skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe 10 years ago I would have been impressed with any candidate with a masters from a legit CS department.

However, in the last 5 years I've worked with numerous engineers with masters from both "prestigious" universities and also the typical "cash-cow" degrees that are so common today.

One of my previous devs had a masters from a "public-ivy" in computer science, and he honestly was not qualified for anything more than basic CRUD "enterprise". Hate to say it, but he was obviously pushed through the system due to his race and the need for these schools to fill diversity quotas.

Also, I knew a public school middle school teacher - she was bright but had no formal math or engineering or CS education beyond basic algebra with her teaching degree, no programming experience, etc. But she had been able to obtain a masters in CS from a top 10 program via some "Masters in CS for Public School Teachers" program. I also took a few masters courses from this university, and they were extremely difficult, even for me who has a lot of experience and a solid CS bachelors.

For example, some of the qualifying courses included programming MIPS in assembly language, binary numbering systems, algorithms with assumed knowledge of Big O, data structures, dynamic programming, etc. There is no way anyone without both a good undergrad CS degree and some dev experience could legitimately pass these courses, especially when the program was meant to be done by professionals who were already experienced developers at night / weekends - so I assume she was pushed through with a "wink wink" from the administration.

Finally, the hordes of foreign students getting degrees from cash-cow programs in order to remain in the US or obtain OPT visas ensure that nobody respects a Masters in CS anymore. Now that most of these are online, they're even less legit as you know these programs are plagued with cheating, fraud, etc.
I don't think Belarus or Rostselmash tractors produce too much data for John Deere (you will never know, though).
Zoom should have an indicator like this under each participant's video.
My experience: I was interested in machine learning and was working in industry with no CS background. I was accepted to an MS in CS based on my undergraduate work and also programming experience. The program was in-person, not online. Through the courses and contact with professors both in CS and in other departments (Mathematics, Statistics) I developed a far better understanding of the field than I would have without being at a university.

All of the courses were the same regardless of whether or not you were an MS student or a PhD student. Professors actively encouraged MS students to continue on to the PhD.

The article says "If your undergrad degree was in some other field, you can get through an MS in CS without ever taking an algorithms or data structures class." In my department you had to take a minimum number of courses from a few categories. For the category that included the Algorithms course, I would say at least 90% of all students took that course rather than the others on offer. It followed CLRS and moved really quickly for someone with no undergrad background like me. The course had no programming in it so I have no idea what the author is talking about when per mentions programming experience.

I think if the program were online it would have been harder to have the multidisciplinary experience I got in-person. But for people who didn't want that aspect of it, I think an online program might work just fine.
It's too bad that transflective displays didn't pan out, the OLPC display was perfectly workable and worked well outdoors too. It would be the ideal kind of display for such a device, which doesn't really need high resolution.
WikiLeaks argument.
They also have an ms of cybersecurity. Depending on the track you take, it can end up being 9/10 the same classes needed for the CS degree.

I’m currently enrolled and will say the networking is the best part. I’ve found a group of about 50 people in a private slack scattered all over the world. We all bounce things off each other.
Off W 145th?
It has to be L2, because Webb needs the shade.

That still leaves the L2s of Venus, Mars, Jupiter etc.

And you can probably fit a few more into Earth L2.
The most surprising thing about JWST is that Mark Adler didn't work on it.
You're welcome! We exchange
FCC proposes to increase minimum broadband speeds to 100 Mbps
They = Christians in general, not a monk in particular.

After the proclamation of Christianity as the official religion of the empire, it took only a few years/decades before Christians were on a full-blown iconoclastic campaign of destruction of so-called "pagan" religion, and all non-Christian culture in general. This meant murder and forced conversions, but also destruction of patrimony: libraries burned, temples razed, schools closed, statues smashed, etc.
I'm always a little uncomfortable seeing accusations like that when there's just a sample size of one. It's worth raising the question, so we can check, but people always remember the accusation and not the exoneration.

This should probably be communicated as "I'm seeing this behavior... can anybody else replicate it?"

An "Ask HN", not a "Tell HN".
Ignoring the need for a Synchronous Replica, you may see Aurora Postgres extremely costly and not too great in performance compared to PostgreSQL. This has been neatly documented in this Article

https://www.migops.com/blog/is-aurora-postgresql-really-fast...
It doesn't help that kids now are bombarded by rich influencers all the time on social media.
A study in bourgeois identity crisis. "Anti-work anti-Caren" sentiment. Some Reddit meme I believe.
Another threat to 2022 elections: lack of paper
In my case, I find it hard to query related issues of different types. It's kind of hard to explain unless you see how we use Jira, but I basically want to do joins. You can do some interesting things with the Structure plugin, or issueFunction() from the Adaptavist ScriptRunner plugin. The other thing I've done is to pull a few REST queries into a single-page app., but that takes more work.
The author is correct: you do NOT need a (masters) computer science degree to advance your career. I've worked with plenty of stellar principal software engineers — some with Phd degrees in CS, some with no formal education, most in between.

