skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Universities will survive.
They do change. Originally U's didn't pay profs, but only gave them a stage to recruit students to tutor. Their money was made from tutoring. Many kids in U's were 14 or 15 years old until the 18th century. Tests, standardized tests, and multiple choice tests didn't always exists.

This might be a low point, but in 50 years I see them having great power. Democracy will once again shift from geographical ridings to a 'guild system'. For example there might be a senate seat that can only be held by a licensed doctor, and only licensed doctors can vote for who will be in that seat.
New iOS features so far look like Android parity catchup. Finally, a way to remove apps from the home screen without uninstalling them, and an "all apps" view so you can still find them. And real home screen widgets. And picture in picture video. New Siri overlay design seems similar in function to the new Google Assistant overlay design. On device voice recognition for keyboard dictation, like GBoard on Pixel. Maps guides, bike directions, like Google Maps. App Clips, like Play Instant Apps. Incoming calls as notifications, like the Google Phone app.
Country of 1.3 billion people immensely grateful to a valley wantrapaneur for recognizing its importance.
I pulled the fractions out of thin air, so I have no idea what they actually are.

But you have to do something about people refusing to enforce site policy, even if it's only on a small portion of the content.

For an extreme example (and to be clear I am not saying anything like this happened at CTH), if 99 posts out of 100 on subreddit fall within the rules, but that 1 post that doesn't is promoting killing everyone of a certain race, and the subreddit moderators refuse to do anything about that one post, then they 100% need to have something happen. And that doesn't change if it's 999 out of 1000, etc., either.

Now, it's unlikely that anything on CTH was at that level of toxic and hateful, but the same overall concept applies - they have to take care of posts that are against policy, even if they're a small minority. If not, it seems like getting quarantined or even removed completely is a reasonable course of action.
“having to”? Edge is nice, actually.
I'm like the parent commenter in feeling office work helps me:

For me, I don't do social very well, but I still need to interact with people, I get on well with people (AFAICT) but seldom does anyone ever really want to spend leisure time with me. Work forces me to have social interactions that help my "sanity" (by which I mean: a vague hand-wavey notion of mental health).

I'm "happy" day-to-day with hiding away at home; but I tend to spiral downwards as I don't get much social interaction outside of work. Banter is good medicine.

For me this is a midlife thing.

YMMV, and the parent is probably quite different, but that's my recent experience.
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When you work on your project, please consider including a "library" component with selected materials and resources on various topics. I know you can get all the info on the internet, but sometimes a smaller, local selection of books/resources can go a long way to solve the information overload problem.

If you get in touch with me by email, I can send you some links (math book recommendations and Kolibri Learning Platform which is like the best thing ever - works totally offline on localhost).
Commercial internet does not cost a lot of money. I do a cable modem and while my speeds are a bit slower than the residential option (for the same money) I don't have bandwidth caps or 'talk to the hand' when an issue happens. Night and day between the two experiences. Worth looking into.
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Nice I wonder how many comments that go against Reddit’s policies I’ve upvoted over the years unintentionally on the mobile app.

I up/downvote posts/comments at least couple of times a day when trying to scroll on my phone or just hitting the screen to wake it up after being distracted.

This is ridiculous policy.
> Huh. Nobody praised the graphics back then.

I'm pretty sure they did. Unfortunately I don't still have any magazines of that era

> They were dated on the day Deus Ex came out; it uses the original Unreal engine (with some tweaks) and looks just as dated.

Back then "with some tweaks" and high resolution textures did make a significant differences

> I recall reviews considering Deus Ex's graphics "boxy" (literally!) and it has plenty of super small textures..

I guess our recollections differ then. I do remember the game ran slooooow compared to other games out there that used the Unreal Engine. Perhaps you had to run the game at a lower texture quality or resolution than other games?

> Yes, but few games pull all the elements I mentioned above together. Deus Ex has "all the parts", and for most part it's done well, therefore it's more than the sum of its parts. Yes, story driven games exist, but few of them incorporate all the other elements that made Deus Ex what it is.

Basically your criticism here is few other games are Deus Ex since if everything you loved about Deus Ex was copied you'd just end up with the same game. And if that happened you'd probably also criticise it for not being original.

> I see people always dismiss this as nostalgia. I call bullshit, if only because I played very few games "back in the day"

That's exactly it though. You don't have to love every game you grew up with but you did have to spend time playing Deus Ex because you had fewer options verses now where you are able to skip game the moment your attention wavers.
Woah dude. This is so funny.

A low caste guy was shot dead last week for entering a temple.
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/17-year-old-dalit-b...

