skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if the president helped launch this particular battle in the "culture war" or was just a cheerleader as usual

The US government reversed itself on masks and recommended them before the rest of the English-speaking world. The WHO only endorsed masks a few weeks ago. I don't like Trump, but these are facts.

It seems to have been politicized after Mike Pence visited the Mayo Clinic, and didn't wear a mask, and then Trump was then pushed on the issue, and reacted characteristically. If Pence had set a good example and worn a mask, or of there hadn't been a huge uproar about him not wearing a mask, would the issue have turned into a front in the culture war?
Funny that BMW is pushing it again after CarPlay subscription fiasco.
surprise. how about verbal communication. smh.
This article has some good points but is a bit meandering. The best point is right there at the beginning: the humanities study things which are not (entirely) subject to scientific rigor, but which are still worth studying. This sort of begs the question, why is anything worth studying?

I think Francis Bacon made the best point about this: knowledge—real knowledge—is about the ability to reliably recreate some effect. With something like the material characteristics of a metal, we can use the rigor of experiment to figure out how to create metals with desired characteristics. We subject the metal to varying levels of heat, pressure, etc. and see what happens.

With governments this is basically impossible. You can't run controlled experiments against governments that are similar in all aspects but one. But it is still useful to study governments if we want to design good ones. You can make a good argument that much of America's success is the result of the Founding Fathers studying the many forms of government that preceded them.

I would argue all other humanities are essentially the same. Literature and philosophy are collections of "experiments" conducted and suppositions made by our predecessors about how to live good lives. English composition is about how humans can effectively communicate in that language. Etc, etc. Are the various stories, rules of thumb, and bits of wisdom in these disciplines scientifically rigorous? Of course not. They can't be. But they can still improve our odds of reproducing some desirable effect, and that makes them knowledge worth having.
The policy should be treat mask as recommendation not mandate and no business occupancy restriction.

>and the virus has exploded

Yes the virus has exploded but not worth going into lockdown, most people are asymptomatic or have mild symptom.

This is not like Ebola where you most likely going to die if u get infected.
> Online classes simply don't have the value that in person classes have.

I certainly agree with this (people aren't that stupid). But schools like Stanford and USC have been doing online MS programs for decades. As far as I know they are are just as valuable to your resume as an in-person MS from the same school.

The value is in the fact that your average student simply doesn't have the self-motivation to do fully-online classes (we certainly have been seeing this problem in the last few months). This is why they primarily have been for working professions part-time in the past, that's a group and mode of learning where people actually get it done.
Well shitlab.com seems to be available, so let’s see what I can do with it! Maybe rectal pathology?
Not OP but I’d be curious to hear why you think it isn’t.

As best I can tell the distinguishing characteristic between people who believe in the existence of white/male privilege and those who do not is political affiliation.
> So, why don't archaeologists write more books as interesting and engaging as Graham Hancock's then that also offer refutations of his claims? I see many personal attacks such as stating he's a crank...prove it.

They do. There's more books written on history than you could read in several lifetimes. Just the kind of people who follow Hancock don't really give a sh*t and if you try to educate them you get accused of being in some vast conspiracy, and they'd much rather believe in 'ancient aliens' and total crackpots.

Here's the people working on Göbekli Tepe calling out Hancock https://www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/2017/06/21/what-y...

That site is worth reading because it's written by the people working there. Just follow and read actual professionals, even email and talk with them on Twitter, they're regular people and they'd love hearing from you if you're genuinely opening to learn.
How effectively can a watch + earbuds replace carrying a phone? Anyone do it regularly?
>speak out

>get attacked

>stay silent

>get attacked

It used to be that the only way to win a losing game is to not play, but even now that's not an option anymore.
Actually in the US they are still done by volume most of the time unless you're a fanatic or a foodie. All the recipes I've ever read uses use cups and teaspoons.

I can see why it would help though.
For universities to fully crumble and education to become significantly cheaper, in addition to all the advancements that have occurred in last decade, I believe we need a credible way to certify students online. Imagine if someone sitting in Tibet or slums of Bombay could prove to Googles of the world that he/she (and not some hired help) successfully completed a highly ranked test online, it could be transformative. If online testing could vouch for a person in the same way that universities do, it could open the doors to world-class opportunities for the entire world, cheaply.
Product idea validation for B2B startups
A framework for validation of B2B product ideas before pitching to investors - inspired by the Jobs-to-be-done method and Business Model Canvas.
I cooked some quinea and got what I started with.
I design a new type of Interstellar Spacecraft
It was BASIC, and a little bit of QBasic. In a different realm, I also worked with VBA, which wasn't much better, but I think that was more due to programming inexperience. Admittedly didn't have much exposure to Visual Basic or VB.Net.
My issue with the "whitelist/blacklist", "master/slave" and "dummy value" changes is the following:

"White" and "black" have been used to signify "good" and "bad" probably since around 100 BCE [0]. I don't think this is, in itself, a problem. The problem arises when anyone would decide to connect that "white" and "black" to someone's race or skin colour, a connection which I find absolutely ridiculous and incomprehensible.

