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Ask HN: Attend a post-baccalaureate CS program or double down on self-study?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35546895Read on for background to my question, or see the TL;DR below.TL;DR:Do I go for the post-baccalaureate degree in CS, or do I double down on self-teaching?- I won't have student loans because paying out-of-pocket.- Complete the program = full-fledged B.S. in Computer Science, no caveats.- I work in software as a technical writer currently and have a liberal arts degree.I've been working in the software industry as a technical writer for a little over a year now, and I was recently accepted to Oregon State University's online post-baccalaureate Computer Science degree program.I applied to Oregon State's program because I've been teaching myself some computer science fundamentals over the last year or so, and it's a subject that really interests me. Learning some web development in 2020 helped me switch from being a marketing copywriter at a government contractor to technical writer at a software company.Before I applied to Oregon State, I was finding information on computer science whereApr 12, 2023 9:04 PM
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Show HN: Spinreactor.ai – The First AI-Designed News Bias Filterhttps://spinreactor.ai[The following post was generated by GPT-4 because it fit within the spirit of the project and I'm bad at copy]Hey HN community! I'm excited to share my latest project: SpinReactor.ai – a groundbreaking AI-designed and driven news bias filter that cuts through the noise and delivers spin-free, concise news articles.SpinReactor utilizes News API (https://newsapi.org/) to gather the latest headlines from multiple US sources. It then applies a dual layer similarity heuristic to group similar sources together. But that's just the beginning. With the help of GPT-4, SpinReactor breaks down the articles into core facts, strips away any editorializing, and synthesizes its own concise, unbiased article. It even open cites its sources for full transparency!To add some fun to the mix, we're using StableDiffusion, a text-to-image GAN, to generate article images. While they might not always capture the perfect mood, they sure make for some entertaining visuals.And guess what? The entire project, frApr 10, 2023 1:24 PM
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Conto corrente in Banca o in Posta? Quali sono le differenze e dove conviene aprirlohttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb2595e27438799329ea565cfdd1b&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilgiornale.it%2Fnews%2Fbanche%2Fconto-corrente-banca-o-posta-quali-sono-differenze-e-dove-2135526.html&c=12698422211301261373&mkt=en-usLa scelta di un conto corrente non è un processo da sottovalutare. Il numero di offerte e prodotti nel mercato però rendono questa decisione sempre più complicata. Quando si vuole aprire un conto ...Apr 8, 2023 12:40 AM
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Show HN: Dabdab – Streaming Noteshttps://dabdab.org/Hi! I'd like to present a project I've been working on lately to make an app to record thought process the way it fits me.I think current note taking solutions are a poor fit for the cases where you just want do dump your thoughts on a topic quickly or where time when a note has been taken actually matters or in cases like science where you want to keep a log of actions to be able to troubleshoot or reproduce your experimentI've built my own thing - dabdab.org. You can think of it as a baby of twitter and google keep of sorts but without all social features of twitter.The base concept is a stream of messages, streams can be nested and have additional fields defined, you can make things public if you want to, but it's decided per stream and you can even share by link. It's useful for all kinds of observations and data recording. I've been using it for the last two months and it works great for me.For example I have streams to store quotes from books with my comments on them, do a quick Apr 6, 2023 9:05 AM
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NASA to Host Media Call on Upcoming Air Quality Satellite Launchhttp://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-host-media-call-on-upcoming-air-quality-satellite-launchMedia are invited to a NASA media teleconference 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 5, to discuss the upcoming launch of the first space-based instrument to observe major air pollutants across North America every hour during the daytime.Mar 31, 2023 2:23 PM
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Heather Rae El Moussa’s New Show Doesn’t Mean She’s Leaving Selling Sunsethttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cdf9e93334beca67788152a288fd8&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bustle.com%2Fentertainment%2Fis-heather-rae-el-moussa-still-in-selling-sunset&c=3195546594149355452&mkt=en-usAfter showcasing their fairy-tale wedding on Netflix’s Selling Sunset, Heather Rae El Moussa (née Young) and Tarek El Moussa are making the move to cable TV. Premiering on March 2, HGTV’s The Flipping ...Mar 31, 2023 9:59 AM
