skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a MS in Comp Eng from Columbia awhile ago. Some good reasons to get one, tuned to your background:

* Because you are self taught, getting one gives you more credibility and increases your chances of working at a traditional, large company (FAANG and the like).

* You'll build a durable network. My experience was rigorous as hell and through that, I got to be close with my classmates. Though we're not in constant contact anymore, ringing them up for a job referral is pretty much a guaranteed favor.

* If you want to specialize in a particular topic (eg compilers, networks, etc), it's worth it. Chances are you'll get to do some dedicated research and it can be really intellectually fulfilling.

* There will be holes in your knowledge that you'll fill. They won't be critical to your software career, but it'll give you an edge.

BTW, if you decide to pursue one and you're in a position to do it fulltime, definitely do that. Way more of a rewarding experience vs doing it PT.
Not for the degree itself, but you could learn something useful that could be helpful later
Trick: apply for a PhD and they will pay you to get the masters, and you can drop out at any time

And agreed with others. If you did not do a great upgrad / did not sufficiently self-teach, and you want to quickly level up on tech fundamentals + some specialty area, hard to beat. You can easily do more boring tech without, and quite successfully. Likewise, some people luck into elite teams or strong mentors to replace this... But unlikely and you won't really know. (We happen to be like this, but it is rare and takes work on a sides.)

Staying on for a PhD after is more of a passion / self-investment, eg, passion for leading r&d or some niche.
Task Artistry Index: Eliciting A.I. Individuality
why were you even considering the optinion of someone with so much skin in the game?

looking for CF for facts on internet traffic is like looking at apple for their laptop performance graphs. you migth as welljust swallow a perfect graph withou scale numbers ;)
Not for the job.

Do it if you like the idea of it but it's an expensive hobby.

I'd rather just learn the topics I care about online
Can you articulate an argument for why it’s a good thing?

This is controversial; people fought against adding ugly suicide netting to the Golden Gate Bridge for years, and there are strong utilitarianism-based arguments for limiting the lengths we go to prevent suicide.
For coding in your normal day to day? Sure use intellij. For trying to debug some deep level production only issue where every second of downtime means big money lost? You'll want to know vim/emacs..

Edit: I'll also add that once you learn vim or emacs you'll be far more efficient manipulating text. Sure you could add the bindings to intellij, but I think that's admitting the point is valid. At a point it becomes like a real time meta language where you edit lines the way you would algorithmically.
The curious case of Norway’s demon wall (2021)
Hate speech is explicitly illegal. This isn't an opinion, it's just fact.
As much as i love Plan9, it's in dire need of bugfixes if you're gonna expose it to the net. Last official release was ~15 years ago
1. Shape Up method, for feature delivery at a small product-led company (e.g. SaaS startup)

2. mini-Waterfall: design -> plan -> build (iterate) -> ship - for platform/infra, or any other heavy engineering work

3. informal SDLC combining modern best practices in SW Engineering

4. Kanban for reactive work (bug-fixes, maintenance, QA, support, ops, etc.)

5. RUP (Rational Unified Process) for Mission/Safety critical systems

6. GROWS method - more like a collection of patterns / best practices

7. The GIST framework (Goals, Ideas, Steps, Tasks) - mostly about product management, but can be combined with Kanban

There are many others, but they're either lacking communities (i.e. used by a single company only, no books/courses), and/or IMO not very good.
Usually in these kind of threads I always see people defend the perpetuators of harm (such as Alex Jones and the amount of harm he did to the Sandy Hook parents) rather than the victims of said harm. Or at the very least, I never see people offer an actual solution other than completely capitulating to said perpetuators and letting them harm innocent people.

Ultimately I do think Germany is a bit too heavy handed in what it's trying to do, but at the same time this is also the direct result of communities being overly tolerant of neo-Nazis and creating festering grounds for them to eventually take to action and cause real world harm. It's like what that one bartender mentioned for why he always kicks out neo-Nazis. If you don't, eventually they bring in their friends and their friends of friends and soon enough you have a neo-Nazi bar and you can't kick them out without causing trouble.
If a company gives one white person a job over a more qualified black person, that's unjust, and you can't make up for it by giving a different black person a job over a more qualified white person; rather, this doubles the amount of injustice.

What this does is distribute the injustice evenly between the races, but this sort of concern about races (rather than the individuals that comprise them) strikes me as the very essence of racism: it's treating individuals within a race as unimportant and treating race itself as all-important.

> As a population however, you can tell that it occurs. People within these groups get no benefit of the doubt. They will have to overachieve to get the same opportunities as others.

We can tell that it occurs, but we can't even accurately measure the degree to which it occurs. Our discourse generally just assumes that the degree of disparity is the degree of discrimination on the really, really awful assumption that disparities can only be caused by discrimination.
According to Putin, there is no war; it is a "special military operation".

