skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Professors haven't ever been an important part of this.

Professors have definitely been an important part of Classics. First of all, if someone picks up any Latin or Greek text, that text was established (based on painstaking study of the manuscript tradition) by someone who was almost certainly employed at a university.

Then, if the text has notes at the back of it, those notes were written by someone who was almost certainly employed at a university. If it was translated from the original language for a general public readership, then commonly that was done by a scholar in that field.

As time goes by and new manuscripts are discovered, new light is cast on manuscripts already known, our understanding of some aspect of Greek or Latin life is expanded, or the focuses in our contemporary society change, there is a periodic need for new such editions, and we generally look to scholars to do all that instead of just anybody out there.
You may want to keep an eye on things like this then:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/18/doct...

Hopefully this nonsense gets stopped in the courts.
Imperialism was most definitely a huge factor - that's the sole reason so many countries have English as an official language.
That's why I made quick cash shorting FB and TWTR before earnings. Like taking candy from the wall street babies.
Intel Aims to Drive Chiplet Standard – EE Times
I'm not sure it does solve the problem. Extreme example, but when you die, won't your domain registration lapse?

And you can argue that doesn't matter at that point, but it kind of does if I want to be able to use a social network for something like collective scrapbooking or time capsules. Or even just if I want to make sure that essays, projects, and Open Source work are permanently accessible to people who care about them.
But isn't the marginal cost of a movie seat pretty low for the overwhelming majority of showtimes? I think they're banking on eventually becoming a reseller of inventory the chains themselves can't move.
Writing Great Go Code – Tit Petric
Lenore is directly referenced in the article! She is the Free-Range Kids blogger.
No, there's no point for Google to pay a third party to insure any risk of $1B or less.
This makes a lot of sense to me.

In developing countries, humanities can only get you a government job. If your idea is right, as the economy expand and the role of government jobs becomes less important, humanities would naturally decline.
> The humanities to me seem like they are of lower quality because professors have no incentive or desire to actually teach

Why do you think faculty’s lack of desire to teach is something limited to the humanities? In STEM fields too you will commonly see faculty delegating their workload to teaching assistants so that they can focus on things that interest them more.
80% of humanities papers are never cited once. 80%. That. is. appalling. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/04/23/aca... Social "science" is even more terrifying in my view. 25% of social sciencist identity as Marxist. https://www.econlib.org/archives/2015/03/the_prevalence_1.ht...

I don't know how anyone can see these statistics and not think that there is a crisis.

I nearly took history at undergraduate. My colleague has an English degree but now works in CS with me. What's shocking is that, at age 16, we're meant to make these huge decisions for our lives and we really have no clue about the ramifications.
Seems like that's exactly why he's in prison, legalisms aside.
These controversies were mainly bikeshedding names and syntax (vs `...`, `any Trait`, `do/fail`), but there was little opposition to the features themselves.

There are some often-requested features (specialization, const generics, box syntax, placement new) that even got implemented, but are still unstable, because they aren't good enough. The bar is high.

Plenty of RFCs get rejected: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclose... and even more "pre-RFCs" don't even make it past initial discussion in the forums.

I think Rust is getting better over time in making ideas polished. The few warts it has so far (e.g. Error description() and cause(), struct literal parsing in `if`) are from before 1.0, and probably wouldn't get past the RFC process used today.
The Cloud Steps into Maturity – InformationWeek
I am fairly against IP laws as well without being capitalist. My point was that the argument in the quote, "If you accept that axiomatically, then by the same logic when you withhold access to lifesaving medication that's murder. From a moral standpoint it's an imperative to enact theft to prevent murder.” was not a capitalist argument itself.

Forcing people to give up property that was legally acquired, to avoid a worse evil, seems more socialist than anything else to me
Running another program in a rectangle in your web browser can hardly be called “web”.
This article seems to confuse 'selection' for 'evolution'.

These lizards haven't evolved - their genes are unchanged. It is their population that has been selected against for new pressures. This will potentially drive evolution genetically, however on such a short time scale there has been no evolution yet.

I guess you could argue that evolution describes the state of the current gene pool, however I'm not sure that is a particularly common measure.
Following the meta discussion is more taxing for me than following the technical details.
Y/C is a little funny about that recommendation. I'm guessing it serves their interests better than your business. There's some statistical evidence that says you might be better off without a co-founder: https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/26/co-founders-optional/
>I know that's kind of snarky, but in all seriousness, I don't trust the average person to know what's civil or irrelevant.

Are you implying you trust the average HNer?

