skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use IBM MQ at work and I wouldn't exactly call it simple.

There's sender channels, receiver channels, xmit queues, local queues, remote queues, dead letter queues, topics, subscriptions and all kinds of other things to learn about. Add that to the crappy IBM tools and their documentation that is full of dead links and you're in for a lot of learning through trial-and-error.
Private War Enterprise in Asia
Does it pass "the mom test"? The people who need this kind of protection aren't as much HNers, but the friends and family of HNers.
Unless sufficiently anonymized - and I don't know how much is actually sufficient - your browsing history can be used to identify you.
The goal of good web building is to manage to deliver the most value to ~~consumers and the business~~ the shareholders.

FTFY. That is why they are packed full of ads.
That's not a flooded road.
They are not dumb, they just didn’t receive any training.
> Thus, I am interested in some resources to learn/re-learn more about CS, everything from foundational concepts to more practical (e.g. how does a computer work at the hardware level).

For information on how the computer works at hardware level and how software interacts with it, following two free courses will help:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer

https://www.coursera.org/learn/nand2tetris2

As you have background in mathematics, any book on algorithms will be an easy read for you. For data-structures the free https://opendatastructures.org book should suffice.

For languages, if you have mathematics background, then start with functional programming e.g. Haskell, Clojure. And also start with Python.

That is all it is to CS ;)

For domain specific, then you will have to look at specific text or courses e.g. machine learning, graphics, databases, distributed systems, operating systems etc.
The tooling being used is also mostly open-source, and you have the same options - and difficulties - there.

The more people complain "but it's hard", the more they demonstrate how indebted they already are to those who have made open-source what it is today.
I would be very interested in such a study.

I have driven both autos and manuals and have noticed a distinct difference in focus when driving the latter. I feel more engaged with the roads and my environment. I also noticed that I've never fought to stay awake while driving a manual, and unfortunately this is the case with automatics.

My previous and current cars are manuals, and I don't ever plan on buying an auto in the future. If my next car has to be a Miata or something, so be it.
Worry not. Before the family was invented there was a thing called the tribe. Lots of fun there too.
I have no idea why you are being downvoted. As much as I wish otherwise, what you say is entirely correct.

In some limited sense it is kind possible to own some games, the ones that exist on physical media and play on devices that do not require online connectivity. But even in the case of GOG, which sells DRM free games you can download, you aren't really the "owner" of anything tangible - you have a license to use the software. The fact that you may have a copy of the files is not the same as owning anything.
As someone that worked with viruses for a couple decades, I do not endorse this. Life finds a way.

(I know viruses aren't 'alive')
Haha. For me (EU) the first voice has a slight indian accent, while the second one a slight east asian accent.
But i'm sure they are working to achieve perfection ( i.e. British royal family accent).
The Paradox of ‘Good’ Teaching
Look into the Dacia Sandero, then. When they launched they were about six grand in the highest trim spec, which included a space to fit a stereo. Not the stereo, just the space to fit it.

Manual door locks, manual windey windows, manual seats, buttons and dials, mechanical gauges. All based on "proven technology" first-gen Renault Megane components, so it's easy to fix.
And issues manifest as queue backups which a can turn what would otherwise be downtime into “the app is a little slow today.”

Would never ever architect an app in production without leaning heavily on queues because it makes so many of the hard parts trivial.
I would say crocs and pickup trucks are opposite. Many many people hate crocs and how they look but they are in many regards actually an extremely practical shoe for most peoples' day to day life. The opposite is true for trucks.
This might be useful: https://github.com/yanirs/established-remote
That's highly underestimated benefit of message queues. In addition to that it's also easy to mirror the queue and test new version in parallel with current.
> ...but the recovery system is exactly what they need to build first.

I can't find the reference, but consistent with that, I remember reading someplace that the number of items in your queue should typically be zero, since queues can't actually make the rest of the system any faster. All they can really do is buffer temporary bursts, or buffer while the rest of the system recovers. And for that you'll definitely need your recovery system working as a prerequisite.
You work at MS, contact the Microsoft Research Centre, where C.A.R. Hoare works. Maybe ask to speak to him or another big name. Don't be afraid to ask[1]. Good luck!

[1] Shy bairns go hungry, goes some saying.
So is Mozilla. Mozilla makes there money through product placement (mostly from Google) though they now make some money on the side selling (targeted) ads through out the browser.
> Some common responses by companies include:

Yes and I would say I often see the responses come out in that order.
1997 Range Rover P38 owner here. Entirely gizmo-free and less rot-prone than old Toyotas.
I finally had to switch to a slushbox for family reasons. Driving is less fun, but it gets the job done. One thing that's neat though, that a stickshift can never do, is automatic engine braking.