Therefore, I suppose he can only call this an act of terrorism.
very off topic, but how does the sites font css work? It is

@font-face {
font-family: system;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 400;
src: local("-apple-system"), local("BlinkMacSystemFont"), local("Segoe UI"), local("Roboto"), local("Oxygen-Sans"), local("Ubuntu"), local("Cantarell"), local("Helvetica Neue"), local("sans-serif");
}

and gives me the Ubuntu font. Is it the first font in the list, that my browser recognizes and I have?
As well as the following:

“No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.”

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
VirtioFS made it usable for me. Before that, I used Mutagen.
I don't think that's so much self-regulation as it is the producers would probably not let them publicize something like that on TV and avoid some 3-letter agency knocking on their doors.
Yes, its getting warmer, globally.
Zig is an attempt to merge metaprogramming and type system into a single, coherent unit, however not without drawbacks. Basically, in an ideal language, I see that type system permits three kinds of dependencies:

- Values dependent on values (algorithms)

- Values dependent on types (parametric polymorphism)

- Types dependent on types (type-level functions)

This is one dimension weaker than Calculus of Constructions (CoC) [1], which permits types dependent on values (so-called "dependent types"), but we don't need them until we want to prove some properties about our code (dependent types correspond to logical predicates). Some tasks handled by metaprogramming however may not be handled even by a type system that permits type-level functions; for this reason, probably we have to include some sort of simple syntax transformations, such as those found in Idris [2].

I expatiated in one of my posts [3] on why static languages duplicate their language concepts. This writing also includes Zig and Idris.

[1] https://gist.github.com/Hirrolot/89c60f821270059a09c14b940b4...

[2] http://docs.idris-lang.org/en/latest/tutorial/syntax.html

[3] https://hirrolot.github.io/posts/why-static-languages-suffer...
There's speculation on r/combatfootage that a wave preceded the explosion suggesting a delivery by sea.
I hate to interrupt your regularly scheduled dose of anti-Americanism, but "Hate Speech" was being punished across Europe long before the "War on Terror" began in the United States. Europeans did not, and do not, need prompting from the United States to act like fascists. All tyrants invariably seize upon whatever pretext is available to them to engage in plausibly-deniable acts of tyranny.
Surely you’re not serious, and even if you were serious, you probably know full and well that only the United States can get away with that kind of behaviour...
> 303 vulnerabilities have been found in Google Chrome this year alone

> Microsoft Edge came in third place with 103

How would that even be possible given that Chrome and Edge are both based on Chromium and share like 95% of codebase...
This will not be able to reverse engineer fully-customized, fully-fused neural networks generated by NN-512:

https://NN-512.com

NN-512 generates custom code for all the operations, custom units of work for the threads, custom code around tensor edges, everything is fused and unrolled and customized. If they can deduce the network graph specification from the AVX-512 code, I will be astonished.

If you can do it, show me. But I know you can't.

Anyone who cares about model privacy will use their own variant of a tool like NN-512. It's security through obscurity, but that's the best you can hope for if you are distributing an executable.
Isn't UTM a frontend for these APIs?
Note that the Ukrainian postal service managed to unveil a stamp commemorating destruction of the bridge within hours of the explosion.
The unmanned boat theory is pretty compelling, though I'm not sure what the final step would be. Firing a missile up towards the bridge?
The elected governments of the UK or Canada could choose to pass laws to make anything legal or illegal, but they don't.

That suggests to me that the people and their representatives want these laws to be in place.

Just like the people and their representatives in the USA don't want to change the constitution to remove the first amendment.

The constitution in the US protects so much only because its government is otherwise dysfunctional - nobody ever has a majority large enough to change things. This doesn't happen in other countries - the current UK government has had a sizeable majority since 2019.
> State-aid rules were suspended during covid-19, as national governments bailed out everything from airlines to pizzerias.

This is anything but a free market, and the consequences thereof. Actually a very good analogy for NGEU program.
My first professional job was working as a DoD contractor. Having the anti-bribery training beaten into me did not prepare me well for doing business with the private sector and in other countries. I had to learn that there are completely different rules and expectations.
there's a subtle difference between saying what you want and publishing what you want on a global platform that potentially can show it to billions of people.

Say it in a bar with your friends if you wanna make a stance or a joke, avoid global social networks.

Maybe UK is simply showing its true face, but exposing in public your ingenuity has never ended well.

There's a reason why McDonalds writes "Caution: Contents Hot" on their hot beverages.

Long story short: if you know sth can happen, you should try to prevent it, or you'll be considered part of the problem, even if only partially, the consequences could be bad.

EDIT: as explained here[1], the true story is a story of underestimating the risks.

Free speech on social private networks is not the same thing as free speech in person and it's absolutely not risk free.