If we follow this line of reasoning, we shouldn't describe situations as "insane" or "crazy" because those words could also be used to describe people with mental health condition. Does this mean we should stop using any negative word in the language that could conceivably be used to describe a group of people as well?

I think not, because "insane situation" and "insane person" are two completely different and unrelated usages with different meanings, even if the word is the same -- just like "whitelist" and "white person".

This is my current view and I'm happy to have my view changed, so please let me know what your opinions are!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Sons_of_Light_Again...
I don't like this new trend where some people believe certain facts are political. A fact is a fact, no matter which "side" you're on.
(Disclaimer, I work at Cesium) we've been working on making this easier. If you have a bunch of GeoTIFFs of satellite imagery you can drag and drop them into our platform and get WMTS/TMS tiles you can stream into whatever client.

See: https://cesium.com/docs/tutorials/uploading/

Would love to hear your feedback.
Netflix sends three things I might like only when one of those things are can't miss.

Give them the option of fewer emails at unsubscribe time. Perhaps they want a summary once a month. Offer them that if they ask to leave.
Interesting, this was not the case for me on mobile Firefox.
Hey,
Lead author of the paper here. I would like to highlight that these detected apps amount to more than one percent of monitored apps. Considering Facebook has millions of apps, there could be tens of thousands of apps potentially misusing users data.
Maybe go to a cheaper school?
On the very last page of the process it said Airbnb might need to contact me to prove I made the request. I don't trust them either, but it's certainly better than the "deactivation" they were pushing.
His book, The Shallows, is an incredible journey into the human/technology relationship. As much as we create and change technology, it likewise changes us.

Worth a read for anyone in tech.

https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/d...
Yeah, that’s a much better conversation because it often flushed out that the same terms were being used for things which weren’t quite the same (hot failover, read-replica, etc.) and someone who has more experience with one tool won’t think a different one works the same way.
I'd argue that it's the norms that a community develops.

LWN and SSC had excellent discussion because their respective communities focus on both promoting quality and policing bad behavior -- go off the rails, and you'll get a bunch of folks trying to help you get back on.

It's Peelian policing[1] for internet forums.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
Seconded. Starts with bare essentials and goes a long way. It’s amazing how much you can learn from this book. (Also, his Advanced Engineering Mathematics.)
My father (and me) would always recommend Zeldovich's "Higher mathematics for beginners" for learning analysis at the upper high-school level. This particular book does not seem to be available in translation, instead there is a reworked version with Yaglom (who was a brilliant science educator himself):

https://archive.org/details/MIRZeldovichYAndYaglomIHigherMat...

Zeldovich's book with Myshkis on applied mathematics is also excellent:
https://archive.org/details/ZeldovichMyskisElementsOfApplied...

Subjectively, I prefer typesetting of the latter, but that is because it is closer to the original Russian edition. Zeldovich was a physicist, so these take an engineer's/physicist's approach, which is, in my opinion, the right entry point to analysis. The reader effectively has to follow the historic development of the subject, starting with some intuitive observations, and eventually developing quite delicate insights.

I read HMFB when I was about 17, and it was great. I remember making up questions of the sort "What level of soda in a can makes it the most stable", and the like, inspired by the book.
I don't remember (and maybe never read) the exact details, but as I recall it wasn't so much "infinite money" as "infinite leverage". You could somehow buy assets leveraged, then make the system "forget" that those assets were already leveraged, so it lets you leverage them again to buy something else.
Rapid Arctic meltdown in Siberia alarms scientists
Try washing your lenses with a drop of dish soap. That will help with the fogging.

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/08/853009325/how-to-prevent-glas...
Thanks for the call out, I’ll reflect on that.
The US President absolutely launched this when he decided to make the existence - let's be clear, not the severity or the appropriate level of response, but initially it was the existence of a deadly virus - a political issue, and declared it was a hoax while standing in front of the White House.
I respectfully doubt it, since YouToube and many news site comment sections allow up and down voting. And they are still generally dumpster fires.

My vote goes towards quality moderation being the key difference maker in the quality of discourse.
Precisely: this is why foodies and fanatics in the US, in spite of the dominant cultural preference for volumetric measure, prefer - like most of the rest of the world - to measure food by weight, this being a great example of how volumetric measurement can be misleading.
Yeah, this part confuses me about GP's description. If any breath is being directed upwards towards your glasses, you're not adjusting the bendable part right to form-fit your nose.
And again, because I don't think you're getting the point, I argue you're assessment of "communication and building bridges" and and "bashing rather than having a conversation" are fundamentally subjective. You routinely forgive passionate and edgy behavior by people who agree with you, where you view the same kind of debate from your enemies as "partisan". I don't need to find examples, I know this is true for you because it's true for everyone.

