skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Education generally, and universities specifically, are highly durable institutions which have undergone massive changes over time

It's as though, if you concentrate a lot of smart and well-meaning people in one place, they make a great institution!

Maybe not any particular university, but the idea of elite, sequestered scholarship itself has long outlived neoliberal capitalism.

It was never about money. Moneyed interests expounding on the future of the academy are always dead wrong.
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>Here is a boilerplate you can copy/paste to email to the above ID:

Very sad state of user friendliness. /rant Please, I beg you don't sell my info.
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We travel: William Dalrymple on how living in India has changed him
These perceptions are extremely easy to imagine based on seeming patterns that usually boil down to nothing when we look at the data. That's why the site guidelines ask people not to post insinuations of infiltration, astroturfing, shillage, etc., at least if there's nothing concrete to go on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

It's natural for people to post about what they know about from work, and they're naturally biased in favor of their employer, so that's a thing. Even more of a thing is just that each $bigco has both a fanbase and a foebase, and the two of them go at it in every $bigco-related thread.
I use the waking up app also.

It's pretty nice. There's a introductory course on mediation, a daily meditation, and lots of theory and interview podcasts.

Harris takes you through lots of variants of 10 minute meditations, focusing narrowly (on body sensations, breathing, sights, sounds, etc.) or very broadly (taking in everything at once), or a few on wishing happiness on others.

He emphasizes, to an almost extreme degree, the search for "self", for the thinker of thoughts. It gets a bit repetitive, but the goal is keep looking but never find the self and therefore see that "self" is simply an illusion of the mind. With practice you will experience more and more the pure state of experiential flow. An interesting aspect is learning to treat your own thoughts as another "input event" appearing in consciousness, just as sensory inputs are. You observe your thoughts, but learn not to become "lost in thought".

There's also some great practical wisdom about the waste of negative thought loops, the finite nature of life, and a habit of gratitude.

He has a great bit on "the last time" which ruminates on the idea that eventually you will do everything for the last time (and you probably won't even know it. But what if you did? How would it change your attitude toward even mundane experiences?).

Also that experience is largely determined by attitude. There are miserable people in the Carribean on luxury yachts, and joyful people in the dark in freezing rain (for example on a great wilderness adventure). And it's your ability to steer your mind that makes the difference.

Good stuff.
And doubly so if your concern is a plane falling on you from the sky.
Every video in that channel is pure gold. If you think you don't want to spend 20 minutes on a video about toasters, give it two, and you'll be hooked.
A ‘viral’ new bird song in Canada is causing sparrows to change their tune
Wolfram's 2-state 3-symbol Turing machine
The thing that always stuck with me about the Gilgamesh story was the way gilg and enkidu fought.

All of my best friends were people i had tension with first.

Familiarity or something
We are discussing high altitude flyovers here.
The virus is in the same class as some common colds. It's not "going away". If people are concerned about it they should use a real mask designed to filter viruses[1]. Instead, the population is being conditioned to force medical procedures on other people. Forever.

The "flatten the curve" thing was predictably re-goalposted.

There are strong financial incentives to keep people irrationally in a state of fear. After this, there will be the next.

This keeps getting ignored: What is the non-COVID-19 pneumonia # for 2019-2020?

CDC Influenza and pneumonia deaths by influenza season and age: United States, 2008–2015: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/influenza-and-pn... (these are not estimates, see the footnote)

CDC #'s 2015-2016
Flu: 7,961
Pneumonia: 131,858
All: 1,769,940

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22232633
A more understated one was the lead up to the Iraq war where people were labeled “unpatriotic” for opposing the war (or scared of being labeled unpatriotic). For example, Dixie Chicks were blacklisted for being outspoken against the war. This would almost qualify as a “soft” witch hunt, but essentially the same strategy, a Scarlett letter of sorts.

The list is exhaustive (as you enumerated), and quite the recurring pattern. Unfortunately, at scale, it’s a super effective strategy with consequences only being realized way after the fact, by which point there is another wave already forming in another direction.
Yeah, it's not. They're following something like Smale's proof as best as I understand. It will give some general useful topological tools for mathlib.
One thing that surprised me about this pandemic is how vulnerable people are to misinformation and conspiracy theories on social media. For many people their idea of authority or "credentials" directly correlate with the strength of the source's social media profile (much like the impact factor of peer-reviewed articles only it feeds on itself). I don't know if they are simply looking for a theory to fit their current preconceptions or information that affirms their sense of self but it's really phenomenal. I honestly had no idea how many people I know could take these crazy conspiracies so seriously.
It is interesting how this varies by country.

