skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every time the SCOTUS hears one of these cases they acknowledge that, but the justification is that these classes are/have been historically discriminated against and constitutional admissions which take race into consideration are a temporary measure to right these historical wrongs by leveling the playing field.

Actually, SCOTUS specifically identified this motivation ("right these historical wrongs") as improper and affirmative action programs premised on it are illegal. That is why affirmative action programs instead talk about "diversity" -- SCOTUS blessed "diversity" as an exercise of judgment by the school that would allow otherwise impermissible race-based admission.
The fact that they offer a paid service is also their weakness in potential valuation, since they have significant marginal costs unlike Reddit. (Stripe is a bit different but I’m referring to Doordash etc.)
Useful data, but it's a spreadsheet hidden behind a single-lookup database that make s 100x slower and harder to use.

All the data should be displayed in a single page, using browser in-page search to navigate.
So I should look into careless programming, lack of fuzzing and proper testing practices bush instead?

Because that is what that tone reminds me of.
To those who support the demonetization of conservative content: it's truly a slippery slope. Wait until minecraft is declared a white supremacist game, and let's watch Youtube torch themselves even harder.
> He certainly has far more opportunities than a day-laborer or subsistence farmer.

Exactly. That contradicts the totally meaningless platitude "life is what you make of it".
Dual-screen Microsoft Surface Neo is coming, eventually
Well, with the headaches that differences in HTML and CSS interpretation in browser engines already can cause, I would not look forward to having the same kind of problems with compiled languages.

We could, of course, make the thing that compiles and executes the code a shared plugin, but then we would have reinvented ActiveX and Java applets.
> I would never have made it to an ivy league (I did get 1 offer
That was surprisingly easy to follow. I always thought these exploits were quite a bit more magical, but it seems pretty straightforward. Scary.
https://home.kpmg/xx/en/home/insights/2011/12/poland-income-...

"An individual is defined as resident of Poland, if at least one below-mentioned condition is fulfilled:

the individual has closer personal or economic relations with Poland (center of vital interests)
or
The individual stays on the territory of Poland longer than 183 days in a given fiscal year."

So if you have somebody working abroad, paying tax abroad and sends home money to family, then they are open to being double taxed.

I'm sure there is some better article about all this, but this is what I've been told from Polish nationals a few times and one who was giving up a job in another EU country to move back to Poland, due to this and that opportunities for work had improved greatly from a decade ago when they initially left.
> The reason given is that their not happy with the size of the payloads required for now

Question: how will they go about shrinking them? Will this happen in the near future?

I've tried out Blazor before and the page doesn't load until you've downloaded everything. Will it always be that way, or will it be like JS eventually -- you see the page, and the JS loads in the background?
By default Django closes PostgreSQL connections after handling each web request. I’m not certain but what we’re probably seeing here in latency is mostly the substantial overhead in setting up a PG connection. Redis will still be faster but I’d guess the gap would be significantly tighter with persistent connections enabled.
Microsoft have been working on this for more than seven years, and it looks exciting.
I recall reading two years ago several reports which claimed that around 90% of all the plastic in the world's oceans flows there through just 10 rivers.

> "The shipping and fishing industries also play a part. In 2018 researchers found that, in terms of weight, almost half of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- a notorious area of floating trash three times the size of France -- was made up of fishing nets. On the other hand, microplastics made up 94% of the estimated 1.8 trillion tiny pieces floating in the area."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/24/health/plastic-pollution-rive...

Most of the time all the stats don't add up, but either way, humanity leaves a big mess and plastic is probably one of those materials we will regret inventing.
Ooh, yours looks amazing as well! Yes, the ESP8266 was the AP and it was dropping (or maybe not displaying? I doubt that) packets. Maybe the ESP32 is just beefier, or maybe it's the second core (the ESP8266 probably had to put the wifi chip on hold while sending data to the LEDs).

The brushes were just images, yes. It's interesting that you'd ask that, because I didn't have a concept of a brush (it's all just images), whereas you do, since you use them :) In my case, I have a PNG with the pixels I want, and then select the minimum time step and duplicate the columns in the PNG as I want them, so I run through each PNG column to generate the "brush".

I really like how your example "fans out" by activating more LEDs in time, I should try that as well. I think you'd get much better results with some electrical tape as a diffuser (unless you like the stripes!) too.
I don't work in an industry where I encounter bulk packing materials day-to-day. I would assume the answer is "yes"? Any large warehouse for any type of product using any type of packing material probably suffers rodent risk. At least, any warehouse I've ever been in.
I haven't been riding for years now so I missed out on this development, good to know it exists.
Can you can give an example that supports your point, instead of making a general point and one example that disproves it?
They were part of one of the first batches IIRC
This is disinformation. There is no law like this and pretty sure cannot be due to EU regulations. Thankfully.
It was literally one of the first (of 8) YC companies in 2006.
> I do care about living an interesting life

Why can't you simply reverse your course of action though. Now that you have better understanding of both sides of it.
Swiping the whole screen left to right is a pretty consistent back action on iOS. Coming from Android, it seemed a decent transition.
> Eight mild/moderate AD patients were treated with TEMT in-home by their caregivers for 2 months utilizing a unique head device.