Driving along on cruise control, if a long downhill is encountered, the car will shift down to engine brake. That's cool.
> Some Artificial hormones are found in plastic, rates go up when it's recycled plastics.

I do know that some chemicals, possibly also found in some plastics (soft plastic probably) function a bit like estrogen, potentially reducing male fertility.
Reminds me of the article "Parse, don't validate", which I found helpful in cleaning up my code and making it more coherent. https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...

I think there's value in making illegal states impossible to represent with the types you're using, even if you may not be able to completely replace validation. This is one of those cases where "perfect is the enemy of good".
> Sporting a four-lens, 48-megapixel camera that allowed users to zoom up to 100x without sacrificing any image quality

Yeah right. This article reeks of SEO spam.
We have many EU-based employees, all working remotely. Our working time zones span from Sydney through India, EU, EST, and a couple of outliers in MST and PST.

We do care (and check) that you’re legally allowed to work where you live, but other than that, I’d expect there are high hundreds (likely thousands) of companies hiring remotely who are in a similar boat.
It is not only an American thing. Andrew Wakefield's actions have contributed to this problem since 1998, and he is British, so it's not just being lead from the USA, it's an international con.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield

And more recently there's Piers Corbyn and co

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Corbyn
> My goal is to actually use the concepts I spent so much to learn in my PhD in my career.

Hmmm... That was me, 12 years ago, after having done a Ph.D. focussing on computational semantics (the nlp-kind, not the compiler-kind). Trying to apply it anywhere in industry has been my white whale ever since. I'd recommend de-emphasizing the "I'd like to work here to apply this incredibly specific thing that I've been working on for my Ph.D." angle in job interviews.
Is Zero Trust worth the hype?
I'm a bit skeptical of your claim that "getting a work permit in Europe basically isn't possible without a degree".

Is it an EU country? In every European country I've had direct experience with (DK, DE, IT, PT, FR, BE), you can get a residence permit with the right to work by applying as an accompanying spouse, or under a family reunification scheme. Of course, in some countries this can take time, but certainly not 8 years.

Additionally, under the 'Directive on the status of non-EU nationals who are long-term residents'[1], you have the right to obtain permanent residence in any EU country you have lived in legally for 5 years. Unless you've been living in the EU illegally (e.g. on a tourist visa for 8 years) or not reporting your income/paying social contributions, you should be eligible for that. As with all/most EU directives, the specific implementation can vary between countries, but the immigration authorities are obliged to have some kind of process for implementation.

[1] https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/migration-and-asy...
Call center workers aren't dumb, they're by design not to deviate from the script and allowed procedures. For want of a better phrase they're human admin panels. Look at any Reddit post on customer service giving incorrect advice (because they misunderstood or because they had the wrong information) and see the responses - the blame goes straight to "the company" for not being wrong. Minimising the deviation from the norm helps massively in avoiding these situations.

Frankly 95+% of my complaints have been resolved by these front line workers (I want to cancel an X, my Y hasn't arrived),so it clearly works.
Your comment is dripping with more political vitriol than I've seen in "that country" in a while

You can find plenty of more compact pickups - I've been searching for the best one for a while because the Dodge Ram and Ford F150 are just too big.

The Honda Ridgeline, the Ford Maverick, the Chevrolet Colorado, the Hyundai Santa Cruz, the Toyota Tacoma, are all more compact, only seat 2-4 people, and have more bed than cab.
Murder attempts and harassment? Please elaborate.
Proxy macOS and notice that it phones home almost every moment you’re using it, including details like which programs you’re executing.
I guess so. The OP replied and said yes, but he's banned for being an anti-semite and a COVID minimizer, so I'll say it again for those who have dead comments hidden.

It's a shame that you can't have both speed and security. One possibility is to have a subdomain, insecure.blah.com, that doesn't redirect to HTTPS by default.
> What he didn’t take into account is that comma isn’t run by rational actors in suits sitting on a committee. It’s run by me, George Hotz. I’m willing to lose $1M before I give him $10k.

> We really admire what cloudflare did in dealing with patent trolls. If this continues, we want to work to invalidate not just the patents he is wrongfully claiming against us, but his entire patent portfolio.

I hope I can stay up-to-date with story. Nothing more I appreciate more than seeing someone stunting innovation and taking advantage of others hard work getting smacked down.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-project-jengo-saga-how-cloud...
> Or how about just being able to anticipate the power band around a corner? Being able to downshift on a hill without thinking about it. Those are things you don't even realize you do in a manual, that you do.

You can do that in an automatic, too. Reach over to the gear selector, move it from D to a lower gear.