A man was made to drink urine for loving a girl from upper caste.
https://www.thelede.in/governance/2020/05/22/in-caste-crime-...

Why are you doing a 'not all men', 'i have black friends' thing here?

Anyone can google for these things and figure out the truth.

If you're a brahmin then please stop talking for the victims of your very own system.

Discrimination is illegal so it went away?
Reservations don't counter discrimination. They're for representation.
Most modern tech companies have a single height-adjustable desk per person, so most of the time your desk will be slightly higher or lower than your neighbour's.
or...they may "forget" to include them in calls or conversations

As much as I think WFH will be a huge win for workers, and the whole country (to some extent, ex SF/SV), I am skeptical it would work unless orgs are completely remote. In hybrid setups, I could see WFH workers end up getting edged out -- it has never worked any other way from what i've seen in the past.
I don't rate India. Their legal framework is very weak, corrupt nation, hygiene problems and massive overpopulated dense cities.
May I know how many years your grandmother was kept as a slave and abused ? Indian experienced it for 200+ years.

People (Americans dare I say ?) have no problems accepting blacks are behind whites on most development indices EVEN TODAY because of slavery and oppression, but somehow can't extend the same logic to former colonial countries like India.

Recent economic hardships of a particular class has threatened democracy and made a joke of fabled American institutions, despite high levels of education and wealth. But a country which was oppressed for centuries and is still reeling in poverty, for benefit of the Western world, now is in a position to help them with a little bit of help and you still can't extend a helping hand in good faith.

Maybe your grandmother would have been a bicycle if she had wheels, but you despite having a brain are a simpleton.

REF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4
It sounds like they're demanding that Facebook censor content and advertisements, as long as it aligns with Patagonia's politics.

And they are using the power of the mob to guilt trip other companies into joining them.
And the KKK and al Qaeda are unacceptable institutions and there's no problem with generalzing there. Every single member there is a problem simply by being a member. If people uphold an atrocious institution then there's no problem saying they're doing something atrocious.
It is naive to think these bad users currently stay confined to their hateful communities. They use the rest of the site too. There is even an argument to be made that the rest of the site could be improved by banning these hateful communities, decreasing the value these users get from the site, and thereby decreasing the likelihood that these users will continue to use the rest of Reddit.
Modern PHP frameworks solve this problem just like the other languages solved this problem from the beginning - any inbound HTTP request goes into an entry point (the HTTP router library) which then loads the different classes and dispatches the request accordingly. The web server never executes anything but the entry point PHP file, regardless of what path the request is actually for.

The problem is all the legacy applications which are a mess of random PHP files and rely on the web server itself to dispatch requests based on the path of the file - in this case any PHP file can get executed if it happens to be in a location served by the web server. Rather than disallowing PHP execution in select folders, how about allowing PHP execution only for specific paths - those that you expect incoming requests to hit? That way no malicious code can run unless it manages to overwrite an existing file.
They cannot keep giving ground breaking updates to the OS every year. It's OK.
Having one-party rule for 60 years is no democracy.

You don't have a democracy when the state controls all the TV media.

> What is the basis for this

The basis for this is the level of grinding poverty in India, live in a Indian slum for a year and then come back to me, and spew the virtues of "democracy" vs economic freedom and rights.

Poverty is organic propaganda for extremism and communism.
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Switch Caps Lock to CTRL. Also, learn to touch type so you can place your fingers on the keyboard properly.
Economic inequality and freedom are closely linked
That's a difficult discussion. These sites offer so much more than what they're always reduced to. I would even argue that they're sometimes nicer places than Reddit or hn. And even with those icky subjects they're not always as black or white as they're portrayed. Even if you don't believe that they're right about them, they're evidently more open to their debate.
Probably for the same reason that, while candy cigarettes have no tobacco in them, they are still outlawed. Artificial sweeteners gets people addicted to sugar, which is unhealthy.
I guess Anki Desktop is now being rewritten in Rust, according to 'DAllison in the parent comment.
That's actually pretty outdated. The newsroom (and all other floors at 620 8th Ave) have gotten standing desks that are slightly wider apart.

Source: used to work in that newsroom
Can't you achieve the same effect at user level by faking some data + messing with tracking via Firefox containers + Ghostery + Cookies AutoDelete?
Linking to the announcement blogpost I wrote:
https://hasura.io/blog/announcing-hasura-cloud-managed-graph...
At some point, that gets moved up a few levels though, if the BBS allows for groups that get moderated by other people, is the BBS still "the moderator" or is it those people that set up the group? And if you don't agree with their decisions, should you be able to launch a rival group on the BBS (it being a platform and all)?
The idea that the "vote" is not just counted but judged is new, it seems. It is the next step in the trend of hyper precise tracking of peoples thoughts and actions, and their judgement in a transparent and opinionated global social sphere with extreme consequences.

