skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically, universities weren't organized by the faculty. They were organized by the students:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bologna#History

>The university arose around mutual aid societies (known as universitates scholarium) of foreign students called "nations" (as they were grouped by nationality) for protection against city laws which imposed collective punishment on foreigners for the crimes and debts of their countrymen. These students then hired scholars from the city's pre-existing lay and ecclesiastical schools to teach them subjects such as liberal arts, notarial law, theology, and ars dictaminis (scrivenery). The lectures were given in informal schools called scholae. In time the various universitates scholarium decided to form a larger association, or Studium—thus, the university. The Studium grew to have a strong position of collective bargaining with the city, since by then it derived significant revenue through visiting foreign students, who would depart if they were not well treated. The foreign students in Bologna received greater rights, and collective punishment was ended. There was also collective bargaining with the scholars who served as professors at the university. By the initiation or threat of a student strike, the students could enforce their demands as to the content of courses and the pay professors would receive. University professors were hired, fired, and had their pay determined by an elected council of two representatives from every student "nation" which governed the institution, with the most important decisions requiring a majority vote from all the students to ratify. The professors could also be fined if they failed to finish classes on time, or complete course material by the end of the semester. A student committee, the "Denouncers of Professors", kept tabs on them and reported any misbehavior. Professors themselves were not powerless, however, forming collegia doctorum (professors’ committees) in each faculty, and securing the rights to set examination fees and degree requirements. Eventually, the city ended this arrangement, paying professors from tax revenues and making it a chartered public university.
Lol same here! I wrote a barebones BBS in QBasic when I was in 6th grade = 11 year old. Only had like 5 users all of whom were friends, still good times!
We will revert to direct video and phone calls? Dare I say we will return to doing face to face interactions?
FYI: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

[ 5 hours ago - 215 comments ] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33859220
But isn’t the limit if doctors a terrible thing for the rest of us?
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Credentialists in all corners of society feel threatened because the legitimacy and worth of credentials is (rightfully) coming under attack. This is especially true in the field of ancient archeology, where much if it boils down to, "my guess is more legitimate than your guess because I have some letters in front of my name!"
> Gobekli Tepi is an interesting site, but doesn't really seem like 'advanced civilization' relative to later developments

Shouldn't we define “advanced” relative to the time of its construction? Seems unfair to compare it to sites that came later. You need to compare to sites from the same period…is it advanced compared to those? That’s an obvious yes.

That site would take a wide variety of skills to build. You need established leadership, an established religious or cultural belief enough to motivate the project. You need planning, you need stone cutting skills, you need artisans with stone carving ability, you need people with building skills, you need laborers, you need logistics, you need to essentially feed a large workforce which means your non-labors on the project have to provide hunting and gathering not just for themselves, but for others who are unable.
Took it for a spin (pun intended!) and it is quite good. Definitely saves time.
Don't think it's the user. It's the rest of context:

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That's because it's not in the Guthrie version, only the Mojo Nixon version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSNjVogUV1E
Never take life advice from boomers, science fiction authors, or science fiction author boomers. You’re just poisoning yourself with cynicism if you think Pournelle and Heinlein’s edgy society critiques have any value except as jokes for engineers to hang on their cubicles.
Excuse my French, but bullshit. This is probably some game-of-telephone story of some bars near American military bases plastering "Japanese Only" signs on their doors so they don't have to deal with drunk GIs.

As a rule of thumb, the only places in Japan that do not welcome foreigners by default are in the sex industry.
Yes, they threatened a ban and set a timeline to phase it out, but unleaded avgas became available before leaded avgas became unavailable.
Steam often asks for the card's CVV2 even for saved cards. I don't know what the exact criteria are, but I'm pretty sure any order over a certain amount (which a Steam Deck would definitely be) would trigger this.
The Rise and Fall of FTX
Those kind of attacks occasionally happen in France.
Who is behind it? Putin? China? No, quite often it happens to be, and I kid you not, a militant group of wine producers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comit%C3%A9_R%C3%A9gional_d%27...
Poe's law means it doesn't matter.
Once the VHS tape makes contact and vaporises, you get a nice "electrical" arc, which is really a nice ionised plasma arc between two high powered conductors... you get a lot of "side effects" ... such as an even bigger arc, fires, potentially explosions depending on transformer placement, etc...