I am French and our FM radios are good in average. Some are excellent, some are poor. The distribution is skewed towards good.

I have the same impression when listening to German ones, though I listen only occasionally and just a few stations.

Then going further east, you have the Polish ones which sound unbereable to me, everyone is unnaturally shouting, or behaving in a very unnatural way (I belive this is copied from the US, despite French radios such as FUN betting precursors of modern FM there in the 90's). There are exceptions though, such as Tok FM.
I believe there's a fundamental difference. You're using Twitter as a tool, the problematic people use Twitter for entertainment and social interaction. It's like Paul Erdös using methamphetamine vs some random meth addict, there's a large difference in intent and control of usage (and likely also amount).

There are also small groups of professionals and researchers who use Twitter effectively and very tool-like. They don't walk into politics, they use it to update everybody on stuff they find/learn and to be updated by everyone else. On paper, that's the intended way to use Twitter, but obviously they don't spend that much time on the platform, and they certainly don't get notifications on their phone when somebody they follow has tweeted something.
In what way is it anti-competitive? Google's competitors also consume AMP pages and prerender them using AMP caches. Anti-competitive would be requiring the publishers to integrate directly with Google like Apple News, not asking the publishers to publish pages that all link aggregators can consume.
Did the notes format change though? (Can one still use the old Windows package while syncthing notes with a Linux machine running newer ones?)
Twitch is the only thing I can think of that resembles a viable competitor to YouTube. Of late I tend to find myself watching a lot more live streams on Twitch than prerecorded videos on YouTube.

Of course it’s not for everyone. Some of the best YouTube channels are well produced and edited. You don’t get that with a live stream.
Why would it be amazing for decentralized networks and offline web apps?
Man offers to resign after showering during live video meeting
"Robota" means just work now in many Slavic languages but in Czech it means "serfdom" if online dictionaries did not lie to me. And in all Slavic languages the word is derived from the proto-slavic https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/o... , slave so, if you apply Twitter's logic here then it has to be banned because it literally contains the word "slave" (rob).
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This is not correct. Major R1 universities have grants and endowments as their primary source of income, but the vast majority of schools do not fall into this category. All liberal arts colleges, religious colleges, for-profit colleges, and most state colleges (i.e. non-R1 universities) desperately need tuition to pay the bills.
I wasn't quite as unimpressed with ratio as you seem to have been, but I do think that there is really enough information there for a pamphlet not a complete book. Being able to think of doughs and batters as a state-space of flour/fat/liquid is conceptually useful. In general you might pick up on this from experience cooking, but it's rarely elucidated.
Usually, the tech companies in college cities are driven by university graduates. It is not hard to guess what happens after a while.
It might be a version check. I'm using Firefox 68.10.0 on Android and YouTube Music works just fine
There are several places where comments here are archived in near-real-time. Deleting a comment here is a signal, not an actual "no one can ever see it again" deletion.
I don't know why you are downvoted. There is growing evidence that the virus mostly spreads as aerosol and that the amount of particles you inhale dictates how sick you get. The so called super spread events account for over 80% of the transmission.

Bad ventilation and dry air keeps the airosols floating around making it easier for people to inhale them.
The spread in meat factories is one example.

But a mask still can prevent a lot of airosols. While also being limited. There was research that shows a lot of air escapes above and below the mask if someone coughs or sneezes.
> A comment that draws mob wrath today is likely to retain that ability into the future.

Maybe sometimes, not always.

I generally try to avoid being too controversial or, if I feel the need to make a potentially controversial point, couch it in thoughtful and reasoned terms (except on the rare occasions where I've drunk posted in which case it all goes out the window and I post something that makes no sense even to me the next day - and, of course, I don't recommend doing this).

You obviously can't see how many downvotes or upvotes a post on HN gets, or when they've come in, but I've certainly had situations where the score changes over time in a way that suggests a "wave" of downvotes followed by a "wave" of upvotes, and occasionally vice versa. I.e, comments that started out popular have become unpopular, and vice versa.

The other pattern I see from time to time is that you get absolutely roasted in the comments, but the silent majority upvote you massively. I remember posting something broadly supportive of Microsoft in some way or other where exactly this happened: I got completely slagged, but also picked up a ton of points.

I think this illustrates that the at least sometimes the mob involved in the mob wrath might be a lot smaller, and sometimes with less credible concerns, than you might think.