Overall, a worrying trend.
Student loans, unless, of course, you got an entirely free ride to Harvard.
“ reason, due process, and free speech ”
This has implications way beyond torrenting.

This solves the incentivization of bandwidth in a decentralized way. If we now solve the closely related incentivization of long-term encrypted storage, we would be able to build a sustainable decentralized storage service unlike torrents that are powered by fame or Infura which is powered by corporate philanthropy (which never lasts unless we become the product).

This means that we would be able to replicate backup/archive services like BackBlaze or Amazon Glacier or even ensure the longevity of archive.org.
I agree with all of your post except for the premise - concurrency bugs won't necessarily lead to a crash, but often just a bad result.
I enjoy devrant.com
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... Anyone else having issues verifying their phone? I've never had such a buggy experience verifying my phone.

It seems like after you complete the application, the green submit button, as well as the text fields in the following sequences, are buggy -- single click doesn't seem to pick up the action, double click seems to upset it, tab into the button to press Enter doesn't work. This is all via Chrome.
> I don't think you know what that term means based on your use.

You made me second guess if I did in fact address the issue. I did.

> it sounds like you are massively undervaluing aspects of non-remote work that are beneficial to both workers and companies.

You're right. I am undervaluing it. Being in person has no inherent benefits over being remote. Maybe 20 years ago, but the internet has fixed those issues. Low-fidelity remote work is a cultural issue. Not a technology issue. Companies refuse to do remote work correctly so they can continue archaic co-located work.
It's an axis to upset the normal order. The first time they've had the possibility of doing it in prob 50 years.
Why is the assumption that if people want to remove symbols/language that it means they aren’t also doing “real” work too? We can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time. We also should be able to acknowledge that terminology/symbols/language reinforce issues. If they weren’t significant, then we wouldn’t have so many people defending them.
> I worked for a global oil company a few years back. I had then and have now no misgivings whatsoever about that work.

I'm sure the salary helped ;)
You can vote any way you want. As long as you vote the right way.
Arguably in 2020, you should be very careful about expressing any opinion that is in any way unpopular. Or that even could be construed as such.
Patagonia gets the PR bump today for axing Facebook advertising. If they resume in a month, without FB changing its ways, they get to walk to walk without talking the talk. By giving Patagonia a huge amount of free coverage, it's on them to actually maintain their values until FB changes-- and we have no means of holding them accountable to this.
Thanks, I wrote that while burning the midnight oil and didn't double-check the sanity of those numbers. It's too late to edit mine but I hugely appreciate the clarification.
I 100% support Reddit killing any thread in a popular subreddit about anyone trans or the trans community preemptively because every single thread turns into an absolute dumpster fire. Reddit on the whole shows a very different side whenever those kinds of threads show up.
ah, made that mistake too...
is x86 likely to ever go away, or anytime soon? asking as a non-systems guy
So no site should be allowed to have moderation policies that include things like "no trolling," "no flaming," "no swearing," or anything like else like that for things that don't cross into "illegal" abusive speech? Without becoming a target for filling up with illegal shit to overwhelm the moderators and cause legal trouble for the owners?

So HN is gone, too, then.
Cynically speaking, the purpose of University has always been to connect very rich people with very talented people. In this way the elite can fertilize each new generation with fresh blood carefully selected from the masses. This is good for the very rich, as they know they need talent to remain at the top, and is also good for the very talented, as it gives them a path to that top.

Unfortunately, opening higher education to a much greater proportion of the population (50% in the UK?) has somewhat torpedoed this mechanism. The rich will become more stupid, and the talented will find less opportunity to establish themselves.
So you’re saying the only way for stuff to get done is for everyone to be “boots on the ground” and to never fund or work for advocacy organizations?
OK, but to link the tweet, say "It's only July", and not mention that they state they'll continue to do so is disingenuous.
"Devolve into"? This website is just the "sounds educated" arm of imageboard users.

HN is entirely filled with right-wing to far-right sheltered techbros. Half the accounts here that are constantly complaining about "free speech" and "consequences to their actions" are really one bad day away from calling everyone they disagree with various slurs, and the other half are so insulated from any sort of actual injustice in the world that they sit atop of their smug towers of indifference, cawing at the peasants below who have things such as "opinions" (that disagree with theirs, of course) or "motivations".
Stopping all of agroup from doing something terrible is a far cry frol collective punishment. In fact there's no need to punish at all here, simple eliminate the problem.
How exactly the education in the US is denied based on race?
I cannot talk about rural schools, but city schools are very well funded, pretty much all large cities have decent libraries and tons of free extracurricular stuff for kids of all ages.
Feels like a cross between an infomercial and educational video for kindergarteners.
In essence section 230 says "as a platform, youre not held liable for censorship of content you find objectionable, AND you dont take ownership of the speech you leave up."