Above 33kV ... you get a lot of "bang" from basically any thing that touches across the conducting wires... unwound VHS tape, mylar, string, fishing wire, ... unless it's less conductive than air ... you're in for a bad time.
Imagining something doesn’t mean you can do it; you’ve just chosen not to imagine the ways it wouldn’t work. Also, training this NN was very expensive, so it’s probably not getting an exponential budget to deal with that.
You seem to be arguing for meritocracy. If the AI posts have merit, shouldn't they be upvoted?
From Netflix's IPO prospectus, dated May 22, 2002:

> We currently provide titles to our subscribers on DVD only. However, we continue to monitor additional delivery technologies and, when appropriate, believe that we are well-positioned to offer digital distribution and additional delivery options to our subscribers.

And further down, a bullet point in their growth strategy section:

> Implementing Digital Delivery. We continuously monitor the development of additional digital distribution technologies. Historically, new technologies, including the VCR and more recently the DVD player, have led to the creation of additional distribution channels for filmed entertainment. We intend to utilize our strong relationships with the studios to obtain rights to acquire and deliver filmed entertainment through emerging digital distribution platforms as they become economically, commercially and technologically viable for those subscribers who prefer digital distribution.

And later, regarding competition:

> We believe that our strategy of developing a large and growing subscriber base and our ability to personalize our library to each subscriber by leveraging our extensive database of user preferences positions us favorably to provide digital distribution of filmed entertainment as that market develops.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000101287002...

Streaming on the internet was already exploding by 1997; relatively speaking, of course. I distinctly remember first watching South Park--myself and several other students, working in the computer lab technical assistance office for work-study, huddled around a Mac. This likely would have been circa 1998-1999, if not late 1997 when it debuted. (In fact, I don't think I ever watched South Park on cable television until many years later, while staying at hotels.) Around that time I also remember a major, well-funded streaming website that was supposed to revolutionize Indie film distribution. Anybody working in computing or the film industry knew where distribution was heading--the only question was when all the pieces would come together to make it viable, broadband adoption being the most important. (Not sure if a majority of American households were yet "online", but if not that was already a rapidly approaching inevitability.) There were many ventures which dove in too early.

While I wasn't paying attention to (or even knew much about) Netflix before it's IPO, certainly by then it was well recognized--and recognized as brilliant--that Netflix's strategy was to build relationships with studios and rights holders on the one hand, and customers on the other, precisely to position themselves to dominate digital distribution when the time came. Online DVD rentals was the ramp, permitting them to build momentum so they'd have a head start ahead of anybody else in the digital distribution space. And it worked spectacularly; it took nearly a decade, if not more, for anybody to even come close to Netflix's lead. (Wikipedia says Netflix began streaming in 2007, same year as Hulu, but Netflix was still dominating until only a few years ago.)
Computers are a tool.

The human is supposed to own and control the tool so he can use it to perform tasks.

If the human wants to use the tool to perform a task and the tool says "sorry, I don't feel like doing that right now, I decided to do something else, tough luck", then the human does not control the tool, the tool controls the human.
Riot Games recently started testing an AI based system for detecting slurs and other abuse in voice chat, we'll see if they announce results
For me it generated:

Beneath the code's surface

A hidden world comes to life

Innovation thrives

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I am not sure it is taking the username into account, but generated "typical HN user" content. Based on this and trying something else.
I’ve done essentially the same thing for several of our heavy load circuits around the house using an Iotawatt to relay data to InfluxDb. From there it’s pretty easy to write a script that will query the current load and toggle a switch in HomeBridge for automation. Pretty fun stuff.
Oh no! Anyway.
Bankman-Fried says he will testify before U.S. House committee
But how do you compete with Harvard? In practice, the bureaucracy has captured the brand and the brand is what students are buying.

It's more likely that the entire western system is outcompeted than it is that the current set of elite schools are outcompeted within our system, imo.
Is Xilem going to be an independent UI toolkit, or is it going to be a "modification" of Druid?
My problem with this documentary was the editing style. Too stylized and sensationalized to be taken seriously.

Hancock’s work does raise some important questions but this isn’t the way to present them.
Reflame now deploys your NPM package updates in low single-digit seconds
>Makes me wonder if a coordinated multi-location strike is coming sometime in the future.

