skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I received my political science degree from SUNY New Paltz (which has a killer polysci program) in 2008. And I knew then (as did most of my theory, comparative, and American professors I think) what the Chronicle of Higher Ed seems to just be discovering:

> The problem, in a nutshell, is that scholars increasingly privilege rigor over relevance.

I distinctly remember (and often retell the story) of Jeff Miller responding to a pragmatic observation by saying: "I understand how it works in practice - what I want to know is how it works in theory" - and while he was intentionally being funny, he wasn't kidding.

Now let me ask this - and I think it's notable that the article doesn't answer this - even if a focus on rigor makes "the Beltway" less interested in academic political science, how does that make the discipline "less relevant?"

Can you imagine a similar observation being made about another classic liberal art (philosophy, psychology, music, art, physics, biology, etc)?

How did The Chronicle, of all publications, come to believe that relevance of an academic field is to be gauged by government? And by one particular government?

The whole point of liberal arts is to develop a capacity for independent and critical thinking. If people are graduating with degrees in a liberal arts field and complaining that they can't find a job in their field (let alone a government job in their field) then I want to suggest that they got into the discipline for the wrong reasons.

As our species embarks on this beautiful and bizarre transition into life with the internet, surely we need to accept that the impetus to seek education purely for self improvement and happiness is ever more relevant.

I don't particularly give a hoot what the US Government thinks about my degree. In fact, if this ageing and increasingly useless entity thinks that my field of study is less relevant, that is perhaps evidence that I'm on to something.
The fact that the almost exact same conversations happened with the advent of broadband, mobile data, 3G, 3G+, 4G should give you a hint.
> The question is for a building which actually struggled to raise the $7m used for the initial repair project, are people going to be patient enough to spend the $700m and 10/15/20 years to rebuild it with anything approaching the care, quality, and craftsmanship of the original?

Something like 10 hours ago I was seeing a headline that €650 million had already been pledged for rebuilding from various private sources, so, yeah, I think it's reasonable to think that the money will be there.
"Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon" is also a very good book on Lisp.
Holy crow! As someone who remembers when the rust-lang/rfcs repo was created, I can't believe we're over 2000 RFCs submitted!
>> carrying 15 micro-satellites and 49 CubeSats

IANASJ (I am not a space junkie) but this makes those ones sound unusually tiny and brings me back to the first question - are the Starlink birds similarly sized?
I feel like Google is pushing AMP and components too hard. I've started to balk at the idea of using them even for explorations.
It's pretty much one and the same until you go public.
There's Brython. https://brython.info/

I worked with a researcher a few years ago who used it to do somewhat complex frontend presentations.

But why? Just learn a little javascript. Its fun.
These are both marketing videos. I mean a person actually driving one.
700 million people paying $100USD per month? I am imagining Elon doing a Scrooge McDuck dive into his bank vault.
> three-month-old tweet

15 month :)
While it would present a fingerprinting vector, I would likely enthusiastically use a browser extension which effectively disabled AMP.
One of the most short-sited posts I think I've ever seen on HN.
The fault isn't just with cheapo Intel edge hardware - a lot of ISP infrastructure is built with the old telco mentality of "we never drop data". Which, as you correctly point out, is precisely the wrong thing to do for an overcongested IP network.

EDIT: And the resulting problem isn't just the resulting end-user latency. TCP's congestion control mechanisms (i.e. the ones that let the endpoints push as much traffic as the network can bear and no more) rely on quick feedback from the network when they push too much traffic. The traditional, quickest, and most widely implemented methods of feedback are packet drops - when those are replaced with wildly varying latency, it's hard to set a clear time-limit for "this packet was dropped", and Long-Fat-Network detection is a lot harder.
I definitely think the author is underestimating the speeds he could reach with more practice touch typing. My average speed on that site as a touch typist at 83 WPM easily exceeds his maximum 'float' typing and I only consider myself an average touch typist. A total of 10 hours of practice compared to a lifetime with his current style is probably not enough to reach his maximum potential.
It's not that ridiculous if you've ever listened to or read anything Jack Dorsey has had to say.
There's always going to be better propulsion just around the corner, at least until you reach something like 0.999c. At some point you just say "fuck it, we're launching this probe now."
I wonder what they are really screening for when they require a college degree for jobs it is not necessary for. They're not doing it for no reason... I expect it's attempting to screen for class, basically. No poor people, or at least people that seem like poor people and can't fake it.
Off-topic-ish but had to look it up because it caught my eye - the Batagai depression[0] (pictured in article) looks quite beautiful and surreal. Almost like an alien ship or huge manta ray landed there (or both!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batagaika_crater
Cloudflare hosts their own AMP Cache. It seems reasonable they'd adopt this as well.
I had similar results in the 90s with school courses and I still haven't learned the sightless method.
And anyone can buy a launch on an ISRO rocket.
And they can deny service to anyone.
In related news:

Google signed exchanges,
Instant-loading AMP pages from your own domain

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/04/instant-loading-am...
Sorry, no idea as I've never heard of them. :)
Nothing about Caffeine in there surprisingly.
The major browser vendors are:

* Google (Blink –> Chrome, Edge)
* Apple (WebKit –> Safari)
* Mozilla (Gecko –> Firefox)

Given that Microsoft has itself formally announced that EdgeHTML is abandonware, they have no ability to vote on future browser standards. That's not an opinion, it's the unavoidable consequence of not being the developer of a web browser engine. Personally I wish they still had a vote.
I don't know what I'm talking about, but judging from the fact that Ev Williams founded or co-founded Blogger, Twitter, and Medium, perhaps he was the real visionary behind the idea. That's three different "write stuff online and share it" startups. He clearly understands social media and blogging and micro-blogging. Maybe Jack is more of the 'biz guy'?
What is it? This links to installation instructions. As such mildly useless for this audience.
I'd be curious how an extension would know it's an AMP page in this new situation. Is there some new extension API or response property exposed?
> I wouldn't interpret this as the browser lying

I do, because the domain being displayed isn't the domain that my browser has contacted. Whether or not the content is guaranteed to be unchanged isn't relevant to this.

It reduces my ability to trust my browser.
Mind maps are useful when you don't know what the structure is before hand. For instance, when I start a new job, I tend to mind map everything. I really have no idea how to organize concepts, names, computers/servers, etc. But, a mind map makes it very easy to reorganize as I gain more clarity. Eventually, I drop the map once I understand innately.
I was seriously considering double majoring in it in undergrad and still toy with applying to grad programs.

For me, it’s just intense interest. I don’t really care what I’ll do with it.
Was the hero image supposed to be animated but got exported as static .png?

https://godotengine.org/storage/app/uploads/public/5cb/370/9...

Kinda looks like a mistake.
I’m not certain Twitter can be fixed.

I’ve opted-out by deleting my account and choosing not to visit the Twitter site. I’ve done the same with Facebook following the same principle. I won’t suggest that my decision had no costs; I miss out on conversations I could learn from and have to be more intentional about reaching out to people in my network. But the costs are far outweighed by the benefits: less frustration, less anxiety, less FOMO.

I highly recommend opting-out to anyone who’s become fed up with the platforms, their conduct or policies, or the way they are made to feel using their products.
This says more about Penn than it does about Political Science graduates as a whole...
You couldn't pay me to participate because I categorise it as BS. It's way overstepping the jurisdiction of the employer. FWIW I don't have a problem with weight, diet or exercise.
Your description of buyers fails to reflect the fact that the high-surplus types are foreign, the rest are local.

There is an easy solution: tax foreign ownership at a significant rate.

This is even justifiable: why do foreign land-owners have the privilege to own land in Canada? We have to maintain laws, secure it, pay for externalized maintenance (the road out front to start), the water, provide the possibility for electricity even if it's not used and all the civic infrastructure.

Non-resident land ownership should be taxed at 3% of the value of the land per year, or banned outright.

There's almost no advantage in a nation selling of it's land as an export.

Another alternative would be only to allow residential 'surplus' to be sold. One trick to implement this might be to allow foreigners to buy flats, but not homes. Not a very perfect trick but it would 'kind of work': it's possible to build a lot of empty buildings in the middle of nowhere as investments. Allowing only a % of homes in an are to be foreign owned would be another opportunity.
<Occupation> are usually very vocal leftists...those who don't speak openly about politics don't care or are right wingers

It generalizes.
It's not a book, but there is Graham's short paper "The Roots of Lisp" - http://paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html which is something of this sort: you can more or less implement something like lisp 1.5 in CL or elisp etc. following this paper.
I initially thought the same but he did write "All signs point to another Teledesic or Iridium" and I can't argue to the contrary.
Love it.

How is Godot's WebAssembly support? That is an up and coming area it could really shine in.
Chrome had a vote when they were on WebKit.

If your browser has a bunch of users, and if you can (and do) opt to block features in your fork, you're a major browser.