This is one of the problems I see with twitter: it's hugely adversarial yet only a small minority of people use it so when you go outside into the real world you realise it doesn't - or perhaps shouldn't - have that much bearing even though it's so prevalently cited in the media.
This video made me aware of his channel a few months back and I've been hooked. I really enjoyed the multi-part one where he explained the inner workings of a jukebox[0]

[0] https://youtu.be/NmGaXEmfTIo
I guess I don't understand this:

How is a network protocol proof against being used to transport CSS files? Does the network stack inspect what you're shipping and ensure you're only sending 100% Pure Plain Text?

> The Gemini transport protocol is unsuitable for the transfer of large files, since it misses many features that protocols such as FTP or HTTP use to recover from network instability.

Isn't that TCP's job? Is this person saying Gemini doesn't use TCP?

Finally:

> Now, what does Gemini currently have to offer? The best way to find out is to head over to the official site: gemini.circumlunar.space in your Gemini browser.

Back in the Gopher days, my "Gemini browser" would be my Web browser. That was one of the reasons Web browsers took off: You could use them to access all of the information on the Internet, including the WWW, Gopher, Usenet, and Email. Only more recently did Mozilla morph from the Netscape Communicator software suite into the slimmed-down Firefox browser without email, spinning off Thunderbird in the process, and only much later did Firefox drop Gopher support from the core binary.
> Initially, the CDC refused to recommend wearing masks to inhibit virus transmission because there weren't rigorous studies supporting that usage.

> nobody was willing to run a study where you exposed half the subjects to a virus without any protection

Running the studies is effectively impossible due to ethics constraints. The CDC were probably lying about their reasoning because if you put all these facts together the CDC would not ever be able to take a position on countermeasures until it was clearly too late. I dunno what their idea of Disease Control is for pandemic, but a little bit of "balance of probability" thinking probably happened.

Even if we'd discovered masks were a complete waste of time, the cost-benefit of everybody spending $10 for hastily sewn cloth mask was clearly in favour of recommending the idea. We've had entire economies parked up, I'm sure the labour could have been found to do some knitting. As projects go it would have been a very productive use of time. They just didn't want to disrupt the supply of medical masks and showed a rather dire level of panic and unpreparedness.
Right it wouldn’t be a witch craft accusation , in the west

Its one example
> Disclaimer: I use Twitter, I may be biased against the claim that this makes a narcissist.

Yes, this is the entirety for why you responded the way that you did without actually engaging the proposed hypothesis with any evidence, references, etc.

And I find it extremely intellectually dishonest, not merely disingenuous, to say that the Twitter format (and emergent culture) is a global or even local optima for strong intellectual discussion.

I have seen many a basic logical deduction derailed at every 140th-280th character. This is not even considering that average tweet sizes are much smaller than that (statistically).
I’m glad you understood
There's a running joke at Google that each internal tool has two versions: an old one that's deprecated and not maintained, and a new one that's being written and not ready. So I don't think these rewrites necessarily persist because they're being done well.

I keep seeing the same optimistic failure mode over and over again at each employer. It's just too tempting to rewrite, say, the SDK package deployment system rather than trying to understand and fix up the messy old Python that some past engineers left behind. And it'll only take three or four months! A year later the messy old Python with unfixed buts is still the only option because the rewrite isn't ready, and the rewrite consumed all the resources that would've been used to fix bugs.
I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but it's not new or significant. It isn't some unique phenomenon to this time and this political orientation. And people downvoted that comment not because they support political violence, but because centrism is perceived as a cop-out, as just an implicit support for the status quo.
This is more or less how the Israeli "settlements" work; land is taken for "security" reasons and given to someone else.

The Russian privatization post Communism also handed a large amount of state resources to the well connected, who are now in many ways more entrenched than they were under Communism.
Think of this as a computer comprising only a single 1-bit register, no stack, and memory locations that can only be in one of three states, that is, 0, 1 or 2... (they could be 2-bit values -- where the number 3, the fourth combination of bits, is prohibited...)

There are only six possible instructions, based on the combination of the value in the memory location, and the value of the single 1-bit register...

This computer is capable of computing anything that any other computer can, because it's Turing-complete (albeit at a much slower speed)...

This might be the absolute minimum architecture that a computer can be created with...
First thought after seeing the screenshot was that if this is what is called minimalistic these days the next gen must have come. Fancy ui,
> Car owners are paying taxes to support public transportation via income tax, sales tax and/or a gas tax.

