skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, the kids these days wear funny clothes, their music is too loud, and they have no manners. We’re really going to hell in a handbasket. Also the JavaScript frameworks have too many plugins.
Seems like rigorous data science on the statistics of people graduating with humanities degrees. Doesn't that seem just a little bit ironic?
Review: Oculus Go
I absolutely do not ever want git to automatically install things when I clone or sync. Copying only.

This is begging for nefarious things to be installed automatically.
Could this finding be of high relevance in the field i.e. as a tool for firefighters to see "though" flames better? Obviously they are more likely working in smoke conditions, but I'd think there would be some situations where this could be of help.
Would probably be less then 5%. Since they used a better dataset. ACLU got 5% misidentification using the biased mugshot database at 80%.
I was a double major in CS and Latin, and once I asked my Latin advisor about grad school for Latin. I didn’t intend on going, I was just curious about what she would say as a tenured Latin professor at a good university.

The look on her face when I asked was complete shock and she went on a rant about how it was the dumbest idea ever. She told me how she was going on sabbatical to write a book that only 30 people would read if she was lucky, but was essentially required to do it. And how ignoring my CS degree for Latin was insanity, and her money problems, and on and on.

Additionally, I had a young associate professor who I became close with, had a degree from Harvard, and was essentially the definition of the future of Latin instruction. She told me she was going to leave the university to go to law school because she made basically nothing and had to work crazy hours.

When the professors themselves tell you not to bother, you know it’s a terrible idea!
You honestly think Google cares about MapQuest at all? The ad you're mentioning is using MapQuest as a keyword. It needs to be reported. Job done.

Google doesn't care about MapQuest and it remains the top non-advertised listing for searching MapQuest. MapQuest is a has-been and it has nothing to do with Google's ranking them, and everything to do with a terrible UI that was entirely inferior to Maps on release.
fair point, should have linked to original article:
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20180725PD213.html

Taiwan's DigiTimes reports that "recent [DRAM] capacity ramps by Micron Technology and the planned kick-off of commercial production by China-based Fujian Jin Hua Integrated Circuit and Innotron Memory could lead to oversupply for the memory in 2019".
Sure.

If you can go look at it and it is relatively static, that's good enough.

So trees are much more accepted than say flowers.

So far only 1 has been mapped using the obvious tag:

https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/ABP
I see this argument made quite frequently online and I don't get it. Isn't it obvious that more people think the state should prioritize preventing murders over helping people raise their children? Isn't the debate over the beginning of life more contentious than the debate over whether we should help raise other people's children?
These people are Hackers.
Salesforce is $100B company with over 30,000 employees. MSFT would be insane to try and absorb them.
Egypt Sentences Tourist to 8 Years Jail for Complaining about Vacation Online
that's an option in Spanish.
Cancelled my account today since it renews shortly, but definitely going to keep my card as a nostalgic trophy to look back on ten years from now.
> to both Alex Jones and Bill Maher.

what a ridiculously false equivalency
I don't see how that's a pro capitalist argument. Your not getting rid of a monopoly on the IP, you are compelling people to give up there property to prevent a worse evil
I'm not so familiar with the academic side of things as much as I am finance and corp side of things.

Academic roles probably benefit a lot more from the more rigorously designed language/platfrom R offers. Not to mention the maturity of the ecosystem.

Julias big draw is performance, in my eyes. Ease of use is good too, Python syntax + types + macros is great, but the speed is absolutely killer once you get it tuned up.

Time will tell, but I see some very strong threats as Julia already has packages for xlsx, and a good Quant community forming up.

For finance, I will be shocked if Julia isn't a household name 2-3 yrs from now. It's what the financial world has been waiting for.

Python won't be killed for a while. It's just too ubiquitous. But it poses no major threat to any major firm who needs decent performance, and there will be more and more turmoil in python chore community as time goes on. I think it will get much worse, not better.
That's not about making it more addictive. It's about expanding the market by making it appealing to people who don't like the taste of alcohol.
I think the parent's point was meant to illustrate that there is very little boilerplate necessary beyond the CPU emulation (which is, arguably, the fun bit).

On more modern systems, the CPU is only a tiny bit of the equation. You might have to emulate the graphics pipeline, the audio processor, the input mechanism, etc... This makes the process of writing an emulator more tenuous, as those are not nearly as straightforward to implement, and might be badly documented.

If you look at the really modern platforms (like the Switch or 3DS), CPU emulation is barely 20% of the work.
They were definitely onto something. They made something competitive performance-wise that wasn't vulnerable to all of these speculative execution vulnerabilities.

