skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an interesting sort of credentialism talked about here where an MS is seen as a negative signal.

The theory here is that this is because of people doing MSs without a good underground background knowledge, although even ten years ago I'd stopped being impressed by an MS on a lot of resumes for a different reason: continuing on to an MS was often easier than getting a top-tier job offer out of school, especially at lower-tier or international schools without big tech recruiting presences.

I was originally in a BS/MS combo, but I didn't complete the MS (guess that was a good move? huh), but I learned a lot of interesting things in the extra 8 classes I took. In a world where engineers are judged on "demonstrated abilities" (even if that's just whiteboarding in an interview) having that much more exposure to math, logic, stats, algos, and operating systems definitely gave me more breadth to do better on both interview + real world projects. So for ramping up your knowledge of solving "CS problems" it's great.

Note that the article here is a sales pitch for kinda the same thing: study the fundamentals, just pay (? i don't see anything about pricing on the Bradfield site) them instead. Left unanswered is what will keep this a reasonable option or a meaningful credential over time. If it stays super small, it's probably too low-profile for people to see it as valuable. If it scales, it probably breaks in the same way as traditional programs.
There ought to be an organization willing to offer these maintainers the option to transfer control to a committee or organization set up to be stewards. Not quite locked and frozen, but say, resistant to change. Security fixes only.

Perhaps the Linux Foundation would sponsor something like this? A package that hasn't been updated since 2015 should be considered frozen, not a long term risk. End of life open source projects should be safe to use, not undetonated warheads.
>it will be a UI toolkit capable of performance completely untouchable by the existing state of the art

Why exactly? What are the current state of the art UI toolkits leaving on the table performance-wise?
It's a bit harder here, since you go through several stages, firstly a "learner license", with an "L" plate on the vehicle, then a "provisional license", with a "P" plate, before getting a full license. I think it's a somewhat expensive and time-consuming process.

I haven't done it that way personally, I got a car drivers license decades ago, when it was easy, and swapped it every time I moved countries. Getting a new license for a motorcycle isn't very appealing.
Strongly agree, except that "assumes" can be unpacked a bit. There are various reasons why cosmologists think the distant universe is homogeneous, and some of them (not all) are closely based on evidence, most notably the approximate homogeneity of the cosmic microwave background, which is (in a sense) further away than anything the JWST can see.
But in the case with the lady with 4 kids? Sounds a bit overblown for the situation indeed.

But here in Europe cops rarely even draw their guns (and in some countries don't even carry them)
> at the cusp of the greatest moment of human progress.

I wouldn't call the industrial revolution "the greatest moment of human progres". I would call it "the moment that sealed our fate". Climate change, un-renewable resources scarcity, biodiversity collapse, etc. We are headed at a breath-taking rate towards a planet that will be hardly inhabitable for us. We may only subsist as nomadic tribes only a few centuries from now.
As someone who is 70% through Georgia Tech's OMSCS, I found very few compelling arguments in this essay.
A few ideas to consider:

Do you mandate working tests and reasonable test coverage as part of your checkins? That could help, but it if you don't currently do that, productivity will drop further before it picks up. But that's the nature of any impactful change.

When there absurd back and forth on PRs, step-in and mediate a resolution. Pull the people into a room and require a resolution before anyone can leave--drastic, but soon people will realize that they pay more for pointless whinging. It's not doing the company any good for pointless bickering, and it's not improving the product either.

Considering using an external code-review as a service like PullRequest while you are gone. And maybe keep them if it works well.
I don't follow slint as closely as maybe I should. I'm definitely happy there's a real product out there, and would be happy to work with them on common infrastructure, but we haven't had much interaction (yet).
Your argument is literally that people should get vaccinated to protect others not themselves. By that same argument people should not get abortions if others think it is murdering an innocent child.

I don't agree with either but I'm not a fascist trying to get people fired over a vaccine that is about as effective as the flu vaccine.
I’m well aware of this manner of speaking. Everyone is. If you did look at what I was commenting on (not a video) you might agree that its use in that case doesn’t help, at all. Or not.

I’ll look up the Dennett article, thanks.
It would help motivation to have some allies though.
Jambu taste/effect is very weird but very pleasurable. I really hope it launches and get popular.. I live in south of Brazil and NONE of my local friends ever tried or heard about it.
The B-17s underwent continuous improvement throughout the war as what worked and what didn't work was learned.

Also, if a B-17 crew survived their first 5 missions, they had the same chance of surviving the next 25. This isn't luck, it's learning.

My father wasn't everyone's drinking buddy in the Air Force in the Korean War, but when there was a dangerous mission for his squadron, he would be asked to lead it, as he'd get the target hit and bring them back with the fewest holes in the airplanes.