And while I am a life long learner and continue to self-teach myself a range of topics that pique my interest, Georgia Tech's OMSCS masters in CS was such a pleasant experience, a rigorous one at that.

Hard to beat the sticker price < 10k too.
>"one expects that someone will prevail upon Musk to settle before that happens"

My question is "Settle how?" Pay a penalty and still not own Twitter? That seems like an unlikely outcome to me. Why would he do that? Why would he not simply complete the transaction instead?
> included alpha channels

I would be very surprised by this. Raster ops, yes. Alpha channel image compositing operations, no way - that's an entirely whole nother level of complexity.
They aren't exactly at L2 as they are orbiting a point that is L2. So just put each one in their own orbit. Hopefully it doesn't get congested that we have to fear a Kessler Syndrome incident at L2
Ask HN: Why do privacy choices from banks need to be responded via snail mail?
Ask HN: Why do privacy choices from banks/financial instituions need to be responded via snail mail?

I want to respond to all of them if they were simple QR code or weblink. But I am lazy enough to buy a stamp and post it via USPS.

why has not FTC gone after these companies but interested in Internet companies?
Doubt it, but word is there's intense internal discussion about adding a clown nose to his avatar.
The more curious parts of my brain are wondering whether being offically declared dead and not fixing it would have any advantages.
It sounds nice, but there are extremely large segments that keep society functioning that don't involve knowledge work and can't be done remotely. It's easy to forget how much it takes behind the scences to keep the machine humming smoothly.
Meh. Hacker news is the place to get actual real feedback. Frying pan to fire etc.

Develop a thick skin or don’t read the comments lol!

He chose to disclose it to a few people. Word spreads. That’s what happens.

Execute NDAs and have a security program if you don’t want stuff getting out.
I would do a masters degree if it could help me be more creative and synthesize new ideas.

Does OMSCS do this?
So rare to see ppl writing about sync.

sync;sync;halt was once a legit way to shut down ;)
This is almost always the right decision and it applies to pretty much any thing that needs to record anything. It also is one of the few down to earth use cases for a blockchain.
It's not the best general example, but I'm curious why it was selected. I was wondering if it was selected as a nod to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Furber given that he's from Manchester and was involved with original BBC Micro. Many UK folks would get the Joy Division reference, but they are a bit more of a niche globally.
Hand-wringing about land use amounts to concern trolling.

There is absolutely no hint of shortage of land to site overabundant solar on. Solar coexists synergetically with numerous existing uses, including reservoirs and canals, pastures and farmland, and on industrial, warehouse, and even residential roofs and parking lots.

On water, solar farms operate more efficiently and cut evaporation and biofouling. In pasture and farmland, they operate more efficiently, cut water demand and heat stress, and for many crops even increase yield. They extend the life of roofs under and cars parked under them.

The area now devoted to domestic oil extraction is well over the most that would ever be needed for overbuilt solar, even without dual use.

Wind extraction, of course, has long coexisted nicely with agriculture and navigation.

So, the most effective way to get the overabundant energy we will need is to overbuild renewables.

The "environmental externalities" of renewable generation are orders of magnitude less than for others, so for purposes of planning really are negligible. Most of that is carbon emission occasioned by fabrication before the power used can be generated renewably.
There have been many people trying to get rich quick in previous generations, as well. If it's growing over time, faster than the "work hard and rise to the top" or other segments of the population, it may be because "working hard" in the same kinds of jobs (level of skill, amount of effort required, etc) people were doing 50 years ago is much less likely to get you to the same level of independence and wealth that it would have 50 years ago.

I think this entire discussion is more about opportunities and the common debate is between older generations that think young people have the same opportunities now that they had when they were young VS young people now believing they do not have those opportunities. I mean, is this not the basis for the entire "OK, boomer" response/meme?

When looking at specific success stories, I think the people talking about luck being opportunity have the right of it. Sure, there might be some plan old luck involved and there's surely a large amount of persistence and effort involved, but it does seem rare to hear about what created the opportunity for the success.

Everybody talking about survivorship bias are really talking about how the success story, as told by people involved in the success, are rarely looking to download their involvement and talk about the opportunities they had, but instead want to show how their involvement and the things they did are the key to the success.
100/20 is definitely an improvement, and is probably a reasonable minimum bar to set. I'm sure most of us have much higher speed connections, but I know I rarely take my 1Gb pipe over 10% of that... Heck, 2 TVs streaming 4k during a zoom call would be fine on 100Mb...
Spend a few hours writing, spend maybe half an hour editing, and release it to the Internet.