I can honestly say I don't give a shit whether I'm driving a manual or an automatic. I don't really think about gear changing in either.
This doesn't actually tell you how far you can go without a message queue. Unsurprising because they're trying to sell one. But you can go very far without them by using the DB or redis as your message queue. Probably fine for 99%+ of applications.

Don't add a message queue until you really need one. And if you do make sure you account for it being down, running locally, back pressure if the queue gets full, monitoring, and logging at least.
https://corecursive.com/lisp-in-space-with-ron-garret/
I love it, I really do! That is perfect.
Then do not use kubernetes, if its complex enough that you cannot afford it as a dependency, with all that entails.
> Note it's a common thing for "pro-fossil fuel" advocates to show "peaks" without enough context. Usually what looks like a peak on a daily basis is in fact a drop in the bucket compared with the yearly peak.

I'm not pro-fossil, rather the opposite. I'm anti-fossil (GHG in general) fuel, and want us to use all production methods available that allow us to gut GHG emissions, including solar, wind AND nuclear. Eventually (a few hundred years from now, maybe, but eventually) it seems like fusion will be the final source.

Also, I'm concerned with replacing ALL sources of fossil fuels, including for heating, most industrial use. And for that to come true, I think we need to have a razor sharp focus on price to make it happen. Lately, even before the current crisis, it seems that prices have been going in the wrong direction while global GHG emissions continue their sharp increase.

It seems to me that part of the reason is that many "renewable" proponents are much more more happy to burn a lot of natural gas than to allow nuclear power, and that they're employing a variety of measures to make nuclear seem unattractive, even compared to natural gas. (I've seen some of these messages sponsored by oil companies, some of which seem to want to build expensive offshore wind parks close to where they already have oil platforms.)

I'm getting the impression that some costs of wind power, in particular, is being covered over. And I'm particularly thinking of wind power. This involves both the unstable demand, unavailability of storage and things like increased transportation costs not clearly linked to the type of source.

So, basically, what I'm looking for is ways to make ALL of solar, wind and nuclear as cheap as possible, with reasonable (and shared) safety and environmental standards.

For that to happen, honesty about real costs, accurate prediction models and willingness to remove factors that increase prices unnecessarily (often due to special interest groups) need to be investigated.

For now, my impression is that the real LCOE, including transportation, of nuclear could be A LOT lower than what is represented by new European and American plants, both based on historical prices and efforts in Korea and China, while the real LCOE of wind tends to increase sharply when wind power gets to about 20-30% of total energy production.

For now, my opinion is that we should continue to invest in solar and wind at the same rate we're currently doing while ALSO work on adjust regulation and the business climate for nuclear to allow the cost to come down at least to Korean levels. Meanwhile, all fossil fuel sources should be taxed at a high enough level to make sure both nuclear and renewable investments have a chance of being profitable (The tax should at least be brought up enough to cover the negative externalities of fossil fuels).

If such taxes were made federal (in the US) and collected by the EU (in the EU market), instead of being collected by individual states, one could at least set up the right incentives.
Zero trust. Because any less is impossible!
The "flag" link is conspicuously absent on "is hiring" posts.
"The teachers and the teaching practices that can increase test scores often are not the same as those that improve student-reported engagement" Love that.

Teachers have a tough job. Best of luck to all of them!
All it takes is one good phone application that uses the underlying devices.

Also as a reminder, WebOS is also Linux and the Palm Pre phones were excellent phones (with a somewhat limited app support - they were a bit ahead of time with JavaScript and applications written on it)
> The push toward Open RAN, virtualization, and “cloudifcation” unlocks more choice and functionality for 5G operators. It has also thrust them into the unfamiliar role of system integrator, suddenly responsible for securing the entire supply chain.

I've worked with mobile operators before... most of them don't do any virtualization and cloudification, or any-fication... directly at all. They just buy a whole solution from ericsson/nsn/huawei, and configure it exactly as the vendor tells them to (in most cases, by sitting down and watching the vendor representative do it themselves). Sometimes it even comes in a prebuilt rack, that they just set up and connect and wait for the representative to configure.

Are they hackable? Probably. But telcos being unfamiliar with 'cloud' (which is not true) is not the reason why.
Those smartphones are forced to use non-open networks (GSM, LTE, 5G) which are riddled with proprietary encryption, back doors, and mandatory built in interfaces to facilitate monitoring by state actors.
Pickups are actually one of the worst vehicles imaginable in the snow. You have to throw a lot of weight in the rear to get traction, the wheelbase is long so that spinning out of control is far more likely and terrifying, trucks are super high off the ground so roll over risk is high (ESPECIALLY with lifted trucks) and worst of all extremely heavy vehicles like big trucks have a horrendous stopping distance in the snow which is by far and away the most important thing in the snow.

