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>>The purpose of Universities is to uphold, expand and disseminate human culture, not to prepare people for a career in the industry.

Like, I personally agree with you, but then I also think that we don't have the right to define it as such. There's plenty of people who think that the main goal of a university(at least in scientific/engineering fields) should be to prepare people for working in the industry.

Equally, I see nothing wrong with courses which are specifically designed for this. I myself have finished a "Games Engineering" masters which boasted about close links to the industry, and over 90% hire rate in the industry after - and I got exactly what was promised. I don't see any issue with that personally. I also have friends who had their entire PhDs funded by companies like Red Hat, because they were researching things done in collaboration with them. Also don't have any issue here, and that made sure that my friends not only paid nothing for their PhDs, they were actually pretty well compensated throughout.

I think the perspective changes when you have to pay for university. My sister has a degree in film making from a British university, which she paid nealy £60k(!!!!) for, and her chances of employment in the industry are nearly zero. Where I'm from(Poland)_all higher education is free, and then I have no problem with degrees not correlating with employment(but then maybe on the other hand, as a Polish tax payer, maybe I would prefer that they did, otherwise why are we paying these people to study with no employment prospects afterwards. Again, I don't really think that but I know many people do).
It is difficult to explain Gondor's population collapse. Sure there have been plagues and wars but there is no shortage of unused land to farm, no reason why the population could not recover quickly. It is as if Gondor has a dark side, perhaps successively less superhuman Numenorians ensuring racial purity at the expense of all else?
This is at least partly because all of the German speaking countries got together in 1996 to reform the spelling of the language.

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of_1...
Does Goldstone do radar astronomy that the other two DSN sites don't?
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This was before the rise of the GDPR - I think it's fair to say now they are getting their teeth into tech companies Google is realizing they can't rely on the same avenues to make money - they can't use data in the same way in 2020 as they could in 2010.

Cue a shift in business models as Apple et al (and probably Google itself with Android) limits what data can be accessed at any time.
I remember a bit over 20 years ago when we had a full 19" rack full of storage. It was about 500 GB if I'm not mistaken.
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Calling tolkein a business rivial is a bit much. Tolkein is long dead, anyone remotely interested in fantasy has probably read both authors' books.
He gives the gold ban as an example of "failure" for governments to ban it. He thinks the technology behind bitcoin is somehow so advanced that it is even better protected from governments than gold is.

Those are his main points. And I think they are both wrong. The gold example is from ancient times without KYC/AML and absolute surveillance. There is nothing substantial you could possibly do nowadays without proper invoicing and inventory tracking. Regulators will notice instantly.

The tech behind bitcoin isn't really that advanced and hiding from the government was never a focus. The tech used by regulators has evolved significantly from the times of previous "defeats". People don't realise how much work goes into tracing payments worldwide. Remember FATCA took only two years to deploy worldwide along with a roadmap to tighten control over the next decade.
I have been just using a single function `org-roam-find-file` to insert or read an existing note.

I'm pretty sure there are various other functionalities, but this seems to be enough for me as of now. If I have to search something with it, I just fall back to deadgrep's [0] interface. So, I don't think you need to read the entire manual to be productive! Infact, I would say that starting small and slowing forming the habit is a good way to use this effectively.

[0] https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep
You'll find that disabling images over 50KB has a similar effect, as does disabling all third-party JS except for a select few CDNs if you're lazy. In the end it's three parts performance to one part online safety.
The thing that confused me was saying no bull in at least two sentences, and having a huge bull in the middle of the picture.
I wrote a spelling checker in the 1980's

In my first job I worked for Tasman in Leeds and produced a Word Processor for IBM PC compatibles in 8086 assembler with some help, and then a spelling checker.

For the spelling checker I did a whole load of analysis on a 70,000 word list from Collins and produced a list of tokens to represent common strings of letters. However, in the end I really had to cut the original word list down to get the whole thing onto a single 360K floppy.

After I left Tasman, I was lying in bed one night still thinking about it and realised where I had gone wrong. The tokenising thing, which someone else had put me onto had blinded me. I had stared at word lists for months and hadn't pinned down the obvious pattern. All but 26 words in the 70,000 word list shares the bulk of their characters with the word before it.

So the solution is use 5 bits of the first byte as a count of chars from the word before, 3 bits indicate commons enddings (ship, s, ing) or that the following bytes are tokens for the rest of the word. With this I got the word list compressed to less than 2 bytes per word.

I took this back to Tasman. They put all 70,000 words and the spelling checker onto a 175K floppy for the ZX Spectrum +3.

