skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what is needed to get to that certainty? What research is being done or must be done?
Wow. What prompt did you give it to obtain this?
I'm a current college student, and my school costs about $80k per year, counting tuition, room & board, supplies, etc., before financial aid. That would be $320k for 4 years, well over a quarter of a million.

I'm personally getting a significant amount of financial aid, so that it will end up costing much less than that for me, but I know people who are paying full price.

EDIT: I'm an undergrad at a 4-year university.
Its because of this that road authorities usually place "mandatory head lights on" road signs on long straight single lane pieces of road. (because if there is high traffic there will be people taking advantage of the long straight to overtake slower cars, and during the day there is the possibility that a driver will not interpret a head on collision correctly)
> What [the students] might not expect: a lack of professors in the classroom.

Maybe they might not expect it, but will they mind it?
How is this fluff at the very top of Hacker News?

Edit: And a few minutes later, it's gone from the front page. I wonder if the author gamed the system somehow?
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It's been interesting to watch public sentiment outside of tech.

My personal anecdote is a class mate of mine started at FB and used to wear all their swag and talk it up, slow public sentiment had moved against them and now they say they work in tech or "design users experiences" when asked.
I think your response is extremely unimagnative. We had the internet in widespread use for a decade before 'social media' was in widespread use.

Social media of the kind being discussed here-- mass market sites driven by algorithms designed to hack human behaviour and drive "engagement" at any cost-- is may be an inevitable consequence of advertising funded business but I don't believe it is an inevitable consequence of the internet.
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Wow that video is full of arguments from ignorance. I only watched for a quarter of an hour and my bullshit-o-meter finally saturated when he explained erosion on an obelisk as the result of plasma balls.
I looked through their scientific paper and couldn't find any data about the demographics of the declined patients. The only information I can find is the classification of their groups, which seems to exclude the two classes I mentioned above.

If we assume that the majority of "non HCQ" patients were of group (e), young people, then their rate of mortality in this paper would be at least an order of magnitude higher than that of any previous paper, therefor I would expect group (d), old people with complications, to be more likely to have higher representation in their "non HCQ" group.

I didn't conduct this study so I don't have access to the raw data not provided in the paper.
This is interesting from a historical perspective, but honestly I'm really glad that the era of Basic is gone. Having had a handful of opportunities to work with legacy Basic code from a wide variety of programmers, it's just a disaster that always leads to unmaintainable garbage. I'm not even sure it is possible to have well architected Basic. Structuring and modularizing code is ridiculously difficult. The very principles of the language somehow lead to pervasive use of globals and gotos. It's neither functional, nor object oriented. Everything ends up as blocks of mutable procedures, tightly coupled, with red flags everywhere.

I'm a very opinionated person about programming languages, and there are plenty of modern language trends that have been bothersome to me. But none of them will be ever as bad as any of the Basic code I have interacted with. I'd rather read and maintain code that went through a unicode-permitted Haskell code golf competition than anything written in Basic.
In that sense what has changed is the best guess at the main mechanisms of spread. Specifically the amount of spread mediated by large spittle on surfaces versus via aerosols. It has become increasingly clear from large spreading events (meatpacking with gloves/hygine in place, singing events being really bad) that aerosol spread is primary.

So the protection that unfitted cloth masks provide, and it is some, isn't as much as you'd think against the primary mechanism of spread. Wear an unfit mask and sing and it's as bad as normal singing.

I'm not arguing for not wearing bad masks when it's all you have. I'm saying it's super important that everyone starts getting real masks so we don't have to keep doing shelter-in-place every time spread goes exponential in an area again.
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Still ZX2C4's pass[1].

[1] https://www.passwordstore.org/
N95 is what doctors wear to generally not get sick while working. Had there been enough of them, it would likely do a lot.

But back to real world, cloth masks is what we got.
Which projects do you think have particularly high quality and easy to work with data? I was using that but it’s so messy...
I wonder if the mass stays roughly the same.
Coherence is sexist because woman have long suffered from accusations of incoherence.
Yes. I am using it to teach small children the basics of coding. It helps them understand simple abstractions
Here’s the email copy. It very clearly states exactly what this is doing. Not sure what text you need to parse here

“ We’ll only use information you already share
This project will address discrimination that's based on perception—so we’ll use first names and profile photos from hosts and guests to help us understand the perceived race someone might associate with them.

We’ll use it to uncover patterns of discrimination
We’ll use this information to help us understand when and where racial discrimination is happening on our platform. Any insights will be used to help develop new features and policies that create a more equitable experience for everyone.