I'm sure that successful businessmen also consistently make better decisions than the unsuccessful ones do, even if each incident is luck.
Academia will always try to teach the best way around a problem. So, you won't see academia, in an updated program, trying to teach these old ways, eventhough there's still going to be a market for legacy technology. They will usually be highly profitable for that same reason.
Same here. And the worst is that they made much much more than what they will ever be fined. We can see the same with Uber and other brigand "tech" companies.
Yeah, I checked that and Sci-Hub, but neither has this particular article unless I did something spectacularly wrong, and nothing came up with an internet search either.
Not a great comparison. There's a reason why whistleblowers are encouraged to only share information that they already have access to in their day to day.
No. The minimums set by the FCC are just the minimums for the service to count as broadband. There's no requirement that a given internet service actually is broadband internet service. The worst that would happen to the provider is that they might not be eligible for some government programs that promote broadband.

The law requires the FCC to regularly check on the availability of broadband in the US and to determine if it is being deployed in a reasonable and timely fashion. If they determine it is not they are required to take action to accelerate deployment by doing such things as removing barriers to infrastructure investments and promoting competition.

To do that they need to define broadband.
If you post a picture you are not a bot so they are not interested in you, you don't create enough content and links.
A key part of weight loss is managing hunger. Satiety index tracks how full different foods make you feel.

Potatoes are absurdly good at this.

You basically can’t over eat boiled / baked potatoes.

https://optimisingnutrition.com/calculating-satiety/amp/

I tried this with sweet potatoes once. Best I ever felt. Super boring.
As a manager, one has to manage many different personality types. Not all people are proactive in communicating that they need help or are lagging. The manager could go to each of his directs and ask these questions individually, but it is more efficient to do it as a group. The group setting also gives coworkers the opportunity to say, “oh, I know what’s going on. I can help with that.”

Stand ups do not have to happen every day. That’s where a lot of managers fail.
I think the industry at large is moving in the opposite direction, towards declarative layouts written in code. As an example, for decades, Apple's UI design tooling (Interface Builder) was serialized to XML, but SwiftUI uses a DSL so your interfaces are written in code. I haven't been a web developer professionally for a while, but I've dabbled in React, where you build UI components in JSX, which is an extension of JavaScript.

I don't see why Rust couldn't be successful with a similar approach.
Yeah it would make for a great twist, like say if some crazy terrorist decided to blow it up.. “don’t worry we have another”
What, specifically do you think the flaws are? I think if you're going to make such criticism, it helps to give actionable specifics (i.e. constructive criticism). How is the approach discouraging to other devs?
Looks like it's been restored: https://twitter.com/academicssay
yeah, um, i didn't really mean that with any seriousness, like, at all
That seems like it would violate the conservation of energy. If all the momentum was linear, than changing the direction of those individual particles would require a force.
You'll still have to work at it. And losing money at ventures is not success, regardless of whether you can afford the loss or not.
First tank game I ever played. Such a good game. Created a lifelong love of the genre.
Thank on that, and I stand corrected.
I eat beans for every meal. Fruit and dal for breakfast; dal, veggies and more fruit for lunch; dal and more veggies for dinner (with something like plantain, breadfruit etc.) and snack on nuts and seeds throughout the day. I love the simplicity.
That really annoyed me to so I refused, complained, and they allowed me to login again with just my Twitter Id and password. A bit of a pain, but I was pleasantly surprised.
If you casually look at a project and decide to install it, knowing that it's a replacement for your operating system's init system is quite important.

The systemd people have managed to get their project in as the default on many distributions. They have no excuse for having a thin skin about being labelled as the default which will be replaced.
I'll have a lot more to say about this as I gather quantitative performance data. But it's a good question. I expect the big wins are: fast 2D (vector with blends and so on) rendering with compute shaders, multithreaded creation of expensive resources like image decompression and text layout, pushing incremental reactivity all the way from app logic to GPU (as opposed to needlessly redoing work), and of course just using a fast, non-GC language.
Fiction.Tools – A Toolbox for Fiction Authors
I've always loved the submissions for new writing tools here on HN, so I've kept a growing list of my favorites for a long time. When I needed to learn React, I built Fiction.Tools to make all those tools searchable and filterable for everyone else.

I've also made the site open source (at https://github.com/indentlabs/fiction-tools/) so anyone can add their own favorites to the list. The data is all available in structured JSON blobs (https://github.com/indentlabs/fiction-tools/tree/main/src/da...) for anyone that wants to use it other ways, too. :)

Obviously there's no one-size-fits-all "writing process", but I did my best to organize them according to a common flow: tools to help you build a fictional world, to help you write within it, to help you revise what you've written, and finally to help you publish or share your work with others.

