skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seconding this. It very much depends on the purpose of the image. If an image or any other tag is extraneous in a screen reader context use the `aria-hidden`[1] attribute to exclude it.

A good example is an image used as an icon next to a text label. Imagine a link/button that contains the words "Save" and a floppy disk icon. There's no need to have an alt of "Save" on the icon as the text "Save" is already present. So it would look something like this:

<a href="#"><img src="save-icon.png" aria-hidden="true">Save</a>

Though in this case you'd probably be using an icon font like FontAwesome.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31107040/whats-the-diffe...
TD learning is, in some sense, a component of policy iteration. TD learning is about learning the value function for a given policy. In policy iteration you use a value function to decide how to update the policy for which the value function was estimated, and you iterate between the "learn value" and "update policy" steps.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/jair/pub/volume4/kaelb...
I'm not really sure what to make of this article, as I'm currently a 4th-year student at the main subject, Ohio State. Perhaps as an undergraduate, I am divorced from the specific administrative and funding roadblocks plaguing research faculty, but in my day-to-day activities I see little in the way of a hurting OSU. The university this past year revamped the student living situation on north campus [1][2]. The university is expanding at a feverish pace because students want to come here; we are gaining recognition beyond being simply a football school and aspiring high school students are not considering OSU to be nearly the backup school it once was. Sure, it isn't as flashy to tell your relatives you go to OSU as opposed to MIT or Harvard, but it's not the disappointment most used to consider it to be.

This article exposes much that I've been ignorant to as an undergrad, but it feels to blow some issues out of proportion. Sure, we don't nearly have as much funding as private universities, but that's par for the course for a public university which offers cheap tuition for local students, and is generous with its scholarships.

And many educated students leave for "greener pastures" upon graduation, but that also feels natural to me. Most students who come here are from Ohio, and so once they get that diploma, it opens doors in the entire country which they are hungry to pursue.

Maybe I'm just a bit too thick to see the apocalypse the author is foretelling.

[1] http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/home_and_garden/2016...
[2] https://www.thelantern.com/2016/02/new-residence-halls-set-f...
I don’t know how you came to this conclusion, but Lindt is not an entry-level (whatever that means) chocolate brand in my book.

What would you suggest is better?
Can you elaborate in more depth? Not seeing anything too fishy here, what does their status page have to say?

https://status.aws.amazon.com/
Well, that's true in the same sense that everything in the world is just quantum fields interacting. It's true that my mind is part of nature, but my thoughts are not part of an explanatory theory, a framework for predictions, certainly not one that is mostly about genetics and evolution.
Right, but this information is easily accessible from family & friends as the parent aluded? If so can you provide a link?
So what is your solution? This happens in every industry, by the way:

“Patterson's award for this discovery [the age of the earth]? A world of trouble. He didn’t know it, but he was on a collision course with some of the most powerful people on the planet [for discovering widespread lead pollution by accident].”-from the 2nd Cosmos
Yes, I mentioned that, but how does that help the candidate filtering lack-of-transparency problem? I as candidate no longer know their real range, so I have little useful information. I as employer can't win sharing the true range or the false range.
For H1B workers years of education and education is also provided. In most cases it's enough information for de-anonymization.

On the whole you may be right about making salaries public. Norway's made tax return public [1] across the board and the sky hasn't fallen in. Though to be fair in the Norwegian model you find out who has been looking at your salary info.

The counter-argument is that a system like that could allow criminals to target their victims more easily. Kidnappers could steal an SSN or other identifier to scope out victims (without a trail leading back to themselves). I also saw a scary article on HN a week ago about the guardianship industry in FL and how it targets seniors with assets to drain.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/money/blog/2016/apr/11/when-it-c...
I didn't "choose" to program before college because I didn't decide to major in CS until I applied to college. And I suspect that unless "WAY" means high-school, you programmed before college because of your parents.
"As someone running a large organization, this is also a logistical nightmare since I usually have very good reasons to compensate X more than Y even if Y might think they should be paid the same amount."

So what stops you from sharing this 'hidden' metric with Y? If there was some weasel reason X would have never recieved package in the first place if everything was public when he got his package.

Now, the reason X got his comp is therefore sane and you can just explain to Y what he needs to accomplish to reach X:s level.
I used to have a similar viewpoint. I grew up close to poverty, and only through landing a great job in technology have I significantly changed my standard of living. So it does seem painful when a quarter of my compensation is taken away in taxes.

However, I do think taxation serves a very useful purpose. After a certain level of income/wealth, there is conceivably no need for even more income/wealth. But the cruel irony is that its the very wealthy that keep making a ton of money, due to investments and such. So it certainly makes sense for that money to be taken by the Government and used to try and ensure a basic minimum standard of essential services, such as healthcare, education, nutrition for the destitute etc.

