skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, where did you get that number from? [0] says:

> Higher education spending accounted for 18% of the state budget in 1976–77, but by 2016–17 higher education funding had fallen to 12% of the budget. These funding cuts have been felt most strongly at the University of California, where funding per full-time-equivalent student fell from slightly more than $23,000 to about $8,000. CSU funding per student has also fallen by about 25% since 1976–77 from slightly more than $11,000 per student to slightly less than $9,000.

It appears that the number of students has skyrocketed (UCB in 1980: ~14k, in 2020: ~32k) while total funding has not even kept up with baseline inflation. Also driving salaries upward are housing costs near some of the biggest schools (LA and Bay Area housing costs much more now than in 1980 in "inflation-adjusted" terms).

Another big difference, though, is how much financial aid students get, which is heavily biased toward low-income first-in-family students who, presumably, are less likely to complain about the state of things than privileged middle-class young adults whose lives are harder than their parents'. (Over 50% of the 675k total UC and CSU students pay no tuition, also according to [0].)

The fact that the percentage of the state budget allocated to Higher Ed is not super dissimilar from 1980 ignores that the amount of public funding per-student has dropped dramatically while the cost of providing that education has risen dramatically.

[0]: https://www.ppic.org/publication/higher-education-funding-in...
Retiring is not bad. Some complex and deep ideas cannot be brought to fruit in urgency but need years of mulling over.
This looks already way more complicated than "Evidence".

OP wrote that people have been doing similar things for a long time. They are aiming to standardize and polish this approach.
(Discouraging people from driving is not the point, if we have net zero CO2 people can drive as much as they want.)
The integration with Meet is actually the only feature I do like.

It’s not Googles style, but I’d love for someone at Google to explain Chat and why they think the current UI is any good.
It might be a reflection of my interaction. But I distinctly remember telling Instagram’s Discovery feed to stop showing me sexy women. This would work for a few weeks until the women would eventually come back. I’m not sure if this is an issue of the request (stop showing me X) expiring, or if I lingered too long on some other photo one time, but either way it wasn’t content that I sought out. Instagram kept finding a way to recommend it.

Notably, I kind of liked the Discovery feature when it was showing me relevant and unsexy stuff. But I’ve since deleted Instagram.
What about Tinder? Is it possible?
Perhaps there is an expectation there, that we should be able to build something that would function without constant churn and effort on our part to prevent the code from rotting.

For a second, ignoring safety concerns, what should change in how we serve some HTML, JS, CSS and some images in 20 years? Sure, there are plenty optimizations and new technologies to utilize for sites that need high performance or to use certain hardware functionality, but when you just want to display some simple content, none of that is really relevant. Why couldn't i build my personal website with some mostly static content and have it work for many years, while i'm not tied down with constantly maintaining it?

Even now, that's not the case. I decided to build my own site in Ruby on Rails, since it feels mostly stable - however i need the exact same version of Ruby both on my local machine and the server for it to work (using containers for development isn't always a pleasant experience, even though using them for packaged software is great). I also need to rely on dozens if not hundreds of packages, as well as bunches of native extensions, for example, to connect with a SQLite database to serve some simple dynamic content. Of course, i also need to update the OS (thankfully Debian unattended upgrades are pretty stable, except for the one time when they broke GRUB entirely and the server couldn't boot), as well as the web server and there's no guarantee that the SSL/TLS certificate provisioning from Let's Encrypt also won't change in the future.

To that end, the above goal is impossible - i can't just keep building new things, since i have to spend time maintaining what i've already built, even if nothing changes about what i need from these projects functionally, just because sooner or later a rug will be pulled out from under my feet.

Edit: i've actually written a blog post on the topic of updates, called "Never update anything": https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/never-update-anything
> contributing to the art form of film

Has netflix ever committed to this vision? I would be hell bored if Netflix is filled with Oscar-ish films.

One thing to note here is, the tech community is inherently elitist, in a way many envision tech as a tool to doctrine its audience, telling them what is good or bad. I don't find this mindset, either helpful nor necessary.

Recommendation engine is the new soda machine, choices are offered, and you pick what delights you. Ofc you can choose water, but it is not the machine's fault some would like real coke.
We aren't. That's limited to employers, of which OnlyFans is not for the creators. But of course, we can work on inclusion, but we have to recognize that the vast majority of the market for sex work is men, so the distribution of men interested in people born and/or currently identifying as men will have to be taken into account.
It seems like Google uses the Sand Hill Road model: fund a hundred projects they know will fail to find the one that has 1000x return. If the 99 failures at least feed a little data into the ad machine they're not a total loss and then they've got the one break-out product to attach to the money printer.
What do you mean by "tiny realm vibe"?

Are you on mostly smaller servers, or is it unrelated to server size?

