skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This quote, regardless of its origin, has been used many times in the past in similar forms, and in different contexts, and is quite useful. Another example: geometry is not about compasses and straight edges anymore than computer science is about computers.
A lot of people think it is. Computers are a deep well and you could easily subdivide it quite a bit.

1. Math-heavy "CS" that studies algorithms.

2. The study of teams and best practices, maybe "Computer Sociology"

3. The study of tech team and company efficiency, maybe under psychology.

4. Computer Engineering, the study of how to engineer computers

5. The hypothetical science behind that engineering, the science not of algorithms, but of structure and design of computers themselves
Ah dang, I pasted some literal Lorem Ipsum in to see how it would sound from the AI, and it just puts you through an invite funnel. Oh well.
I don't think people want forward secrecy for their email. If they get a new computer, they probably want all their mail on there, right? Isn't porting over their email efficiently at odds with forward secrecy? Also, is forward secrecy compatible with any kind of encrypted search (I know most encrypted search schemes leak too much these days, but if the alternative is not encrypting email at all...)?

Also, how would it work with multiple people in a thread that can be added/removed arbitrarily, or email addresses that resolve to multiple users? Messaging and email seem like different models to begin with.
When you're writing in 6502 assembler, the weird layout actually turns out to be easier to program against then the Commodore approach where they arranged the lines consecutively. It turns out that doing a multiply by 40 operation is a bit tricky in that context. I am pretty sure that I could still write 6502 assembly to do 40-column graphics access on the Apple ][ if I had to. The 80-column mode stuff I'm less confident about since I don't remember if the memory banking was left-half/right-half or odd/even.
> By artificially creating social units in which everyone is the same age, the ability of children to help and to learn from each other is greatly reduced

Also, given the huge variation in the ages of puberty and rates at which kids develop, it makes perfect sense that kids would find peers in a variety of age groups.

My daughters are homeschooled, and have thus been free to form their own social groups from scratch, and they both gravitate toward age groups not their own. My eldest (high school) hangs out mostly with girls several years her senior, but in their weekly in-person enrichment program she chooses to spend most of her time with the little kids, as sort of a teachers assistant. She doesn't exactly know why, but it's clear that the both the older peers and the little guys feed her soul.

She has relatively little interaction with kids in her own grade, and if she were forced to it would clearly rob her of something very important.
It's technically not even a science. It's in the realm of logic and maths. After all we don't call algebra a science, why does computing all of sudden need the word?

So to some it all up: computer science is neither about computers nor is it a science.
The Remarkable Life of Eugène-François Vidocq, Inventor of Modern Detective Work
You can buy and use your own cable modem that doesn't have a WiFi radio.
you're right, they don't do it to be an asshole. they do, however, do it to feel like a badass, and they like feeling like a badass because they're an asshole.

if you start looking for it, or rather, start understanding that it's there, you will soon see an alarming number of people doing things solely because it makes them feel like a badass. it is 100% of the entire reason to live, in some people.
What if your kids want to date? Practically speaking, how are they going to meet people outside a high school environment? Might seem trivial but it's a formative set of years for learning courtship rituals. High school imparts a lot of non academic experience that are, I think, pretty important.
Her High School Said She Ranked Third in Her Class So She Went to Court
I'm reading this at 11p. I really should go to sleep instead.
Word to the wise: TFA overlooks this, but Firesign Theatre's humor didn't end in the seventies. Probably my FT favorite album is Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death, which came out in 1998 and is their darkly optimistic take on the millennium. It's just as profound and multilayered as their earlier work, and to someone not of the hippie generation it's waaay more relevant.

Another standout is Eat or Be Eaten, which is from 1985 and is entirely about video games. FT didn't milk their hippie/pothead schtick, they changed a lot with the times and their later work is still very much worth checking out.

"Hi friends, Ralph Spoilsport here to tell you that everybody must die, but you don't have to be there when it happens!"
> If you'd gone a little bit further into the article, you'd have seen why.

I went further into the article, and found that every ... single ... example ... was about the political right.

> Seriously, what else were they supposed to do here?

Give examples of misinformation on the left.
> So much value in the world is generated by hard working people then just dumped into the flaming rubbish pit of reckless children and spouses by inheritance

Most of inheritance in France goes to the state which is the most rubbish pit of recklessness of all.
prescription toothpaste.

Most common is prevident 5000
So, that's how Jeff got all that money. Slight-of-hand through his expendable pawns.
You pay tax to the state bevause you have to. its not like its ever a choice.
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The part of this that I think is most interesting is that the high level flow of the article goes from "some dude doesn't wash his hands" to "tobacco companies were shady about trying to sell tobacco", a brief segue into "modern monkey science is better than older monkey science" and then ... rather suddenly ... "How can we intervene in social networks to direct people toward truth and facts?".