I want the community and society that I live in the improve somehow, and am willing to pay for it.
Yes, it turns out you can find meaningful information. etiam provided this https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.6034.pdf The main issue is making sure what you are looking for is actually what the network is doing. You have to correctly interpret and visualize a jumble of numbers, which usually requires a hypothesis about how it worked in the first place. But assuming both go well you can gain meaningful information.
Also, stop reading the news, when you see someone healthy, ask them what they do and/or pay for their advice. (A lot of healthy people are in the wellness industries)

Being healthy isn't rocket science, but on the other hand it involves a lot of lifestyle changes.
Same for me. Maybe something changed about HN since the demo was written?
1. The main reason is screen readers. Imagine a screen reader trying to pronounce ‘Je ne regrette rien’ with an English voice, then imagine the same with a French voice.

2. I’d be surprised if search engines didn’t use it at least as a flag for content language (although I’m sure that it‘s only supplemental at best).

3. Styling based on language. CSS has a :lang() pseudoclass selector so you can do p:lang(en) { color: red; } p:lang(fr) { color: blue; } . Or tie quote styles to language based on generated content. Or most usefully adjust font metrics based on language for multilingual sites (typically you’d want to boost the font size a little for Chinese or Japanese as there are less characters for same information, but each character is a little more dense).
Apparently, yes, as this gap has not narrowed.

This seems like a very low-impact way to ensure that your past salary history is not used against you. Why should it be? And what is the burden of simply disallowing a line of questioning, with no burdensome reporting or auditing requirements?
Amazing, maybe someday the Tesla will be as successful as the Pontiac Aztec (as seen in Breaking Bad).
I have heard this before. I’m not a climate change denier. Could it have anything to do with more aerodynamic car designs?
If you really want that experience again you can go drive around the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in northern Minnesota in June. I had to stop at a gas station very 30 mins because I could literally not see through my wind shield.
I've only given fairly vague numbers on these things. Can't say it's hurt my creditworthiness.
As an aside, it both saddens and surprises me that we don't hesitate twice when buying the cheap stuff (made abroad, of course) but also complain that all the jobs have left.

It's certainly not a small town, blue-collar occupation issue but it does affect them disproportionately.

This recent NYTimes piece was an eye-opening read for me in that regard. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/us/union-jobs-mexico-rexn.... Not that I didn't know this but to have it be made so vivid, it was hard to digest stuff.

I'm not even sure if there's a good solution in sight. Basic income and all that is fine but people still need to be and feel productive and busy for us to stay a sane society.
I've never rented an apartment in the US where they didn't do a credit check. Some places want a pay stub or some other proof of financial means. In a lot of parts of the US it can take several months to evict someone.
You should read Manufacturing Consent. I'm merely parroting its arguments, and so will necessarily do a poor job compared to the original. But the claim is not that there's a nefarious conspiracy underfoot. Rather, it's that the simple physics of the system — the incentives and the economics — lead to a sort of de facto propaganda.

No conspiracy necessary.

He investigates a number of "filters," or ways in which reporting is distorted. For example there's a massive disparity in sources. The US military and corporate America spend vast sums of money and manpower contributing stories and source information that media companies depend on. Another is advertising: newspapers that are not advertiser-funded are much less profitable, and therefore more expensive, and therefore suffer in distribution. Etc.

I think there are five in total. Then for each filter, he'll go through countless examples. It's actually quite fascinating.

With regard to specific events, I believe he talks about both the Pentagon Papers and the My Lai massacre. IIRC he builds a compelling case for how the powers that be were themselves incentivized to see the end of the Vietnam war.

As for Waxman, I don't recall reading in her story that she said her editor was the one who met with Weinstein, so it doesn't surprise me that he denies it was him. It also doesn't seem inconsistent with her story that they'd fund her, a reporter, to do reporting, given that (according to her) they weren't against the story until after it was done.

Of course it's entirely possible that she's lying and she made the whole thing up. I'm not a mind reader. But that's missing the point. Chomsky's case doesn't rest on a single story any more than it rests on a conspiracy theory. It doesn't require there to be airtight 100% successful manipulation of the news.

