skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given GDC is postponed are you planning to wait out and see if it's successfully rescheduled or otherwise? I've been on a bit of a GA binge recently and am especially curious what arguments might be presented for adoption in the context of game development.
Yes, i found that sentence extremely off-putting. It's surely a personal thing, but i feel being close or far away from my friends and loved ones has a much bigger impact on my happiness than how many monitors or ergonomic devices i use. And happiness, in turn, greatly affects what i do.

For example, right now i'm work&traveling, and i've definitely felt loneliness and the distance from my friends, while i couldn't have cared less that i've only been programming with a 14" laptop monitor.
If you liked this article I would recommend “How To Invent Everything” by Ryan North. The book is effectively a time travelers guide to reinventing technology.
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More grad students should refuse to turn in grades. After all, it is the grad students doing the grading and work.

What’s the worst thing that’s going to happen? You find a job that pays the same but requires fewer hours of work?
> Hopefully the strike will now spread to other UC campuses.

It already has. Graduate students at UC Santa Barbara started striking a few days ago, and there are rumors of solidarity strikes at other UC campuses as well as a direct result of these firings.
A bigger issue IMHO is one of motivation. If Google asks to put fragments of semantic data on websites for better search positions, people are more than happy to do it, or at least spend some minimum effort on it. Few are willing to spend effort on it without a clear benefit, but the dreams sold by semantic web advocates require widespread use to be able to build the big cool things. To the contrary, many will see others being able to use data they publish without strict control as a negative. Or their users do: see Facebooks API shutdown.

Academic and hobby projects are somewhat of an exception to this, accepting unclear or non-profit benefits, and thus where you find most of this.
No offence, but that sounds like a really shitty school to me.
Why would they let any business model take shape unless it makes them as much or more money?
It's my impression that Google has been declining since Eric Schmidt left the CEO post. That's probably wrong in a lot of ways, they're making a lot of money and have grown a lot since then, but that's the closest I can think of when trying to find a particular point in time when I as a non investor feel they lost someething. I can't think of a single interesting thing Google has done with Sundar Pichai as CEO, but I guess he's doing something right considering his career. And as long as Google's got that sweet ad money there's really no point in trying to change anything.
Linus from LinusTechTips reviewed that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XufsrHTLNig
Brainwashed by the fact that there isn't money in their account to pay their landlord?
I have used emacs on linux before and it's fine. However I don't know how well it works with non standard arduinos like atttiny. I can't remember the exact write-up I used but I just googled emacs arduino.
All inventions have prerequisites that people don't think about. The steam engine is the first invention people think about if they were time travel, scribble something on a bit of paper and become rich. You'll need several boring things that need to happen for you to make a working steam engine.

You'll need the materials. A lot of strong, cheap steel. Preheated blast furnaces weren't invented until the early 1800's. Thomas Savery had the idea for the steam engine almost a hundred years before the Watt, but Savery's engines kept blowing up because the lack of strong steel.

You'll also need to overcome trade barriers too. You'll also need cheap coal (ironically requiring steam engines to become cost effective) and high quality iron ore (ideally from Sweden). Through out most of history, empires hated trading as it could create vulnerabilities.

There's also the market prerequisites, no one wants your expensive steam engine if a donkey pulling a wheel is cheaper and more reliable.
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More here: Study finds N95 masks reduce risk of coronavirus infection https://www.livescience.com/respirators-prevent-coronavirus-...

As Wang's study revealed, rates of infection differed between doctors and nurses with [N95] respirators and those without.

Specifically, the authors examined data collected from Jan. 2-22 at six departments within the Zhongnan Hospital. Within the 10-day period, the hospital treated 28 individuals with confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 58 "suspicious" cases. The medical staff in each department followed different safety protocols when treating the patients.

About 280 medical staff in the hospital's Respiratory, ICU and Infectious Diseases departments wore N95 respirators and washed their hands frequently, while about 215 in the departments of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgery, Trauma and Microsurgery, and Urology wore no masks and disinfected their hands less frequently. Although the respirator group encountered confirmed cases more often than the unmasked group — more than 730% more often — no one in the respirator group became infected.

In comparison, 10 people in the unmasked group contracted the novel disease, despite treating fewer infected patients.

"It would appear that N95 respirators, no surprise, protect against health care acquisition of the virus," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious-diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, who was not involved in the current study. The small study is "reassuring in that sense," although there was no reason to think that N95 respirators wouldn't block out the novel coronavirus effectively, he added.
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Favorably read, emphasis on "close to". You can have friends you talk to daily and are physically close to rarely. Proximity doesn't matter to everyone.
My thoughts are my own but I think Google is very serious about diversifying their sources revenue away from mostly advertising.
Delete. Recover wasted money.
The worst thing that’s going to happen is you’re fired and (unless you have some other source of income) forced to leave your PhD program, permanently ending your hopes of an academic career.

