skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If your goal is education there is no need to go to a university anymore.

I think people underestimate how difficult it is to self study well enough to get an education like you can get from a (good) university program. Studying is hard! Maybe it is not so hard to learn a little bit. But to learn something with rigour and focus takes a lot of effort, especially if you have other problems to deal with as well. Aside from the value signalling of a degree, paid courses provide a strong motivation to do the uncomfortable and often unrewarding activity of studying.

Source: my own experiences with self-study and a recently started Masters in Biostatistics by distance education, all while working casually or full time.
i think this is what happens when you do a lot of reading about web dev instead of just building and trying things out
Obama was absolutely against gay marriage for both elections, and extended Bush’s policies, he didn’t retract them when he had the opportunity.
I don't see any notion of an SSD in the old iPods, but they did seem to have 32MB of RAM. I assume some was left for use as a buffer.
Is it just me or is anyone else tired of these click-baity headlines? Is it to much to ask for a short sentence that actually describes what it is?
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Climate science is heavily politicised, because its findings have a massive impact on our economies. But the strongest economic interest is in downplaying global warming, not overplaying it. As a matter of fact, scientists that have a contrarian view towards the consensus have received ample publicity.
Sure, but many of them feel they have to resort to stealing something, whether or not it's from a break-in. Of course break-ins and theft are extremely unethical; I'm just saying that the full circumstances should be considered, and they're not necessarily irredeemable human beings just because they're committing this crime.

A spree shooter killing innocent people in cold blood is garbage, and a terrorist blowing up a building is garbage, but a drug addict in awful pain due to terrible decisions acting purely on impulse to stymie the pain isn't garbage. They take their life in their hands if they break into someone's home, because that's how any break-in has to be treated, but that doesn't make them subhuman.
Writing and playing games targeting a common runtime?
> why on earth would you want to do a PhD?

Is there nothing that you do inherently for the challenge or joy of it?

I did my PhD because it was a challenge and I had a lot of fun doing it and found it extremely rewarding.
Agreed, I have also never dealt with letters handed to the student. Nowadays the letters of rec are usually online - the student can send the professor a link to use.
This is the best kind of recommendation letter. Who knows you more but yourself?
Try The Old Reader: https://www.theoldreader.com/

It's 95% of what Google Reader used to be, your missing 5% may vary.

(For me, my missing 5% is a decent mobile client, but I miss that a lot less than I expected)
Administrators. Just like with most charities.

I just looked at open jobs at Harvard. Here are some: Donor relations. Portfolio managers. Property operations. Director of student activities. Dean of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging. Chief Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Officer
> In point-free style the "omitted" parameters have to be distinguished positionally; they have no names at all, not even 'a' or 'b

Yes, that's literally the definition of point-free style.

I was referring to labeling function parameters `a` and `b`.

Also, when I checked, that's actually not what the FGL library does. It labels type parameters with `a` and `b`. Labeling generics and type parameters with letters of the alphabet is pretty typical for a wide range of languages (ie, `T` in Java, etc.). Arguably, it's a bad idea, but it's by no means unique to Haskell.
This is a huge deal if you have a failed fab, look at Intels current situation.
Is that legal in the US? And what is the sharing mechanism? Word of mouth?
This kind of poisonous invitation to grandstand might as well be grandstanding in and of itself, and all of these performative paper ethics makes me want to puke.
> I would consider paid ads, paid likes, paid comments, etc., to be unethical if the content they're supporting is false.

That's not a very useful statement. What if it's in support of an opinion? Advertisements are rarely just a list of facts and likes

> TLDR: What's the difference between paying Facebook/Google/etc for an ad vs paying someone else to like your post? The 2nd seems like a better solution for a majority of people.

The difference is pretty clear, one is purchasing a real ad on a real platform. The other is paying for fake interactions to project a false response to something.
Why do you get a bad recording if the camera lens is smudged, if the camera is not the lens? Why do forget stuff more easily if you don't write it down, if your brain is not your notebook?

I still fail to see how these sorts of arguments show the mind must be physical. We have many examples of interfaces, where damaging the interface can impact the transmission, but does not thereby entail the interface is the transmission.

On the other hand, why do amnesia victims sometimes regain their memories, and even more(!), after brain damage if the mind is just the brain? Why can people live normal, even high performing lives, while missing most of their brain if the mind is just the brain? How can we explain out of body experiences, where the person learns information they cannot have learned any other way, if the mind is just the brain? How can consciousness arise from non sentient matter? How can we think about immaterial, abstract concepts if mind = brain?