Well...yes. Of course it is.

If for no other reason than there are a lot of angry people who would love to spread misery around and they've now been given an idea of how to do it and places like 8chan and kiwifarms provides the encouragement and planning infrastructure.

So yes, I'd be extremely surprised if this kind of destruction doesn't escalate and become much more wide spread. What's gonna stop it?
> But how do you know that you're talking to a human? This question will become much, much more difficult to answer pretty soon.

We'll probably come up with a verification and id scheme. It'll be difficult not to make it spoofable of course, and will probably necessarily be rooted in physical f2f and secret information.

Honestly, what you should be more concerned with:

(1) All of us in these convos tend to assume that AI participation will be very widespread, but for that to happen, someone will need to foot the bill for running the compute. That means they will need to find a business model that will afford it, and those business models might be pretty terrible in the short term.

(2) If we head toward pervasive id verification in order to be able to trust, what do people do who require anonymity to evade harm by other humans? How can we open an avenue where we can we still have whistleblowers?
What exactly are you referring to when you say “ad hominem accusations”? I don’t follow.
They were a tech company of their time: they had an excellent web site, search (and recommendation IIRC) etc, especially compared to most of their contemporaries.

Nowadays I wouldn't consider anyone in the DVD-renting business to be a tech company. I would still consider Netflix a tech business under their current business model.

Note that Netflix is relatively small and not really in control of their fate; they were presumably included in the "FAANG" acronym to make it fun. Now that two of those companies have changed their name it doesn't even fit (A, A, A, M and...N? Not the other M?)
What does "open source" mean in this context?
Enterprise app is designed typically for CFO's who approve the purchase but never use them. I used to be enterprise app PM. Not the most pleasant experience. They didn't care about UI/UX. We created vanilla version of the app and the team ended up working mostly with consultant (professional services) who interacted directly with end users and they were paid a lot for customizing the app.
Datacenter switching surged everywhere except Europe last quarter
"Economic headwinds, surging energy prices batter EMEA switch sales"
I went to one of the schools mentioned in TFA (the one with a real engineering program) and thankfully didn’t deal with any of the bloated positions mentioned; I just did my classes, project teams, and professional orgs and got out in three years. In hindsight, I seem to have lucked out in just being able to put my head down and do the actual academic things I was in college for.

In my recent time in grad school at a private university, I was at least aware of most of the positions mentioned. Some were invaluable, specifically those mediating the lopsided power dynamic between professors and students (which is a whole other problem); others seemed like they picked Twitter buzzwords out of a hat and threw them together into a job posting.

My inner cynical accelerationist almost wishes for a brain drain from academia so the Ivory Towers can be torn down and built anew.
I get 7 hours on my dell laptop without teams running and 2.5 hours with. I guess you can see where the problem is.
Just front the GPT call with a function that gathers a bunch of example posts. Feed them into GPT and then tell if to write a comment in the style of those that you just posted. That way, it doesn’t matter whether the particular user was in data. Also, that way the model has no excuse. Because you’re not asking it to imitate a specific living person. You are simply asking it to match style to a bunch of examples.
Well, he uses a '181 ALU chip -- which is very nice but you have to scour the universe to find vintage logic parts like that any more. Amusingly, it is easier to find vintage vacuum tubes than vintage TTL logic. For that matter... you can find Youtubers building vacuum tubes from scratch using crude home shop tools, which don't quite cut it for TTL logic.

For something you could build with today's part catalog, without going all the way to an FPGA, doing the ALU in a GAL parts might be both amusing and educational.
No, the actual ownership structure does the same thing - every other square in those checkerboards is BLM land.
There are plenty of land borders that employ x-ray scanning, some of which I've been through are: entering Turkey from Bulgaria, entering Turkmenistan from Iran, entering Uzbekistan from Turkmenistan, entering Morocco from Mauritania etc.

It's not all Schengen and no controls out there..