There are really bad ideas in this article. These systems won't be used to target obviously wrong information. It'll be used to target borderline true information that turns out to be right in hindsight. What they are suggesting at the end of this is a system that will be co-opted by groups like tobacco companies to suppress the truth.

People who want "all social media sites ... employing teams to fight active misinformation and disinformation" are much more dangerous than misinformation. They are creating systematic weak points for the truth to be suppressed, and relying on the fact that surely there are now powerful or motivated bad actors who will corrupt their beautiful but delicate system!

I spent 2020 watching people with PHDs in medical fields tying themselves in knots to avoid being censored by YouTube - and saying things that turned out to be true. I'd bet not a single person working for the censors had a PHD. There is madness somewhere here.
Why all the effort to "prove" that covid-19 is either a lab leak, or artificial?

I mean, either way won't excuse Trump's heartbreakingly incompetent handling of the US pandemic.
Depends on the severity of the act. Shunning is excellent punishment for low-level misbehavior. If you allow misbehavior to accrue and expand, eventually you'll get to a case where you need a prosecutor.

That prosecutor's job would be easier if the criminal officer's colleagues would testify against them, which goes back (again) to social mores.

Prosecutors rely on cops to get their prosecutions, and if the prosecutor is the only one who faces repercussions for charging a cop, then obviously they're going to be loathe to charge any cops.

Honestly, though, the system isn't recoverable in most regions. American police, the ideological successors to slave catchers, suffer a rot that is too deep. Many are literally white supremacist gangs. It isn't a system that can be reformed.
> From the research I've seen, all this privacy-invading crap doesn't even improve ad performance much - it's small incremental gains at best

but at their present scale this small improvement would mean a lot of money, wouldn't it? Lots of businesses find that it is harder to get significant gains (i think they call that the 'law of diminishing returns'), however the stock market is demanding steady growth figures.

i guess location data is important for targeting of local services: you can't push an add for a specific restaurant to a person living in a different city; now if you know that he may be going to that city, then that's a slightly different thing.

I think the alternative to all this tracking would be to push more yellow page directories like DMOZ or jasmine directories, but I don't know if you could do that in practice. Another direction would be to push a directory of specialized search engines, like duckduckgo bang! operators (shameless plug: here is my directory of these https://mosermichael.github.io/duckduckbang/html/main.html )
> Fantasy names are a psychologically manipulative marketing tactic...

"Sprite" is psychologically manipulative but "VitaminWater" isn't?

OMG, pick a side.
Anecdotally, I know a lot of teachers, and not a one of them is the least bit interested in creating minions subservient to the state.
I guess it's another reason to buy your own modem?

I wondered which neighbor is the Hot Spot over Covid. By chance I discovered it was a house a few over because they replaced their main electrical panel, and the hot spot disappeared until pg&e terminated the Service lines. Ironically, the owner of the house despises Xfinity. I don't have the heart to tell him his modem is the Hot Spot. He's also a retired lawyer, but I assume Comcast has a legal right?

Does anyone have an alternative to Xfinity? I'm in Marin County. I would like some local channels too. I looked into AT&T, but they seem as devious as Comcast. Devious in high rentals of equipment, although less than Xfinity. Good deals only for new customers. I'm thinking about switching between the two every year, but that's a hassle. My bill is $230 a month. $100 just for low bandwidth internet. New customers are getting high speed for $50. Xfinity needs to be broken up. Oh yea, I heard Comcast decided to "milk" long term customers, instead of competing on price, or worrying about "Cord Cuters".

Rant over. I need an alternative, with tv. I live in Marin County, CA. Oh yea, I remember hearing about free local tv digital channels local channels here. I remember it being associated with UC Berkeley? I can't find it though. Does anyone remember? It was basically free local channels over the internet, which was great for Cord Cutters.
Unless it isn't.

From Apple's site: "By enabling Location Services for your devices, you agree and consent to the transmission, collection, maintenance, processing, and use of your location data and location search queries by Apple and its partners and licensees to
provide and improve location-based and road traffic-based products and services."

You might want to look up the meaning of the words partners and licensees.

"Location-Based Suggestions: The location of your iPhone will be sent to Apple to provide more relevant recommendations. If you turn off Location Services for location-based suggestions, your precise location will not be sent to Apple."

So...not sending your precise location. But sending something not precise. To Apple.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207056
So what the hell is CS about ?
> Honestly what confuses me is what special distinction does time get to make it not considered a dimension like the others?

My less-than-a-layman understanding is that it really is just a physical point/plane - but as 3-dimensional creatures it will appear to us as time.