[Edited for typos]
Keyword: precisely

Your brain fills a lot of gaps, and your senses have a lot of noise, but it's still closer to reality than it isn't, particularly for the fovea.

Still, your brain doesn't make up what's behind a building violating our reliance on straight lines of light (unless you use sensorial "enhancement" drugs), or make up detailed images of what's in your peripheral vision (again, a known effect of many psychedelics), then presents it to you as truth, that's rather imagination and it uses a very different part of the brain, though connected to the visual cortex through the V1 area.

I'm sure it can have some uses (AI racing, anyone?), but most self-driving car decisions are ruled by what has been seen (signs/lights) and what can be seen, because that's how we arranged our streets and roads to be safe for us.
it's a metaphor and part of a 1,2-combo, i am not saying they are literally contemporary business rivals.
sorry, 'sneer' is probably a bit strong - it's really just a lack of understanding on my part (of your side of the fence).

I personally find browsing the internet without javascript or cookies enabled by default to be incredibly frustrating/inconvenient, but I'm sure it's all very subjective, down to your own personal browsing habits.
Of relevance: Gor Nishanov, "C++ Coroutines: a negative overhead abstraction"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fu0gx-xseY
Uhh, this has been happening for over 25 years now.

One of the reasons is there are just too many students. How this came to be is another rabbithole though.
I mean, I'm visiting it because it showed up on HN high enough for some reason. It's not like I reached out to find him. And now he's in my face and I'm annoyed. I guess you could say I have anger management problems but these guys give off such a "punchable" vibe. Big smile, nice suit, lots of self promoting bullshit. And then people start calling it charisma and flock to it and we end up in the realm of populism and fad instead of getting shit done. Just remember that bitconnect guy; people ate that shit like chocolate santas
Discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25285502 (241 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25289445 (62 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25292386 (729 comments)
This is the preferred way to fix the “pipeline problem” for more inclusion

Recruit directly at a broader range of schools and make the curriculum more relevant

Big Tech largely ignores Tier 2 and Tier 3 schools for on campus recruiting, while imagining that the intelligence community has better developers (which does recruit from tier 2 and tier 3 schools on campus)

Since neither of them have figured out how to screen for competent or trainable developers better its clear big tech should be expanding how they recruit. Desirable because big tech is the one with the inclusion problem and pays better.
Interesting. What's the absolute scale here? If I ask someone where they were last night, and give them the AIM instructions, and they give a 100 word answer, is that long or short?
I recently listened to the Penrose episode of the Numberphile podcast, where he is interviewed by Brady Haran, it was quite interesting.

https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/roger-penrose
What language is that?

I guess what I'm wondering is how obscure it has to get (or perhaps how low the GDP of the people speaking a language has to be) before custom spell checking rules aren't considered worth it to bigcorps anymore. Though I'm also kinda interested in what this weird language thing is you're talking about.
Countries that made it well through the first wave suffer from underestimating the threat/overestimating their countermeasures in the second wave. Herd immunity has nothing to do with it, as evidenced by massive second waves in countries like Sweden or Belgium that didn't quite skip the first.

The underestimating/overestimating is actually quite easy to understand: everybody thinks to themselves that a slightly reduced amount of countermeasures should be sufficient compared to the first wave, because it's less of an unknown now. And they might even be right about it! But the same process happens on multiple levels in parallel while everybody assumes all other remaining equal and then they compound. Relative to countermeasures in the first wave, governments weaken executive orders this time (by an amount that might be appropriate all other parameters being equal), regional administrations weaken their execution (by an amount that might be appropriate all other parameters being equal), private organizations, from corporations to knitting clubs weaken countermeasures in their procedures (by an amount that might be appropriate all other parameters being equal) and individual weaken both their personal protection habits and their adherence to all those rules, by an amount that might be appropriate all other parameters being equal.

Nobody can revert all those compounding weakenings, the only single point of correcting for them is at the top level: in the second wave, you need considerably stricter government rules to get the same effect. And even they are only corrected in a reactive way, when the numbers become too bad, when the wave becomes too high. Hence the almost universal big second waves.
A friend of mine just doubled his salary. He wanted to resign and look for an other job, but his company offered him double salary.

If your work makes you an important person in the company, you have a strong basis for negotiation. Most people just don't use it...
But Hawaii is building a light metro system, with speeds of around 110km/h and an axle weight of about 10t (or less, I don't know how many axles there are).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu_Rail_Transit
An appeal to authority is a good reason to believe something if the authority can be understood to be knowledgeable. It's especially useful in cases where your readers can't all be expected to understand the nuances of the decision making involved and you want to avoid appealing to emotions (which works better). What basically never works are appeals to logic, frequently even here (a place which explicitly stimulates it). The reasons for why it doesn't work here (miles of text with pedantic arguing, usually not a lot of substance) are different for why it won't work in public (people don't feel like doing that with you, usually) but they are there.