If you want a vehicle that will handle moderately deep snow the best a subaru station wagon is probably the ideal shape, or at low speeds a shorter jeep wrangler if you are actually going off road.
Plant Crocs Are a Thing
Sorry but that smells like pure FUD to me.

Apple sending details every moment about what programs you're using ? Pull the other one !
Dumb question. I've been wanting to get into IR optics for a while. Does every camera lens come with IR and IR filter, and would this one somehow not? It seems IR optics are insanely expensive for some reason.
If this is true, what makes you think you are outside a few sigma?
How about ZQ (shift z, shift q) or ZZ to save quit? Can't believe that is not mentioned...
The user, me included, has less and less knowledge and skills though.

When your tool becomes a megacorp owned subscription based service you barely understand is it really a tool ? It doesn't produce art in the way a brush and paint produce art, you barely have any control on what it does, you just become an image filter, you press a few keys, look at the image for 5 seconds and decide if it triggers the right part of your brain or not

It's not so different from the artist shitting on canvas, but at least he had the creativity to do something new and daring.

The end result might be called art but the whole process is completely devoid of what makes art "art"
If you can reliably solve the problem by doing that then why not.

I guess saying “this is just a sugar pill but it might help” and “this is a psychoactive substance that might make you trip a bit but also seems to measurably help some people though we’re not sure if it’s just a placebo” might have different placebo effects. Or maybe it actually works and it’s just hard to know.

The point is if it measurably works better than other substances, including definite placebos, why not use it?

We should want the outcome with sufficiently high probability and within whatever risk tolerance we define. Not the outcome in a way that satisfies a specific group of scientists. That’s not to criticise the scientists or their science, it’s important to do it, and knowing is better than not, but not knowing everything shouldn’t necessarily stop us if the risk/reward is there.
The academic paper that the article reports on is at (PDF): https://www.edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai22-591...

A caveat is that the results apply to elementary students taking a math course. A quote from the abstract that summarizes part of the results is: “Upper-elementary teachers who excel at raising students’ math test scores often are less successful at improving student-reported engagement in class (and vice versa). Further, the teaching practices that improve math test scores (e.g., cognitively demanding content) can simultaneously decrease engagement.”

Speculatively with my own analysis, perhaps rote practice is the best way to improve early math scores, though I wonder if this turns people away from math as they grow older.
Special effect people for cinema were like this. Now to a lesser degree, because so many things are done via rendering.
My understanding is that most software is not patentable, unless it is tied somehow to hardware or to a machine. I've identified a patent that makes broad claims for which prior art exists in the form of a YouTube video detailing the software and its interaction with a machine. Why is it the case that this form of prior-art is not considered for ex-parte reexamination but it is in the case of the patent owner requesting reexamination? It doesn't make sense.

References:

[0] https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2209.html

[1] https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2801.html
Well it's a start but what about not showing fake news in the first place? Or blocking ads from sites that post fake news?
When interests align harmony ensues! Isn't that wonderful? That's when everybody wins!
Get the Job You Deserve [video]
This is mostly just "the concensus opinion" on HN, which is very skeptical of crypto in general.

I used to work in the cryptocurrency industry and my impression was that the concensus of the people actually working on crypto or handling large amounts of money was that there is no particular reason to believe that tether is insolvent. Tether's honesty and integrity aren't held in very high esteem and it might well have been the case at one point that they were printing unbacked tethers, but that doesn't mean tether is not properly backed now - if they used that tether to buy lots of bitcoin, and bitcoin went up, then they would have made out like a bandit.

Personally I wouldn't be surprised either way, but I lean towards thinking that tether is not in any immediate danger of collapsing.
One of cloudflare's customers is a forum known for repeatedly organising swatting, which in practice is a murder attempt (in the US anyway) and other nastiness. Cloudflare seems ok with that, but recently there's more pressure on them. So far only radio silence from the management like Prince and JGrahamC. Check out https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/1485731083534667779 for a longer story for example.

It's been an ongoing issue for quite a while but in the last few days there seems to be some effort to make them not ignore it and spread the knowledge.
Layer 2
Your "crime" is just bringing up vaccines in a context where it's wholly irrelevant, presumably as a low effort way of stirring up more low quality argument about vaccines and related subjects. This follow-up post of yours is supporting evidence that you brought up vaccines for no good reason.
Why is goal setting so difficult?
Similar to how your comments signal that you have a weird personal vendetta against pickup trucks?
Not competing website but other average website in general. Say that averagely HN load for 1000ms and it's positioned around top 15% fastest. And if your website load for 1100 ~ 1200ms will be okay. OP's point is, if you're able to speed up to range of 800 ~ 900ms it may not resulting in much higher conversion.

However if your site is at 1800ms range it's worthwhile to increase to 1200ms range