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Wind, Sand and Stars), and Beryl Markham (West with the Night).

But fundamentally: consistent practice, rereading, and editing.
Read again the paragraph with the title "What could Dev.to do better?". It is exactly that: no downvotes or flagging of low quality content in the name of inclusivity.
The Carver Method of Board Governance is one of the best I've found. I"ve implemented it successfully and seen great results with actually focusing a non-profit boadrd. The Board's primary responsibility is not fund raising, not organazation managment - but governance.....

https://www.carvergovernance.com/model.htm
Yeah, super easy. Let me just shut down my database server for 30 hours so I can do a dump and load.
Ideally, yes? I mean it would be strictly better. I’m not saying they shouldn’t try even though they don’t.
Deaf or hard of hearing (if they can hear but not as well as a hearing person - e.g. they need a hearing aid and a quite environment to understand speech) are used most commonly.
Considering that -Fc is a binary format, how would i check a string at the end of it?
WSL2 _is_ a VM, just nicely packaged by MS and well integrated into the Windows experience. Less faffing around than with VirtualBox or Hyper-v, integrated with Windows terminal, GUI works out the box if you need it, etc.
For a career in security:

https://pauljerimy.com/security-certification-roadmap/
I didn’t get it. I don’t consider myself as git expert but almost all from the site is really simple. With basic knowledge of git is enough.
As CTO I respect a lot Cisco, PMP and UX certifications by NNGroup.
It can depend quite a bit on the interpreter too.
Yep. If you want your federal legislation to be written by industry in the dark, then troll away. If you want a voice and to have your Congressperson hear your voice, then take these things seriously.

Expect every group with lobbyists to hope and aid your trolling no matter the party. If Congressional staffers get real feedback it lessens the orgs power to manipulate the truth.
Oh god your CV must be a headhunter's wet dream.
Ah well, if you’ll likely die tomorrow then even 7 weeks is pretty good.

Not sure that’s a good trade for the pig though.
Just curious, are people here still using master or did you migrate to main?
There are just so many reasons for the period trackers to fight any potential data requests they receive and lots of other sources of data that can provide you close enough to the same data.

I do think it is very important to specify because this is being presented as a false choice where the most important thing to do is to stop inputting data to your data into a period tracker app instead of the vast collection of all of your other data eg search and purchases. It is a false dichotomy where one of the few times people are consensually creating data is focused on instead of the vast amount of other data that most people would consider egregious to collect/collate.
If it becomes a problem just getting enough iridium for scale, there's lots of iridium in asteroids. Could be worthwhile if you're a space colony, or if reusable rockets make launch cheap enough.
Using Anki for about four years on and off, 1.5 years consistently while learning Chinese, my advice is:

1. Don’t be too hard on yourself. Some months I review 10-20 new cards a day; this month, I was busier than usual, so I changed it to 1 new card a day. There’s no rush.

2. For languages, sentences are drastically more helpful to have as cards than single words. I find it much easier to learn a whole sentence than just a word.

3. I have a mix of my cards and pre-made ones (e.g., Vocab from my textbook).

4. It's OK to let a card be a leech and to forget about it. If a card was a leech, I’d just let it go. It's not school, the goal isn’t to get 100%, its just to use as another resource.

5. I use Anki along with 2-3 other apps AND a private teacher. I treat it like an additional resource, not the end all be all.
Another NewsBlur user here, ever since Google killed off Google Reader. All of my news and regular content consumption, including HN, is via RSS. If a site doesn’t have a well behaved RSS feed then I won’t be able to follow it.

I’ve used a number of blog engines over the years and don’t recall ever having a problem with RSS. It seems like a solved problem on the publishing side.

I do find it annoying when the RSS feed publishes only partial content without making it clear that it’s doing so.
> Skid Row in San Francisco.

Literal Skid Row is in Los Angeles[1], the figurative skid row in SF is called the Tenderloin [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_Row,_Los_Angeles

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_row#San_Francisco
Everything repo is main now.