As to why, probably to find hidden contraband or hidden CPUs :).
Hi HN, author here. Happy to answer any questions about the post or Reflame. :)

Reflame's Show HN from a while back has a lot more technical details about how Reflame works under the hood if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33134059

Interestingly enough, the topic of the post is something I mentioned in this reply as the "achilles heel" of our instant deployment story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33135153

Much more work to be done, but I can now sleep a bit better knowing this one has been knocked off the bucket list.
> However, it is necessary to remind, even if one is not a military professional or a scholar, it is easy to understand that the so-called deterrence is always a combination of military power and political determination.

Perhaps the least compelling series of counter-arguments I have ever heard. Ok this bomber alone by itself will not halt a bloody-minded authoritarian possessed of notions of subjugating it's neighbors. But holy heck yes a modern competitive strike platform can potentially make a huge difference in denying an aggressor control & free reign of a situation.

> On the contrary, it has gone even harder in its pursuit of hegemony. The B-2 bomber has also been regarded as a "financial disaster" due to its high cost.

The US isnt without sin, but creating a world hegemony it is not. More deeply weird projection, trying to warp & distort reality.

The B-2 is a plane we thankfully havent had to use. Conventional strike bombers have generally sufficed. It's unknown how effective this deterrant has been, because thankfully no one has stepped up on the world stage to be a godawful menace to humanity. It's hard to assess what that cost has really bought. Who knows; Mmaybe we have ripped ourselves off. I feel weird defending the united states war-industry, but the capability, thankfully unused, feels like an expenditure for an immense capability, and the lack of using this costly tool adds to the worthiness & purpose inherent.
What you're supposed to do is close the application then run "snap refresh", but there is absolutely no hint that this is what you have to do. I had to look it up online as well. A sane person, in 202X would assuming closing the application would immediately trigger the update, as you said.
Self-reference!
> I'm sure you can actually find better accommodations and amenities for far cheaper. And children can 'network' with others also staying at the "good" hotel.

I think a lot of the value of being a top, exclusive university comes from being a top, exclusive university. I went to one of the best universities in the world, and I learnt a hell of a lot - but a lot of that came from the students I was surrounded with, to the point that if you took away the university and just had that academically-top student population mingle in a conference center for 3 years, I'm not sure the results would be much different. But how would you get everyone to agree on which conference center?
Freudian keyboard
isn't that IBMs MO? Pretty sure rational was a startup at one point, too.
Your analogy falls flat and is a poor interpretation of the situation of being banned from online games for the reasons I cited.

When you buy a snack, you get a tangible good in exchange for money. The implied agreement is the most basic of exchanging goods for cash.

When you purchase an online multiplayer game, there's an agreement you have explicitly agreed to that you will not, for example, call other players the N-word or sabotage the match by repeatedly running into the enemy team (griefing). These are really quite clearly-defined rules you agreed to. You bought the game knowing full well these are the rules, also knowing you _will potentially permanently lose access to the game_ if you violate those rules.

In my prior example (and the one I just wrote here), there is zero comparison to buying a snack in a store and then the store owner snatching it back and keeping the money.

Like I said, I think there should be consumer rights in place to protect the player against losing access to the game they paid for if they were abiding by the rules. I'd say that is a pretty reasonable expectation.

Edit: A more apt analogy would be that you go into a store, buy a snack, eat some of it and then begin pouring hot sauce on other peoples' snacks and yelling in their faces. You don't get to just happily stick around and keep enjoying your snack while you're completely ruining the snacks of others.
Do you find this type of answer to actually help you accomplish your and your organizations goals? I don’t think many people would react well to that type of military style order frankly.
I really like this take. Maybe the mid-term future direction for search engines is finding and surfacing novel thought past the reach of the AI models.

Probably implemented by asking a model if the content is novel to the model ...
Using Roman numerals for centuries is conventional in Romance languages.
Actually, yes they do, in large part. The problem is that the people who produce the documentaries don't want to make "let's talk about modern archaeology" documentaries--they think lay audiences won't lap it up, and so instead want to shift everything to "crusader against orthodox archaeology" (which usually means something akin to Hancock or Ancient Aliens) instead.
I don’t understand the resistance to his ideas honestly, or how it really impacts us as modern humans. Physiologically, humans 20,000 years ago were not any different than human beings 5,000 years ago. If they could figure out how to create structures in ancient Egypt, they could have very well figured how to create structures 15,000 years ago - the human brain was largely the same. Regardless, it does little to change how I view myself or my history as a human today.