Itanium's slowness is generally very exaggerated (at least in part because the first Itanium had a rather slow memory subsystem, and the performance kind of sucked as a result). Circa 2008 or so the fastest database servers available were Itanium. Unfortunately, it emulated x86 extremely slowly and amd64 ran x86 very quickly, so AMD kinda ate Intel's lunch.
Post a gig (free!) on SFCL...uh, that's SF CraigsList (not SF Common Lisp :-) If it looks interesting, I'll answer it. If I don't, you're likely to get other reasonable folks answering it. (Only reasonable folks answer Lisp job ads, because only reasonable folks know Lisp; It's not like Python where kids who have one high school python course are applying for jobs!)
And open platforms, if browser vendors decide to break your content. Hard to say at this point whether HTML5 games will end up lasting any longer than Flash games did. Openness is valuable but you also just have to look at whether the platform owner(s) are going to stick around (Google isn't going anywhere, at least) and whether they have a long-term commitment to the products and APIs they put out there. HTML5 is starting to look like a churn nightmare between arbitrary changes to audio policy and major features getting shut off due to threats like Spectre.

Adobe was a very bad platform steward regardless, but 5 years from now it may turn out that Win32 was a better choice in terms of developer investment/maintenance than HTML5 for many developers. iOS has had an incredible upkeep cost for indie game developers who released products on it early on, and we've seen many developers opt to pull games from the store instead of spend time+money updating them.

Hopefully WebAssembly helps fix things here by providing a much cleaner compile target (with well-defined APIs) that has good performance. Moving to HTML5 had a major performance hit for people previously using Flash or Unity's plugin but most of that hit is gone once you use wasm.
I actually do this too but I have to say it's hard to work 12h days and then work out and then hang out with the woman/friends/family and then build a business plan. I am a big fan of what three of my friends have done which is take a sabbatical to build a business plan and get fit. I'm not really complaining about my job but I am planning this for 2019 or 2020.
It seems like it would be more accurate to say that the orthographic system was the lingua franca. The characters were used to communicate across vast distances between people that would not be able to talk at all to one another if sitting in the same room with their hands tied.
‘Blood Moon’ Provides Dramatic Sights, and a Dose of Folklore
Here is the latest dump with almost 4000 titles https://archive.org/details/Flashpoint3.3.zip
That's not fair. There was a point in time that if you don't use flash for web games, you just weren't doing web games. HTML was not up to the task.

You could avoid being tied to proprietary platforms now but there is a good chance you're just leaving the market to someone else.
> So even if quark stars exists, they will have a maximum mass somewhere in that range

You don't know that. If the quark degeneracy pressure is high it could support far more massive objects. After all simple heat is enough to support far more massive objects (large suns easily exceed that limit).

Why would you assume, without data, that there is no other degeneracy pressure that could support such pressures?

> within a radius of less than about 10^13 meters; we know its mass is about 4 million solar masses

Run the numbers - that's about a factor of 1,000 too large to be a black hole. Here's a calculator: https://space.geometrian.com/calcs/black-hole-params.php

> The only way to pack that much mass into that small a space without an object being there that would be easily visible to our telescopes is a black hole.

That is not true. A cold object would be invisible. If the area around it is empty of mass there would not be any jets to see either.

> X-rays and gamma rays emitted by hot matter falling into the hole.

How do you know it's a black hole and not a neutron star? The jets would look identical. You can not tell that there is an event horizon.

> An object on the other side won't be able to see that object anyway; the hole will block its view.

It would "see" it gravitationally.

> Incorrect.

You say that, yet you have not explained how I'm able to see anything fall toward the black hole. Anything heading toward a black hole would (from my POV) look like it was frozen in time.

This isn't something I've made up - all scientists agree about that part. No one has ever reconciled that with how the black hole is supposed to form in the first place.

Read for yourself:

http://www.astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2014/11/frozen-s...

https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/2441/does-matt...

Edit:

And more:

"Light from the collapsing material takes longer and longer to reach the observer, with the light emitted just before the event horizon forms delayed an infinite amount of time. Thus the external observer never sees the formation of the event horizon; instead, the collapsing material seems to become dimmer and increasingly red-shifted, eventually fading away." https://web.archive.org/web/20130526224126/http://www.imamu....

How much clearer than that can you get? And you should recognize the name of the author.

Join the black-hole deniers club and take that next step: Since we can never see any black holes form, black holes do not exist.
Funny to see this downvoted, when it's spot on.
Came here to say this. That last 10% of the polish easily takes 40+% of the effort (or more based on the pareto principle).

GUI work in general is a lot of work.
If the projected merger of Skype for Business (fka Lync) into Teams happens as projected/announced, Teams would be in a particularly strong spot to take the lead given existing corporate reliance on SfB and the current "self-competition" between the two.

(Slack refusing to sell to Microsoft from this angle looks like the very reason why they won't "win" in the long term.)
Did you ever use Excite/Alta Vista/Yahoo, MapQuest, Hotmail, etc? Because if you had, you wouldn't have to ask that question. Every product Google has had success with was better than the competition by a large margin. When it failed (Google+) it gained zero traction.