Let people comment on your work (via Hacker News, for example), and you'll quickly realise if you missed something
Musl is liked since it has a non-copyleft license and thus can be used to produce statically-linked executable that are distributed with proprietary licenses. Also Musl is smaller than GLibc thus more suitable for embedded systems.

Anyway, GLibc is just better, both in terms of performance (algorithms are more optimized, at the cost of a bigger executable size) and in terms of available features.
I believe he is claiming you might be able to make money doing financial commodities speculation, ie, buying wheat contracts at CBOT.
Perhaps OP means speculation as in people exploiting the data to make money from commodity futures?
Ask the moon why during an eclipse it isn't completely shadowed out. It's much closer than L2
Unless we learn otherwise, (as I think at HN we can generally assume users are who they say they are), it sounds like the OP has experience and expertise in exactly what the article is describing. As much as we might want to believe in the merits of certain endeavors, there is something to be ~~said~~ heard from those that have been there, and tried that.

Kinda reminds me of the stigma shown towards all the Theranos naysayers that insisted that it was impossible to do so much testing with so little blood!
Backward rather than forward-looking, so slightly off topic, but for a high-level understanding of US crop production, nothing beats the US Crop Production 2021 summary. [Here - https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/...]

Skip the first 92 pages and go straight to 93-96 which give a total rundown of all US crop acreage and production, from corn and soybeans down to maple syrup and peppermint oil.
Continue with page 97 which has a complete month-by-month rundown on US weather with comments on impact on specific crops.

Comprehensive.
Paper trail.
https://archive.ph/zYJP0
Makes sense, its not bound by the xtensa license which prevents open source disclosure of the jtag interface (there are probably other reasons, but I know xtensa isn't compatible w/open source)

Espressif is based in Shanghai.
China nationally is moving to RISC-V & red linux for all internal cases so they aren't reliant on foreign tech/ip. Espressif makes products for the ccp (I'd wager it is their single largest client and probably directly influencing their board, but that is speculation). Most chip manufacturers work pretty close with their govs for biz.

Its hard to appreciate today how significant a role esp32 will play in future computing trends (but it is probably HUGE imho, i love their products and transparency)
He is claiming that food and crops are being monetized the same way speculators turf on other necessary things like housing.
I think it's a pun. In addition to the meaning of "to be curious about", speculation can also refer to certain types of financial transactions... especially those that would take into account foreknowledge of crop yields.
redis streams are cool
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Because it's not 'dice rolling'.

And yes, they will use their network to create good outcomes, that's fine.
Perhaps more similar to zombodb's hinted new pronto plugin: https://twitter.com/zombodb/status/1547389026235187201
Most famines of the post industrial era have been man-made. Sure, droughts are natural, but allowing people to starve is a choice.
If the options are to pay $50b for something worth $20b, or pay $1b and walk away, then walking away is the better choice by far.
Computers Are about Speed
I considered the Remarkable.

For my primary use: a portable library, 16 GB onboard storage was simply too little. The BOOX Max Lumi offered 64 GB, and the Lumi II has 128 GB, which I could really use, and ultimately I'd prefer more still.

Remarkable has since shifted to a cloud/subscription business model, which makes me happier for my choice.

I'd prefer Linux under the hood, really. But not with the senseless HW sacrifices that Remarkable are imposing.

I'll add that Onyx's post-purchase support of the platform has been refreshing after Samsung devices that saw no updates at all. There've been about 4--5 in a year and a half, including specifically addressing issues I'd reported.
Yeah, good call I think.
Don't look up!
Mark Cerny's “Method” at DICE 2002 (video)
I attempted to implement my own windowing library after studying winit and SDL2.

The missing feature I need is supporting detachable tabs (like what chrome and sublime text have).

I think for productivity apps, this is very important. But implementing a windowing lib from scratch is not easy.
> I want to find a job that'll pay me senior engineer rates but let me learn Rust like a baby and eventually do something useful with it

You and me both. I've been learning Rust, slowly but surely. I'd like to use it at work, but most companies I've seen require experience with it.
This advice is applicable to anyone building cross-platform UI toolkits, not just to Rust.
The vax doesn't prevent catching it, it only reduces the intensity of it.
Doesn't this kind of imply that the other economic system are either full of failures or at the very least don't have that many success stories?
As you discovered, the actual fix is making sure your production and development python environments match. As for platform discrepancies, docker helps with this
I had no issues here. In Easylist we will remove many of the nord ad (image) spam. Which uBO and Brave uses.

/Disclaimer Easylist Maintainer and Brave Webcompat
Good answer! Although the Earth is also much larger than the Moon.
Not sure if you’re still taking responses to that poll, but I’ve personally tried jambu in uh… other contexts. It’s great :)
Why would higher electricity bills be required for climate change?

https://carbontracker.org/reports/no-country-for-coal-gen-be...