I sure as hell don't. People suck. Even the "smart" ones. Everone's an idiot when it comes to things outside of whatever their specialized knowledge is in.
He went due to securities fraud but one could argue that, if it weren't due to the drug price thing, he could have flown under the radar, since the investors didn't lose any money.
How are CS and Engineering studies obviously hostile to women and minorities?
Well discussion is all fine. The important thing will be if Swift core team which is all Apple employees (except Chris Lattner who left Apple recently and removing him would look petty) will simply accept community solution even if they don't think its right.

I don't know of examples if anything got in Swift just by force of community without core team approval. And it seems right thing to me whether Swift or Go or Rust.

One thing better in Swift is clear rejections of pitches if it is not right for swift which makes sense as communication is always better with everything Apple.
Lock files also remove the "silent security fix" that was touted as the benefit of other systems.

You can't have it both ways.

You either get reproducible builds (by default with vgo, by adding lock files in other systems) or you get silent upgrades that potentially fix security issues (but also potentially introduce security issues).

You also mis-characterize the position of vgo creator. He doesn't think that lock files are a huge issue per se.

The difference is in default behavior of the system: vgo by default picks predictable, consistent version of dependencies. That version doesn't change if dependencies release new versions.

In fact, it's not just the default behavior but the only behavior.

Other systems allow specifying complex rules for which version of dependency to pick and they all allow for a scenario where you run the same algorithm over the same rules but pick different version because in the meantime some dependency has released a new version.

It's such a big problem that all those system end up introducing lock files, which is a tacit admission that what vgo does by default is a good idea.

vgo doesn't need lock files to get the benefit of lock files, which is a nice cherry on top but the real advancement is in changing the default behavior of how resolving versions of dependencies work.
They don't need downvote system. They 'just' need to make it so that I can only see comments posted by people that I'm actually friends with. That way I don't have to care about 10000 Russian troll bots and others writing stuff in comments section when NPR or WaPo or Al Jazeera or Fox news or someone else that I am following posts something.

Actually - now that I am thinking about this, yes, please, give me this option. Even as an opt-in option. I still want to follow news and other organizations. And maybe even comment, but I only want organization itself, and my friends to see my comments. And I only want to see what my friends comment. I am ok with my small echo chamber.

Currently it's soul crushing to look at the comments section on almost any news postings. Vitriol and ignorance run strong there.
Google translate is really bad. Greek to English is terrible plainly. German to English the same -- was trying to prove a point about the meaning of a phrase and speed typed skipping umlaut. To this day I am not sure what the inference is to result in such a distant translation if you forget a single Umlaut. Every time I have to correct a friend's/family's work that used Google translate I facepalm. I suggest people learn to use dictionaries again (type of dictionary depends on application).

I wouldn't trust my life on Google translate, i.e. while traveling.
Dr Sagan noted the trend & wrote a book about it before he died.

Demon Haunted World

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_haunted_world
Some of those were more 80s, weren't they? I remember RA81s and VMS microfiches from '89, and even then at a company that was deliberately providing legacy support.
You'd better believe they are absolutely hiding things. Dont believe me? Go into the CEO's office and ask about the financials, and see what they do.
Shockwave and Flash are two distinct technologies to achieve essentially the same thing. At one point either Macromedia or Adobe conflated them by referring to Flash as "Shockwave Flash", but Shockwave was its own thing. Flash's scripting language was ActionScript and Shockwave had a language called Lingo.

In fact, I totally forgot about Lingo until just now. But it actually looks pretty cool:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(programming_language)

I̶f̶ ̶m̶e̶m̶o̶r̶y̶ ̶s̶e̶r̶v̶e̶s̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶r̶i̶g̶h̶t̶,̶ ̶I̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶k̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶L̶i̶n̶g̶o̶ ̶a̶c̶t̶u̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶i̶l̶e̶d̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶a̶ ̶b̶y̶t̶e̶c̶o̶d̶e̶,̶ ̶w̶h̶e̶r̶e̶a̶s̶ ̶I̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶k̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶A̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶S̶c̶r̶i̶p̶t̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶a̶l̶w̶a̶y̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶p̶r̶e̶t̶e̶d̶.̶ ̶ ̶I̶ ̶m̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶w̶r̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶.̶

Flash won over Shockwave because Flash Studio was more popular with animators and game creators than Macromedia Director.
My only experience working for a company that ran Lotus Notes was in the mid-90s. The company ran on Lotus Notes. All the back office processes done today mostly through internal or SaaS apps was done then using Lotus Notes apps. Expense reports, benefit selection, procurement requests, travel requests, etc were all done using Lotus Notes apps. This is a time when 90%+ of companies still did all this using paper, fax machines and interoffice mail. As a field employee this made my life much easier than my peers at other companies.