In my opinion, the arguments for mind = brain largely depend on logical fallacies, as explained above. And, there are also phenomena that are very difficult and even impossible to explain if mind = brain is true. Additionally, I haven't gotten into this, but there are a number of thought experiments that indicate mind = brain is logically incoherent. So, the most parsinomous explanation is that mind != brain.
It should be noted that report is talking about the client devices too - desktop, laptops, and even TVs. The datacenters part only accounted for 15% of that.
Yes. I can't even imagine using the hundreds of different ways of "subscribing" to things every site feels the need to reinvent for itself. YouTube is a perfect example, using their subscribe method when will you actually know when a subscribed channel posts a new video? Same day? Week later? When it hits a certain view count? That's not up to the user.
Judging from local construction, cushier dorms and other residential facilities. It seems to be a bit of an arms race amongst the higher-end private institutions now.
Interesting bit of knowledge I gained from the article is that it's believed we only gained the ability to digest milk recently. Prior to that all humans were lactose intolerant.
University professors (I am one), at least in my discipline (math), tend to be diehard traditionalists. For better or worse, we tend to distrust any formal assessment mechanism.
I don't know that I would advocate this necessarily, but I can see the logic. If you have a PhD you've at least demonstrated that you have a passion for a particular field and you've been trained to conduct research in that field.

Many PhDs would just want to do research in their field and would continue doing so as long as they can feed and house themselves. Societally, maybe many of these wouldn't produce anything "useful", but some percentage might develop some breakthrough in their field that would more than make up for paying for all the rest.

Would it be better to have some PhD educated math prodigy working an unrelated job paying a median salary because there's nothing available in academia or if we just let that person work on their research all day, might they develop something that would be more useful?

You could make the same argument for providing a universal basic income for everyone, but in the general population you're going to have a higher percentage of people who will just watch Netflix all day or whatever you consider to be a useless activity.
Series A startup fundings in 2019: a year in review
You don't have to use React. The template gives it to you, but if you delete all the code and never import React, you're never using it. I use CRA nowadays for either simple vanilla JS/SCSS brochure-ware sites, or for simple TypeScript sites
So why choose to go to a university that does have more general classes if that's not what you want? Certainly the course (and indeed the university) I went to had no classes outside maths/CS/electrical-engineering and I sometimes think it would have been nice to have a bit more rounded education at that level.
Because you love the subject. Not everything in life is about pursuing material goals.
I misunderstood your question. I don't know of the specific reasons; presumably they're the same reasons that intermediate C programmers can't reliably write secure C.
The counter-argument would be that if it's work, and it needs to be scheduled (which is what we're talking about here) then it needs to be tracked wherever all the rest of the work is, so that it can be made visible and prioritised alongside everything else.

The "how do I encode a link to code that doesn't go stale" solution is to use a link to the source code repo browser which points to a specific time and place - don't point at `master`, point at the specific revision hash you're talking about.
Yep. I use my Feedbin[1] account to follow YouTube channels — I use Invidious's[2] RSS feature for that —, interesting Twitter users, Reddit, Hacker News and a bunch of blogs and websites.

Been thinking about moving from Feedbin to a self-hosted and slightly modified version of Miniflux, though. Mostly because I got a cool domain that I want to use and like self-hosting everything.

According to screen time on iOS, reading stuff from my feed is where I spend most of my time after work.

[1] https://feedbin.com

[2] https://www.invidio.us
Catastrophic as in 300 people will not die due to the flaw, yes.

But one-off car fatalities that kill 1-3 people happen regularly and they add up. The self-driving variety pop up with the highest visibility but if you go searching you'll find tons of accidents where brake failure at highway speeds cause a fatal crash.

I do concede that distracted driving and alcohol play a much bigger role in the large amount of car fatalities than software flaws. But I still stand by my original assertion that you are more likely to die due to the effects of a software flaw in your car than due to a software flaw in the 737 Max.
What is surprising is your assumption Facebook isn't aware of this. Nay, that Facebook was not designed for this very purpose. Facebook, who employs some of the top data analysts and AI specialists, actively building tooling on the cutting edge of those fields, who's funded primarily by commercial use of its platform, with the for-pay 'reach' being the most obvious monetization scheme.

I don't see how you could be missing that everything about Facebook incentivizes nonsense such as like-factories.
Right. Some people are afraid of discovering that they cannot compete in "real life". Those fears are mostly unfounded. In many cases this stems from over-demanding parents, making children question their worth. "Can I really be as successful as my parents if I enter the workforce? Or will I find out that I am not capable?".

And so they hide out in academia to see when they are ready to take that risk. After a certain point, they just stay there.
Maybe one where you don't have to sell games, you do it for fun? People do that, you know.

The Pico-8 fantasy console also makes piracy trivial (you have the full source code available for each game) and yet it has a lot of good games made for it.