There are a lot of struggling authors out there (myself included!) that I think could benefit from a tool or two to help ease them through the tougher (or just less interesting) stages of this process, so I hope organizing the tools this way makes it easier for someone in need to find the right tool at the right time.

Also, each tool is tagged with hoverable attributes that explain what platforms they run on, how much they cost, whether they have ads, subscriptions, whether there are discounts for educators, etc. If you click the "Highlight tools" button in the bottom-right, you can toggle between simplying highlighting tools in the larger list or filtering every tool out except those that match the attribute(s) you're looking for.

As I said above, the site is fully open source and I would very much appreciate any tool suggestions, feedback, or PRs you have for other tools that might be helpful to writers; using new tools in my writing has kind of become a passion of my own, so even if you don't think something would fit in the list I'd still love to try it out myself. :)
> coding in Rust is like playing some kind of intricate puzzle game. Tricking the compiler into accepting your code

That is mostly only true for very early beginners.

There are certain patterns you have to learn and understand, especially for developers not accustomed to thinking about lifetimes ( which applies to most developers that only have experience with GC languages).

And sometimes you do have to battle the compiler, even with experience.

But most of that goes away pretty quickly once the language clicks for you.

After that Rust can still feel restrictive, but that's because there are very few languages that enforce as much correctness at compile time.

That very well can mean that Rust just isn't a good fit for certain domains - which is perfectly fine!
What if you have a family with four kids, all of whom need to engage in remote learning on occasion?

20Mbps is also entirely noticeable for bulk downloads, whether it's a Steam download or a Windows update. By going from 20 -> 100 Mbps, you save nearly an hour on a 10GB download (1h6m -> 13m).
* it can, not I can
Quantum computers don't obsolete CS. They're a kind of coprocessor like GPUs and can't do most tasks faster than classical computers (or, actually, at all).

I did specialize in "AI" in undergrad a year before deep learning was discovered and so most of what I learned about genetic algorithms/K-means/MCMC turns out to be kind of useless, but oh well.
Many (most?) entrepreneurs endured repeated failure until they were successful. Not giving up is an attribute of successful people.
If it's positional, it will decline as soon as more people try doing it.
Ooh I’d love to see/hear a video of that if you’re willing! :)
I also completed the program. Some classes did better at feedback than others. But honestly, whats so bad about getting feedback from teaching assistants? The TA for Reinforcement Learning wrote the book Grokking Deep Reinforcement Learning and has experience using RL in industry. If that is the worst they can say about OMSCS its sort of a pretty big endorsement.
First google hit: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/coronaviru...

2020 sucked for various reasons as did parts of 2021. The unknown, wfh, breakdown of supply chains and travel, nasty business. Just saying there were all sorts of things that could be explained by nocebo as well as actual medical effects. Anti anxiety meds spiked big time: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/anti-anxiety-medication-pr...

No matter whether you believe in covid or not the world had a particularly sucky year or two that could have been a lot worse. How and where work is performed has seen significant changes. Hopefully, current generations won’t experience another one.
There’s a trade off between preventing social engineering and giving people access to their lost account. And then add the issue that people don’t want to link online account to their real identity, so verification is hard.

I don’t really know how Twitter could have done better.
This is not forcing providers into faster speeds. It's forcing them to stop marketing crawling speeds as "broadband." Of course if they are competing for contracts for deploying internet, they will have to meet the higher standard if "broadband" is specified in the contract.

Additionally, it's far from a foregone conclusion that "faster speeds will mean that providers will charge more." I've been paying roughly the same amount for the past 20 years starting from DSL speeds all the way up to 1Gbps. There were some years that my speed doubled but the bill was lowered.
Physicist here. It's not an axiom, historically, it follows from Michelson-Morley experiments, which precede special relativity, and whose purpose was to detect such an isotropy.

They repeated the experiment during different times of the day and different seasons, since the velocity of the Earth (and the lab) relative to the hypothetical aether would be different. The working assumption was that Galilean relativity was correct, and the Maxwell equations (which also define the speed of light) were only valid in the special reference frame of the aether.

Special relativity assumes Maxwell equations are always correct in all reference frames and orientations, which was already an experimentally observed fact (albeit puzzling, back then), rather than an axiom, which implied that it is Galilean relativity that is broken and needs to be refined.
Lay person’s attempt at an explanation: Centripetal force, but no work is done because the motion of the spinning object is perpendicular to the force continually changing the linear motion to follow the circular course?
Even in 2-d, it is nice to have smooth zoom in/out. The only way to do this that I know of that doesn't compromise on quality is to re-render every frame, and the only way I know to do that fast is to use the gpu. I believe pathfinder can do it (correct me if I'm wrong). I know I'm working on something that can do it too.