The name change was a complete non issue.
The kind of company that values certifications highly is not the kind of company you want to work for.
Over my 4 decades writing software, security (and "bugs" over a longer timeframe since network connections were rare early on in what I worked on), most organizations I worked for either considered them unimportant compared to delivery, or followed a finger in the dike mentality: when you find a hole, just fix the hole and move on.

What I found for myself that it made more sense to spend enough time on the architecture/design/whatever of the dike so that holes were unlikely plus always consider that even rare possibilities needed consideration.

That attitude costs money, and often it's difficult to convince people to spend money with no immediate gain. I was able to do it right sometimes by taking advantage of how unknowledgeable leaders often are about technology.
>This is really different though in that this code is all open source.

Open source or proprietary you still have to respect the license.

>The argument is that sufficient code is being verbatim copies so as to be a derivative work.

Yeah, it also depends what derivative work means, I could make a script that inputs MS code and outputs it with obfuscation, is it derivative work or will MS complain that is not enough and I did not had permission to do this,

AFAIK code on GitHub does not have the permssions to be used as input for copilot, and not all code there has the permissions from all authors to be hosted there.

What MS should do is

1 use their proprietary repos as input too to show us that they think the results are derivative code

2 use their customer private code too to prove again that they are ready to prove in court that this is derivative work

3 open the model with no restrictions, then we could say MS is doing it for the advancement of society and sure charge for the service

4 promise to defend any developer in case their AI outputs copyrighted content.
That was before the transplant. Things were arguably a bit better for 7 weeks afterwards.
> he was on a train to Zhengzhou from a city without any documented COVID-19 cases when his health code turned from green to red. ... The protester was required to wait in a local library for 12 hours before being escorted out of the city, after which his health code suddenly turned green.

The sad thing is this was a completely obvious application/abuse of the technology, and there is very little standing in the way of other countries implementing the same system.

Once the precedent has been set that people need to carry around these apps with them to travel and enter buildings, all that's standing in the way of totalitarian control is a single software update.

While we might hope that democratic countries are consigning such infringements of our liberties to the past, we're actually more likely to make this mistake in the future because people assume that the exceptional measures were helpful last time. The difference is that next time, it will be a global system, I suspect:

https://www.telekom.com/en/media/media-information/archive/c...
For anyone who is hesitant to spend time learning the git cli like I was, just spend an hour on this interactive tutorial [1] and I guarantee you all of these solutions would have come to you easy

https://learngitbranching.js.org/
As the AI concept that is being used is an analytical algorithm, it cannot be a "novel solution".

It is by definition a min/max reduced solution of a direct copy of existing code and therefore should have to respect their licenses.
In France, some post offices have such self-service printers. I chose to go to the a self-service printer shop when I need it every few months. It minimizes resources, it limits feeding this toxic industry and it saves space on my desk.
As an employer in the cyber security domain I don't have many methods of evaluating a candidate practical knowledge. For this reason I take a look at their certifications and will generally be very happy to see an OSCP or other offensive security certifications.
I don't disagree with you on the negative effects of a down round. But I'm unconvinced that it's worse than having to raise seed funding in a down market.

If you previously raised cheap equity capital (i.e at a high valuation) you have presumably used that money to create something of value (a product). Never having had that opportunity is strictly worse.
I was thinking just the same, there is no cryptography certification or exam that would give someone credentials.

If someone wants to be implementing cryptography solutions such exam/course is breaking existing solution with peer reviewed publication and finishing PhD based on that.
This raises an interesting point: given that git has been dragging its feet for so long on the transition to SHA-256, it's better if they were to drag their feet a bit longer and move directly to SHA3-256 too, and never let the current SHA-256 implementation get widely deployed.
One orbit of Saturn ago, achieving an Oracle OCP opened doors for me and let me charge big bucks during the dot-com boom.
May I ask why you use RSA and not ECC?

https://latacora.micro.blog/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right-a...
Ledger Nano owners, how do you buy your crypto (to minimize fees)?
We had Mercurial but it died, not with a bang, but with a whisper ...