The competition sucked and they have yet to make something better.
Copyrights, patents, and lawyers weakening or blocking competition helps. Then have buildings near top colleges to pull their talent. Then, throw in some labor and price fixing plus other cartel behavior in some sectors for the win. :)

There's a lot more to it. These just get ignored by the media and studies the most. The corporate media is doing similar stuff. No surprise they'd downplay it. Author covered talent snatching but misses most of the rest. Even the too hard to clone requirement comes from IP law (trade secrets). And a lot gets cloned anyway.
I was curious what sort of relationship there might be between recent trends in international students (who I expected would more frequently major in STEM than humanities than the typical American population) and the article's noted decrease in humanities majors.

In [0], the share of college students that is international rose from ~3% in 2010 to ~5.5% in 2017. And from the table in [1], in 2017, about 2% of international students majored in "Humanities" by the strictest definition, though that expands to 10% if you include "Intensive English", "Communications and journalism", "Humanities" and "Legal studies and law enforcement".

The low share, though, definitely suggests that American college students are choosing humanities majors less.

Interestingly, Harvard in particular is focusing a lot on boosting its engineeering programs, including a $1 billion science and engineering campus expansion set for 2020. [2] So looking at recent stated major intents from Harvard applicants is expected to have a trend towards STEM.

[0] https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/international-studen...

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/11/13/us-universiti...

[2] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/5/24/engineering-har...
Spotted the Google employee.
>Back in 2013, I wrote a few blog post arguing that the media was hyperventilating about a "crisis" in the humanities, when, in fact, the long term trends were not especially alarming. I made two claims them: 1. The biggest drop in humanities degrees relative to other degrees in the last 50 years happened between 1970 and 1985, and were steady from 1985 to 2011; as a proportion of the population, humanities majors exploded. 2) The entirety of the long term decline from 1950 to 2010 had to do with the changing majors of women, while men's humanities interest did not change.

Who cares for the number of degrees? The quality of humanities studies has had a huge decline. Compare the humanities titans of most of the 20th century to the meagre, derivative, and self-absorbed production of the last 30 or so years...
> Bing works just fine, but people don't use it because it's not what they're used to.

I don't use it because it isn't better. I'm not going to switch to something of equal value. Make something better and then I'll switch.
They tried, started building Teams only after they were rebuffed.
Yeah I found that quite surprising, too. It's not like I'm not consuming action-blood-guts-media, but that's generally more disconnected from reality (scifi, WW3, fantasy etc.). I can see how watching crime shows depicting this-could-really-happen-in-your-neighborhood crimes on a daily basis could shift perception. These often tend to heavily lean on stereotypes and tropes, too, so I wouldn't be surprised if these shows reinforce them.
I believe they are selling the metadata which is a very hard to define information about all machine processed information of every human that use their systems. Now-a-days it is a mine for several large scale social objectives, and so very precious. The way and form they sell it may differ depending of the end-front application. Nevertheless, interesting how they did figure out that people information is a mine of money. So we are their product :)
In Spanish we have also technical terms for those. I guess it's the same with most other languages. However it's true that there are some terms without a proper translation and it's obviously more international to use the English ones.
My hypothesis would be that in times of economic instability (70's energy crisis, 2008 financial crisis) - people bias towards more obviously reliable fields for income and work (Nursing, engineering, etc.).

It's also probably easier to major in CS (or some other technical subject) and take some humanities classes you find interesting rather than major in humanities.
Problem with that is women and minorities are all individual people who make their own decisions about what they want to do in life. What does a funnel look like? Forced degrees? Forced employment?
Are you saying that it's impossible to discuss and reflect upon a falsehood?
I agree, but the post is about Amazon being to blame or not. And it seems law enforcement should be regulated in their use of facial recognition, not Amazon. Well, Amazon too, if they used it themselves for wrong doing.

But should you regulate the tech itself? Like ban the development of facial recognition all together? Or for identifying human faces?

I feel if you regulate, it should be in its proper usage. Which would mean the law enforcement is to blame. Ot maybe you'd need to get an explicit license to be allowed to use facial recognition and Amazon could make sure that only licensed individuals get access to their tech flr example.

Point being, nothing here indicates that Reckognition has inherent bias in its design.
IMHO spoken Chinese is not so bad. The grammar is simpler than English (no verb conjugation is a big one), and with the exception of tones, the phonetic inventory is fairly straightforward to learn. Although individual characters are frequently homophonic, treating groups of them as words (as you do in English) reduces the number of homophones significantly. If you're only going to learn Mandarin without the written language, it's very much doable, and possibly even easy depending on how quickly you pick up on the tones.