You can definitely port the crushing silence/violent turmoil dichotomy of a large freenode room to Discord with enough users.
And Lean, I think, not that I know how to use it, but it seems to be respected in its world.
Legitemate question - why can't apps give simple cost breakdown when users are purchasing stuff from within the app?

If I let's say topup credits used for microtransactions for $10 from within an app, user will pay the price, which subtracted by 30% of it's value will equal 10$ - in this case 14.28. Unlucky users who don't know about possibility of purchasing same stuff let's say from the website will pay and forget about it, lucky ones will go to the website, pay $10 for the same thing and understand why is the difference (apple tax). This is simple transparency which actually is present in US when people are paying the price + tax, unlike Europe where people are seeing price with tax included. Am I missing something here?
The web can function as a fully offline application runtime.

Desktop applications can track your every click with HTTP requests to their server.

The runtime does not determine this.
Envious? I feel pity for them.

Poor suckers might live 200 years in a world devoid of any sort of fun.
So many communication apps, but no way to reach customer support
There has always be such subjects in school. Firstly it was Mao Thoughts, then added Deng Thoughts, added Jiang Thoughts afterwards, now added Xi. Politics has been a compulsory subject since forever.
Goodbye climate deniers, hello climate bullshitters
How do you make a scale of comparison between the two?
They do, though. They produce a lot of garbage but their best rivals HBO
I absolutely loved Firewatch, and the second playthrough with the audio tour tapes scattered throughout the world was just as enjoyable.

I recently learned that Campo Santo (the studio that made the game) was planning on making another game in a similar style called In the Valley of Gods, but then found out later that they were bought out by Valve, and shortly after that development of the game was put "on hold" —and that was in 2019. That game is as good as dead. What a letdown.
Netflix has somehow conditioned me to expect disappointment in movies with interesting looking cover art, which I now actively ignore, and don't even click through for descriptions anymore.

"Huh, that looks interesting. Not falling for that old trick again! What's that half-off-screen ambiguous cover on the next row down?"
> (The end user should apply their own CSS if wanted;

I still remember the time when user styles were a first class feature built into all browsers. Hell, that 'C' in CSS - "Cascading" - was always there to allow styles to enhance/override prior styles, including allowing the user to override website's styling. Back before web designers ruined everything by making every web page into its own special snowflake, people thought users would have one or two default CSS sheets to choose from and apply to any webpage, the way we today think about "dark mode".

These days, we have to resort to using browser extensions. A well-known one is Stylus [0][1]. In a way, it's much better than old built-in user styles. But then, it's not built in. Still, it's a nice way to fix up some of the frequently visited websites.

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[0] - https://github.com/openstyles/stylus

[1] - Mind the name, it's "Stylus", not "Stylish" - the latter used to be popular, but then it sold out and become another peace of surveillance capitalism detritus. Stylus is a GPLv3 fork of Stylish with data collection removed.
Just do it with enthusiasm. After honeymoon period is over, people will stop updating the Excel sheet proactively and its usage will stop by itself
What an incredible piece of writing. If I could write like that; I'd be an author...
> We’ll, for one it’d ruin sports

Do you mean ruin professional sports? And for the professional sportspeople only? If so that doesn't seem on its own like a restriction that would need to apply society-wide.
$2.5bn revenue last year.

You've heard of streaks (which were a very early feature), and you've probably heard of Stories too, right? Video ads appear in between Stories video rolls.
Agreed on both points. XMPP is nowadays so much different than decades ago. I've migrated my family to Conversations and they're super happy with it.

Google's constant messanger churn tires regular users that just want to communicate instead of taking part in Google's internal political/promotion experiments.
Yes, when GTalk came out, I loved that I could chat with my friends and my mother right from my XMPP client without them having to install anything. They were online if they wanted when they had Gmail opened or if they used the GTalk app.

At some point that was true for Facebook chat too.

But then both companies decided that chat system interoperability was bad for their business (which I'm not sure is true).
Quick, add WebSQL to the list.
I wonder what is user-hostile about it. Users have no concept of the event loop.

Can’t remember being harmed by an alert() since forever. Last time was probably six or seven years ago when pop-under ads where still a thing.
Is your outrage that they’re commissioning content that reflects a diversity of experience?
Yes, the discoverability is solved by other platforms, most people have a personal or desired personal connection to the creators, and find their only fans through the creator, or communities the creator set up. People don't pay for anonymous porn. People that only consume anonymous porn are not in this market at all.
That sidebar was a late addition. It broke the layout on some older pages that don't follow the latest practices. This is one of them, and I'm currently rewriting it completely.

The website should work exactly the same without JS (sans fancy parallax). However I'm curious about your screen resolution. The header is meant to leave plenty of text above the fold.
Why Bitcoin Is So Divisive
>That's political suicide...

