skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big part of in person conversations are about building equity in the relationship. Even from the first encounter, you express what you think about and how you think about it and look for places that your thoughts intersect with others. Those that have a beneficial intersection you're likely to explore further, invest more and build more equity.

Online, there is little chance that you'll establish a new relationship and build equity with other users. You've got hundreds or thousands of followers, so do they and in many cases, the person you respond to may never see your reply, let alone remember your username for more than a few minutes.

These exchanges can be so fleeting because you're both typically anonymous. Anonymity is antithetical to trust and trust is required for equity. There is little that an anonymous person can do for you, and little you could do for them.

Contrast Twitter and LinkedIn. Both have feeds and allow messaging and conversations. But since you know the people you're interacting with on LinkedIn, many times personally, you are civil, helpful and courteous because one day they may actually be able to do something to benefit you. You invest in them and building equity in your relationship in expectation that if there is something you can do for them, or they can do for you in the future, it's there to leverage.

Twitter just feels like, I dunno, looking for love in all the wrong places?

People have a multitude of purposes for engaging online anonymously. Learning or trolling, ego support or battling boredom, maybe a better solution would be to target those purposes as independent platforms and structure the dialog to support the purpose.
Nobody wishing to do commerce on the iPhone platform has a choice. We only have two options in this country and they both suck.

The web would have won were it not for Apple's insurmountable power.

We have to break Apple and Google up or force them to make a first-class application marketplace they don't control and don't tax.
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> With (cloth) facemask, i have shortness of breath after running up a staircase, and after 15 min of regular walk i start hyperventilating.

Talk to a doctor. This is not normal. Running up a staircase is done with oxygen in your tissue, it doesn't involve breathing per se, your body buffers all that you need.

And regardless: there's not NEARLY enough air space behind your mask to store a full (~1L) exhalation. What you claim isn't even physically possible. Gas goes through and around the mask and mixes with your environment.

Frankly, (and I don't say this in spite, I promise!) your symptoms track more closely to anxiety than to any physical problem. Talk to your doctor, you'll probably feel better about things.
> I think "cis" is a topic related to gender, rather than sex.

Cisgender and transgender have to do with both sex and gender. Specifically with whether they have the stereotypical or antistereotypical relation.
If you take that view, then it appears downvoting is much more potent than upvoting. An upvoted post would at most rise to the top of its tree, but a downvoted post will eventually disappear.
Very old debate. Famous 1959 essay by Brit CP Snow about the two cultures of STEM and humanities leading to misunderstandings between the two. UK colleges pretty much tracked you into one of the two cultures with little exposure to the other.
Mortality rate of like 0.5%, mostly targets asthmatics and old people. Pretty lame engineering if it did come from a lab.
I think that "it's not the original since 1550" it's an overstatement

The copy was made at roughly the same time of the original, so it is a great reference for how it should look, but the techniques used for the original Last supper are so different that they are very different in terms of its importance and the difficulties to preserve it and the fact that Leonardo made it explain why the original suffered more damages throughout history (it was simply more famous)

Like the Amphitheatre of El Jem, that was used to film The Galdiator, and the original Colosseum.

We're lucky we have an almost exact copy to look at, that's for sure.
Nice use of Chart.js! If you run into performance limits with v2, I would recommend trying out v3 (we're close to a 2nd alpha release) as it has a lot better performance.

Docs on the latest dev code: https://www.chartjs.org/docs/master/
Riot seems to support a subset of Markdown. You should be able to use any Matrix client you feel like.
College radio stations remain interesting.
mysql did get a couple nice columnar storage engines until Oracle killed the business
I tried browserless.io, it sends every frame as picture from the backend to the browser. I suppose quik will use the same technology?

While supporting IE without any developer work is very impressive, I think quik has some limitions: 1. requres a lot of bandwidth, a place using IE has a high chance don't have a modern internet infrastructure, thus limiting concurrent users. 2. Playing video is basically impossible because intraframe compression is just not efficient enough even on a good network.
It's outrageously easier to fly under the radar if you're white. If you want to look at it in a ridiculously objective way just consider being a black rock on a white sand beach. Even without the concept of racial bias, which is absolutely at play in these situations, you'll be subject to more scrutiny just by not being the norm.
This is why it's mostly meaningless to recommend everyone to wear a mask. Many do not know how to use them properly. And a lot of people can't afford them. If you can even find some to buy that is.
CO2 elimination is also not an issue:

https://twitter.com/MurseWordsworth/status/12767990206738882...