Sagan's flatland video shows the 3-d apple moving through 2-dimensional as transitory slices; the 2-d creatures don't see the entire apple because they are fine tuned for 2-d existence.
$600m class action: Four women suing Google for pay discrimination
This reminds me of Holy Roman Empire, it's neither Holy nor Roman nor it's an Empire.
Recommending signal fails to realize that it can be compromised in many ways precisely because it is centralized. A false sense of security.
It's true that for some time now "science" has been used almost exclusively for disciplines that make use of experimental methodologies, but in earlier usage it just meant roughly
"the process of creating knowledge." The German "Wissenschaft" (which is normally how "science" is translated) is closer to the older meaning (though I'm not fluent in German, so I'm just going off what I've been told).
> "Operated by Amazon at no charge to customers"

Seems like it's operated by customers at no cost to Amazon.
> I spent 2020 watching people with PHDs in medical fields tying themselves in knots to avoid being censored by YouTube - and saying things that turned out to be true

Which sorts of things did they want to say?
> I mean come on it doesn't work.

You're right. We shouldn't allow marketing candy as food.
I've had two root canals done with local anesthetic and no real problems. I was real nervous for the first one and went to a specialist and they used a lot of local anesthetic that I couldn't feel anything but a little pressure.

But the second time I just had my doctor do it with his anesthetic, and it wasn't much worse than a filling for me. A little unpleasant but not unbearable.

On the negative side, either that or some other dental work I had done close to the same time must have damaged a nerve and now I haven't been able to really taste anything in the front half of my tongue the past three years (still can on the back of my tongue, at least, thankfully).
For my entire time as an undergraduate, the large top-ten research university I attended offered no courses in programming language theory, nor were these topics woven into the computing curriculum at large. (actually, there may have been a handful of graduate courses, but undergrads were strictly prohibited from joining -- there was a mandatory theory of computation class required for all CS majors, but the topics varied wildly between semesters and the primary lecturer was notoriously apathetic about teaching)

In graduate school, I attended another large top-ten research university and again, no courses on programming language theory. The reason being all the PL faculty had either recently been poached by industry or accepted positions at more prestigious universities.

The result was that my entire computing education felt like watching shadows on the wall of Plato's cave; I was never exposed to fundamental concepts like lambda calculus or to non-standard languages like Haskell or Lisp that might have given a different perspective on computing.

Only recently in the past 1-2 years have I started to fill in the gaps myself, but I can't help but feel cheated. It's pretty crazy that the research-level faculty turnover can prevent thousands of students from being exposed to such an important aspect of computing.

(imagine, for instance, if an entire class of engineers had no option to take a course on heat transfer simply because there was no research faculty available who specialized in heat transfer research)
For the vast majority of people who experience hair loss, it’s... normal and expected, maybe somewhat romantically limiting. Poor dental health can be poor health overall. Traveling to Eastern Europe to spend $10k for something I actually need is not an option for me.

Yeah I can close my mouth. And suffer. And let it keep rotting, crossing my fingers that related health impacts don’t get to me before I can pay a car’s value to get health care. Or people can look at my bald head and... nothing meaningful happened.

I appreciate your kindness in expressing this contrarian view, but it’s not helpful.
I sent two of my kids to community college at 13. The only immaturity problem was that one of the two was a slacker about getting assignments done, but older people at the school also had that issue often enough. The other kid now has a 4.0 GPA on 48 credits, and you'd have never guessed she wasn't an adult.
Algorithms?
I sure hope your stomach acid isn't finding it's way into your mouth!
The point is to raise the pH in the mouth so your teeth, since acidity causes calcium to leach out of your teeth
I made this Chrome extension to help skip to the recipe on those long-winded sites. Someone on here years ago encouraged me to build it!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlc...
I wouldn't say they are just as bad. They are also bad but they're bad in a very different way. The far right effectively has decided that objective reality doesn't exist at all. The truth is whatever they say it is and they will manufacture data as necessary. The far left on the other hand believes in data but is constrained by their inherent need to reduce every single problem to a combination of race, sex, or class, no matter how multi-faceted / complex the problems actually are. They start from the conclusion and work back to make the data fit. Where the far left and far right overlap is that they are both virulently populist, they both demonize their opponents, and they both believe in the absolute moral purity of their cause.
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that you can export your notebook to Reveal.js slides really easily these days ;p

https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/export.html

I like making a static webpage (my colleagues use a TWiki, but you can use your own flavor) for collaboration talks. You just scroll through the webpage, gifs "just work", pictures look great, and you can add descriptive text that your audience can read on their own time.