Not sure how you can reasonably downplay that...
what year?
they already complain with my setup; I use 2 LT1423 screens and a ThinkPad laptop, two external batteries for work in a unplugged situation and a tablet. All weighs about 6kg.

Each airport I arrive at I have to open this up. My setup does surely not look so 'open' and 'exposed' as his does, but always have to explain this is for work. the US is the worst, Asian countries usually care less... but each and every one.
The vast majority of advancements come directly from materials science. New materials are so strongly correlated to advancements, that I think there should be national labs that run government scale experiments to search for new substances.
Thanks for maintaining that IRC server. It's nice to see people keeping that kind of place alive and working. :)
Well, there's an ESP8266 board called the "PixelBlaze" which is designed for driving these LEDs, but I don't think the firmware is open source:

https://www.bhencke.com/pixelblaze

This page seems to have more information about a couple of different methods - apparently it's also possible to use a UART peripheral:

https://github.com/Makuna/NeoPixelBus/wiki/ESP8266-NeoMethod...
On their podcast a bit back, they had a somewhat surprising retrospective on their role as a news agency during issues such as the Clinton email incident, Trumps rise to power, and other events where they make the statement they might have to be more careful in the future about what they say and how they say it.

Though I'm still somewhat skeptical this is done from an entirely neutral/altruistic perspective
They never manufactured any of their appliances. There never was a Kenmore factory.

Kenmore has been a brand label of Sears since the mail-order catalog days. Almost any and every manufacturer out there has been relabeled as a Kenmore at one time or another, from kitchen appliances (GE, Whirlpool, Amana, LG, Frigidaire, etc) to lawn mowers (Black & Decker, Briggs & Stratton) to air conditioners (GE, Fedders, Carrier, Amana).

Similarly, the Die-Hard brand was used for automotive parts and the Craftsman brand was used for tools. Again, all made by other companies (Johnson Controls, Exide, Skil, Black & Decker, Stanley, Chamberlain, etc).

What the OP article really points to is the breakdown of Sears in Canada, which for a long time was way stronger and more stable than the American side.
Sure-- $50 per "connected device" I want to keep working on my terms. There's also the cost of "care and feeding" labor for the then-dedicated mobile device. There's battery hygiene. There's certificates expiring and rigging the clocks to keep things working. There's firewalling and proxying the devices against the inevitable vulnerabilities making them unsafe to have even on my home network.

That's assuming it's even possible to keep things running, too. If the manufacturer needlessly brings a "cloud service" into the mix my "connected device" stops working when the plug is pulled on a service I can't self-host and can't pay to keep going.

For any one device it's probably no big deal. If my time is worthless it's no big deal. If my familiarity and comfort-with-routine with a particular device's workflow is worthless then it's no big deal.

When it's a multiple of devices in your life, when you place a high value on your time, and when you derive tremendous personal value out of muscle memory and personal routine then I think it adds up to a bill-of-goods.

The general nature of the market for "connected devices" is demoralizing and draining. I don't want to throw all my shit away every couple of years based on the aggregate of various manufacturers. I don't want to change my routine because some marketing plan dictates I no longer get to use something I've incorporated into my life.

It's massively frustrating that "the future" has arrived for so many things, except nobody will sell it to me on terms I can accept. I don't have enough time in my life to build the stuff myself. I'm a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a mainstream market so nobody will ever create what I want.

I can think of a decent number of "connected" devices I'd love to but, except they don't exist in a form that respects me. They exist in forms made to serve manufacturer's needs to sell me the same thing again in a few years, to build the lowest cost, most disposable devices for the maximization of profit with no regard for the environment, and to have the lowest long-term maintenance cost for software (by way of just throwing it all out and re-spinning every few years).
And now we're back to building stuff from a fixed set of blessed components from a couple of giant vendors :)
For a subset of students: You get deported, because you're on a visa that doesn't exist without your university affiliation.
I migrated a production (Django 1.10 + Django REST Framework + lots of custom code) API backend at a major publisher that handles over 500 requests per second from Python 2.7 to 3.7 this year. It wasn't that hard, even without 2to3 or six – mostly just chasing down string vars that now needed `.encode('utf-8')` on their way out the door. We saw an immediate 30% performance increase, so management has been real happy with the effort.
> All copyright licenses (except CC0) require attribution for the work in all copies (verbatim and derivative)

Boost licence

Unlicense

WTFPL
You're missing the point entirely. I want to buy a thing, not rent it, whether that's for 5 years or in perpetuity... I'm tired of paying rent.
It's ranked top-50 in the nation.
Describing graduate students who are rent-burdened to the point where they can't afford basic necessities is not hyperbole.
What is impact of grad student wages on tuition costs? Say compared to slashing government subsidies for higher ed?
FastLED is quite popular: https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED/wiki/ESP8266-notes
> this is the only time in history that we have almost the whole of human knowledge accessible at our fingertips from anywhere in the world within fractions of a second. If there ever were a time that we could look up actual evidence without expending inordinate effort, that time is now!