And those with chronic health issues also see no problem with masks, despite having existing pulmonary conditions:

https://twitter.com/G17Esiason/status/1277249837059264512

Basically, the volume of air that your lungs can move, in addition to the force of exhaling/inhaling, easily overcomes any air "trapped" in the mask.
None of that has anything to do with the constitution or bill of rights, which talk about the enumerated powers of the government and the rights of the people that the government may not infringe upon.

If you have an issue with your employer, find a new job.
> Online classes simply don't have the value that in person classes have.

I think one question worth asking is what would happen if we blended both? Would it be possible to have a community college charge community college prices but work off of other peoples' excellent material? Imagine a CS 101 course where the lectures, problem sets, and tests were from MIT's Open Courseware, TAs were on site to hold sessions and help you, and a domain expert or professor was providing supplementary material and answering questions during recorded lectures. Sure it wouldn't be a stand in for MIT for many reasons, but it would probably give you a better education than most schools for a fraction of typical mid tier school pricing.
Volume isn't conserved; only mass is conserved in physics, so your final pot can't have greater mass than what you put in it; it can only have less, considering steam is given off. But volume? All bets are off.

Even if it weren't a packing problem it's not obvious to me that a X mL single quinoa grain that absorbs Y mL water can occupy only X+Y mL. It could be much larger depending on the structure the resulting thing has.

Separately, I've always had to put more water in than the quinoa boxes say.
Perhaps I’m just dense, but that’s exactly how I would read this tweet from late February: https://mobile.twitter.com/cdcgov/status/1233134710638825473...

“ CDC does not currently recommend the use of facemasks to help prevent novel #coronavirus. Take everyday preventive actions, like staying home when you are sick and washing hands with soap and water, to help slow the spread of respiratory illness. ”
You're totally right! I probably should have referenced the relationship between the two in my post.
(Yeah the exact billing model is fungible/an example to get people to think in terms of actually willing to fork over money.)

Do you mean you might have a specific and relatively small set of videos that you would like searched, but at a much lower price point (e.g. 10k videos at less than $10/year)?
The downvote on YouTube comments does nothing.
The USA still uses miles and inches... I'm not surprised that their baking recipe protocols are 230 years out of date as well.
> And the walkman is arguably one of the classic cases of “build it, and they will come”, where a product was well ahead of what consumers were already calling for.

Indeed, wonder if they used any parts of UX design/research. Was that even such a thing then?
It just a way to squeeze some more money out of customers. Add some nice marketing babble that it's for customer's own good (lower maintenance fees, offer simplified pricing, add elasticity, energy, synergy, bulshitergy) and here you have it: "I'm sorry your subscription for AC has expired".
Funny enough there already are lines of cars where engine power and torque is just set in software, so buying most expansive engine version is just buying cheapest version with some variable in ECU software set to different value. For me this is equivalent of selling premium version of application which has sleep=10 removed from every loop and advertise it as many times faster.
Why people are accepting this? Take SketchUp for example, they recently went subscription only and CAD software has somewhat steep learning curve, and you kind of learn using it as "muscle memory" of shortcuts and general flow. I bet many people will just buy subscription just for convenience of going on with their work or hobby projects in familiar software.
Well, that's sort of the name of the game with startups.

It also speaks to though that perhaps getting new feature in front of your users sooner should be a goal. For instance, you can quickly make mockups with something like InvisionApp.com and then throw those in front of some users for feedback. If it's not working you can shelf it. That way you don't spend development efforts on features that your users don't find useful.
You've got to be careful with Friedman's work. He's highly persuasive, but presents an incomplete picture. For example, he dogmatically asserts that "market power" is not an obstacle to market efficiency. According to Friedman, monopolists are only problematic to the extent that they corrupt government to their ends.

The book's central thesis is that Fed monetary policy made the depression worse. That is widely accepted by economists of all stripes.

However, Friedman also argues that the Fed should boldly step in as a lender of last resort. He ignores the fact that no institution can make a realistic solvency determination during a crisis. What that means in practice is he supports things like TARP.

This amounts to a statement that the cost of financial panics (which are an inherent characteristic of all systems with maturity transformation) should be born by the public rather than the financial sector. That is a political decision, not a technical economic one.

A lot of economics from the Friedman era is about clothing political choices in technical jargon.
Do you think it's factual that it's easier to blend in if you look like everyone else?
> An issue with these things is that institutions and government make major decisions ... what you get is agenda driven decision making

What do you think politics is? Everyone in politics has an agenda.

> It’s not that we discount them completely but we should also consider opposing data from alternate studies

Politicians already do this. Whenever there's a decision being made, it's being processed through a host of ideological positions.
I understand at a picnic... I don’t understand people by themselves wanting to project on to others their music choices after they’ve become adults. As a teenager I understand why we might have done that, but not grown adults.
This reminds me of how the Continental Congress ended up appointing a Baker General to serve with Washington during the Revolutionary War.