Rather, it's a case built on the back of consistent and sustained bias in favor of the government, advertisers, and sources, with hundreds of examples and troves of data.
Somebody making twice as much as me can afford to pay more than twice as much as me in taxes and still make more money than me. Money has diminishing returns anyways.
But... from the article you just cited:

> In 1993, Chomsky acknowledged the massive scale of the Cambodian genocide in the documentary film Manufacturing Consent. He said, "I mean the great act of genocide in the modern period is Pol Pot, 1975 through 1978 - that atrocity - I think it would be hard to find any example of a comparable outrage and outpouring of fury."
I looked it up, and UT Dallas's most recent endowment numbers are $500 million. I know the state is really good about funding and the state isn't in an especially precarious situation, but "Wisconsin, and Illinois and Ohio State, which together enroll nearly 190,000 students, add up to about $11 billion" still puts UTD well below their mark and 76x less than Harvard's 38 billion.

It's been constant growth for at least the last 10 years, so not sure where the funding differential is, what allows a smaller college to thrive, while bigger and more prestigious ones have financial concerns. To be fair, UTD does a fraction of the research of the bigger colleges, so maybe it doesn't come into play.
Their status page is notorious for being wrong
Why is the redistribution of societal wealth "stealing" when it comes from rich people, but "earned" when it comes from poor people?

Poor people suffer far more theft on a daily basis -- they are forced to pay higher rates for credit, they spend vastly more time interacting with the bureaucracy while receiving substantially fewer benefits, and the terrible options available to them for healthy living robs them of quality twilight years -- but we rich folks kick up an almighty fuss any time it's suggested that we redress this balance by paying tiny bit more in taxes. So little, in fact, that it wouldn't likely impact our lifestyles in the slightest.

I live in a high-tax country now and, although I receive a smaller paycheck than I did back in the US, I'm richer in almost every other way. The crime rate is effectively zero. There's no homelessness. Substance abuse and its associated ill effects are exceedingly rare. My family and my neighbors' families are healthy -- owing to the free universal health care we all receive, regardless of income or status -- so the risk of communicable disease is extremely low.

So don't think of wealth redistribution as "stealing from the wealthy and giving to the poor". Think of it as "investing in a healthy and sizable middle class". Like the one our parents grew up in. The one that oversaw the most prosperous period in world history. The one now being systematically dismantled by we privileged few.
The colour analogy is a bit off, despite being a good way to get the basis of the protocol across.

The problem is with what he explains as a one-way function:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.kaytor.ca/screenshots/incorr...

While it's true that it's not possible to derive the input colours given only the output, in the case of DH both the output and the yellow (common) colour is available to Eve, which makes it trivial to reverse the other input.

The actual property a one-way function needs to be suitable for DH is to remain hard to reverse when both the output and one of the inputs is known.
Correct, Read the Docs isn't going away, and maintainers certainly don't need to worry about moving their documentation. We'll just be switching hosts before the end of the year.

We actually got hints of the fact that Rackspace was axing their F/OSS program back in May, and have been slowly prodding folks in the Python community about sponsoring hosting since then. Rackspace never confirmed if/when the program was going away, but we were anticipating this since their acquisition.
There is an marketing site available for the product, nothing was "leaked" - the blog is for those who are interested in company news separately.
We could still do a better job of sharing this kind of information in an anonymized way. It definitely gets tough when it's a small organization, but simply knowing what the salaries are for every employee in a department could make a huge difference.
Most large grocery stores carry dark chocolates of anywhere from 60% to 100% dark chocolate. It's not hard to find 100% in my experience.
It is mind boggling how many Americans think wealth redistribution is this crazy impossible thing, which will mean massive downgrades in ones economic well being.

We've done this shit in Europe for a long time. I live in Norway and make about 90K or so in the tech business. I pay roughly 34% in income tax. How is that so bad.

Americans tend to grossly exaggerate by talking about marginal tax rate rather than their actual effective tax rate.

Of course the rates might not be hugely different, but that is partly because most Europeans pay a lot more taxes in other areas. Sales tax in Norway is 25%. Alcohol and cigarettes have very high taxes and so does cars with big engines. Car taxes could be 200-300% at its worst. However electric cars have no taxes, so there is a way out ;-)

Honestly though, I don't think wealth distribution purely through taxes is the way to go. That is not how we created equality in Norway. A lot has to do with the corporatist model where big employer and employee unions set wages in big national bargains. This combined with public education with very even quality, levels the playing field.

Education in America is extremely uneven in the US and that creates a very uneven playing field. In the US education is sort of monopolized. People can't go to schools other than their local school district unless of course they pay a private school. That means poor people are locked out of good schools. In Norway I can send my kids to any school. However I send them to one of the closest schools because academic quality of schools is not that different from each other.

Richer schools can't bid for better teachers etc. In fact schools in poorer neighborhoods are more likely to get more money to compensate for their relative disadvantage.
Verisure/Securitas Direct is hiring in Sweden and Spain
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Come join one of Europe's fastest growing Smart Alarm technology companies.