People know that, but keep thinking "it won't happen to me" despite the fact TOS say very clearly what can and cannot be said and that a big "report" button is there for anyone to use.

nobody has ever been arrested for saying horrible things at the pub with their friends.
Nobody would have ever said the same things on national TV.
But suddenly we started thinking social networks are like the pub while they are more ubiquitous than the TV.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33145066
Iran protest song that's become the soundtrack to civil uprising [video]
Third shift exists, yes. But also, work wasn't mentioned or implied, unless you mean the taco bell workers.
Yeah I can see that's possible sure. Though if I have access to the code I just use Github but sometimes I guess that's not possible.
Still quite rare though no?
Yup. I’m just pointing out that tips get stolen that way very often. You should ask the server you think your tipping if they get those tips. Far too often you’re just overpaying for coffee.
If you don't like Wikipedia, how about the Chinese government's official arrest statistics? https://web.archive.org/web/20180725042225/https://www.nchrd... Just click on the numbers in the table to verify that they match the original Chinese source.

Of course you can choose to believe that the Internet Archive is in on the conspiracy, in which case you cannot be helped.

Or you can choose to believe that Chinese police were exaggerating their arrest statistics to make themselves look good, in which case I have an interesting article for you that mentions the practice: https://madeinchinajournal.com/2019/10/25/punish-and-cure%ef...
Russia never declared war on Ukraine. It's all "special military operation" for them, lots and lots of untrained Russian soldiers going to Ukraine for some reason and not coming back.

What's even better is that recently, Russian government proclaimed some oblasts of Ukraine to be Russian territory, _even the areas they never controlled_, such as Zaporizhzhia city or Sloviansk. Russian government is not all there.
If you started two years ago you should have a loooong time to wait. Stocks have never been considered a great short term investment. Those of us who started 20 years ago have put only a small part of our net worth in the past few years and so are still well ahead
Maybe there's a method to Musk's madness... ...if the world (well, tbh, it'll be mostly the Northern Hemisphere, but it's still going to screw everyone in some manner) ends in ashes, those bunkers aren't going to be as effective at sheltering from regular people as Thiel et al think.

If you're hiding out on Mars, the peons would at least have to build a rocket to get to you when they decided to eat the rich.
Maybe.

But like all humans, different project managers have different strengths and weaknesses. Some PMs are really good at certain things like schmoozing the stakesholders and keeping them happy, but aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer when it comes to actually building products, understanding technical details, and solving business problems.

Good ideas can come from all corners, but I'd say it would be a good thing for the engineers in particular to experience some customer service tasks for some of these reasons.

1) They have better insight into how hard something would be to fix and can probably prioritize a little more effectively in some cases.

2) They might not be aware of the problems that a particular issue causes. In many companies, even those with good communication between departments, it can be easy for something important to not be communicated well enough even with a great PM.

3) Getting exposure to some of the pain of doing customer service might give the engineer more empathy about the problems that customers and staff have to deal with and might have them take it more into account when building future features for the product.
I don't think you grasp the implications of what you are suggesting.

Basically, you're suggesting that 'being wrong' about something, is effectively a crime.

That's one hell of a slippery slope.

Alex Jones has an audience of 400M people.

You and I do not.

You and I absolutely should be able to say 'Sandy Hook children were actors'.

Maybe one of us is a total idiot and actually believes that. Is that a crime?

Proportionality etc. matter.

Also - you are hugely downplaying how much censorship Twitter enacts (I'm not saying this is good or bad, but they do it).

Just like the regular police keep a lid on crime, as in, if they were to disappear all hell would instantly break lose (in Montreal the cops went on strike and immediately there were mass bank robbing etc) - Twitter keeps the total insane hate speech and death threat people off the platform.

In 2020 - the 'Protocols of the Elder's of Zion' - should be hugely and widely disseminated if it were powerful. But it's not. Why? Because we have controls. Google, Twitter etc. tamp that stuff down.

We probably need 'some' laws, but we ought to be very, very careful about it and I suggest it probably be limited to inciting violence and medical misinformation.
It is. Illegal stuff happens all the time.
In a war fought according to rules, hitting anything that's not actively used by a belligerent is illegal.
Yeah, I really should do that. The current DNS setup is just using AdGuard Home. From what I can see, it doesn't support custom rules. Down the road I will setup something that provides this, most likely BIND forwarding to AdGuard.
I make my income from people buying software from me. After they've paid, their expectation is that they will get a link that they can follow to download the software.