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‘Seasons of the Striper’ Review: Fishing Made Magicalhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8980374b7d493094c69c6d963937d0&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fseasons-of-the-striper-review-the-acme-of-angling-7d95bf36&c=13143141266359916654&mkt=en-usWilliam Sisson’s “Seasons of the Striper: Pursuing the Great American Gamefish” is a hefty coffee-table book, an addition to that genre where the illustrations had better be good—and in this book, are ...Mar 31, 2023 8:16 AM
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Logal Paul's Prime Energy Banned From Aussie Schools Because Of Safety Concernshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb70818124c3da285e7031e3e6e81&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.benzinga.com%2Fnews%2F23%2F03%2F31615481%2Flogal-pauls-prime-energy-banned-from-aussie-schools-because-of-safety-concerns&c=10122491163374386703&mkt=en-usLooks like the Prime drink craze has made its way down under, but Aussie kids won’t be packing it in their school lunches. Schools across Australia are banning the super-caffeinated drink created by ...Mar 31, 2023 8:11 AM
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Ask HN: New Job Remorsehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35381671Last year I hit a wall motivation wise at my old job after 4 years, so I changed to a new one. I'm about 5 months in at the new place and it's not been what I was hoping for in pretty much every regard. I'm a staff-level engineer with about 15 years exp.- Some of the work is in a technical area I don't enjoy but kind of circumstantially stumbled into in the last 2-3 years. One of the reasons I left my old team was to try and get away from it but somehow it has landed on my plate once again- My direct manager and the line-level manager are pretty bad. They don't have a view on anything, they're pretty detached and don't really provide any leadership- The engineering level on the new team is quite a bit lower than my old team. If the other aspects of the job were fine I would just work to raise the level but they aren't and so the whole thing just feels like a big downgrade- Because of delayed RSU vest I need to get to about the 1 year mark to break even financiallyHas any regretted moviMar 31, 2023 2:24 AM
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Ask HN: Time to Leave the US?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35364718It feels like the US has passed a tipping point of sorts and is rapidly moving the wrong way on a lot of important issues.Biggest / most glaring being the out-of-control gun violence, esp. in our schools. That's simply unacceptable to me as a parent of two toddlers under the age of 2.Medical / Cost of a significant illness is really Fd up in this country. I had a kidney stone last year, and it cost me over 5k. Most of my friends / family would not have been able to absorb that surprise expense and would have had to use credit cards. That's not even much cash compared to what medical bills in the US can easily cost you. Families are being financially ruined by this shit.Lastly would be random, non-school violence. My wife is Asian and the increase in random asshats assaulting smaller, weaker people – esp Asian women – is just the latest WTF is going on in this country.When I step back, it seems inevitable that someone close to me will suffer from one of the 3, or possible more than 1 ofMar 29, 2023 10:25 PM
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Launch HN: Metal (YC W23) – Embeddings as a Servicehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35341514Hey HN! We’re Taylor, James and Sergio – the founders of Metal (https://www.getmetal.io/). You can think of Metal as embeddings as a service. We help developers use embeddings without needing to build out infrastructure, storage, or tooling. Here’s a 2-minute overview: https://www.loom.com/share/39fb6df7fd73469eaf20b37248ceed0fIf you’re unfamiliar with embeddings, they are representations of real world data expressed as a vector, where the position of the vector can be compared to other vectors – thereby deriving meaning from the data. They can be used to create things like semantic search, recommender systems, clustering analysis, classification, and more.Working at companies like Datadog, Meta, and Spotify, we found it frustrating to build ML apps. Lack of tooling, infrastructure, and proper abstraction made working with ML tedious and slow. To get features out the door we’ve had to build data ingestion pipelines from scratch, manually maintain live customer datasets, build observabiMar 28, 2023 2:18 PM
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Launch HN: Flower (YC W23) – Train AI models on distributed or sensitive datahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35260815Hey HN - we're Daniel, Taner, and Nic, and we're building Flower (https://flower.dev/), an open-source framework for training AI on distributed data. We move the model to the data instead of moving the data to the model. This enables regulatory compliance (e.g. HIPAA) and ML use cases that are otherwise impossible. Our GitHub is at https://github.com/adap/flower, and we have a tutorial here: https://flower.dev/docs/tutorial/Flower-0-What-is-FL.html.Flower lets you train ML models on data that is distributed across many user devices or “silos” (separate data sources) without having to move the data. This approach is called federated learning.A silo can be anything from a single user device to the data of an entire organization. For example, your smartphone keyboard suggestions and auto-corrections can be driven by a personalized ML model learned from your own private keyboard data, as well as data from other smartphone users, without the data being transferred from anyone’s device.Most Mar 22, 2023 1:38 PM
