skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On some sites, folks will up-vote things that they agree with and down-vote things that they disagree with. Or, sometimes up-votes are a mode of expressing emotional-support or communal-acceptance. Maybe that's what you're used to?

Here, folks tend to prefer substance. They'll often down-vote you even if you express a view that they agree with if your comment doesn't contribute something worth reading. And they might up-vote your comment, even if they disagree, if it was interesting to have read.

This is more of a place to exchange ideas than find validation. You're not being rejected on a personal level -- down-votes aren't personal attacks. And people don't necessarily disagree with you, either.
You can't compare a nationality to an ethnicity/religion and a race, respectively.
> But in these cases aren't undergraduate degrees normally three years, and a master's degree one?

It's usually three years + two years.

At least in France there used to be a degree at four years, before the Master's (at five) but I don't think that exists anymore since they introduced the EU-wide new system (Bachelor's — Master's — PhD).
I remember once upon a time being pretty interested in understanding "what is consciousness". The more I have learned about neuroscience, the more plausible it seems that what we know as subjective experience is just an emergent behavior of this super complex lump of jelly in our heads. If you look at what the thalamus does, it seems like consciousness might even just basically be the function of that brain region.
A few thoughts.

1. Sean is leaving CalTech at the end of next year. It's not a huge surprise, given his interests, that he is pursuing the issues in the philosophy of mind that intersect with quantum physics. Most work in this area is unadulterated quackery, and he is one of the few physicists who understands philosophy well enough to not make me cringe.

2. Most physicists implicitly engage in ontological metaphysics—that the world's fundamental construction is of objects, and not say, facts (Wittgenstein) or logical structures or relations (Carnap). Which I suppose explains why Carroll is interested in the mental aspects of ontology.

3. His conclusion is that the laws of physics explain consciousness, but not to the degree of satisfying everyone. We need to develop better philosophical models for understanding it, rather than positing new (ahem, outlandish) metaphysical theories such as panpsychism. Hard to disagree here.

4. I wonder if Carroll's future work in philosophy will cause him to revisit the many-worlds interpretation of QM, which a fair share of philosophers believe carries too much metaphysical baggage. The idea of many worlds "existing" is a philosophical idea; it's not something you learn from studying physics.
Yes. A tiny area of paint was chipped. Unfortunately that meant that the distance was increased by the distance of the layer of paint.
My impression, knowing very few who has attended højskole, is that people do it for their own personal fulfillment and enjoyment.

Socially, I’d say that it is respected and regarded as a sign of dedication to ones interests.
it's been a long, long time for me, but graduate school (for Master's) was where I actually learnt a lot. I was too swamped under a load of undergraduate coursework to deeply absorb anything. Lighter coursework and deeper dives into subjects were so much better for my brain during my Master's.

It might have helped that I was too young and stupid to have any well-considered career goals and enjoyed learning for the sake of it.

This was engineering/CS though, and the article seems to be about MFAs.
Cycling is a very interesting example. Cycling was crazy huge for a while when it was the fastest form of individual travel (only trains were faster) and many people moved on when the internal combustion engine became practical. But the subset of the appeal that remained despite engines has been rather stable ever since.
Isn't the republican party dismantling democracy right at this moment? Also, America is a friend of human rights mostly as lip service, see Hague Invasion Act. And the calling American corporate media independent is a stretch. If these are the most fundamental values to Americans, they do a poor job defending them.
It is a shame that CM4 with its BCM2711 SoC does not support the optional ARMv8 crypto extension. Could make a lot of difference in that kind of application.

I always wished for more SBCs on the Marvell Armada 3700 platform but nothing much materialized beyond the maligned ESPRESSObin. Instead it was a race to the bottom as usual.

At least some Rockchip and Allwinner SoCs have them, in exchange for other warts.
It's a qualification arms race.

When very few people had college degrees, they were of high value because the programs were more likely to be rigorous.

As US society said "higher education is the best path to success", it drove up demand where people who never would have considered college otherwise were pushed that way by teachers, guidance counselors, and parents. The high school system adjusted to launch more students in better ways.

Along the way, that morphed into "higher education is the only path to success" and suddenly anyone who didn't go was considered a failure and the entire high school system dumbed down to the point where more and more otherwise normal courses were deemed "college prep."

Unfortunately, it put students who would be below college standards or even just borderline a generation ago in a bad spot where they were underprepared. But colleges get massive cashflow so they introduced more remedial courses in the first year and the average student is graduating in 5 or 6 years. They've steadily devalued themselves and are looking more and more like high school 2.0 but longer with a massive price tag.