Call me skeptical. Mild/moderate AD patients are basically still functional human beings (and pretty hard to diagnose with good accuracy unless you go for expensive brain imaging) that is nothing like "severe" AZ patients. The fact that they knew they were treated by such an invasive device surely has an impact on how they "felt".

Of course, they did not use brain imaging (with tau PET tracers) to diagnose such patients:

> Subjects had to be diagnosed with mild or moderate AD, according to the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke-Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association (NINCDS-ADRDA) criteria.

This is the current state of imaging with tau PET tracers:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6096533/

> Tau PET tracers have enabled in vivo quantification of PHF-tau burden in human brains. Tau PET can help in understanding the underlying cause of dementia symptoms, and in patient selection for clinical trials of anti-dementia therapies.

Add to the potential for unreliable patient selection the very limited sample size, and you could end up with results that look much better than they actually are.
>Then try and get hold of the original radio series, which the books are based on. “Why a fish for translation”: because it is ridiculous, which most fifties sci/fi is/was. Adams did write scripts for Doctor Who.

Yeah, I don't think that's the parent's issue... that he doesn't particularly like the book format, and that the changed lines and extra audio jokes will make it better. If anything from his description, he'd be even more puzzled...
> geography isn't a protected class

Frequently it is. Many laws specifically protect "national origin".
Hmm, how do you see that working? Wouldn't it just look like normal video? You'd see each "slice" in the air, rather than a complete image.
Apple touchpad have more than a single click action: they have had multitouch for many years. I use several multi-finger actions every day. The simplest is clicking with two fingers, which calls up the context menu (same as "right click" since the 1970s), but I also use three and four finger gestures, pinch-and-zoom etc.
I don't know that actually. Can you please prove it with data?

I studied the industrial revolution quite extensively at school and I follow AI research today, reading individual research papers.

It's not clear that we're going through anything even close to as disruptive as the industrial revolution. In fact I'm sure we're not. Absolute numbers may be higher because the population is so much larger, but as astutely pointed out elsewhere in this thread, civilisation is massively parallel by default so it's proportions that matter.

And when we get to that, we're not seeing massive job displacements caused by automation. If anything we should be asking why not: why is the software industry apparently so unexpectedly bad at reducing employment? This isn't just me waffling by the way. Economists say (caveat emptor) the same thing:

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/which-produc...

Productivity growth i.e. the rate at which machines replace people, has been falling over the decades. The spike you might expect from massive automation is not only not present, the data shows the opposite - we are getting less bang for our technological buck, it's a long term trend, and economists are worried/puzzled by it. If productivity growth continues trending towards zero, what it means is that our society is getting no automation benefits whatsoever. It means the only way to produce more stuff is to use more people!

We can join economists in speculating as to the reasons, but either the data is flawed, or we're in a time of unprecedented job stability, despite the froth and hype around AI (whose impact is so far extremely limited).
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I think that the main inspiration for the political part of Beeblebrox's story was probably 1976 Doctor Who episode "The Deadly Assassin" because Adams was heavy Doctor Who fan who made other borrowings from the show (for example using towels as tools was inspired by Forth Doctor's scarf usage) and soon later wrote a few episodes for it and became a showrunner.
Thank you - that seems sensible, I'll fix that shortly.
And what salary would you get for Google in London?

FYI as an experienced professional I have just been pitched a couple of civil service jobs in London grade 8 to Grade 7 at around 75k - and that would give me about 6.5 k

That's the eqvielent of a full Colonel / GS15 if its the higher grade.

And I bet a FANG in London pays way more than that as do train drivers
>So basically just like everywhere else in the world. You ever been to a Walmart parking lot? Or a DMV?

Oh wow. You really do come across as not having left wherever you live. Let me explain:

I didn't always live in N America. I have quite a few friends from those times who've only lived in poor and/or corrupt countries. And the only people who say "it's like that everywhere!" are them. I've known multiple people who've visited Western Europe/US and they said "I would never have believed that people could park and drive in such a civil manner"[1], which is effectively what you are saying.

As for Walmart/DMV: I've never seen anyone double park in any large Walmart-like store. Once at a DMV years ago someone parked improperly. The DMV promptly got traffic police to give him a ticket, and announced it loudly so everyone sitting there could hear it: "Congratulations! The driver of vehicle X with license plate Y has just gotten a parking ticket!"