This is also the point in time where we have the most disinformation swimming around the internet as well. And it takes effort, possibly an inordinate amount, to cull the bad information from the good. Or else we're in the same conundrum as we always have been about whom to trust.
I think in the past they did make a point of saying they don't support business use. As in, it's fine if you want to, but don't pin your daily success on it and complain if it breaks.

I use it at home and it does occasionally go a bit weird and need a reboot, or stop sending notifications on my phone. Not a big deal for me.
What is your job where you travel with an external monitor?
Found another really interesting paper on this idea that animal husbandry was never really practiced in Japan.

". 'As
animals are not used for milk, draught, or food, and there are no pasture lands, both the country and the
farm-yards have a singular silence and an inanimate look.'1
She missed the sounds: '...a mean looking
dog and a few fowls being the only representatives of domestic animal life. I long for the lowing of cattle
and the bleating of sheep.'2
There were also very few horses: 'there is little traffic, and very few horses
are kept, one, two, or three constituting the live stock of a large village.'3
Horses were not used for
ploughing, nor, even, were they used for carrying. 'Very few horses are kept here. Cows and coolies
carry much of the merchandise, and women as well as men carry heavy loads.'4
So rare were domestic
animals even in the later nineteenth century, that they were exhibited like exotic species: '...monkey
theatres and dog theatres, two mangy sheep and a lean pig attracting wondering crowds, for neither of
these animals is known in this region of Japan."

http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/savage/A-ANIMAL.PDF
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> People keep writing blog posts about how easy it is to migrate your code

As someone who has had to migrate from Py2 to Py3, it wasn't easy. Unicode/bytes/strings was the hardest aspect of it -- because Python is dynamic, there were breakages that unit tests couldn't exhaustively test for so things broke in production and we had to scramble to fix.

Other aspects were mostly automatically handled by the 2to3 tool.
I wonder how this squares with the fact that 2 healthcare workers in California treating a coronavirus patient contracted the disease? I presume they were wearing masks.

See: https://mobile.twitter.com/skarlamangla/status/1234260334363...
> I get that a lot of people on HN probably see the current low wages as a natural function of supply and demand in different academic disciplines. But heck, just looking at this from the point of view of the university, which is allocating resources to fight this, the calculus is odd.

Note that I'm not making any _moral or normative claims_ about not striking vs striking vs wildcat striking, nor about the interplay of rights and obligations between individual workers, unions, and employers. I'm speaking purely strategically here, in the same frame as your comment.

You're only looking at first-order dynamics here, while second-order ones are often in play. In this case, the 54 students weren't just striking, they were wildcat-striking: striking in defiance of not just the university they work for, but the union that represents them, who had already agreed to a contract with the university.

When the union has already agreed to, ratified, and entered into a contract, capitulating to a wildcat strike a couple of years later is a significant departure from even relatively pro-labor norms. Again, from a purely strategic perspective, the costs of this specific incident are potentially a lot less significant than the future costs of the university signaling that they're okay with contracts becoming meaningless if the other party changes their mind in the middle of the term.
Uhm.. I want to give the benefit of the doubt, but frankly this seems deceptive, or at least out of date, unless I'm totally missing something.

Why is there no magical --client / --script option for the Clojure ClI to make startup faster, if this is such an easy solution? Also, you show system time, but the time to load dependencies is in user time, which is slow by the nature of Clojure.

Example:

$ time java -client -classpath /usr/local/Cellar/clojure /1.10.1.492/libexec/clojure-tools-1.10.1.492.jar clojure.main hello.clj
Hello, world
java -client -classpath clojure.main scripts/script.clj 1.39s user 0.08s system 187% cpu 0.788 total

$ time java -classpath /usr/local/Cellar/clojure/1.10.1.492/libexec/clojure-tools-1.10.1.492.jar clojure.main hello.clj
Hello, world
java -classpath clojure.main scripts/script.clj 1.37s user 0.09s system 180% cpu 0.811 total

(Excuse the details of my Clojure install location above)

User time appears slightly slower without the -client option, but probably is not statistically significant. Also, anyone who has worked on more than a toy project with Clojure knows that it's not just about the Hello World startup speed, every dependency you add has a significant impact on Clojure startup time.
I haven’t figured out a way with the JVM / Clojure to compile and distribute a small self-contained bundle nearly as easily as I can with Racket.