Section 230 did not create a distinction between a platform and a publisher that required censorship rules to be applied fairly or evenly.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
This is really interesting, thanks for sharing!

I've been thinking about extensions to decision tree models that could get the benefits of NNs and it seems like there are a few ideas floating around.

For example; Probabilistic Random Forests have some really interesting properties for noisy datasets, e.g. "The PRF accuracy decreased by less then 5% for a dataset with as many as 45% misclassified objects, compared to a clean dataset." - https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05994

PRF's might be a natural fit for RL, especially methods using monte carlo tree search.

Speculating here as I'm not adequately familiar with stochastic calculus, but intuitively it seems like probabilistic decision trees could be made differentiable since the hard decision threshold in a tree could be a turned continuous (i.e. every split is logistic regression), which might enable some really interesting applications. I personally dream of being able to cleanly integrate decision trees and tools from NNs in something like pyro for a fully Bayesian model.
It definitely is, one of Craig's notes was "Remote Keynote watch party with team"
I was just replying to the text I quoted, buddy.

Additionally, blaming all of today's problems of India on "slavery", just like they do with blacks in America, is baseless and patronising.
Don't conflate encouraging cult-like following and at times divisive politics with authoritarianism. There are free and fair elections in India. In fact, Modi (and BJP) have lost several recent state elections and handed power over to the opposition. There are a ton of political parties, especially regional, that give BJP a run for their money a.k.a political pluralism.

The reason Modi is running away with national elections is because of the absolute incompetence of the main opposition, the Congress party. Their decades of mind boggling corruption has finally caught up to them and their reluctance to look beyond the Gandhi family for leadership is costing them dearly. That combined with BJP's election machinery (which Modi has built) means that opposition has to raise their game spectacularly, which they are not able to do.
>If not, then why the double standard?

China, whether we like it or not, is strong. The West, and particularly its corporations, have shown themselves to be incredibly weak when it comes to kowtowing to what amounts to populism.

So then why bother splitting efforts with fights you know you can't win when you can 100% invest in trouncing those who've shown weakness?

Also bringing up China in particular opens a massive can of worms that nobody is really comfortable with. There's been a bunch of companies we all "know and love" who've shown their support for their protests and the BLM political entity over the course of the last few weeks whose output comes from what is essentially slavery in Asia. Again though, that is a conversation nobody seems to be eager to have.
Here's an example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

> The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the African American Male was a clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service. The purpose of this study was to observe the natural history of untreated syphilis; the African-American men in the study were only told they were receiving free health care from the Federal government of the United States.
> 1984

1984 and its consequences has been a disaster for the human race. Read another book
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Perhaps it should be noted that citizens of those countries almost never carry guns themselves. And when they do(and want to commit crimes), e.g. Brevik, more murders happen while police stand around waiting for the gun units to show up.
Was it? You're not the first I've seen say something like this, but in both setting and mechanics I found it much more akin to System Shock 2.
It's interesting. I was just looking at a user account that had a gazillion post karma, but -10 comment karma. It also created a few subreddits. It's so obvious a content farmer.

People moved away from Digg because they implemented an algorithm to suggest news, and de-emphasised user submitted stories. Now, essentially the same thing is happening with reddit via these farmers. It's not as obvious and might not be sanctioned, but at the end of the day, a few select bots are also pushing content to the front.
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That was literally the purpose of Section 230. If you want them to not be able to do that, you want Section 230 to be repealed. You don't have to take my word for it, either, since one of the authors has been explicit about it. (The discussion in his tweets is largely framed around politics, but there is nothing that would make the argument only apply to them vs speech in general)

https://twitter.com/RonWyden/status/1266052221072019456
It's true. Specific impulse is only one part of the equation. Tankage mass is really bad with pure hydrogen, which is usually the reaction mass of choice. Hydroden's density is abysmally low. And the reactor weighs a lot too, compared to chemical rocket engines which have very high power densities and thrust to weight ratios.

So nuclear thermal would tend to only win over chemical propulsion for long duration low thrust large delta vee missions.

But then, at the top end, it's squeezed by solar electric propulsion which has much higher specific impulses (but even worse thrust to weight ratio). Solar cells and power electronics have improved a lot since the sixties...