> phasing out unprofitable coal could save $10 billion per year and reduce household electricity bills by up to 10% by 2021
Never now if people are joking saying that but oh boy!
While I agree with the sentiment, I think this text is pushing it a bit to far. There exist mathematic, cultural, psychological and anthropological truths that can help one navigate towards success in the world of humans, it's not all random noise.

For example:

1. Getting yourself organized and goal oriented, focused on what you can control, your behavior and decisions, instead of wasting time fantasizing about the lives of great men and the myriad ways your environment differs from Silicon Valley in the 70s. For example, a simple tool like the "Getting things done" methodology helped me to increase my productivity significantly. Some other tool might work for you, as long as you can stay on goal and deliver.

2. Understanding the exponential curve and the power of compound interest. Wealth is built by capital accumulation via compound interest, you start with just your two hands, reinvest the proceeds in growth and watch you empire grow. Once you accumulate seed capital, everything becomes easier, money is like a superpower and you can direct people around you to work towards your vision.

Cultural norms are strongly favoring linear career goals, ex. becoming a doctor, so it's very hard, risky and counterintuitive to go against your peer group and position yourself on an exponential growth path.

3. Understanding people are political animals, always competing for power and resources. This is true for any organization, team, project, people will obey power and getting and wielding power is a complementary goal to money, one leads to the another. A strong way to accrue political capital is to build networks, meet and keep good relations with many powerful people that can be useful and for which you are useful.

These examples are some very general and powerful concepts that are likely to remain true for a long time and that most successful people use at least instinctively. They are necessary to greatly increase the odds of success, but of course, vastly insuficient to guarantee it.
> astronomically small

That's what I supposed.
> It's easy to forget how much it takes behind the scences to keep the machine humming smoothly.

Until your toilet gets clogged.
Someone without a formal CS education who's selling programming courses telling you that formal CS courses don't necessarily teach you programming (duh).

He has a point that if you do a Master's you might be going without the extremely useful basic algorithms and data structures courses, but that is easily avoided by choosing a program that lets you take that. For other topics that aren't strictly programming, eg AI, ML, game theory, cryptography, quantum computing, probabilistic methods, optimization,... it would take a significant amount of dedication to match the amount of understanding that a rigorous course with problem sets can give you in self study.
Up to a point, sure.

But I think there is a point when it makes more sense to just pay the guy a wage, instead of running a big expensive police state controlling everything...
Specific performance is perfectly constitutional in this matter, and you don't seem to understand that Twitter's representations were highly qualified, making it seemingly impossible for Musk to show there were material misrepresentations. You seem to be under the misapprehension that Twitter claimed there were 5% or less bots. This is not true. They never made unqualified claims about the number of bots.

How do I know this? I subscribe to Matt Levine's newsletter. He's a lawyer who follows this stuff for a living.
"My code who lives in Canada" style? :D

I don't know who came up with the policy, but it's someone high up because it's company-wide. It's based on the Uncle Bob recommendations, ostensibly. Shrug
Was it per chance a project in Poland involving a certain networking gear vendor's SDN product?
Wish I could! It's locked away in a private company repo.
gee i wonder why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
Yeah, but I don't think those are his choices.

Pay $1b and walk away is his best outcome. That's if he wins. If he loses, he may have to pay $50b for something worth $20b. Settling will be somewhere in between - maybe paying $10-15b to walk away.

Of course, if he settles, it will be with a sealed agreement. And then he can publicly claim victory...
manipulation of stock is far from a victimless crime
What are some of the difficulties?
I saw her live a few weeks ago on her latest tour and wow… Her performance is absolutely breathtaking. To any bystander reading this, if you ever have the opportunity it’s a must.
That argument — it’s one day and hasn’t happened yet — is incompatible with your own previous comment.

Also, the cover of the Daily Mirror shows how much the Daily Mirror likes drama, not anything about whoever they’re discussing. Even moreso given who appears to have written that particular story and who was supposed to be getting warned…
Even a dead man switch is not enough. jwz added a "WARNING: This version is very old! Please upgrade!" time bomb message to xscreensaver's about dialog and Debian removed the warning code instead of upgrading to the fixed version of xscreensaver. Google "I would like Debian to stop shipping XScreenSaver" for details.
plus some content providers limit the bandwith for individual connections
So Twitter is asking for September trial date. Musk wants February 2023. Hoping it's closer to Twitter's date solely for entertainment value. This is going to be a spectacle.
If you want accurate pricing, keep an eye on the futures markets. Using satellites to predict harvests has been used by Wall Street since forever.
Luck alone is sufficient. As a simple example: if you've been born into the Gates or Zuckerberg family you will have as many tries as you need until you succeed.

And if you've been born in some parts of Africa you're almost certainly going to be
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