(Background: Have a college age kid just going through this personally and watching his friends struggle as some hit these walls. It's sad and ugly and didn't have to be this way.)
The two factors are:

Credentialism the worship of credentials throughout many industries when other cheaper metrics are available, but may be illegal (like testing for IQ in USA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credentialism_and_educational_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.

and inability to declare bankruptcy so as to include student loans. Bankruptcy says that the _lender_ has responsibility to not enslave people with debt -- or rather the _lender_ may only enslave a borrower for a limited amount of time, after which it is ultimately the lenders problem that they gave that person too much money and that they should have known that the borrower would have never been able to repay. Debt is a useful tool, but the ability to enslave people with debt should be limited by the law.
> HN is filled with these pop-sci teetotalers who rag on alcohol but promote the uninhibited abuse of THC and other dangerous mind altering drugs. It's an absurd bizzaro world.

I've never seen this. Do you have an example article or comment that supports this? It should be easy to find since "HN is filled with these pop-sci teetotalers".
To end the dehumanizing scourge of Nazism, racism, bigoted thinking, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, conservatism, republicanism, white supremacy, sexism, Islamophobia, Asian hate, transphobia, Satanic Panics, antisemitism, and reactionary ruralism, and libertarian "freedoms" some sacrifices must be made.

Google Drive is on the right side of history with this move. I just wish people would accept that to stop the greatest evils in the known universe, it's okay to take firm and bold stances like this.
I think you're conflating race with ethnicity and nationality, which makes all three concepts meaningless.
I completely agree about using pen and paper for learning and organizing my life. I have a weekly wall planner made of sticky notes and it’s so much more fulfilling than poking around a calendar app to see my week outlined in a two square foot section of my office wall. But for those of us who are curious about your process, could you please tell us what the Z word is and link to your recommended resource?
Better skills are not zero sum, but credentials are. Having a doctorate is only impressive if everybody else doesn't also have one.then you would have to have two doctorates.
I’m very wary of putting my flashcards (about 25k in a bunch of decks stretching back nearly 20 years now) in something that either 1) I own fully (I’ve bought the software and it will work even if your company doesn’t); or 2) at least provide full-fidelity exports of not just the content but also the repetition history.

It looks like a very well-done app and I agree that Anki can be clunky but I don’t worry about it disappearing and taking years of work with it. I really do wish you luck but for me at least it’s a high bar to cross.
I wish schools got audited for that very thing. Schools are extremely discriminatory against adults not at application time, but when they offer classes. Not only do they not accommodate either, a lot of professors still pull BS where you need to hand in assignments at the end of class! There is absolutely nothing in the education system today that requires you to hand in something with such a short term time table.

I say this as a mid 20s return college student. My experience going back to college without the "stars in my eyes" so to speak, has really left me embittered by the system altogether. Schools act like autocratic bureaucracies that when they make a mistake all you get is an "oops sorry. Now deal with it lol." Also student employment is not only predatory (cause the pay is just garbage), but it's like they don't even train students either. If you want any answers, you have to wait to talk to one of the few people who has actually been hired on as an employee.

Higher education is structured for students going from high school to their institutions. They also assume students don't have full time employment or a family. So basically if you have either of those, the school doesn't care at all about your plight. They know your gonna pay off your loans and complete your degree. They prefer younger impressionable kids who are gonna waste a lot of time and money there instead.
It is a great read. Thanks for the link!
It seems like this and parent intriguing comments are both skirting(?) the importance of -context- in the debate over "money" vs "better world".
People from all walks of life may choose one or the other based on their status,philosophy,etc. Overall though, I think the ability to choose "better world" comes from a more privileged place, which might make the "crate full of money" enable a more people to choose "better world" more frequently.
> Does this make it "freshly-re-copyrighted until 2004 + 70 years?", or is the year that counts for copyright the original publishing date?

Any changes (spelling, typos, the typesetting) in the new publication would be under a new copyright term. In practice, if you make your copy from the earlier out of copyright edition then you're fine. (Assuming you are correct that the earlier edition is truly out of copyright)
"ANTI-CAPITALIST SOFTWARE LICENSE" and yet it's developed with .net.

Can it be built with mono at least?
It would be more accurate to say that Xi and the CCP view democracy, the media, and human rights as the greatest threats to their power, and they’re right - when running a dictatorship these things are a problem.
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You seem to be (intentionally?) missing the point that anyone (government or not) notifying Facebook or other media of something does not equal a requirement under force of law to do anything about it.

IF Facebook refused to take down dis- or misinformation after being notified of it AND the government then took some action against Facebook, THEN Facebook could probably bring a First Amendment case.
CS is pretty special:

- It's not a legally qualifying degree like studying medicine

- It's academic in the sense that you can use it to gain entrance to a phd, and has academic content that isn't just "how to code".