Microsoft has ripped a fair amount of stuff out of Chromium already.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/8/18300772/microsoft-google-...
When increasing the level of detail, most nearby pixels are similar enough that it takes less than 4x the bits to split each pixel into four. Most guidelines that I can find seem to agree that 4K needs about 2x as much bandwidth as 1080p. Here's some random ones, because I can't find a proper study:

https://support.video.ibm.com/hc/en-us/articles/207852117-In...

https://www.howtogeek.com/338983/how-much-data-does-netflix-...

https://help.yitechnology.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005742328...
Yes, and it's worse, screening for a college degree is an attempt not just to hire people you know specifically, but people _of your social class_ generally. Wealthy people prefer to hire children of wealthy people they don't even know.

(and even more clear when considering how degrees from some institutions are rated higher than others).
They aren't paying for ads, they're paying for access to the tracking data. There's like 20 primary companies that show up in "targeted" ads, that's not by mistake. They're hip to the what the system actually provides (tracking) and are all in.
Ahoy's videos are absolutely amazing. So much work goes into them and each one is a full documentary on a particular gaming topic.

Can't recommend that channel enough.
It's also a problem because a few protocols in you may use from time to time (like, say, TCP) rely on packet drops to discover and detect network throughput. TCP's basic logic is to push more and more traffic until packets start to drop, and then back off until they stop dropping. And then it keeps on doing this in a continuous cycle so that it can effectively detect changes in available throughput. If the feedback is delayed, then this detection strategy results in wild swings in the amount of traffic the TCP stack tries to push through, usually with little relation to the actual network throughput.

Buffering is layer 4's job. Do it on layer 2[a] and the whole stack gets wonky.

[a] Except on very small scales in certain pathological(ly unreliable) cases like Wi-Fi and cellular.
I can't imagine they prefetch every result. Just the first one.
Auth0 Meets PCI and SSH Requirements
Off topic, but can anyone comment on their experience renting a portable internet satellite receiver or provide a recommendation. Thanks.
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It's because they include game patches in the drivers.
Microsoft's claim is that they'll be more like Google and Apple working on WebKit. They disagreed a fair amount, and didn't always enable each other's features just because the other browser enabled them.

Microsoft has ripped a fair amount of stuff out of Chromium already.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/8/18300772/microsoft-google-...
How is the ‘scientific method’ that I was tough in grade school apply to political science? Like, how do you conduct experiments when public policy doesn’t really have room for control groups? Or is the reality of the practice of poli-sci relegated to theory and modeling?

The concept of canary deployments in legal realm sounds fascinating to unpack.
> He suggested that the service works best as an “interest-based network,” where you log in and see content relevant to your interests, no matter who posted it

Sounds like Twitter is taking a page from Google and not knowing when to leave well enough alone.
Roshi: A large-scale CRDT set implementation for timestamped events
They have a far, far more storied history of being positive. Which is why Tesla, quite rightly, says in its 10Qs that it doesn’t need to pay for advertising because it expects to generate positive media coverage.
The Roman Mars Mazda Virus [Episode]
They're paying for tracking data, advertising is just a bonus.
I don't use Twitter, except to look at tweets that people on HN or whatever link to. And the main reason that I don't is that the idea of "following" just doesn't work for me. I tried it. But even people who sometimes post stuff that interests me mostly post stuff that just gets in my way.

I like HN. But I never look at particular users' posts. I just look at the front page, or sometimes at the comments list, so see what people are talking about.
I'm not too sure about this, given the highly limited market options and high regulation of space travel, I'm guessing they'd be hit with anti-trust laws pretty quickly.
People have no idea what a “ton of carbon” equates to, but saying it is the equivalent of taking 500k cars off the road is meaningful to the general population.

Is this meant to be an off the cuff remark, or is a ton of carbon and 500,000 cars meaningfully linked?
Give me a few billion and the ears of every venture capitalist and who knows, I might just make the most of my amazing natural talents.
isn't it already doing that, converting the C generated by Cython to JS with emscripten? otherwise a huge amount of numerical libs wouldn't work. or did you mean directly without passing by C
Ricardo strikes again. Relative comparative advantage says even if a developer is a better coder and BA, they're better off spending time coding and letting non coders be BAs to maximize overall throughput.
Yes, that’s right. Personal faith from funders is a significant contributor to getting funding, which is important for success.
Physicists spot the signatures of nuclear fusion in a table-top device
strong defence, I like it.
I don’t think that’s it. At all.

Poorly performing students are often the ones who are “physically disciplined”. My most successful friends are generally the ones who had very supportive families who’d struggle to even raise their voices against someone.
It's more than 3% - but it only takes a small number of price-insensitive buyers to totally upend the real estate market.

There is no underlying price for real estate. If it were corn, the would be the cost of production as a basis. But for real estate, the only way to set price is benchmarking off the sale down the street.

So when a small number of buyers just 'don't care' about price, they effectively establish the price for everyone else.