Information won’t be tied to your specific account
We know your privacy is important, so we analyze trends in bulk and Airbnb won’t associate perceived race information with your account. We won’t use this information in marketing or advertising, and it will only be used for anti-discrimination work.

We consulted with and solicited input from leading civil rights and privacy organizations to guide us
We know how delicate this work is—so we developed this work with support and input from leading civil rights organizations like Color Of Change and Upturn, along with privacy organizations like Center for Democracy & Technology, to make sure our approach is both thoughtful and respectful of your privacy.

You can opt out in your Privacy Settimsg”
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The following comment is almost devoid of content, but still has more content than the article.
Social media, and more generally media at a global scale leaves society open to intentional remote manipulation; this is dangerous both in its effects on national security and the choices we make in democratic republics, but also on the values and mores of a culture over time.
It loses a little mass due to water boiling off, but other than that the mass has to stay exactly the same (barring nuclear reactions, which typically don't make for good quinoa).
I would give God Created The Integers as a reference to read up to where you are in math, not as something to get through. So, you could get a feel for what Euclid wrote, or what Descartes wrote, either after or during learning those lessons. As you move through your education, you can keep moving through the book, Cauchy, Galois, Riemann, etc. Anyway, that's the context in which I would give it. BTW Cantor's original diagonal proof is in GCTI. :)
I'm sorry that this happened to your colleague, I understand how it feels to be reminded of something you would rather not be reminded of.

Sufficed to say; as my mother used to tell me constantly: life is kind of unfair.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to make things fairer of course!

There are some things I generally agree with- I take an opposition position often because people should understand that changing the status quo should come with strong and valid reasons; there is a lot of institutional change that people ask for and it comes at some level of cost, so it's not something we should do with complete frivoloty.

Also, when it comes to certain terms (Allowlist/Denylist); these are sometimes simply better at conveying what things _do_ and terminology changes for those things can stand on those merits alone.

All that is to say: perceived offence, is a very poor reason to change.

Not because I'm arguing that people need to suck it up or even that there isn't some level of anguish, but because inherently it has no end. There is no line you can draw. I'm not even saying that "it's a slippery slope" I'm saying that the minute you draw a line you exclude people.

As an example of why you can't draw lines:

I grew up poor, I might get offended if someone referred to something as 'being in poor condition'; thus you may, on my behalf, want to remove that word.

Many people in the world do not have feet, and thus, the word 'football' might remind them of the trauma of losing their feet (or never having had feet).

I feel like it's worth mentioning here that 'bot' comes from 'robot' which has roots in the Czech language for "forced labour".

Not to mention master/slave are clear in terminology, one instructs, the other obeys, it is terminology that has existed for literally thousands of years (and yes, it is an atrocity when it happens to people). I would also caution strongly about suggesting that it has racial motivations as, of course, black people are not exclusively slaves- even today there are more slaves than at any point in history; and I can assure you, they're not all black.[0]

It would help immensely to quantify the impact of these kinds of changes, asking the affected community what they think/feel; that would kill a lot of the discontent around "virtue signalling white people" which is part of the current discussion.

I feel like it doesn't need to be said, but words are polyphasic, they have multiple meanings depending on context, altering terminology brings about the euphemism treadmill[1] -- generally speaking the hate in our hearts is the issue, not the words we speak; and restrictions on language do nothing to curb that hatred if it exists.

New words or phrases will be created to skirt the rules and then we're back at the same place, with less words in our vocabulary.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Evolution
> He needs to measure the population to understand the spread of disease.

Not exactly. He _wants_ to measure the population to understand the spread of disease.
I cannot conclude but so far my experience with meditation, except for one powerful instant where my mind rose to some light, 99% of it was not significant. It did help smooth some things but for short times and not deep.
Doggerland is good example. Here's a link to get started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

Fishermen have been pulling up housing remnants, bones, fishhooks, etc for a long time out of there.

Australia too: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8479739/Firs...
As opposed to which exactly the year and country?
It is hard for native speakers to keep up with the demands too.
How do you develop self-discipline and track daily routines without using an app?

I wanted an offline habit-building tracker, so I built one - meet Youtine /juˈtin/

Make yourself accountable, without using an app.
Also, well fitted N95 style masks are very different from a loose mask around the face.
Just in response to your comment "It just hardly seems like much of an inconvenience.":

I suspect that means you are not out of shape or live in a hot humid place. I wear a mask on those very few occasions when I leave my home but it takes a while to acclimate to it each time and often when I take it off my face is wet. And don't even get me started on the pain of wearing both a mask and glasses in a humid environment. Is it a valid excuse for not wearing one? No it isn't.