After the barrels had been transported by wagon out into the field and their contents distributed, soldiers devoid of ovens to make bread pooled their rations and made arrangements for those qualified bakers within their ranks to take the next step. They then went into the local community and used whatever cooking facilities were available, returning later to distribute one pound of bread for every pound of flour a soldier contributed. What they did not tell them was that for every 100 pounds of flour, some 130 one-pound loaves of bread could be produced simply because water was added. This allowed bakers to make a handsome thirty percent profit when they sold the extra loaves in the open market. For those soldiers deciding to keep their flour ration, they either transformed it into a very rough “fire cake” cooked in the coals of a nearby fire or traded it with the local country folk; many instances of straggling and plundering then ensued. There was clearly much room for improvement.

https://allthingsliberty.com/2015/05/george-washingtons-bake...
Mattermost supports CommonMark Markdown: https://docs.mattermost.com/help/messaging/formatting-text.h...

Zulip supports ~CommonMark Markdown:
https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/subsystems/markdown.h...

Reddit supports Markdown.
https://www.reddit.com/wiki/markdown

Discourse now supports CommonMark Markdown.

GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab and Gogs/Gitea support Markdown.
Xojo seems interesting (is that what used to be called RealBasic?). Do you have experience with it?
I've been thinking about this exact issue with respect to my accomplishments. How much benefit have I drawn from looking like a programmer? I'm an Asian American male with glasses. I fit the part. Looking back, people gave me respect and their ear far before I deserved it. Would I have gotten the same level of encouragement if I were Black? Would I have gotten the same level of respect if I were a woman? Probably not.

Any social engineer can tell you that appearances are half the battle. A white male in a hardhat with a clipboard could get into most construction sites. A white male in a suit could probably get into most office buildings.

There's some rather vehement responses in this thread. I wonder how many people are threatened by the idea that their accomplishments are partially due to them "looking the part" and not just their work and skill.
I agree, while noticing that such an event did not happen here.
What I like about HN's approach is that the comment's score is hidden from the public, so you don't as often get the dogpiling effect.
I think it's to idealistic. How else can you verify someone got educated on a subject while not being educated on it your self.
"I feel from the moment that I put them on that I can't get quite enough to breath." That's what they are feeling - they may be claustrophobic, etc. And I believe they are feeling that.

But let's look at actual data - there's no measurable impact on blood oxygen saturation when wearing masks:

https://twitter.com/MurseWordsworth/status/12767990206738882...

https://twitter.com/AlisonKabaroff/status/127738060548793958...

https://twitter.com/DrRobDavidson/status/1277565585568784385
Telegram has some support. I believe it's an incomplete implementation.
People with actual breathing difficulties do, in fact, experience symptoms like that with masks, which do aggravate them (I believe by increasing the proportion of rebreathed air, slightly lowering O2 concentration which can be problematic combined with existing breathing problems.)

It's also possible to experience symptoms like that (thought usually also with intense itching and other sensations that make it clear that it's an allergy) if the max contains an allergen to which you are sensitive. (Some masks contain latex, which is a not-super-uncommon allergen.)
Some people have always hated the humanities, nothing to new there.

But what seems new is the humanities coming into politics in what seems like a big way.

It's gone from what you should think, to what you have to think.

That's why I think it should be smashed.
Agreed, I think the points others have made about the humanities being used as political weapons are valid. As a rule of thumb, any time knowledge is being used in the drunk-with-a-lamppost fashion (for support rather than illumination), it should be subject to scrutiny. And because of the lack of rigor, the humanities are more open to abuse than some other fields. But we shouldn't kid ourselves and pretend that scientific knowledge and mathematics aren't also weaponized to push agendas. That's a risk to a greater or lesser degree with any subject.
That is factual. That would be relevant if conference entry were being managed by snipers searching crowds.
I've tried a lot of note-taking apps, I've settled on Simplenote. It's lightweight, syncs, and searchable. It's text-only. I find linking media and other stuff is just cumbersome, and takes a lot of effort to organize when all I want is a quick way to jot down notes.
https://simplenote.com/
That's a really cool idea!

It's funny that you mention this because when I simulated the blocks hitting the words "Dyna-Kinematics" for the title GIF I thought: "This is what graphic designers struggle to do manually. They spend hours animating things so that they look natural."

If graphic designers had access to a physics simulator, they wouldn't have to do anything manually. They could just let the physics do the talking.