I have seen double parking in apartment complexes. It's a risky game, though. Probably over half the population isn't going to wait to sort things out - they are going to call the towing trucks immediately. I had a car towed for parking in my spot, and someone had my car towed when I parked in their spot.

[1] Even though it's not that great in parts of the US, it's an order of magnitude more than where they've lived. Another comment: "What is it about Americans that even when the parking lot is empty, they still park between the lines?"
>I looked into this but Go on a little OpenWrt router seemed… silly.

Why? Go compiles to distributable binaries, Go binaries do not depend on Go to run. You wouldn’t need to actually install Go on the router
Thanks, it doesn't register for many people as the brain skips over the extra "d" :)
That's good to know. Not sure if that's the case on Android - I don't think it is.
Last time is when? In 2019 the median seems to be 65k-70k, and 70k-75k is possible.
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I don't see how easier development does not result in better outcomes. Imagine how bad things would be if everyone had to code in Assembly.
While school can and should be improved in many countries, I think it's not really fair to make it out as the root of all evil. That assumes school is an all powerful tool to mold children's minds, when there are so many environmental and genetic factors influencing behavior.
As for the societal issues you mention: I think they all have massively complex root causes I couldn't do justice just in a HN comment. But in short: Can world peace be achieved through education? I don't see how.
I think he means relevant buyers, like Google and Apple etc. People who order their CPUs by the cubic meter.
Another useful feature: force touch swipe the entire screen with your finger from left to right is a poor man’s Alt+Tab (switch to last process). Very useful when switching back and forth to check / copy something. Less faff than home button double click and tap.
I've read one of Celko's books (not that one), and I confess I didn't find it very helpful. And hearing "think in sets" is the worst.

In all the algebra classes I've taken, one nice thing about sets is you can arrange them in any order you like, and you'll get the same answer any way you slice it. There's no inherently correct orientation of mathematics. That's kind of the point. It's fully generic, by default. "x" can mean anything (at least, in the algebraic structure we've assumed).

With SQL, the experts drone "think in sets!" as a way to mean "you happened to pick a different order than me, so your query will run 1000 times slower". Well, mine is still sets. I'm not writing a for-loop here (and I'm pretty sure my SQL dialect has those by now).

I've actually had the most luck with SQL by thinking about it in terms of looping first. Figure out the most efficient loop over your biggest table, and then write a query in a way that makes it easy for the optimizer to loop over that.

Then again, nobody ever accused me of being "perfectly intelligent".
I've been building a VR app at work, and one of the requirements is accessibility (well, that's a requirement for all software, but we're taking it very seriously).

So I've been working really hard on audio interactions for people with low- or no-vision. I'm finding that, for simple stuff, it's completely possible to build 3-DOF, maybe even 6-DOF, interfaces, completely audio-based.

One of the first things I did was create a system to make sure that every clickable thing in the scene had interaction sounds. When you hover over something that is interactable, it makes a "fwip" sound (in addition to animating the graphic). When you leave the object, it makes a "fwup" sound. The leep in usability from this simple feedback of "this is interactable" was pretty huge.

I've integrated good speech-to-text and text-to-speech (thanks, Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services! Easy to use, fast, and extremely high quality!). That has gone a long way to really improving the experience, even while I use it as a person with full-vision.

But I've also been experimenting with some things like making the currently selected object hum a little bit. The further away from the center of your view it is, the more it hums, thereby anchoring it in your spatial reference, even when you can't see it. With the limited FOV of VR and AR headsets, this is helping to overcome some of the object permanence issues and helping find lost things.

I'm also considering making "the closest non-selected object in view" hum in a different tone, growing louder the closer you get to it. So when you are scanning around an area, you'd hear objects come into and out of view before actually needing to hover over them.

Anyone, just some of my thoughts.
Ah, my misunderstanding. That's good to know. I imagine Unity pays more attention to Pros though? If you're free and you open tickets / post on the forums, they seem to just get totally ignored.
> Look at this mess: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#AMD Do you want AMDGPU, AMDGPU PRO, ATI, or Catalyst? How do you choose?

You don't. Just use what your distribution uses for you. That's one less step, than

> you install "nvidia"

> If I were buying a new GPU today, I would pick nvidia.

I guess you don't mind the problem Nvidia has with Wayland.
I hadn't realized how much I used it until it went away.
I visited Bulgaria for a week, so I have a limited perspective. The things that stuck out to me:

1. the food is amazing and inexpensive. Fresh high quality produce and meat, reasonably skilled chefs, and an incredible blend of French, Italian, Greek, Turkish, and Russian food. Seriously, the produce is amazing and so cheap.

2. the newer apartment buildings are well constructed and extremely cheap

3. Sofia is depressing. It looks like a dying city. Everything is falling apart, there's graffiti everywhere, not many people under 30 except those who can't leave for various reasons. There's a lot of pro-soviet nostalgia and suspicion of modernization and foreigners.