>Directly fucks over the working class

From my experience of the U.S - number 2 is seldom the cause of number 1.

on edit: formatting
Eh, liberals nowadays are much more likely to favor censorship than conservatives, which is ironic considering they're "liberal".

Also, it's Silicon Valley, liberals outnumber conservatives 10 to 1 so he's probably spot on with how he described them.
Operation Dissimulation: WW2'S Biggest Deception Campaigns
> If you replace the components as they wear out, you can still have a computer from the 1980's running fine. The OS and software still work exactly the same. Whatever data will still exist as a perfect copy.

Sadly, this is no longer the case, since nowadays OSes rely far too much on the Internet. For example, your Docker and VS Code repositories eventually will deprecate and remove certain versions of software that you might have been using. Furthermore, npm and pip packages will also decay in a similar manner and eventually Maven repositories will drop off the Internet one by one.

Installing software from DVDs or flash memory is no longer the normal for all of the OS and the rise of the private package repositories without having the tooling in place to ensure that we can download .deb or similar files with all of their dependencies into an installable collection that can be persisted in such a manner is an utter failing of the modern age.

For an example, just look at these:

- https://superuser.com/questions/876727/how-to-download-deb-package-and-all-dependencies
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13756800/how-to-download-all-dependencies-and-packages-to-directory

They're not tools that have had a lot of consideration and attention given to them, prioritizing their development and testing. They're scripts that are exceedingly hacky, patched atop unsuitable methods of managing packages.
Apple’s App Store Loopholes Put Children at Risk
damn, what if the dog gets excited and barks because I'm dry-aging some of my (fully legally hunted!) wild game?

or because the handler accidentally stepped on the dog's tail?
Rust has optional support for the stable C ABI. I'm not sure what you mean by the C ABI being "a huge pain to keep stable"; it's simple and the requirements for stability are well known, it's also the main choice for FFI in a variety of language ecosystems.
That's from the clinical trials, which are like two variants behind what people are actually being exposed to in the wild right now. The vaccines are much less effective at preventing people from catching and spreading the currently-circulating Delta variant than the original one which those numbers were based on. Firstly, they don't stop people from catching the virus nearly as well, and secondly vaccinated people who do catch the virus seem to have comparable viral load and spread it just as well as the unvaccinated. Also, the Delta variant is just better at spreading in general, which itself means a more effective vaccine would be needed in order to prevent everyone from inevitably catching it.
I’m not sure which side you’re arguing here.

The biggest concern about Apple’s system is that it’s very easy to add new items to a hash list. That is an argument about the technical similarity of scanning for CSAM and scanning for other things like classified documents (for example).

But there is a vast difference in principle. Pretty much everyone wants to stop child abuse. But many people—including major news organizations—believe citizens should sometimes have the opportunity to view classified documents.

Different categories of things to scan for will be different in principle, even if the technical approach is similar. This difference in principle is what Apple leans on when they say they will oppose any request to expand their system beyond CSAM.
If have exactly the same problem, now my laptop runs ubuntu, because i have zero interest in customizing linux on the laptop...i want my FreeBSD :)

Now we are three who could donate to FreeBSD-Foundation and wish for ac on Intel wireless.
E4X is another one: supported by Firefox way back when, but it never made it into any other browsers and FF eventually removed it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_for_XML
Did Hackers Just Pull Off a Maritime “Colonial Pipeline 2.0”?
Please do point me to the confirmed curriculum of any part of the education system. I am not aware of any. It currently is a guide AFAIK. https://edu.sina.com.cn/l/2021-08-24/doc-ikqcfncc4747529.sht...
Gotta go deeper and scan the bank transactions going through your phone. Why not just watch your screen and build a model of everything you do. It's a slippery slope ... of extrapolation.
i was using a think called ICE SSB with firefox 2 years ago but when i updated linux/pop os it stopped working. i think it was made by the crowd who make peppermint os

anyway, as i was searching for that i came across this article. i just skimmed it but it seems like feature might be coming back?
https://www.maketecheasier.com/enable-site-specific-browser-...

i think the ICE SSB thing is better though. it lets you add a custom icon and you can search/launch them along with your other desktop apps
> Note how browser support was short-lived.

The author could have used the date relative view. 8 years (implemented in all major browsers 2012, deprecated in 2020) is not short-lived in my book.
If they wants everybody else, let's start by adding the "hide my cam/stream" option, and adding a background blur feature.
> I have different personas related to different parts of my life that absolutely should not mix

Looks like the only one who support this is Telegram. Might be because they (supposedly) don't mine your data.
Veritasium talks about thumbnail and title experimentation on YouTube, and argues for the need to do so on platforms that surface up and recommend content to users:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
>Just get the vaccine, it's not hard.