Knowledge bases, installation files, patches, etc for all the products we supported were also maintained in Notes databases. Once a day I would sync the latest updates down to my laptop. I then had a searchable knowledge base and all the files I needed for my work without having to be connected. Back then being connected when mobile was the exception and not the rule.

Lotus Notes was a god send for me in that job.
A physicist is writing one Wikipedia entry a day to recognize women in science
I used "fairness" because it appears in most definitions of the anti trust regulation. A "level playing field" is 100% not the point of antitrust laws. Sidenote: I don't believe any "playing field" in business is "level".

I think something for folks to keep in mind is that much of the US antitrust laws were made back in the early 1900s to combat _literal_ monopolies, objective collusion between companies to harm consumers, and so on. We're talking price fixing here.

> Anti-trust laws can be seen as pro-market laws that try to prevent long periods of monopolized markets without waiting for a naturally occurring disruption, instead providing a mandated disruption.

This sentence is dangerous: it is very close to saying that any long-term, successful company should be "disrupted". Interpreted differently it could be read that startups should have some inherent right to evenly compete with large companies (by fining or splitting up large companies to be "beatable" by startups).

Again, that is not all the point of anti trust laws. I won't argue whether there should be laws like that (as you can tell, I think not), but the anti trust regulation in the USA is definitely squarely aimed at _actual_ monopolies and collusion.
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It seems there's a general trend in the development of English to remove tenses and moods in favor of instead more-strictly prescribing word order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language
I wholeheartedly agree that implication is important. That's why the interpretation of the original comment you have made in this reply chain is ineffective. It fails to adhere to the commonly understood implication that unspecified references to a group refers to the majority or the norm - not every single member of that group.

"Dogs have four legs" != "Every single dog that exists has four legs"
You accessed it on the Web, in your Web browser. For pretty much everyone, that's the definition of "Web" .
Legacy social media is ossifying as surely and swiftly as legacy corporate media as it becomes less free and open. Call it censorship, downvoting, shadow-banning or use a different euphemism - its all the same. The ruling class has controlled American society for more than a century by controlling the narrative. The internet and the free and open exchange of information between people globally has been the first real threat to this control. Those on top are desperate to regain control, which is why we see so many contrived assaults on free speech and the free flow of information, whether its the war on Wikileaks, the Russiagate nonsense or people crying about "hate speech".
It used to be that Intel was undisputed king of the silicon race. It's kind of shocking that they've fallen so far behind.

TSMC is already doing 7nm mass production right now:

https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20180622PD204.html

(arguably, what they call "7nm" isn't quite that, but still...)
Where does Intel get their codenames from?
I'm relieved to see that the fate of Go is ultimately controlled by a small team of highly talented engineers, not a nebulous "community" that designs by democracy.

If Go had been designed by community vote from the beginning, it would almost certainly have generics... and operator overloading, and exceptions, and 50 exposed GC knobs, and macros -- and a SAT-based dependency resolver, of course.

I trust Russ, Rob, and the rest to get it right, and they've proven that my trust is justified over and over again.
This isn't a subsidy. It's an effort to redirect some of Charter's ~$10B yearly profit[0] toward public benefit, in exchange for allowing further consolidation of local monopolies (which would otherwise amplify potential for abuse of market power).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_Communications
AMD be like "C'mon Intel, you're making this too easy."
Isn't it better they are honest rather than set unrealistic expectations that students will regret years later.
I find your analysis and argument to the point!
Nearby geological features.
From the original article:

>In the second-quarter results, Intel said that its 10-nanometer yields are "on track" with systems on the market in the second half of 2019. Krzanich's previous perspective wasn't specific on whether they would arrive in the first half of next year or in the second half. On the conference call with analysts on Thursday, Swan was more specific and said products would be on shelves in time for the holiday season.

>Murthy Renduchintala, group president of the technology, systems architecture and client group, said on the call that the products that will become available in 2019 are client computing products, whereas products for data center use will come "shortly after." The stock fell further after those comments but later rebounded as executives talked about ongoing research and development for next-generation 7-nanometer technology.
The end is nigh Intel. Just like Apple switched to Intel Power PC’s were not upgrading, so will Apple switch to ARM.
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"Wow, awk!? You're old school"
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I wonder how cloud computing providers feel about this. On the one hand, competition between Intel and AMD for the cloud probably means cheaper chips for them. On the other hand, they were probably looking forward to the power savings from Intel's 10nm chips.
Actionscript was compiled to bytecode since version 1.
I wonder if you could create an ant colony repllent that activates that pathway and converts the colony to Queens.
Well they have a lot of things to care of before to release the next CPU

https://www.intel.ca/content/www/ca/en/support/articles/0000...