And that adds up. So, fine, you sincerely want a forum for dispassionate debate. But it doesn't work. You end up driving away the actually diverse viewpoints and your forum ends up an echo chamber. And it's worse than that: it's an echo chamber you think is telling you how the world works.

So you get forums like the letters.wiki site being discussed elsewhere, which is filled with sincere and high-minded discussion from minds drawn from (heh) across the spectrum from "center-left technocrat" to "right-leaning libertarian".
> This article made me realize, part of the quality of the conversation on HN comes from the ability to downvote.

It also comes from persistent, patient moderation. Here's one example from Dan[1] that recently opened my eyes to just how valuable it can be:

"Please don't post snarky dismissals here. Maybe you don't owe Quora better, but you owe this community better if you're posting to it."

His comment proactively dissuaded me from joining in the fray and posting something that wouldn't provide some measure of value for the HN community.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23646883
Reddit will ban you if you vote the "wrong" way. (HN has similar mechanisms in place as well.) Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23601595
Regarding drawing: have you seen org-krita?
https://github.com/lepisma/org-krita
> Next, his problem was that the database would get corrupt sometimes when something bad happened in the middle of writing the file. His solution was to ...

https://www.cs.ait.ac.th/~on/O/oreilly/perl/cookbook/ch07_09...
This brings up an interesting question: why are people around the world still being encouraged/mandated to use cloth masks (whatever their efficacy)?

Surely manufacturers and supply chains for conventional masks have caught up with the demand by now?
How about Dominant and Subservient ? DOM, SUB lol
If you tell someone you got the online masters from Georgia Tech, no one would look down on it. I can’t speak for other online masters.

https://omscs.gatech.edu/
The confidence intervals on their mortality rates overlap.
"whiteness, cisness..." stopped reading right there. every time someone mentions these words, without fail, the next words that come of their mouths is absolute garbage
Check out Alone in the Wilderness by Dick Proenneke. In the late 1960s he filmed himself building a cabin in Alaska and wrote a journal, which his brother later made into a film. Most or all of the film is on YouTube.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke
Disclaimer, this is the company I work for: you should be able to do this pretty easily with Cesium Stories, it's basically PowerPoint for geospatial: https://cesium.com/docs/tutorials/stories-introduction/

Assuming your data is already in one of the formats we support (full list here: https://cesium.com/docs/tutorials/uploading/)
My 13 year old and I have through parts of the first three chapters of "An Illustrated Theory of Numbers". I would reckon that if your student is motivated and at upper high school level, they would have the sophistication to go at it alone. It is just a beautiful book also, with lots of exercises and the associate website http://illustratedtheoryofnumbers.com/ also has Python notebooks if they are into programming.
A little off-topic (and perhaps more useful for younger students) but you could do worse than introduce them to the achievements of Gauss (though they are probably somewhat familiar), who as a teenager had discovered and rediscovered several important theorems - his foundational Disquisitiones Arithmeticae was written at 21.

https://www.storyofmathematics.com/19th_gauss.html

This book is aimed at a young audience, though I haven't read it and cannot say whether it is age-appropriate for late-teens.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/837010.The_Prince_of_Mat...
I agree and (from a developers POV) think the education needs updated to match the opportunities. But while this article and generate healthy discussions, so much is directed towards some "either / or" debate that it's hard to add input or perspective without feeling like a preamble
45yrs ago
> humanities study things which are not (entirely) subject to scientific rigor

That is putting it mildly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair
"That I'm a white cis male who dresses in dress shirts and dress slacks(and have done so since I was 19)has given me a passport into conferences,events and more.I crashed conferences without paying during high school that I would have been barred from if I looked any other way"

How does he know? Is there any evidence for this? Were women or blacks 'barred'? Because if so, I would expect someone to sue and win easily.

The rest of the tweets are a stream of similar and all-unsubstantiated accusations. But we can't dispute any of what he said, because he made his accusations without enough specificity for them to be checked in any way. He chose not to name the 2010 conference.

There's nothing trifling about such accusations. Just because nobody is in a position to respond doesn't mean you're not hurting people. Whether the accusations are made against individuals, specific groups, or a whole ethnic group. If you're gonna slag someone you should have evidence, and you should be specific.

In any case, he chose a good strategy to maximize his personal outcomes. He'll benefit greatly from this. D on fairness and principle, A on strategy.
First, it is not an issue of oxygen intake, more an issue of CO_2 elimination. The fact that non-rigid cloth facemasks at least partially block air exchange is obvious just from how they are inflating during exhalation.