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Fuzzy Haskins, A Founding Member Of Parliament-Funkadelic, Is Dead At 81http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cdaba75464082acdae332fc216362&url=https%3A%2F%2Fuproxx.com%2Fmusic%2Ffuzzy-haskins-died-81%2F&c=13953537214864957208&mkt=en-usSinger and founding Parliament-Funkadelic member Clarence Eugene “Fuzzy” Haskins is dead at 81. The news arrived today from Fuzzy’s Parliament bandmate George Clinton, who took to Instagram to honor ...Mar 18, 2023 11:31 AM
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The state flag for all 50 states: See the state flags (plus D.C.) and the meaning behind each.http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8974cb07774e08ab0cc9b3dfb1aee2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2F2023%2F03%2F18%2Fcomplete-us-state-flags-list%2F11025139002%2F&c=1314653371667582080&mkt=en-usWhile most Americans are familiar with the stars and stripes of the U.S. flag, others may not know the details and symbols of the other 51 flags of the nation. Each state's flag is representative of ...Mar 18, 2023 8:57 AM
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InterContinental Barcelona, an IHG Hotelhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cf1d453114569a2b48ff90889284a&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cntraveler.com%2Fhotels%2Fbarcelona%2Fintercontinental-barcelona-an-ihg-hotel&c=4723994272918781906&mkt=en-usThe only luxury hotel in the Poble Sec/Plaça d'Espanya area, new InterContinental Barcelona offers great-value, yet elegant stays for travelers who don’t mind not being smack bang in tourist central.Mar 18, 2023 8:39 AM
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Show HN: Ingest data from your customers (Prequel YC W21)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35170410Hey HN! Charles here from Prequel (https://prequel.co). We just launched the ability for companies to import data from their customer’s data warehouse or database, and we wanted to share a little bit more about it with the community.If you just want to see how it works, here’s a demo of the product that Conor recorded: https://www.loom.com/share/4724fb62583e41a9ba1a636fc8ea92f1.Quick background on us: we help companies integrate with their customer’s data warehouse or database. We’ve been busy helping companies export data to their customers – we’re currently syncing over 40bn rows per month on behalf of companies. But folks kept on asking us if we could help them import data from their customers too. They wanted the ability to offer a 1st-party reverse ETL to their customers, similar to the 1st-party ETL capability we already helped them offer. So we built that product, and here we are.Why would people want to import data? There are actually plenty of use-cases here. Imagine a usage-bMar 15, 2023 4:04 PM
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Ask HN: What should SVB customers have done?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35126141Some of the stories coming out about SVB customers are tragic. But did they do anything wrong? Could or should they have known this was coming? I don’t want to blame the victims, but might some of us be in the same place as they were a few months ago - blissfully unaware of how much our money is at risk? What could they have done? What can we do now?Mar 12, 2023 8:54 PM
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NASA’s State Fact Sheets Highlight Economic Impact in All 50 States, DChttp://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-state-fact-sheets-highlight-economic-impact-in-all-50-states-dcAs a follow-up to its biennial report demonstrating the economic impact of NASA nationwide, the agency released new state-specific information on Monday. Each of the 51 fact sheets, which are the first drafted by the agency, showcase how investments in NASA benefit humanity.Mar 10, 2023 4:45 PM
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Review: Music Carries the Drama in McVicar’s Normahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb0375e744f1aa2de6dceca68157e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fobserver.com%2F2023%2F03%2Freview-mcvicars-norma-opera-met%2F&c=5261141277793249788&mkt=en-usThe second act of Bellini’s Norma contains two dramatic twists—one an act of solidarity and the other an act of self-immolation. After revealing that Druid priestesses Norma and Adalgisa are each ...Mar 9, 2023 1:56 AM
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NASA, Smithsonian to Discuss Air Quality Satellite Instrumenthttp://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-smithsonian-to-discuss-air-quality-satellite-instrumentMedia are invited to a joint briefing with NASA and The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at 9 a.m. EDT Tuesday, March 14, to discuss the first space-based instrument to observe major air pollutants across North America every hour during the daytime.Mar 8, 2023 8:35 PM