Foreigner should not be able to buy property in other countries unless they pay major taxes there. Property is only valuable because of the various factors that go into making civil structure: defence, security, legal regime, waters, roads, bridges - even the rest of culture.

'Vancouver real estate' is valuable because of what Vancouver is, made by Vancouverites and Canadians. Only taxpayers and community contributors should be able to own land.
Oh good, more garbage from Panic that they're happy to charge you for, support not-at-all, and then move onto the next project.

What a waste of talent.
Fastest way to get downvotes is to complain about them
Oh that sounds exciting, what's it called?
> nobody's done a "Commonwealth of Clojure"

Higginbotham, Daniel. Clojure for the Brave and True.

https://www.braveclojure.com/
Yes, there's a museum across the plaza from Notre Dame that showcases the subterranean Roman ruins.

http://www.crypte.paris.fr/en/crypt
Even if it was true, which it is not, it'd be 100% garbage. That's just what Panic does.
This. A million fucking times this.

Full disclosure - I don't use R professionally. I use R when my significant other gets stuck on something in R while she's working with it professionally.

I fucking hate this language. Full stop. I've worked with a LOT of languages - C, C++, JS, C#, Lisp, Basic, SmallTalk, Ruby, Bash, F#, GoLang, Custom DSLs, 1553 assembly, plus a lot more over the last 20 years I'm forgetting.

R is my least favorite. The core language is riddled with with absolutely asinine idiosyncrasies. Operators that only work in certain specific cases. Operators that work one way with literals and another with variables. Operators that do what you expect until they don't. 15 fucking ways to do the SAME thing, all built into the language.

R is like building on god damned quicksand. Crazy performance problems from random usage (ex: see the article...) that are not at all easily apparent (not to mention the several cases where the performance problems ARE apparent but nasty to work around).

I have no doubt that R is a massively useful tool because of the libraries that have sprouted up for it. That said, I despise the base language.

I'll take Matlab or Octave or Python over R any day when I need stats tools. I will ONLY ever use R when someone is paying me to use R (not to solve problems, TO USE R).

It genuinely feels like a language where the users copy and paste code or pull in libraries and fudge with the syntax until it runs.

I have genuinely lost a chunk of faith in science because of R. I have watched academics do exactly what I outlined above - Fudge with syntax until the library they're using doesn't blow up, take the result (with no FUCKING idea if the result is actually correct) and run with it.
Shameless plug. We've built Gauge and Taiko to address this problem. Here the specifications are in Markdown and the API for automating the browser is user centric. It treats the browser like a black box.

You can find more info https://gauge.org https://taiko.gauge.org
I don’t understand the question or its relevance to the post. What are you trying to do?
Oh nice! What kind of academic research?
Correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling
Stock Picks from Space (2019)
I will waste my money day one. Panic writes pretty garbage.
Can someone list good resources (preferably free or low cost) to learn touch typing on a QWERTY U.S. English keyboard?
Ah, so the compiler doesn't understand it's a failure, and just sees normal program flow that it can't alter.

That's a tricky thing to solve, yeah. At best, under current semantics, the compiler could emit a fast loop and a slow loop, and pick which one using an initial bounds check. But that's extremely awkward at best...

Automatically handling the bounds check upfront is a type of control flow that's halfway between normal exceptions and undefined behavior, that C++ doesn't really grok.
Indian scientists launch preprint repository to boost research quality
I applaud a new commercial application bringing competition to the editor field. But does anyone else think that building exclusively for Mac is a risky strategy? I’m a diehard Apple user and hope I never have to compute in an era when Apple still isn’t producing Macs. But even I see the writing on the wall that Windows is becoming more and more developer-friendly, with VS Code and cross-platform Sublime vastly reducing the friction in moving from MacOS to Windows. Even if the new Coda was heads above the pack, I would be very reluctant to put money and learning/muscle-memory time into a new app that could easily go the way of Textmate after a couple of years.
I had doubts listening to this episode - for something as intractable as the artistic/architectural zeitgeist of modernism, could we really attribute as much cause-and-effect to Froebel's invention of kindergarten as Roman Mars seems to? Yet seeing the images of Froebel's exercises side-by-side with architects' and artists' work convinced me. The resemblances between the Gifts and some of these sketches are really uncanny.
Users own the copyright to the stuff they share with Facebook ("users' data"). Facebook acknowledges this explicitly in its Terms.

Does FB have sufficient rights to "sell" copies of users' data? Unless the owners of the data give FB permission, FB cannot sell something FB does not own.
Edcon 2019 and the first decentralized execution with MESG
$2/share in additional earnings
I'm curious about the flipside, what's the steel man argument for AMP?