- And yet you learn a fair bit about how to code. You'll in all likelihood come across actual tools, not toys, that real coders use, eg Git. You might also do some specialist stuff that is directly applicable to an employer, rather than just demonstrating interest. Eg if you do a systems programming course, you might actually understand systems in a way that's useful from the start.
How to Do Pose Estimation with MoveNet
Yeah sure it does - probably you can conjure a cartoon in your mind of a brain modeling a brain modeling a brain all the way out to infinity. Maybe you already did when you were coming up with this problem.

edit: since the other poster edited their comment, this was only responding to the infinite regression question, not their bizarre point about touch sensitivity
> It still reads really well today, like there's no tone of racism and nothing seems inappropriate (which is a hard thing to achieve with time).

How about this:

Some Frenchmen have certainly gypped some Americans . We
remember the times we were gypped . We forget
the number of times we were not. How many times were
you treated fairly, honesty°' ?

Were you never "gypped" back home -in towns near
army camps ? (See question 4 83),
I apologize if I missed your point, but in the case of fake news for instance, iiuc, you're arguing that fake news on FB is legal and that FB isn't responsible for such content on their platform.

Information warfare is fairly real and potent in how it has weakened US democracy and vaccination efforts recently. Ultimately, arguably, this has real consequences for the economy, national security etc.
SaaS is the biggest scam of the century
> for example it was the system in Poland when I graduated but it became more popular to do 3+2 since then

In France, there is the "3+2" system, but that's just on paper. Basically, there are two types of bachelor's: a practical one that's supposed to be the last in line, and another, more "theoretical" one that's supposed to be followed with a Master's.

Students have to choose between the two fairly early, so if your goal is a Master's, you'll take the bachelor that's supposed to be followed by the Master. You do get a piece of paper at the three-year mark saying you've got a Bachelor's, but that's unusable if you want to get a job (as in no-one will hire you).

You technically can go to a Master's after the practical one, but there are extra steps, and it's not as easy.
I've read universally it's very hit or miss unless you specialize in some specific field.
Not old news. Brand new vulnerability, the third one in this series now.
That's true. It was the 1970s when we were pressuring the stepfather.
People believe that?
depends on what you are doing. And it's not necessarily "very slow", moving forward as the JIT gets better and better. I highly doubt that this technique is going to be very jittable.
Thanks and thanks for the link; didn't know about this sub-case.

Repeating a point of my original question, in case you have something to say about it: "112 gripes" was published in 1945, thus sites like https://www.biblio.com/blog/2010/07/how-to-determine-if-a-bo... suggest it's expired . But also, it was republished in the US in 2004 (ISBN 1-4191-6512-7). Does this make it "freshly-re-copyrighted until 2004 + 70 years?", or is the year that counts for copyright the original publishing date?

EDIT okay forget about the re-publish question, another HNer commented about it.
I'd have guessed, most CS people would do OSS and only a fraction of them turns these projects into products.

I met too many business people who just wanted to run a startup no matter if it was software or physical products.
If you are liberal you believe conservatives are greedy, amoral and probably evil.

If you are conservative you believe liberals are stupid and probably brainwashed.

This is America.
That's a very charitable description of what he wrote.
It's probably generally true of engineering degrees. While there's obviously an opportunity cost, there's usually not a big out of pocket expense other than living expenses. In my case, it wasn't so much that I really used a lot of specific things I learned getting the Master's but I still think it was a useful supplement to what I learned undergrad--the thesis in particular.

The same applies to some degree of the sciences in general but, there, you probably have to get to a PhD for the opportunities to be significantly elevated relative to a BS.

In any case, this meme about Master's degree scams is mostly directed at high-cost degrees in journalism and the like where the career opportunities aren't great with or without the degree.
Personally, it amazes me how many people find it difficult to believe or accept, that human consciousness would just be an emergent property of how neural cells function and are connected together. That all of human consciousness would reside on a higher level than the laws of molecular physics and chemistry. That consciousness emerges from the level of cell biology. No need to postulate anything supernatural, or anything outside current physics and chemistry. Just interactions on the biological level.

It seems surprisingly common that people don't accept this "boring" explanation, but go to search for explanations outside of the known laws of physics.
I’ve found ‘chat’-style comments are downvoted i.e the internet equivalent of small talk.
"Peter Watts: Conscious Ants and Human Hives" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4uwaw_5Q3I
Many Americans of the exact same era probably didn't bathe every day.
>you can expect a re-architect of the print spooler for Windows 12.

I don't envy the poor buggers tasked with that. The printing subsystem has been accumulating cruft for decades.
What are you on ? It's perfectly legal, there's just a process to follow because it's completely illegal to take someone's DNA without their consent, unless there's a criminal procedure with sufficient proof.

Sneaking a paternity test by taking someone's DNA surreptitiously would be not only worthless as a legal document, but also put you on the spot for litigation.
A financial fairytale: how one man fooled the global elite
It's only mildly informative (it doesn't cover the HTML5/XHTML war, webassembly, shaders, Shockwave, silverlight, etc...) .