Moving a bit farther from the strictly 'text' realm there are authoring tools for vector graphics, where you would like to be able to view the changes you make in real time. CPU can do it (since it's probably the only complex thing onscreen, and changes are likely localised anyway if you really need the extra cycles), but GPU can do it better.
The travails of the early inventors in Britain are tragicomic in terms of the opposition they faced.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kay_(flying_shuttle)

Weavers rioted against his invention. He hardly collected any royalties from his invention in England, and departed for France persona non grata. The French manufacturers also did not pay royalties on the monopoly to the flying shuttle granted him. He died in poverty.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Arkwright

He lost a major patent case, which allowed competitors to use his inventions. He did make money because he owned mills himself rather than being a tinkerer like Kay.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hargreaves

He was run out of town because his spinning jenny put too many spinners out of work. He moved to the town that bought thread because they welcomed the lower prices. His patent survived but did not stop others from copying.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Crompton

Crompton could not afford to patent the spinning mule, so he open sourced it following promises from manufacturers to pay him a fee. The promises were broken. Crompton never made any money from his invention.

Then, as now, a patent is only worth one's ability to fund litigation.
Is there something blocking Tauri from switching to WebView2 on Windows? It's based on Chromium, so I assume most of the legacy web view issues would be irrelevant.

IIRC, WebView2 is supported going back to Windows 7...
> ...pushed through the system due to his race and the need for these schools to fill diversity quotas...

> ...hordes of foreign students getting degrees from cash-cow programs in order to remain in the US...

Not saying that somewhere in there, a legitimate argument about the reduction in overall quality of candidates doesn't exist, but it does smell a bit of having a strong bias against minorities and foreigners. There is such a thing as confirmation bias, where a person interprets a situation through a negative ideology about others not of their ethnic group and where they are in a position to execute an agenda based on those beliefs.
> auto-vacuuming up huge sets of OSS and re-selling it with security assurances

Seems like something like this, but which employed/funded the maintainers might be ideal.
I don't understand how this is the top comment here. This is a modern equivalent of "640K of memory should be enough for anyone." You're also making your assumptions off of a single device on the network. I don't even know a home that has only one connected device at any given time. It also doesn't consider things like how speed can help an unstable connection as a high speed but with moderate variance can beat out a low speed that is stable. There's just so many factors at play that are ignored here that this comment is odd to be placed so high in a forum of tech literate people.

Edit: okay, not top comment anymore.
Yes, making small improvements to the existing system is much easier than getting every single financial institution in your country to switch to a blockchain.
There are forces holding atoms together, such that the conglomerate constitutes a solid object whose geometry is stable in time. Those forces are strong, and are often sufficient to keep a solid object in the same shape even if rotating at high speeds. Sometimes they are not, in which case the solid object is deformed as the individual atoms are "flung outward" by the (ultimately linear) momentum, which overcomes the attractive force that binds atoms into molecules/lattices/whatever.
Poe's law is a bitch. I have to just ask, is this satire or not?
The Bastille Day Event
Thanks, glad you liked the demo! We'll hopefully support Safari soon.

The feed works by pushing new pages you or your teammates make and share. For instance, if you make a new Notion page and add it to a Folder, it'll get pushed to other teammates who are members of the Folder. There's no automatic way to notify teammates of an update for now, but we're working on something related to do that right now.
The account was hacked, not suspended. The spammy NFT Tweets are what the owner is looking to take down. https://twitter.com/Adidas_Web3/status/1548084214486118402
> and Comcast is the only option.

This is by design. Utility service regulation in the US is famously corrupt.

The system is working exactly as intended.

Internet access should now be close to too cheap to meter, yet it is a nice cash cow that can be milked, so the regulators have an arrangement with the highest bidder.

The US does not have the rule of law.
The problem is that you can't even build data structures from introductory algos in Rust without pulling your hair out. No linked lists, no graphs.
ISP's already have the ability to switch everyone to 100mbps. It's a simple remote config switch. They don't, because they are milking money. They are all publicly funded through city contracts and federal subsidies.

I can imagine very easily why 25mbps isn't enough - people have families. No, you cannot actually do business or school work when media content is now the vast majority of consumed bandwidth.

Also don't advocate against yourself. Your city boards have already been doing that for decades by giving exclusive access to specific ISP's and making the public pay for it.
Isn't it crazy they couldn't just follow her until she stopped and got out of her rental and then assess the risk of contact? We should probably change our police hiring and training processes.
For one person, I completely agree. But if you have two remote workers on a conference and a kid doing something else at the same time, 20mbps is not going to be comfortable anymore. (Yes, it's probably still usable with degraded quality.)
Wilson says it took one week from a design in her head, to design circuits, make the circuits, build prototype hardware and program it http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7307636.stm. Looks like they had a team of 4 people. That's incredible.