4. people hang out in public smoking, drinking, playing table tennis, and exercising. I bought a bottle of wine and drank in a park in city center until late and I felt perfectly safe. That doesn't appeal to everyone so it can be a plus and minus.

5. people drive like madmen with loud music and poorly modified cars with no mufflers. Lots of macho culture and posturing.

edit for something I forgot:

I was walking downtown sofia at about 8pm on friday night and saw a train of 3 new AMG mercedes following what looked like a modified Lambo. I also saw a Porsche GT2 RS, a mclaren, and several bentleys very clearly illegally parked for days outside a luxury hotel. I don't know where that money is coming from but I assumed it's corruption or drug trafficking given what the rest of the city is like.
Assuming version numbers of acceptable, he should have sold this to Zerodium.
Intel could punch hard around 2010. We'll see what they'll be able to do now.

Improving the price (not the quality) of their high-end product range from vastly inferior to slightly inferior is, at best, an attempt to remain relevant; new and better products are needed to recover actual market share, and their timeline remains doubtful.
> I do not see the humor or anything profound with it.

A common feature of humor is to reverse something against expectations. Here he sets up a list of grand accomplishments and compares them with leisure and you expect the former to be superior. Then, right at the end of the paragraph, he inverts the expectation and causes you to suddenly reinterpret the whole thing. You think of the downsides of the accomplishments, and that really having a good time is important and maybe human values are messed up, etc. All in a flash at the reversal.

It’s a well known and effective literary effect. The poem ‘Ozymandias’ uses this for dramatic rather than humorous effect, for example.
I have to say, I really love the comments here, I post something I made and everyone chimes in with a bunch of interesting projects either they or someone else has made, or new ideas. They're both interesting to read/see and inspire me to work on new things, so I'd like to thank you all for making this comment section a joy to read.
I’m familiar with efforts to use sewage and landfill gas for small scale fleet fueling needs (local municipality and garbage collection vehicles), I just don’t think it scales up much beyond that.
I've had Intel engineering samples from work (we got them under NDA and such). They were tossing some Sandy Bridge engineering samples at some point and let us take them home. The hardware was buggy and didn't get microcode updates IIRC. The case and mobo was leaf blower loud and very unwieldy. I could run Linux for a few hours before it would segfault. I ended up trashing it. So I don't think an Intel engineering sample is better, I think it is worse.
Also a terrible, terrible track record of transparency and privacy. Any FB product is not to be trusted.
I was eating dinner at a Thai restaurant with an ideological vegetarian friend of mine, when I noticed that he ordered prawns.

So I teased him with "For heaven's sake, John! You're a vegetarian! Why are you eating Prawns??? Prawns are insects!!!" fully expecting to have an enjoyable argument about whether or not prawns qualified as insects for the purpose of vegetarianism, a hill I was willing to die on, for which I had a bunch of subjective emotional aesthetic talking points locked and loaded.

But he headed me off at the pass by accepting my premise and shutting me up: "Of course I eat insects. Insects are the enemy! We MUST eat them!!!"
I guess as a dadaist I just find metaphorically dead frogs hilarious. Or metaphorical dissection hilarious? The point is, sometimes the joke is that the joke isn't the joke.
Also, 3D Touch was almost instantaneous, "haptic touch" introduces a lag.
Can you elaborate? How is it the banks are “free of the government” and Facebook is somehow beholden to the regulators? My experience leads me to the exact opposite conclusion. I don’t think Zuck is losing any sleep at night worrying about the FTC and the pennies they might decide to fine FB.
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Is there a website that maps popular intel chips / chipsets / builds to AMD competitors?

Also, what's the deal with sockets? What sets of intel chips are mutually compatible and incompatible with others, and how does AMD compare?
> but I think there are plenty of cases where you could use it without fear that your data will evaporate.

What about "redis-cli flushall"? (Don't type this on your production cluster).
What does that have to do with the question? Using paper straws would address the type of problem you mentioned, as they're (too) quickly bio-degradable. They may not be the right direction to go in (why do we use so many straws in the first place?), but they do solve that type of impact to marine animals.
CNET's two-part series on Courier:

https://www.cnet.com/news/the-inside-story-of-how-microsoft-...

https://www.cnet.com/news/how-windows-8-kod-the-innovative-c...
postgresql does TOAST compression of large jsonb blocks. You might be incurring the cost of compression/decompression by postgresql
You're right there - it's a proxy war in the sense the old Anglo-Russia Great Game was. Though that style of strategic thinking goes long back in Tsarist Russian history.
Nvidia can release an open-source kernel driver. They have just figured out that inconveniencing their customers is cheaper than paying developers.
As a web dev running multiple applications at the same time with memory hogs like Chrome and Slack on a dual core work machine, having more cores do help.

It come to the point that I will have to ask my boss to replace my machine since it was so sluggish.