I think you meant tax payers are paying taxes.

Car owners are not some special class of citizen.
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Telecoms traditionally published the name associated with every landline in the metro area. Local governments publish the names and addresses of property owners, registered voters, and participants in court proceedings.

In old movies, and some newer ones (Spotlight), you'll see the heroes traveling to drab government offices in the middle of nowhere and standing in line for photocopies. Data brokers [0] in their simplest form are just running this ground game "at scale" and caching the result in a convenient place.

Basic demographic information like you're describing does not require any of the sophisticated conspiracies of modern ad-tech, which is more focused on associating these 20th-century profiles with information about preferences, personality, and even current emotional state in order to bid exactly the right amount to show exactly the right ad at the right time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_broker
If I publish mycoolthing.com/thing, it could be mirrored over a P2P network as peer1.com/rehosted/mycoolthing.com/thing, peer2.com/rehosted/mycoolthing.com/thing, etc., in a way that would make it evident to end-users not familiar with the protocol that the content is from mycoolthing.com.
That's certainly true. However, just because it's difficult doesn't mean we shouldn't try. Especially because current solutions have not solved the problem of tedious typing on phones, and many are violating user privacy (adding to the first problem). As written, we will make the user experience in a way that you can freely choose whether to stick to the traditional layout or advance to the hexagon one, so not forcing the user to re-learn if he doesn't want to.
It's worse than you think. A lot of the people you know are taking lunatic theories seriously and not letting on because they have learned to self sensor their opinions.
Talk is cheap, what can I measure from your theory.
It generated $15 billion last year not including 20 million Premium subscribers.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21121207/youtube-google-al...
A better approach to Gemini would be to create a UGC web app that allows people to create simple, text-only, markdown-enabled content that does not track users. And I think plenty of those exist already. It would be the circa 2004 era blogging platforms.
I think the concern was more that if I can XSS example.com, Google is now serving that for some period of time after example.com's administrators notice + fix this. (In the absence of a mechanism to force AMP to immediately decache the affected page(s), that is.)
What's the basis for this claim? Perhaps the individuals you're thinking of are not as high quality as you think.
They do though. They also create an enormous sound, not where they are located but three kilometers away.

The design might be the best from a effeciency perspective, but it's very ugly, doesn't "adapt" to the sorrounding environment and from what I've gather quite hard to service.

We must be able to do something better.
NYT in fact has to go through non-trivial technical effort to authorize Google to act on their behalf.
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I usually deploy them as SQL files.

I keep my SQL statements as close to standard as possible, so a change in Database Engine (say MySQL-->Postgres) results in a simple step.

The unit tests can be performed as a bunch of SQL statements passed as input to the database client and verify that it works as expected. This level (the unit test) can also be done with any programming language of choice, to make the task easier.
Why not just set up a site that only allows markdown with plain pages and get all the benefits you list without a new protocol?
Why hasn't this been achieved in the real world?I strongly feel they need a mathematical trick inexistant in the real world, either a tear or a supplementary dimension.
I think if it was up to Dijkstra you'd never have been allowed to program. Instead you'd be still pushing the button and I'd probably be attaching the label.

Also I feel the pain, at one time I was the guy hitting enter every couple of minutes, then applying a label and putting the programmed eeprom in the tube.
Let me be more clear. Banks don’t give a fuck if you have a high chance of dying a couple of years into a mortgage. It’s no different than you walking away from your mortgage, which they already have priced in.

Additionally, the underwriter of the mortgage sells off the mortgages to other banks once everything is closed up. If a chance of death had any impact on repayment probability, this resale value would be impacted (where age discrimination doesn’t apply) and that doesn’t happen today.
> And is fire cake not made with water?

It is, why?
You were going so well until the last two, where you've ignored the very real problems that gave rise to them. There are very few examples of overreach compared to "underreach" there?
I found the site for the brewery that's making it, and they don't have any links to buy it yet, sadly. They'd make a killing if they figured out a way to ship it to people.
Since publishing the Snowden files in 2013, TG has significantly changed course and crippled their investigative branch, as detailed here:

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-09-11-how-the-u...

In essence they got rid of their nosey investigate journalists and replaced them with noisy columnists.
Each phone has an unique advertisement identifier, they could link you across several apps with that.

But it may be very possible that they do a combination of everything to track you (whatsapp, instagram, facebook, oculus, apps that use the sdk...)