Edit: logic correction, I think...

Edit 2: I proofread poorly.
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"The actual fear should be from people who don't wear masks"

I don't understand this. The actual fear should be any form of scientific misinformation. Eventually, the truth will be known, and if "scientists" are deemed to be advocating for policies that aren't supported by science, it will hurt science in the long run.

On top of this, there is decent reason to believe that there's a down-side to mask laws: too many people think that they can behave normally if they're wearing a mask, when the evidence simply doesn't support it.
During the onset of COVID there were a lot of people jumping to Amazon's defense of their warehouses. With seemingly deep information about changes there.

Could have been just amazon employees, might not have been.

I feel similarly about how the discussion goes when people slam Apple.

Are these infiltrators? Or do we have a lot of Amazon and Apple employees? Do developers usually care that much to protect their company online? (I've never been in that situation so I can't say).
No but that won't stop people from parroting it. Student debt is fairly light, the catch is that you have to actually make money. It's hard to be sympathetic when someone takes out a 40k loan to major in a topic that has a non-insignificant chance of paying peanuts. I think that's mainly a problem for millennials though, Gen Z had demonstrated a higher degree of pragmatism when choosing careers.
Isn't that in itself a racist statement? You are using a stereotype to denigrate a group.
I was thinking of the leather coracles used in another voyage. I read this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1088116.The_Brendan_Voya...
On IRC, we loved that sample when I generated it - it's not just a hilariously coherent story which makes you want to know more (what is Starswirl up to? what were Professor Endagerment & Doctor Caballeron fighting over?), some of the lines are both alien & deeply funny: apparently in the afterlife, all numbers are odd, including the number '2'.
I don't know, alternating doesn't seem like as much fun as doing both simultaneously.
Obviously I believe you if you're saying that, but I've heard that nobody really pays these full sticker-prices and everyone's really getting some kind of aid unless they're literally a billionaire - is that not the case?
College currently sell an "experience" with clubs, restaurants, football teams, fraternities, housing, a nice campus with trees and lakes, etc. This isn't free. It has pushed up the price of education.

If education turns remote, I would expect prices to fall (and layoffs for the administrative staff), unless a similar experience part can be replicated online (which I strongly doubt)

This is the exact opposite of work vs remote work: if WFH becomes the default, I would expect wages to rise, as the most "experience" provided in the workplace (with nice offices, nice chairs, window view, in a nice campus with amenities like catering etc) will be footed by the employee in a WFH setting
>So then why so much effort into deciding if it works or not?

FUD around masks and their effectiveness is being deliberately spread by people and groups with a political agenda, primarily through disinformation campaigns on social media. This isn't an entirely organic phenomenon.
In my opinion, it's unreasonable to expect that there would be studies on the effects of cloth masks. Up until the quarantine began the reasonable assumption was that if you needed a mask you wore the one appropriate to your task. I don't think cloth masks were in widespread use until these masks became scarce.

Maybe some studies are happening now. Even so, it probably makes more sense to encourage people to purchase more reliable masks.
If you'd like some help, let me know. I don't have a ton of time to spare but my gut sez you don't need a ton of time :)

Otherwise, kudos! Best of luck.
What do they teach there for 320k?

Seriously, I do pay like 4.5K USD after conversion for 7 semesters of CS at weekends - 4 days / month and I cannot imagine that
I read it when I was 16 and it was just wonderful. I can also recommend it.
I have interacted with some people who insist being "forced" to wear a mask impinges their rights. My response is, you're right it does impinge your rights. Just like your right to drink a lot of alcohol and drive your vehicle has been impinged because it was decided that my right to live is greater than your right to drink and drive.

I'm a huge proponent of individual rights, but what often gets overlooked in these conversations is that my right to do something often conflicts with someone else's right to do something else.
See https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#my-little-pony It was a loosely FiO-themed prompt.
> I yielded and looked but didn't come to a full stop.

Physics tells us that we should accelerate to spend the least amount of time in the danger zone (rail bed). Since the velocities are orthogonal, it doesn't matter if you are hit by a train when your car is going 55 or 5 MPH (probably, unless trees in the resulting vector of your now pulped car).

It never made any sense to me to see school busses stopping at a grade crossing, then taking an extraordinarily long time to cross those tracks. What happens if the engine fails while on those tracks and a high speed train appears.