Especially in a case such as this an appeal to authority can be useful, as there is a big bad-faith storm of "discussion" surrounding the subject that really isn't doing anyone any favours.
I would argue that universities have two tasks:
1. Do research to expand knowledge.
2. Educate new researchers.
Big tech just wants highly skilled researchers in their workforce, but there only N students graduating every year. So it is only logical for them to "help" (can be good or bad) the university so n+m students graduate. But the bad thing is that the push for more education can negativly impact the available research time professors have.
Most language parsers don't use lex/yacc. Recursive descent, PEG and similar are more common.
I forget where I read this, but I have read that Tolkein was inspired by industrialisation and the destruction of nature when characterising Sauron, the orcs, post-fall Saruman, and the scouring of the Shire.
> Your statement of average lifespan "improving" for individuals is simply nonsense.

It’s factually correct. For example [0]:

Life expectancy increases with age as the individual survives the higher mortality rates associated with childhood. For instance, the table above listed the life expectancy at birth among 13th-century English nobles at 30. Having survived until the age of 21, a male member of the English aristocracy in this period could expect to live:

1200–1300: to age 64

1300–1400: to age 45 (because of the bubonic plague)

1400–1500: to age 69

1500–1550: to age 71

17th-century English life expectancy was only about 35 years, largely because infant and child mortality remained high. Life expectancy was under 25 years in the early Colony of Virginia, and in seventeenth-century New England, about 40 percent died before reaching adulthood.

During the Industrial Revolution, the life expectancy of children increased dramatically. The under-5 mortality rate in London decreased from 74.5% in 1730–1749 to 31.8% in 1810–1829.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Variation_over...
> Big Tech largely ignores Tier 2 and Tier 3 schools for on campus recruiting, while imagining that the intelligence community has better developers

I don't think the general consensus is that intelligence organizations have better developers than big tech. I think the rule of thumb is the better the pay, the better the quality.
That’s very cool, although I’d imagine that several nations have much stronger quantum tech than what is made public. Hasn’t it always been that way?
>- It's OK to read at night when you can't sleep.

I do this, but with the same book series. Have read them for what must be 10 times in a row now. They put me to sleep in minutes. I never stare at the ceiling for this single reason. One unfortunate side effect is that if I start reading in a bus or train, I get sleepy now.
I agree with everything in your comment save for a small quip about terminology.

When you wrote "as some failing of capitalism", I believe the economic concept of "market forces" would have conveyed the same message better, compared to the larger concept of capitalism, which is essentially a political ideology that can trigger disagreement from people who have benefited from competing political ideologies like socialism.

Essentially, what I'm getting at is that a race to the bottom can happen as long as there are market forces at play, even if the society itself is not running a pure capitalist system like China (which IMHO is a cross between capitalism + communism vs. capitalism + democracy).

For instance, Uber China was forced to quit in 2016. They sold to rival Didi Chuxing because they couldn't keep up with the race to the bottom by them.
I'm just wondering how an undeniable proof would look like. For example, I could drive to that place in Utah now, make a video while I'm setting up the monolith and date it back to 2016 right?
> We knew this to be true because that was the way things were. But now, with the M1 Macs, it’s not. M1 Macs run very fast and do so while remaining very cool and lasting mind-bogglingly long on battery. It was a fundamental trade-off inherent to PC computing, and now we don’t have to make it.

What a pile of horseshit. The tradeoff between heat and performance was always within a generation - "fast" is always relative. It's just the baseline that has moved, same as it has with every Intel/AMD generation, not a fundamental change.
Gear makes sense to me for any kind of settings or configuration. However, hamburger menus are often used for actual content or feature navigation.

Who would suspect finding the, I don’t know, trends list or something behind a gear icon?
French person here : I do too. My hypothesis, is that people most likely to be exposed, and to propagate the virus ( health workers being the best example ) had a relatively high prevalence already.
Does that really matter though? Isn't the proper way to evaluate what data is being shared to assume each app exploits its permissions up to the level of trust you have in the company that provided it? Eg. if you worry Facebook is stealing your contact list, then if their app has that permission, you should assume they are stealing it. No need to bother checking if they actually are. They might do it when you're not looking anyway.