Getting the Vaccine is easy. What is hard is to trust the what every biased, safety studies done on it and the fact the AEFI reporting system is not strictly mandated, indicating a bias from the authorities to not want to know about potential vaccine injuries.

As usual, this comment will get flagged. If you see this comment check back a bit later to see the shilling on HN.
Interesting insights.

Online Analytics is now really nuanced - you need to know what metrics are important for * your * business, not just use boilerplate kpis.

For instance, an e-commerce website is clearly looking to lead the user to a lot purchase and the more they purchase, it’s good for the business so kpis around sales conversion help and recommenders help your business increase sales.

For Netflix though, the users have already paid for the service after which they land on the website. Most users I imagine then expect to be provided all that Netflix has to offer in an easy way. So if I was a Netflix product owner, I’d be more interested in Kpis around search-ability, having an anti algorithm that “suggests” completely random obscure shows, “switchability” of users - how less of a time do users spend on a movie or show.

I imagine they’re doing this but as a user I don’t see this at least - they show the same old stale recommendations for me, I’m always trying to hack their search to find what I want and they continue to invest in content that’s mostly miss than hit. I wish they at least had a directory for me to browse through (at least I’ll be driving their engagement metrics to help them drive their valuations)
That someone in the WhatWG thread works for Google, and is the same person saying they will be removed in the chrome developer mailing lists, quoted and linked above.

In fact, almost every argument for their removal seems to be made by the same person. There doesn’t seem to be any other evidence of browse makers having consensus on this.
> You don't need to clear trees and build roads for offshore wind.

As if that makes problem go away.

Type Isle of Wight into Google Maps. Its area is 384 square kilometers. Then zoom out. And then zoom out again. You can still see it at a zoom level that encompasses all of Europe. That's the area you need to cover in these megaturbines.

And no, you can't just plop them down anywhere:

- they have to be sufficiently close to the shore (you can't expect power cables to be infinitely long, you need easy access for maintenance etc.)

- the seabed has to allow for construction: even if you don't embed it into the seabed, you at least have to anchor it. And you have to be able to lay down or anchor power cables.

- there has to be place on-shore for power infrastructure: from management to transformers to batteries, as you don't just dump megawatts of power directly into the grid

> when calculating areal requirements you should also calculate land needed for waste disposal.

I doubt any nuclear waste disposal takes up 400 square kilometres.
A friend of mine was hired to do design work for Netflix - he ended up having to create tens of different thumbnails for every show, which netflix would then run through their algorithms and decide which one to show to which user.

I've looked at my netflix page and it seems that some silicon valley psychologist decided that they should be showing me thumbnails of guys with sad faces looking at something far away. Almost every single thumbnail looks like that.

Sometimes I wonder if the engineers behind the scenes even realize how creepy it is what they are doing.
There's a similar tool in GNOME, using Mozilla's runtime

gjs -c "(() => print('hello'))()"
I can only speak to my own experience here, but I use Discord because:

- It's easy to onboard non-technical users.

- It has a huge existing user-base.

- It's feature-rich but with good UX so it doesn't feel overwhelming.

- Voice calls are consistently high quality, even with people that have bad connections.

Gamers have a history of amplifying each others' displeasure with things; if the platform wasn't better than the alternatives (TeamSpeak, Ventrillo, Mumble, etc.) they wouldn't be using it.
I have a bad feeling about this. Discord essentially does one thing really well. I don't want to see it go down the way of so many chat platforms trying to be everything and becoming a bloated mess.

Recently, they replaced the fun, gamery loading messages with something more "formal". Now it does it's one thing slightly less well. The first of many casualties, no doubt.

It makes me despair of business models which require growth to be chased at all costs. I wish more businesses could be content to just get to the point where they are making money, and then just keep making that much money and being ok with that.
I disagree - it's a distraction from the larger issue at hand.

> I’d argue that the incorrect characterization of Apple’s announcement as scanning all the files on your phone with no control

That's a strawman - few if any are arguing that the system will read all of your files out of the gate.

>since no new technical risk has been introduced,

This assumption doesn't reflect reality.
Introducing a brand new system built specifically for client-side scanning absolutely adds technical risks, if nothing else then by the sheer fact that it's adding another attack vector on your phone. Not to mention the fact that all it would take is a change in policy and a few trivial updates (a new event trigger, directory configs, etc) for this system to indeed scan any file on your device.
It amazes me how many people willingly defraud investors in the hopes that when the fbi knocks on their door they will find they were acting in good faith. You must wonder if these people believe in their own lies, but it’s so easily proved in District Court: did your business need your down payment on your house and a new Tesla? White collar criminals are by far the dumbest people on earth.