I really love that idea, and I think it would sell.
> Does anyone look at the present moment and conclude that we have an over-abundance of humble, empathetic, well-trained and effectively communicating leaders?

Yet do we have a dearth of leaders with experience in the humanities? Just doing a quick look at the current politcal leadership, and Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi both have a degree in political science. Trump has a degree in economics, but Obama and George W. Bush both majored in the humanities. [Edit: I thought I'd take a look at the past three vice-presidents as well - Pence, Biden, and Cheney all majored in the humanities.]

Saying that these qualities are important is fine, but one has to consider whether or not the current way that academia teaches the humanities is a good way to instill them in people. If something doesn't achieve its goal, then it doesn't matter how lofty said goal is.

I'm constantly impressed by how articles like these claim that studying the humanities will give people a better way to question things and think critically about the world around them, but then fail to do so themselves.
I’m fine with these if they have some data that’s withstood scrutiny —but I’ve seen governments make decisions based on studies published by second tier educational institutions because it dovetails with their ideology.
Assuming attention is binary as parent suggested, than having someone in a meeting where they listen in, but in parallel working on something else seems to me to be a problem. Maybe the meeting should be split in that case so only people who are actually required and therefore spend their full attention on, are present in the split parts.
Not saying bossware is the best (or even an acceptable) solution to that problem, but it would surely be benefitial for an organization to reduce such inefficiencies.
Yeah I agree, there are some particularly egregious examples. If you want a good laugh about this stuff, "Fashionable Nonsense" is a great book.
Is Dev Compensation Bimodal?
It's not clownish, just the opposite.

There was a severe shortage of N95's at the time, and if the public thought masks were important, there would have been an unprecedented run on PPE and the medical community would have had squat. Given that masks, particularly N95s are actually effective in a Healthcare environment ... it was the exactly the right call to make.

Get the masks to those who it will actually help, not the public for whom it will make a smaller difference.

Once production is ramped, or we have enough PPE, then it makes sense to have a pro-mask policy for the public.

From a communications perspective, it's obviously problematic, but in terms of equipment triage, it's highly rational and we actually want our leaders making these kinds of tough decisions.

The WHO and various governments should have been more efficient in their messaging however.
I usually just use straight up HTML.

<b> and <i> and the syntax of <table> are a lot easier for me to remember than some weird funky *'s and |'s. <img src=""> is also plain obvious, compared to some weird []!@() BS that I can never remember.

Top it all off with a custom CSS file and I'm done.
Yep I agree, I had some horrible professors as a history postgrad that embodied this exact approach.
> Slate Star Codex has

Had, sadly. Still deleted.
Education is basically a system for vouching for someone's knowledge. It is too exhausting to individually check people, so we trust an institution instead and let them confer that trust on others.
E.g., if swing/big band is your thing and you live in the Bay area, https://www.kcea.org/ on 89.1 MHz is pretty awesome.
>> claim that studying the humanities will give people a better way to question things and think critically

Approximately 100% of these articles are written by humanities majors though, so I'm not sure what else you're expecting to see.
Again, you're just being insulting. "If you object, then you MUST be motivated by it being 'your cow' and NEVER correct" is a very stupid thing to say. Stop being so smug and think it through! If one person goes after cows ABCDEF, and the other person goes after cows ACCCDC, there's a significant difference between the two. Someone complaining about the latter is not automatically wrong, unjustifiably mad that their cows got slayed.
and in a few (A FEW) instances their wording of that recommendation was poor and might plausibly imply that masks don't work.

Until Zeynep Tufekci's New York Times oped, the consensus was indeed that "masks don't work" for Covid. I documented numerous instances on social media of healthcare professionals insulting and belittling those who wore masks based on what you describe as "poor wording".

Here is a Time article from 4 March that sums up the expert consensus on masks at that point (in fact it has direct quotes from experts, including an infectious diseases professor, a leading psychologist, and the Surgeon General): that masking was "superstitious", didn't work and claiming that wearing a a mask equated to knocking on wood, or not walking under a ladder. https://time.com/5794729/coronavirus-face-masks/
The article doesn't really support the headline. It concedes that we can't know if it will help and makes more of a yolo argument instead:

> It’s possible, of course, that the Chinese might decide to give up U.S. markets rather than liberalize, as they gave up Hong Kong’s usefulness as a financial hub. But if we can make a difference, we should find out.
I still would like to know what your conception of politics is.

> I’ve seen governments make decisions based on studies published by second tier educational institutions because it dovetails with their ideology.

Do you have an example of this for a humanities specific field? I could see maybe philosophy, but I really don't think most humanities fields have the political power a lot of people attribute to them.
Germany is first major economy to phase out coal and nuclear