This is not possible with US-style bank transfers at this time.
> Everyone is so in agreement that AGI needs to be created as “aligned” as possible

I actually don't think this is the case. Rather, I think there is a huge number of people who know they will not be the one to invent AGI, and they are scrambling to insert themselves between the actual creators and their creations, so as to not feel left out.
The article does not point it out (and I can't find good search terms for a source), but "real life" bubble clusters are not guaranteed to be optimal. There is definitely energy minimization going on, but it can easily get stuck in local minima.
An increasing number of devices ship with hard coded DNS servers - usually 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. You need more than PiHole in those situations as you also need to transparently redirect DNS to PiHole/AdGuard Home.

But that’s not enough by itself. Things can still use DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS. Even Firefox will try this unless configured otherwise. You can add the canary domain for well behaved apps to say don’t use those protocols, but poorly/maliciously configured apps can still ignore that. So then you’re in an arms race with blocking publicly known DNS over HTTPS servers.

You can do it, but it’s tiring. But hey, I’ve learned a lot more about iptables and how to manage them on my UDM Pro as a result.
You can add any interactivity you want to PHP (or any other server rendered html) using Alpine.js, Unpoly, HTMX, or any other kind of modern approach to frontend JavaScript. It is not anymore a dichotomy between ugly jQuery spaghetti or full SPA Next.js thing.
How many kg of explosives would one need to cause something like this?
It's not surprising they didn't make an appearance in the academic world. They are utterly boring. Insanely complex, of course, but there's nothing that can be built upon. Everything in a CS curriculum is an extendable domain
I am a 67 year old "Software Engineer" with a master's of Science in Chemical Engineering from Stanford. I have found this Master's of Science has set me apart from other candidates several times, because the degree shows I am capable of understanding advanced mathematics, and reasoning.
But my classes were paid for by my work Place SRI International in Menlo Park provided I passed the classes. My out of pocket expenses were for books, and gas for travel. Many of the larger employers have a similar program. Get at most 2 Master's of Science in overlapping Disciplines, I find the master's of science are a detriment on my resume' , but is an advantage on my linkedin page when arguing with PhD's
They aren't burning them down, no, but there's a wave of harassment and threats aimed at Children's hospitals directly in response to misinformation about transgender care. In at least one case so far, it prompted a lockdown of the targeted hospital. Hospital lockdowns carry significant risk to patients in critical condition. This is terrorism, plain and simple, and the extremists are showing increasing disregard for bystanders.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/16/gender-care...
Maybe if you live in the US (and quite a few other countries), but if you live in the UK, you can get a prison sentence just for not disclosing your encryption keys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...
Brit here.

Some of this stuff makes me uncomfortable about where to draw the line here. I, frankly, don't know. What makes me even more uncomfortable is not that the USA draws the line differently (better? worse? Just right? I don't know) but that so many USA'ians are so utterly cocksure that their way is right and everywhere else must be wrong if they do it differently (Edit: extensively in online posts such as here; in american's I've known I've very rarely found it). There seems no possibility in that mindset for any self-reflection or questioning, and that's dangerous.

Just my tuppence ha'penny.
Look like maybe the result of a manic episode.
If you want to take the subway to/from Bryant Park, which is a pretty nice area, you're going to end up using one of the times square stations. Unless you're coming from the east/west direction. Don't hang out in times square, however...

The unusual behaviors of the tourists in times square are themselves a tourist attraction, a few times for the novelty, if that makes any sense.
I believe your comment might be a bit too broad for the claims you're making.

Arguably, the most advanced "tech stack" for moving trains around rail systems today (at scale, with the highest safety rating) is based around the Sicas ECC electronic interlocking by Siemens.

However, this article is merely about the technology used for collection of fares for the NYC metro rail system.
Does it say that Texas Pete is "Made in Texas" on the bottle?
Yeah fortunately I can afford it without loans and if I take it on I'm 100% committed.
I've been amusing myself with mental scenarios of the trained Russian attack-dolphins detecting Ukrainian frogmen and deciding that they're not getting decent enough fish for this bollocks and swimming away looking casual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REaaC8y4GR8

Welcome to the world of social implants.

Where we surveil one another and the historic footage of war-crimes and deeds, can be used to shame generations to come for there fathers. Making the species more reliable social. Even if it does not want to. External social control, shall force even the most uncaring socio-path to put up the act.

Free entertainment as far as the eye can see, so you will never feel the need to interact with/ change the real world.

Were the scissors in the head cut controversial thoughts and actions, long before they even reach the surface of socety.

Were all technology rolled and handed out is by definition not exponential and nice, linear, safe. No grey goo, no fission, no flying cars. All safe gentleman, forever.

Welcome, to a child proof, accessible earth, created, because the wide spread retardation of the species make a science fiction future unreachable and in fact a death trap, known as the great filter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#It_is_the_nature...).

And all visions of overcoming those handicaps, have been proven to be glorified wishful thinking.
> 90% of requests are met with a subtle RTFM!

If you can answer 90% of requests by RTFM, you really should RTFM.