No, my vote is to make sure you have a clear view of the tracks in both directions and punch it. Less probability of interacting with a train.
I have dim memories of alternative medicine hippy types pushing hydroxychloroquine and zinc as cures or prophylactics for flu and colds. Which set off my bullshit detector big time. The other thing is for a drug to be a game changer it'd need to reduce mortality by 90% and if that were the case with hydroxychloroquine the Chinese would have seen that in January. But that's exactly what people were claiming. Yeah no dice.
Should we even bother, now that masks are becoming easier to purchase?
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Looks like a high-end MBA is only $150k.
> $120 per month

Though I'm curious if there's an actual market for a monthly-subscription Google competitor, I very much doubt this bid would be representative of it.
I've seen people do both successfully. It plays fine alongside existing non-linked org files. I personally have ~/org with my preexisting files, todos, etc at the top level and (setq org-roam-directory "~/org/roam") as its own thing to try to make it easier to clean up if I decide I don't like it after all. Having a good time so far though.
Fingers-crossed: Chemotherapies.

I'm soooo hoping that CRIPSR and the like help out with cancer and other diseases that use chemo as treatment.

Seriously, fuck cancer.
Kris Harbour does some excellent videos about off grid living. This playlist is his wood and cob round house.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEZ2hvCDKUpGMDn5qUGzf...
It's likely that you have something that has a particular word that some how 'offends' someone.

Given the word 'Master' would asking 'MasterCard' to change its name make it less racist? Can't say Masters degree anymore because someone has dragged race into it and has been 'offended' by it. Perhaps you know some academic who's in a dilemma and can't cite a quote from a paper because the terminology contains the scary 'Master' word in it due to fear of being called a 'racist' if they use it. See where this goes? Where do you draw the line and how far will this be taken?

At some point, someone is going to draw the line somewhere and disagree with renaming for the sake of virtue signalling.
This is looking more and more like an extinction event for academia.

Elite institutions can charge whatever they want for their brand name and selectivity, and for the environment of other equally motivated high potential students.

Other schools combine a school with a resort/cruise ship experience. Insofar as the school is no better than a bunch of videos, and the resort is mostly shut down, so long as employers don't care, it will be hard to justify spending 10x on a residential experience.

With live teaching going the way of life musicians 100 years ago, we can expect similar effects- fewer better teachers, and better access to them.
Airbnb is quickly becoming an eBay. A product people hate but have little alternative to.
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It's oddly specific that sequence diagrams can be expressed in the language, but not images.
FWIW, if I was trying to generate an escape room, I think I would probably try to use AI Dungeon. It seems like a natural fit. You could easily describe the room and edit text as you go to make it a transcript of an escape room. "I pick up the journal to read the author's name" etc.
And sometimes people just calculate probabilities wrong.

People race trains all the time because they don't want to sit for 120 seconds. The problem is that losing that race means death.

The is especially stupid for the trains cited. "Metrolink" is not some slow cargo train that you will be trapped behind for 15 minutes. A "Metrolink" is about 6 train cars and is generally moving at a decent clip--probably no less than 35mph. You're not going to be waiting long.

LA has a much more significant problem with people walking in front of or committing suicide on the train tracks. Those cases generally far outnumber traffic accidents with the trains.
Still makes a world of difference though, especially because your mask (unless N95) isn’t for you as much as it’s for others. If two people interacting are both wearing - even loose fitting - cloth masks over their nose and mouth, the chance of spreading disease is orders of magnitude less.
Prestonwood Town Center mall (1979-2003, RIP) in Dallas, Texas actually had an indoor clock tower! Here's a picture:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/48/d2/08/48d2080a4f98b94f877f...

As you can see, it wasn't just a clock, it was a kickass gigantic awesome mechanical clock. It was fun to just hang out and watch the mechanism do its thing. And it had chimes.

One of the original (and longest?) tenants of the mall was a clock shop, located in a suite right by the big clock.

Here's a (low-quality) video showing the clock at about 0m25s: https://vimeo.com/114438477

Some background is available here: https://mb.nawcc.org/threads/howard-tower-clock.33680/

According to that, the clock itself was originally made in 1915 and was installed in a clock tower in a Goodyear building in Los Angeles, but that tower had to be torn down for earthquake safety. So the clock was moved to Texas. After the mall was closed, the clock was put into storage, and some pieces may have been lost, but possibly not the important ones.

There was a naming contest, and the clock was named "D Old Timer". ("D" is sort of a local shorthand for Dallas. There's a "D Magazine".)
I think that you were exposed to a limited subset of BASIC dialects. There were versions of BASIC that did all of those things and more.
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I always liked this problem...

What packs more efficiently in a barrel; tennis balls, marbles, or a mixture of tennis balls and marbles?

It feels like the smaller marbles are denser but obviously they actually pack the same efficiency as the tennis balls or any other sphere, the mixture packs more efficiently.