Way back in the days of Compuserve I used to download Q-Basic games, which was just the source code file you ran in the compiler, and could change whatever you wanted, and that helped get me into programming in the first place by examining how actual programs worked, so there's a real world use case for making "piracy trivial".

That was also how most people learned how to do HTML/CSS and basic Javascript back in the day, was right clicking and checking the source code. It's technically still possible now but most websites have become a mess of monolithic scripts or obfuscated code so it's less useful now.
I collaborate with an expert in Alzheimer's Disease. She stated to me that the Amyloid hypothesis was so strong for so long because it is "like the garbage left over in a stadium after a big event...you see concrete evidence something happened, it's obvious this garbage is bad and should be cleaned up, but the garbage itself did not cause the event."
It's hard to see this as a fail fast experiment when:

> In more than two dozen interviews, scientists whose ideas fell outside the dogma recounted how, for decades, believers in the dominant hypothesis suppressed research on alternative ideas: They influenced what studies got published in top journals, which scientists got funded, who got tenure, and who got speaking slots at reputation-buffing scientific conferences.

It's one thing to go all-in on a hypothesis, but another to undermine other folks' hypotheses directly. Especially when your hypothesis has not produced any results for decades.
Wish I'd discovered this back when I needed it, all label printing software is garbage but this looks perfect.

Just one issue - can't easily find the price of your app.
Same here, using tutanota for the last year. They also offer a calendar, which I haven't tried but assume is encrypted.
Each iPod also has 32 MB of RAM, although the 60GB and 80GB fifth generation, and the sixth-generation models have 64 MB. A portion of the RAM is used to hold the iPod OS loaded from firmware, but the majority of it serves to cache songs from the storage medium. For example, an iPod could spin its hard disk up once and copy approximately 30 MB of upcoming songs into RAM, thus saving power by not requiring the drive to spin up for each song.

wiki entry on iPod Classic. : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Classic
World population is going to 9 billion by 2050.

There are plenty of people in the world who need an education.
FBI unclassified documents on “the finders” from 1984: https://vault.fbi.gov/the-finders

Includes the stuff of nightmares. Child abuse, satanic rituals. A “school” with underground tunnels. Fire alarm switch in classrooms for alerting other rooms.

> unsure if children had been kidnapped

> children were extremely hungry and urinated and defecated on the floor during questioning

> states they were under the control of the “Game Caller” in DC [name classified]

> each classroom has on/off fire alarm switch that was used to alert other classrooms.

> 45 foot tunnel under school connecting school with nearby triplex

You can’t make this stuff up. And that’s not even all of the disturbing things. Excuse the name in the link[1] but it’s a good break down.

And the worst part about all of this? The whole thing was closed down as it was “stepping on the CIA’s toes” — that’s right. Where are the children???

https://mobile.twitter.com/davenyviii/status/118786556347911...
These days, recommendation letters are all electronic.

It is possible, sometimes, to game the system. One year I served on a hiring committee while applying for a handful of other jobs. Although I didn't, I could have read my own letters by applying for the job opening in my own department.

Even if you don't do that, rec letters sometimes say things like "X is better than Y", with predictable results if/when they get read by Y.
What's the difference between what and nettop?

Other similar tools:

nettop
iptraf
iftop
nethogs
I was seriously considering doing a PHD in Politics but I always knew there was a strong possibility of not getting a job and being pretty much unemployable/moving back in with my parents. So I said no to that!

The problem is that colleges still regard themselves as educators and not job trainers, which most young people think of them as. I distinctly remember my politics lecturers telling us they weren't here to get us jobs but to teach us about politics. Which is maybe less problematic if college is free but obviously everyone wants a job after four years of study.

The likes of bootcamps like Holberton School are the way forward. There is no skin in the game for universities. If a graduate doesn't get a job it doesn't affect them one iota. (ok, it doesn't look great for their job report but they can fudge that. )

Coding bootcamps for instance which only make money when their grads get a job are the way forward. They have their incentives aligned with the students.

See this for an example: someone who was a broke artist did a coding bootcamp and is now a developer. But they would never have taken on the debt of a college degree because they weren't sure if they could get a job. The bootcamp gets them a job and if they are unsuccessful they don't pay anything. Bingo! https://www.nocsdegree.com/this-holberton-school-graduate-we...
"Likes" are as trusted as the platform that created them.
After Google killed Reader, I switched to theoldreader.com and then inoreader. Very clean interface, the Android app rocks. I'm still too cheap to go on a paid plan, but even so the only limitation I see is the number of total feeds. Then again, I'm not sure that's a bad thing considering I have way too many feeds as it so having the possibility to add any more would only worsen the problem.
I somehow managed to be person who least attended my last three years of high school. Which is pretty unusual for someone on the highest, 3rd-tier track which over here is what you need to do to attend college. For comparison, the 1st-tier is stereotyped as pot-smoking dropouts who can only go to vocation schools after finishing high school.