And it promotes a commercial service

Frankly I don't think it belongs here
With what capital?

Essentially no one can afford to lose the value of their house. That's the point: you're going to take a 100% loss on the value of the land and building.
I can't agree. My masters degree inspired my first entrepreneurship, not to mention over half of the cost was paid by my company.

I also took a marketing class that changed my life. If you buy products from Nintendo, Apple, or Jeep, a marketing class will make you disgusted/woke.
Scott Manley did a video on this. Apparently the ascent stage could still be in orbit as we speak.
https://youtu.be/dBHbLV7xEhc
Well yes, but you also use that fact to be blunt and dishonest, like saying "Yep, the french don't wash. Guess they're just uncultured. They're still our allies, get used to it!"
Vichy did represent French sentiment at the beginning. Things changed with time.
> Assuming you are correct that the earlier edition is truly out of copyright

Given that it is:

- A US Gov document (see other comment about it)

- From 1945 (so, from 1923-1963) and without an explicit Copyright symbol on the document

, I tend to believe so. Maybe I can find not-for-profit lawyer advice to confirm it.
Except that hunter/gatherer societies specifically tend to see much less gender-specific work, contrary to such "common sense" assumptions.
Multi core it’s more. And this is just the cpu. Not the gpu, or memory bandwidth and latency or many of the accelerations
I would be interested in a cleaned up version of this text. If you plan on rewriting the content from the PDF, I can lend a hand !
I think academically the first year of an US undergraduate degree is probably more on the level of the last year of a European "high school" (lycee, gymnasium etc).
This comment is more insightful than 90% of blogs. If you had one, I'd follow it.
But facts are only facts if they correspond with that to which they refer, oftentimes other objects, so when you include facts, ultimately it boils down to external objects.

I think you also failed to include Idealism, that the world's fundamental construction is of Reason. For the uninitiated or the naive, the notion of Idealism often degenerates in their minds to Solipsism, but it is far from that.
The France of 75 years ago sounds like a paradise compared to the France today, which I don't feel particularly safe in--at least in Paris.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_21st-century_F...

and the fact that murder is not prosecuted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/world/europe/sarah-halimi...
Show HN: Just Launched a Byte-Sized Crypto News App
Hey Hackers, I've just now launched Moving(a bite-sized crypto news app)

I saw in crypto industry there is lot of noise and mis-information is spreading along.

Because of that there are lot of legit news is ignored by Hodlers, So to spread the correct information and Knowledge we came up with this Idea and launched this app.

Let me know what do you think about the app.
It should be noted that the cop claimed he did nothing wrong and sued for wrongful termination for $1.5M, and the police union, representing all of their officers, supported him.

The Overton window that cops believe exists about acceptable cop behavior is unfathomably out of line with reality. That's the reason why police oppose citizen backed reviews of their conduct. Makes me wonder how many people with similar circumstances but less publicity get swept under the rug.
Expanding on #2. 'Antisemitism' has always been a poor label for hatred of the Jewish people. It was invented around the time that Hebrew was brought back from the dead and is a term that excludes speakers of Semitic languages that never had their language go dead. It is unfortunately the prevaling terminology, despite this fact.
Yeah, one guy
Three strikes and you’re banned forever, better choose the moment well.
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It’s pretty ridiculous, but there are a bunch of fields gate keeped by these terminal masters programs regardless of undergraduate background or work experience.

E.g. most industrial fields that include scientist in the title. DS/AS roles in tech, Product management roles etc.
Here is another wow moment that follows from the one you mentioned: The universe you experience is different than my own. We use language and shared culture to consensually hallucinate a "shared" universe but no such thing truly exists for us. We can perceive objects and describe them in similar ways but the fact remains that we can't access the universe that the objects truly exist in (if that even exists) since, for us, they have no independent existence outside of our mental representation. Or shortly, when you die the universe dies with you.
The implications are uncomfortable both existentially and ethically, so people will go to great lengths to search for evidence of the contrary.
>how can you be anti-Semitic when you are also a Semite.

There is no contradiction here, and his pointing it out was a bizarre tangent to me. "Semitic" by definition refers to the semitic religions, but "anti-semitic" is used nigh exclusively in both spoken and written communication to mean anti-Jewish.
NO. You are fishing for confirmation and, sadly, a lot of people are giving you the answer you wanted.

Human motivation is a topic that has been researched very widely is psychology, neurology and so on. A quick search is enough to find [1].

Humans are not coin-operated robots. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, you risk running out of steam.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evidence-based-livin...
There's a difference between tourists staying in hotels and tourists staying in houses that the residents need to live in. If you can't see that, then there's no sense in replying because we'll never agree on the matter.