Second, i also wondered how healthcare workers could use that for full shifts. Perhaps my experience is related to my health issues (asthma in the past). Or perhaps improvised cloth facemasks are just much worse in this regard than surgical face masks or N95 respirators. Cloth facemasks could have just bigger air 'buffer'. N59 respirators with valve and coth mask on top could be much better, as they would have partially separated in- and out- airflow.
Not only do masks not protect you but they are also a potential health hazard. Oxygen levels behind the mask are lower which results in shortness of breath and headaches for many people. A quick duckduckgo search shows what the impact of low oxygen is on the brain.
Apart from that people keep touching their masks and handling them in the wrong way which might even increase their risks of getting sick. If you've ever seen a surgeon putting on his masks and gloves, you'll note that assistants put those on for him; touching it himself would risk contamination.
So the whole masks thing is just a false sense of security in the worst possible way.
Curious if this is related to the Balaji Srinivasan/Taylor Lorenz spat on Twitter.
Everything I Knew about Reading was Wrong
A lot of flagged responses to this that are completely reasonable and respectful. I would encourage the moderators to take a look here.
I'm a huge fan of Scott's writing, but the forum discussions at SSC did not seem particularly good (for any value of good - niceness, erudition, signal-to-noise, etc) to me. Certainly they were much worse than HN on average.
You're obviously ok with being lied to.

A lot of folks aren't. Irrespective of how you may want too brand certain groups of individuals, it isn't only conservatives or Trump supporters who are suspect about the mask and motivations. In fact You're hero Fauci at one point made multiple statements telling the people wearing masks was ineffective and essentially silly.

Again, You're fine being lied to because it's what you want to believe. The truth of it is anyone even remotely skeptical might have their spidey senses tingling. Especially given that more recent data from the CDC suggests Covid isn't even in epidemic level territory, and hasn't been since mid June.
He's literally just some dude; he isn't even claiming credentialism. Anyone who complains about him politicising something is looking very hard for reasons to complain.

If making political statements is the reward he wants for doing the legwork to document what the Fed is doing, he can have it.
That's the point of this whole thread.
I've seen it, several times, and I am both an Jodorowski's huge fan and an avid reader of the books

I'm a dreamer and I really hope that Villeneuve's Dune will bring some of those what ifs to life

Knowing that Jodorowski's work gave us Alien as we know it it's a gift nonetheless
I made my first every game using qbasic when I was 11, and learned just by RTFM, no-one to teach me, no internet tutorials because no internet. Such a simple language and great way to start programming. I think we're missing something like this. Scratch is too easy. Javascript needs too much setup.

In case you wondered, it was called "Dancing Dobbins" and was a horse racing and betting game. It generated Random Horse names and odds, you placed bets and the horses ran across the screen, each drawn very jaggedly with vector lines.

I just kept adding to it and adding to it and it eventually got quite strange, some of the horses would randomly go mad and start attacking adjacent lanes. I believe there was alien abduction during some races.
"cisness". Ugh. I had to stop reading there. Basically no one is 'cis', which is basically just saying you agree with all the crap stereotypes placed on your sex. No one does. This is extremely regressive gender crap. Men and women also aren't subsets of their own sex.
Cool idea. some feedback - you might want to touch on bedrock vs java edition. I know I initially found that one area with little guidance/explanation (wanting to do mods for the switch edition for my kid - afaict, turns out you can't :/ )
So just pull the mask down while you're on your scooter. On the road you're effectively "alone" outdoors.
No need, mask wearing is not a matter of science, it is theology; would you ask for a proof of God's existence?
A parroted opinion, presented without evidence and rigorous scientific research, on the other hand, can very well be just a political statement. Especially the kind of opinion that is given in a context completely unrelated and to an audience of people that never asked to hear it. Regardless of whether being white is a statistical indicator of likeliness to have something meaningful to say, we need to first establish that the consequences of such a thing are negative in the first place. “White privilege” does not exclude others from the same “privilege” - it’s entirely possible for any other attribute-based demographic to accumulate a statistic average as well.
Weight helps for consistency, but it’s also much easier: you just put the bowl or pot on the and toss stuff in. Fewer measuring cups to clean, and you don’t have to wonder how much of the honey (etc) actually made it into the bowl.

You can even retare the scale between ingredients if you don’t want to do mental math.
Everyone loves recurring revenue. They’ll find as many ways to make it happen as possible. From club memberships to entertainment and sports to software and and now durable goods.

On the other hand it means you can have partial ownership of things for a slice of time. As in housing rental, it offers flexibility (the alternative for people who can’t afford to build an average house is to build a shanty...
It is hardly factual that he was only allowed into conferences for being white.