I didn't realize that my attendance was tracked, because there was a pretty laissez-faire attitude all-around. Most teachers liked me because when I did show up, I was actively present, and the only moment that might've caused me to suspect something was a conversation with a teacher who, in a very friendly way, told me he couldn't give me copies of the notes from the past year because my attendance had been abysmal.

Still, I didn't really think about any of this until the principal called me in and told me he should really expel me. And yet, he was sympathetic to my situation (severe anxiety) and let me off the hook because my grades were okay.

And so in the final months before college I stayed, made sure to attend classes, and finished with acceptable grades.

The very next year (in part perhaps because of me?) the school modernized their systems and I had to listen to the tales of woe from my younger siblings at the same school. None of them could get even close to my behavior because everything was tracked, quantified, part of the new computer system.

My sister got diagnosed with severe ADHD and one of my brothers went for the third-tier track even though he's just as smart as I am.

I'm convinced that the increased measurement and decreased freedom affected them negatively, and I find it very worrying that the siblings that went on to college seem to have similar issues (because, of course, at university I was one of the least-attending students who somehow still got along with the professors and had decent grades).

To be clear, I'm not excusing myself. In hindsight I wish had attended more and put in more effort and played the game better. I'm just saying that I at least had the freedom, in high school and university, to do things my own way and still do okay. this strikes me as very difficult for my younger siblings, because so much more is measured and quantified and required.
What sort of content is supplied by such web sites?
I think, at this point it is safe to assume that on any platform where individual content can be promoted via a crowdsourced upvote, including star ratings and "likes", much of what rises to the top is manipulated in some way, often sponsored (paid for) by a commercial interest. This includes FB posts and Amazon reviews, but also comments on reddit and even HN comments and articles. I would love to see internal reports from these companies about what % of each platform's accounts and/or activity they estimate to be automated, botted, farmed, fraudulent, etc. but for obvious reasons nobody seems to be willing to regularly publish this information!
nor common.js
It's not really multitasking because there's no concept of a "task" and the stack doesn't get saved anywhere, no.

TSRs were interesting because the program had to actually terminate - and you could only get back into it if you'd left hooks into the operating system API itself. Usually on keyboard events but also on parts of the filesystem API.

Example: https://www.pcjs.org/pubs/pc/reference/microsoft/kb/Q28568/ ; _dos_keep calls http://stanislavs.org/helppc/int_21-31.html
Real world environments aren't age segregated with the only authority figure being significantly older. Middle school is hellish precisely because of this.
Libgen and sci-hub will get you pretty damn far...
There are too many variables and too many possibilities which could end in you and/or your loved ones dying.

Of course it's not in their rational interest to kill anyone, but what if they're suddenly surprised by a homeowner armed with a baseball bat while they have a gun? They're probably going to shoot and kill the homeowner.

And there is a significant chance they're not in any sort of rational state of mind at that time.

So even if they don't want to kill or harm anyone, they easily may end up doing so due to the circumstances. And then there's the added possibility that they want to steal but would also not turn down the opportunity to sexually assault someone while they're there. And then also the additional possibility that they do intend to harm or kill people while there. That's far too great a risk to treat it as anything but a lethal threat.
This lacks a 'now playing:'

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJC-_j3SnXk
(O Fortuna - Carmina Burana - Carl Orff, 3m28s)
$16B is about half of TSMC's total yearly revenue. Now factor in the fact that you need a new >$16B fab in <2 years.

There's a reason why there is a shortage of semiconductor fabrication capacity.
It’s also going to show up in their decision making which filters down to students. Such as widening the already massive disconnect from the economic reality of students (entering or choosing to continue university) and their ability to get jobs to pay for the heavily gov and academia incentivized cheap debt.
A New Step from BDD – Crius
Bill Gates Looks to the Future
Not sure exactly what you mean, but Firefox allows you to specify both new tab and new window behavior, even independently. Firefox Default, Custom page or just blank.
In the early 2000s many of my electives were already taken this way. It was called CUTV (Carleton University TV) and the classes were broadcast on basic cable so one could setup a VCR to record them. Tapes could also be rented from a library of sorts. Occasionally the classes were from that very semester, but usually they were 1-3 years old.

I loved this because

1. I could watch the tapes on my schedule

2. I could pause or rewind to take notes or better understand something

3. I could fast forward through useless parts.

I remember one particularly useless course where all the professor did was read her slides verbatim. Since I had it on tape I’d just fast forward to the next slide, take some notes, and then repeat. Saved me many hours.