Written Chinese is, of course, a totally different matter.
I’m not familiar with such films. Are you positing that propagandist films are the norm or the exception?
I couldn't tell if that assertion was ironic or not.
I received one also, unfortunately I don’t have a co-founder but have been seeking one out
That is a different form of radiation
> Happily, gun-makers are far more responsible than that.

I mean, accurate, but then again they are making guns, so ... low bar i guess.
I think the 'crisis' can be distilled to a simple concept - with rising costs of living not many people want to invest in a degree which has relatively few options for comfortable living compared to other options. If the humanities are really so important for our culture, then the public needs to invest in making them practical options for someone to invest in. Otherwise, why bother lamenting about the lack of people studying humanities when there are limited job options in the humanities? Can you really blame them?
Do you have any examples of these things taking place in reality or is it just "possible" stuff. And Google did not kill RSS lol, it was always super niche.
I don't use a resume anymore but if I did, I would "sanitize" my age from it I think.
If you're visting Kabul you've got a legit reason to be afraid of terrorism — if you're afraid of terrorism in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg or Hanover you're simply a propaganda victim.
They also use Yandex for Russian pages, and then there's a hodgepodge of sites that webmasters manually submit/index (i.e. 1990's level of indexing).

So DDG is essentially Bing.
Yes, they did. It's great that they explained their config choices, so that folks with domain knowledge can evaluate reliability of their test, and report back.

For those of us without domain knowledge, however, what the ACLU published is wildly misleading, to the point of being actively disingenuous. What are folks without baseline STEM education, much less AI education, supposed to take from the ACLU article other than "Amazon AI is racist and dangerously ineffective"? Do you think they are opening up the Rekognition docs to evaluate if the default config is appropriate for this test?

(By the way, I wouldn't be surprised if Rekognition is actually racially biased. I also feel a bit icky criticizing the ACLU here — they do great work, and I encourage everyone to donate.)
Haha...a friend of mine, reading the above over my shoulder, reminded me that there are, like, two complete a-holes over on comp.lang.lisp who long ago drove everyone else away. (Usenet is pretty much dead anyway, but these folks hastened the early demise of c.l.l as a useful forum, even before the rest of usenet folded to Stack Overflow.)
This has been my experience as well. And they damn well know there's no other options. Multiple sites, articles and people say 'call every six months and threaten to cancel for a lower rate' in my area, the reps will gladly cancel your subscription with no hesitation or attempt for retention. Just 'okay you want to cancel, sounds good. Return our equipment and bye, good luck'. At the same time, my bill continues to rise with no explanation of why. America, especially rural America, needs more options for compition in this space.
That's too bad - I would call that misleading documentation. Is there a reliable way to check for sure whether they mean a physical fuse, or a "virtual" fuse derived from the flash bits?
And the North Korean doctors missed the injuries _hours_ after he hung himself? The guards hid the noose?

The doctors would only miss the injuries if they were being told to miss the injuries.

The full year of time to heal only helps the North Koreans cover up injuries they want concealed.
>it is the language of great literature

One language, of somewhat good literature.
I'm from the Philippines. I can't say 'Mr. First Name' is common but I totally agree that 'Sir' is overused.
Intel delays 10nm Cannon Lake processors, again, until late 2019
XMPP as an extensible protocol (it's even in the name!) relies on XML namespaces to avoid collisions between extensions. Were it to use something like JSON, extensions would all have to be aware of each other so that no naming collisions or other awkward behaviour can occur.
Oh, so it's just one mechanical failure away from crashing down to Earth...
Only problem i have bumped into is easily sending a entry to the browser without reaching for the mouse.
Perhaps you don't speak French? Both of these are very easy and not contrived.
I agree with almost everything you said, except

> seemingly for the personal leisure of a handful of faculty

So far as I know, the humanities professors do not have any more leisure than other faculty. (Or did you mean that, by making the humanities ideologically captive, the professors don't have to think?)

And in fact, that "ideologically captive" part occurred to me as a possible partial explanation, as well. Large parts of the humanities have come to resemble indoctrination rather than free enquiry. That may place a serious limit on the popularity of those departments.
And you don't have to travel to the theater.

It would be nice if studios can release Blurays at the same time as theaters.
>WW2 military planes were at the limits of a man's strength.

Citation needed, not all planes were B-17s.

Instead of relying on dogmas, the USSR had a very successful all-women night bomber regiment[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches
DJ rig with two Amiga 1200 PCs
In countries like India you would be laughed at if you aren't rich and take an arts degree. It is because in a country with limited earning opportunities, it doesn't make any sense to invest in a degree that has virtually non-existent employment opportunities.

Seems like the majority of US population has now become poor enough that taking getting a humanities degree is risky.
Well, it will take the British and Americans a long time to go over the same thing as well when the time comes...