In particular security issues related to the IME:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
I’m always shocked to come across someone who believes the Russia garbage.
The original statement was playing off of "lossy compression" as in computer science. The concrete meaning here is that Chinese and English both have enough redundancy to convey meaning even if some information is lost. So, in a noisy room you could still understand someone, for example.

I don't agree or disagree with that statement, because I speak 1.5 languages and the other is closely related to English. It's an interesting thought though.
To the extent that you have to go into debt...our nation's taxpayers (imo) are subsidizing for profit schools (with manipulative advertising on MTV and the Maury Show). Can we be that surprised when uninspired students getting an underwater basket weaving degree come out with 30k in debt?
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And AMD's stock is up $3
No, I'm talking about CRISPR/Cas9. For instance, there are experiments knocking out lots of loci simultaneously. I'm not aware of any other gene editing techniques that could be used by here, at least if you want to preserve some selectivity.
> “The rhetoric that is espoused by people who defend intellectual property law is that this is theft,” Laufer told me. “If you accept that axiomatically, then by the same logic when you withhold access to lifesaving medication that's murder. From a moral standpoint it's an imperative to enact theft to prevent murder.”

If it's murder to apply intellectual property law and withhold drugs...what do we call the untold number of deaths that will result in the absence of a profit motive for developing new medicines? Is that murder?

The views of these people are childish and dangerous. I love their spirit, but their actual message here is just stupid and illiterate of basic economics.
Why does congress always need the CEO? Surely there must be someone at amazon more qualified to talk about Rekognition than Bezos.
It's one thing to be realistic about the economics of pursuing a field, and another to be defeatist or outright dismissive of the idea itself.

Edit: I should say that my professors came off more as defeatist than dismissive. I was never told that I couldn't study Philosophy at the graduate level.
I would choose an HNer over Ralph from Hartford, CT who has little to do but make Facebook comments about his opinions on the breakfast platter at Denny's and about how young people today don't know anything.
I can "render" a movie onto my harddrive from bittorrent in minutes. I don't know why Pixar has to spend so much time on their rendering! /s
I started a humanities degree. Two years in I realised it wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on (what we call a toilet paper degree in Australia).

I then proceeded to change degrees and universities, I never looked back. This was back in like 2004-2005, a couple years before the financial crisis started. People then we’re talking about not doing those degrees because they are a waste of time and money.
Your link on Marxism does not say social scientists are 25% Marxist. Even if they were, what’s the problem?
Operation Candid
You know what's funny is how many topics on 'hacker news' are basically questions of sociology or anthropology or economics or psychology. If you could make some kind of AI that would color the comments here based on what academic discipline they were most closely linked to, I think it would just be a sea of colors that fall under the 'humanities' or 'liberal arts' umbrella.

It's not that people aren't deeply interested in these topics. It's just.... maybe academia's current model doesn't work so well anymore. Woudln't be the first time scholarship as a profession adapted to changing society. I hate that it will happen, I hate what we are losing... but I feel like the fundamentals are strong in the long term. You can go to a book store or library ... the books that have staying power represent the ideas that have staying power, and software products that have a life time of 7 years (which is what a lot of classes selling themselves as STEM actually teach) do not make the long term cut in the marketplace of important ideas.
No, but if consciousness is just a side effect of the decisions made independently by the brain I would like to know why most humans' behavior can reflect the perception of consciousness. It seems like a pretty large coincidence that I'm experiencing consciousness and everyone else can explain the experience of consciousness in a way I can relate to, if consciousness is not perceptible by the brain.

I think that anyone claiming consciousness is just a rationalization of previous decisions needs an explanation of why the brain is apparently aware of and able to make decisions (like writing about consciousness) that depend on the ability of consciousness to change it's behavior.
Well if we could just rich people to find their projects.

/s
Required reading for all you neo-Malthusian types:

https://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Jevons/jvnCQ.html
These people are going to kill somebody. But hey, lets do it and be legends! Think of the instagram likes!
Do the inmates have to use the "free" tablets?

What I mean is is there some service that they only have available via the tablets and not some other means? Paper letter vs email, video chat vs in person visit, &etc...
No, but OSX certainly is. I doubt it's viable to write games without using any of the proprietary APIs.
I personally hate downvoting and can say with honesty I've never downvoted anyone on HN (although I've wanted to a few times). Downvoting promotes groupthink and mob rule.

I will admit HN downvoting is not as terrible as Reddit or Meta Stack Exchange, but to maintain civility a downvote should require an explanation.
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