Focus is on Malmo Sweden/Copenhagen and Madrid.

Worth your while. But that's for you to decide.

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/cap/view/438334510/
When this article first appeared, I wrote a long comment here (now deleted) about how the content Mozilla inherited from Netscape DevEdge originally straddled the split by fully embracing that there were two different mindsets the audience might be coming in with, and simply creating two different sets of docs. There were the JavaScript Guide and the JavaScript Reference, for example, and they were pretty thoroughly cross-linked.

It's been years since I stopped contributing to and reading MDN, but this editorial stance seems to have disappeared, unfortunately.
> If similar techniques can be applied to other structured problems, such as protein folding, reducing energy consumption or searching for revolutionary new materials,

Protein folding sounds like a nice idea for their next challenge.
So they'll buy it off Equifax. Or just get it free from whatever hacker stole it off Equifax and posted it to a Torrent.
What do you mean by repeatable?

The gut microbiome is in constant flux; it constantly changes every day.

A sample sent to 3 different companies on 3 different days would have 3 different results, even if their analysis was perfect.

I've not had my stools analyzed. If I were to, the biggest thing I would look for would be the level diversity in my microbiome, as opposed to individual strains.

I only have minor knowledge about this, so maybe I am missing something.
This ignores that wealth is relative. Your argument can also be used to argue that the U.S. has solved poverty, because poor people today can afford to eat, which wasn't true x years ago. It's not just about the absolute purchasing power, it's also about the relative social status and power. Not being in poverty doesn't mean much if you still don't hold any social or political power.
What are the odds that honey bee colony collapse disorder isn't confined to just honey bees?
Using Facebook data as a real-time census
Are you sure you commented on the right article?
But most people don't. Tell me who this law is HURTING, and why it's a bad idea, rather than just why you think everyone should just act differently.
FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot
The point is you're reinventing the wheel.
> if applicants ask — must give them a pay range for the job they are seeking

I find this a much bigger deal. This gives applicants much more leverage and wastes less of their time. No non-competes in California, and now this.
Check https://phd.aws.amazon.com/

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Air support for CA wildfires suspended due to flying drone
That white nationalists (at the grassroots, even before considering what ends they might be being manipulated to serve) are about concentrating power in a specific subgroup rather than distributing it in an egalitarian manner is, well, painfully obvious from their overt label.

It's true that just as both those seeking a broader distribution of power and those seeking to move it from the aristocracy to the mercantile class shared a small degree of common interest in the downfall of feudalism, the anarchocommunists and other leftists at the heart of Antifa and the White Nationalists in Trump's base might have something of a common opponent in at least some segment of the current cosmopolitan corporate elite, but that is a weak and transitory common interest, and their general interests are fundamentally in near-polar opposition.
AWS's status page is (unbelievably) reporting it now: https://status.aws.amazon.com/
From your parent comment:

> they tried to overthrow the government, they killed generals and other important figures of the government

That sounds like something pretty much anyone would consider a threat to "stability". Stability is not a mythical concept.
That is correct, no names, here is a sample [1]. Unless the specific individual you are querying about gives up their H1B case ID number, there is no way to be certain (unless you luck out and triangulate with physical address information, for example).

[1] https://lcr-pjr.doleta.gov/index.cfm?event=ehLCJRExternal.ds...
Looks like it was just updated at ~16:00 CST
If I couldn't work with music, I wouldn't be able to stand working in an open office. There is just too much random, and most importantly, annoying noises.
I used to do that, but sampling from a texture seems to be about as expensive as directly calculating the metaball function per fragment.

It is cool to see what we can do. That is one of the things I really like about winkerVSbecks' approach. It's interesting and different. Better for some uses, too, which is always nice to see.
One possibility is that extended family may feel that you make more money than a person could possibly need, and ought to share it with them. Easier to avoid this tension if you don’t let on how well you’re doing.
That's still 10 times as much energy as a human body or 100 times as much as a human brain. But yeah, it's not like they're throwing a datacenter at this.
A while ago we rented a car for a trip to Vancouver island. We had a tent with us and wanted to use that but the rental company upgraded us to a huge SUV and we quickly realized that there was no point setting up the tent since we could comfortably sleep in the back. So we ended up using the tent only once.
I think that the existence of highly optimized chess AI makes it interesting from two angles:
1) Generalization: Can one make AI using same approach that can play both chess and Go at superhuman levels
2) Efficiency: Can these newer methods match or outperform also in terms of compute/energy costs

But maybe not sexy enough, or we just don't hear about it as much.