As for data being sent from your device to 3rd parties, again, if you don't trust the app's developer not do to that, you also won't trust them not to be sharing it from their end where you have no way to look at the traffic.
That makes sense, though I’ve never been able to find evidence on that (and I’ve looked). The allegory is too spot on to be accidental.
> Calling tolkein a business rivial is a bit much. Tolkein is long dead

The Tolkien estate, however, isn't. And Amazon are spending a lot of money on LoTR spinoff shows.
It's financed by loans, paid for by tolls:

https://www.tunnil.fo/english/pay-toll-charge/
I like to use the tools available on my system, so I simply use Apple Notes. It's simple, good for synchronization, backing and searching, good for regular text with minimal formatting, but not good for code snippets unfortunately. I'm open to alternatives (but don't want to bother with versioning).

Overall, taking notes isn't a solved issue for me. I mostly like pen and paper as a thinking tool, but I'm not able to archive and search them, and it' slower when writing pure text.

Maybe a "Remarkable" would be a good tool, but I'm not sure I want even more screens and devices I already have.
Ditto, with https://github.com/jareware/howto/, which I’ve been meaning to automatically sync from a specific notebook from my Joplin. Yours looks very polished though, maybe I should just use that!
I think the main issue is with scrapers that don't adhere to robots.txt/X-robot headers.
The worst is when the site is totally blank without it, then you enable it, and there's no interactivity: just images and a few words of text. It was totally unnecessary after all.
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Hey, any chance this can work with a reverse SSH tunnel to allow a phone to managed over WiFi?
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The author spent significant time explaining why they chose to address that livejournal excerpt, and the context in which they were addressing it. They did not present speculation as fact, they presented facts (historical information, photographs, and quotes from the material) and suggested an interpretation of those facts.
The font on this blog would seem appropriate for the style and subject matter, but it’s hard for me to read.
Since nobody mentioned, https://outline.com works well with Medium articles.

I use it every time I need to read one. Just go to `outline.com/<medium article url>`.
You're missing the point though. Your built in emotions, hormones, drives, are still from your evolution. Yes, forwards humans might not evolve biologically. But you still evolved from systems dating hundreds of millions of years back.

You simply can't just say these don't matter any more, because it's ignoring reality. Every time you're turned on by someone attractive, its evolution thats doing that. And good luck thinking rationally when you are truly in love. (or to take a different example, when your body has a temperature in reaction to a disease. Good luck overriding your absolutely terrible mental state with rational human thought).
Certain BYOD email suites use https encapsulation of another protocol (also using TLS) to ensure that the data can go through firewalls that do MITM attacks on clients for security reasons. Bluecoat do this for example.

I believe they also certificate pin the tunneled protocol.
Devoid of any context, the implication that the Japanese "live like unemotional robots" comes across as unilaterally racist. Given that they are human beings, it is reasonable to assume most of their social conventions fulfill their emotional day-to-day needs.
We use scrapers to wrap and combine 3rd party tools and increase the usability and decrease amount of work required to get something done.

Sometimes to do some task at a 3rd party tool, it requires many clicks and page loads. My scraper wrapping the tool automates most of the task and only keeps the manual task, reducing the amount of required clicks (and time) required to get the task done.

I use a mix of headless browsers (for JS-heavy apps) and raw API calls. Sometimes I even use the browser to login, trigger a single sample APi call, extract all headers and content, close the browser, and re-run that api call directly using a HTTP lib. The request body obviously gets modified on the user’s requirements. We’re bypassing the slow login process as long as the session is valid. We’re also sharing sessions/logins/accounts this way without exposing credentials to users.

It can also be done to bypass the only-one-session-per-user systems. This is done with permission from 3rd parties. They’re fine with it, they just didn’t want to provide a proper API or let us bypass the only-one-session rule because it requires code changes they’re not willing to make only for us.

Sometimes the tool breaks when the html
Or api changes but it usually only takes a few minutes to modify the code to fix it.
> should be to prepare people for working in the industry.

There used to be a system of education here in the UK called vocational colleges (or sometimes courses) where you would do exactly this, prepare for work in the industry - and industry would be involved in helping shape the curriculum, giving students work experience etc.

This has fallen out of favour a lot, it still exists for trades activities like plumbing, electrician, bricklaying/building etc. but you won't find a software engineering course
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You don't need a timing attack as you could e.g. put a unique identifier in the resourcce you're delivering via the CDN. When the browser delivers the resource from its cache for another domain you could simply extract the identifier from it again to achieve cross-site tracking.
What are examples of those secondary markets?
Thanks for sharing your experience - I have both for free as well, and I started with Notion. The problem is that Notion never stuck with me because it's hard to create pages/links at the same speed that you think / not as flexible, and I think Notion is better suited as a knowledge base with collaborators. Strong agree on the sidebar point, I don't use queries but am a strong user of references and embeds.