This is really nice, because if anyone wants to look at what you said later, they don't have to go rooting through PDFs or powerpoints. The whole talk is indexed and searchable, and it's immediately available (with correct formatting) on any internet-connected device.
Flutter WebRTC Player
There's this old picture from a 1986 MIT lecture: https://miro.medium.com/max/4448/1*-yaqXNO1tUwVkUpyOqTT7Q@2x....
"taxation is a killer"... and yet, some of it is actually spent keeping people alive.
Having a small (200ml or so) glass of orange juice once a day is going to net you most of your daily vitamin C requirement and a third of your recommended daily sugar intake. Whether it's healthy really depends on what the rest of your diet looks like: if you mostly live on sugary cereal, pizza, and chicken nuggets, OJ means you've got something vaguely fruit-like in your diet. If it's possible to substitute it for actual fruit, actual fruit is better, but the perfect is the enemy of the good.

Sometimes I worry that "X is unhealthy!" can make people eat an even worse diet.
A myth that morphed into a cult.
Dijkstra hand-wrote a paper titled "On the cruelty of really teaching computer science" where he argues that we should think about CS more as pure reasoning like mathematics than something tied to a machine.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1036.PDF
Handling and processing of informations. This includes computing and algorithms.
GPL wouldn't prevent that. If a big company is running their own fork of GPL software on a server they control there's no obligation to provide the code to anyone else.

Maybe you're thinking of AGPL? That seems as likely to lead to no adoption as adoption with code contributions.
Data is like Uranium. Make damn sure you contain it properly. And if it gets out you’ll spend decades dealing with the consequences.
You're certainly supposed to sleep longer; it saves energy. Supposedly that's the adaptive background to seasonal affective disorder.
You may enjoy Breaking the Mishap Chain, an excellent free book from NASA:

https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/break_mishap_chain_detai...
If my memory from many years ago serves, I believe the introduction in SICP says “computer science is not a science and has little to do with computers.”
But the inconsistency still exists regardless of the historical etymology.

Math is not a science. A mathematician is Not a scientist. Why is computing a science?
"Early to rise and early to bed / Makes a man healthy but socially dead." I feel ya.
Byron Bay is a pretty specific place. Realistically the range for nice houses is in AUD: city centres - 2M+, suburbs - 1M+, regional 300k+. Tourist places like Byron can be anywhere in between or higher really.
They could have recognized that he was joking and doesn't actually believe that then it wouldn't be a useful anecdote. This article doesn't mention that at all and leaves the reader believing he's a "crazy wacko". That sounds like disinformation on the part of Nautilus to me.

This whole "Fox presenter doesn't believe in germs" thing is a falsehood believed by leftists because it gives them a satisfied feeling. They don't bother checking if it's true or not.
What Comcast is doing is different because they're the ISP and they're managing the sharing. So the bandwidth that is used by outsiders is not counted against your data cap. Also, the sharing doesn't count against your maximum allowed upload/download speeds.

It's possible that Comcast's sharing could contribute to congestion, but this is different from having devices that your ISP doesn't know don't belong to you taking up some of your bandwidth and monthly caps.
Also watching from a distance, what’re you talking about? The American right media moguls have fucked up Australian politicsalong with it, and no leftist moguls can claim the same.
Thousands. Once upon a time, the telecommunications companies who ran/run the internet had more open peering policies and it was possible to have a Mom & Pop ISP that connected to the major exchanges. They could offer web hosting and colocation (your machine, their racks) as additional services and people could have a nice little business.

Then the big boys started excluding smaller providers, starving them like a gazelle with a broken leg until the hyenas of Larger Business swept them up. To be sure, there was also plain, MBA-style consolidation, but restricting peering prevented new independent providers from replacing them (yet another instance of Boomers pulling up the ladder after themselves).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering#History_of_peering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verio
I lost my brother (33 years old) in august last year. It was a great shock because it was completely unexpected.

I could not attend to his funerals because I live on the other side of the world, and borders were closed due to the pandemic. Some people tried to help me to assist with video-conferences. It's not the same, but still helpful.

These are my humble suggestions:

- Continue to live as usual. This is hard but important that you continue to enjoy your life as much as possible. It may be hard during Covid-times, but staying at home to mourn will only make your recovery slower.

- Recognize that it's not wrong to feel right and enjoy yourself at times. You don't have to feel sad 100% of the time. Achieving to feel good and enjoy yourself anyway is a good sign that you're on the path to recovery. However you will probably feel guilty of feeling well at times, and I think it's normal.

- Talk. It's very painful and I cried so many times when talking about it, but allowing yourself to cry is the best thing you can do, it's how your body and mind copes with it. Talking to a psychologist to understand your own feelings and conflicts can also be of a great help.

- Say goodbye to him. It was weird for me to have a remote funeral and not be able to be here. Even being an atheist, going to a religious place and lighting a candle was the moment I basically said goodbye to him and started to accept the reality and move on.

Whatever the religious conflicts or disagreements may be with your family, I think it's important to recognize that the rituals we do when someone dies are for the sake of the livings more than for the deads. It's the time you can together say goodbye to him, and then move on.

In any case, don't stay alone.