And Graal (the option I’m aware of for compiling JVM-based code into a redistributable binary) is definitely Oracle. If I wrote more long-running code, or I could redistribute a stripped down JVM as easily as with Racket’s build tool “raco” I might have a different view, and I’d definitely prefer OpenJDK to Oracle’s.
I've found that despite Sears having its ups and downs, Sears Parts Direct is an excellent source for parts in the US.

In addition to saving money, I also save the time and inconvenience of either dragging something to a repair shop, or getting a repair service to come here. And I always make a point of getting my kids to watch and help.

And don't get me started about bike repair. ;-)
What is the college doing with regards to the withheld grades?

Even if they did average all my other work, I'd be pissed I put all that effort into something that has zero impact on my grade.

You're acting like the grad students have clean hands here which is clearly not true. They joined the union with the intent they would negotiate on their behalf. The union did so and promised to stop any wildcat strike. The students didn't like the job the union did, so they went on strike, violating the contract.
They lack much of the risk a normal strike carries. It's not like this is their only possible job with their current credentials. Many of them will probably see a pay increase as a result of getting fired.
The Sacremento Bee has a database of all the salaries of every state worker, including UCSC professors and admin here:

https://www.sacbee.com/news/databases/state-pay/

Chancellor Larvie made $364,754 last year at UCR.
Android and Chrome are a bit different as they were started years ago and Google has been somewhat careful in not pushing then too hard (for example only allowing Chrome on YouTube). With Android and Google services they have already attracted some attention.

Providing services like chat or webmail for free likely does not trigger any concerns. It has become accepted that this kind stuff does not cost anything to consumers so giving them free is not considered dumping.

YouTube could be definitely a concern, but Google seems to be careful with it. For example their spending on YouTube exclusives feels quite modest.
They all seem to be medical doctors.
> My professor reached out to me and other high scorers in the course requesting us to recreate the grading infrastructure as he believes our true grades will never be received from our fired TA.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but he's asking you to work on grading infrastructure?
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That sounds like a study of N95 masks vs no masks, not N95 masks vs surgical masks. Another study reported here on HN compared N95 masks against surgical masks for respiratory viruses and found no significant difference between N95 and surgical masks[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22456037
Yet 750+ others in similar circumstances don't feel that way. I wonder if these 54 who striked were the poorest of the 800+ grad students?
How can they discount the fact that handwashing protocols also differed?
This seems very simple and cost effective?
Suppose you generated two permutations, one using true random numbers and the other using pseudo-random numbers.
Now you have two fixed permutations. The cycles in both will obey the probabilities about such cycles, unless the pseudo-random generator was poor. But Romu generators pass PractRand, so their high quality numbers and cycles will obey those probabilities. But you brought up a good point: Each kind of Romu generator relies on one permutation and thus one set of cycles. The paper needs to discuss that fact. Thanks for pointing that out.

Important request: Please post every specific error in reasoning or math you saw in the paper. You said there are several. I expect that you are not like many internet posters who reply with vagueness or discouragement when pressed for specifics. I need the specific errors so I can fix all of them before submitting the paper to a peer-reviewed journal.

Also, a SAT solver that finds cycles in these generators would be very helpful!
an external monitor (one) and ergonomic keyboard have one benefit. ergonomics.

Remember there are no osha-approved laptops.

Typing on a shitty keyboard, no wrist rest and holding yourself hunched over is a quick way to musculoskeletal hell.
Teensy line, especially the Teensy 4. Amazing power in that thing, and cheap.
Practical advice with links to more information. Additional updates will be posted on https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hYPrTMKfcEFux2rETlK07TAm...

Probably the single most important "prediction" based on past epidemics (e.g. 1919 Spanish Flu, HN1 in UK in 2009) is his point 5: Expect A Second Wave

"In many epidemics disease course follows two waves. In wave one, an initial infection happens followed by governments tightening movements, shutting schools, and in general decreasing the spread of the diseases. Controls are eventually relaxed (people need to work, kids need to go to school etc.) and then a few months later a second wave of the disease hits and infects a subset of the people who were not infected in the first wave. Eventually, enough people get sick, develop antibodies, and there is a strong enough herd immunity in the population to decrease future out breaks in size."

I think this is the most likely near term prognosis for China as it relaxes it's "non-pharmacological measures" that have discouraged spread.
The point of a "no-advertising no-manufacturer-cooperation policy" is to prevent conflicts of interest with regards to the review content. I fail to see how putting google/cdn links on their website does that. Can you elaborate on what you mean by "compromising and selling out"?
... and the LaserWriter's 68000 wasn't even top of the line for custom RIPs. I worked at a company in Seattle in the early 1990s that had a custom RIP engine based on the Motorola but faster, with more memory and better connectivity to the CPU. I don't remember it's name - I just had to write the device driver for Interactive Linux to make it work :)
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