skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'll depend a lot on how long the pandemic lasts.

I know a few friends that work for a major retail company that have been furloughed. Those will definitely turn to layoffs if this keeps going too much longer.
I don't disagree with you that the government is unconstrained in regards to how much it can spend. The government doesn't need to tax or sell bonds at all. It can just print money and force everyone at gun point to use it.

But you still haven't provided an argument as to why you believe taxation destroys money. Taxation merely transfers dollars from one entity to another. It doesn't change the amount of base money in existence.
Looks great, what's the advantage over SaatchiArt? Is it just a competing service?

Couple things that I'd like to have:

1. Filter by full pricing

2. Filter by canvas / wood / etc.

3. Filter by oil / acrylic / etc.
No idea actually. I haven't noticed any strain or discomfort though so whatever it is is fairly compatible with how your brain works.
1. Okay. I got that there is still too much stuff in the app.

2. I thought the Playground is for those things. Was that not enough?
The cut is too high for the platform. I guess you take this number from Google/Apple store's commission.

The difference is software on Google's store has infinite leverage and takes almost 0 to scale sales. Every piece of art takes lots of work and cannot scale in the same way. Art works do not scale like software.

With this cut, I feel your platform is taking advantage of artists (they do not know where to sell) rather than helping them.

Even auction commission is only between 12 & 25%.
Targeting small-time private funders seems like the niche to go for when you are recruiting them. Getting the funder/researcher flywheel started will be slow/difficult at first.

I can't imagine the NSF/NIH/DOE engaging with something like this -- they have all the money, and they are bound by federal law, so they set all the rules.
Are sure you really understand what's going on right now?
The WHO is obviously in China's pocket. I mean they can't even bring themselves to use the word Taiwan in public communications.
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Looks like the obtrusive new "New Message" button is for pointy-haired bosses wondering how to send a damn email on this thing.

But I guess it will change again in a month or two...
Thanks, I'll take a look at this paper.
They're not just hiding negative reviews if you pay, they are hiding legitimate positive reviews if you don't. It's simply the online equivalent of the mob asking for protection money.
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I like it, and will definitely come back to see new works over time. I occassionally buy art and enjoy browsing the well-known auction sites for thrills (you never know if the next lot is a masterpiece or overpriced trash).

A few suggestions:

1) Structured artist bios. Right now it's all over the place: some of your artists have a single paragraph, some a wall of text listing everything they ever did and attended.

As a buyer, I'm looking for the usual reassuring signals: this artist went to school X, exhibited at gallery Y that I've heard about, and their work was purchased for collection Z that sounds fancy... Maybe make it easier for artists to highlight those and even search by those criteria?

2) Generated preview images showing size of the work next to a human. I think Sotheby's uses these on their site. It's super helpful to be able to see the work on a simulated gallery wall next to a person.

If you need a beta tester, I'd be happy to help. My email is in the profile.
From an ex-Soviet perspective, living in a house itself can already be considered bordering on a luxury. When I grew up, a family of 4 to 7 easily lived in an 800-900 sqft apartment.
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I’m struggling between considering these home decor or investment pieces. It doesn’t seem like any (that I’ve checked) are coming up on artnet, so when you say unknown do you mean like even to the art world? Also when filtering for large items in getting things as small as 6x8”.
I believe that (when I wrote and installer for internal use while at Apple) it needn't require admin to drop an app in, say, ~/Applications.
Honestly, for me, the lack of a web app is a show-stopper.
Weird! I just tried "best time tracking app for iOS?" and got "iOSProgramming | 45.0 % swift | 18.0% ProtonMail | 14.0% ios | 4.0% apple | 3.0% iphone | 3.0% FlutterDev | 2.0% freebies | 1.0% jailbreak_ | 1.0% jailbreak | 1.0%"

For the second case: "I'm looking for a time tracking app. Any recommendations?" and got "GearVR | 43.0% TTVreborn | 14.0% WearOS | 4.0% OculusGo | 3.0% IPTV | 3.0% ApksApps | 2.0% animepiracy | 2.0% RabbitReddit | 2.0% NetflixViaVPN | 1.0% androidapps | 1.0%"

Which is a bit better! But still not perfect ;)
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I have that thing and it's got a few nitpicks.

The non-perfect sine wave means I'm afraid to plug anything important into it (say, a laptop). It drains faster than I thought it would (I think its efficiency isn't very good). I've got the 6ah batteries on it and can only work with my small table saw for about two hours (not running continuously, just the normal off-and-on of working). Charging is very slow, the individual charger works faster. You can't charge and use it at the same time. It's HEAVY; I think it weighs more than the four huge batteries I put on it.

That said, it has its uses. Wait for it to go on sale; it frequently sells for half or less of its MSRP.
This doesn't seem to be crap, but it does seem to be hype.

You can use CasADI to do automatic differentiation in C++, Python and Matlab today:

https://web.casadi.org/

Tight integration with the language may be beneficial in making it simpler to write, but its not like you can't do this already in other languages. Baking it into the language might be useful to make it more popular. Nobody should be doing the chain rule by hand in the 21st century.
I just explained, people don't know how to threat model. An average Joe doesn't think "Whoa Ok, so this is TLS only, that means I should assume the server has access to content that might have implications depending on policy, level of government collaboration, and that foreign actors might also have access if they hack the server. Therefore, I should evaluate in real time my conversation, constantly thinking how an outsider might perceive it, and if the other peer starts talking about something private, pack my bags and move abroad".

>I'm one of those people that refuses to accept that "privacy is dead

I never claimed it was. I was making the point that you should protect everything so you don't leak metadata about when you're having private conversation. That's exactly what happens when you e.g. enable secret chats in Telegram. You're telling the company "I'm now talking to Bob, and I'm intentionally making the decision to not share that data with YOU". That's really, really valuable metadata to governments.
Also knows as being valuable
Agreed that VR isn't comparable to 4K screens (yet), but for what it's worth I regularly put in 1hr+ long SimulaVR sessions with the good ol' 2016 HTC Vive.

Here are a couple of links showing off Simula's text quality:

https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/blob/gdwlroots-xwayland/d...
https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/blob/gdwlroots-xwayland/d...

Many early VR Desktops (and VR games) didn't go to special effort to optimize text quality, and I think this has given people a lower than warranted impression of what is possible in VR today (even on old headsets).
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Why is this necessary, though? There are examples of other apps, not distributed on the Mac App Store, that don't require the whole pkg flow for every update. Steam and Skype are examples.
Just like with oil, any industry can be gamed if a single player accumulates a massive stockpile of a commodity, then floods the market to drive prices down and make production unprofitable for competitors.
Why someone would need another messenger? Especially without E2EE?

I think tomorrow I'll bring back myspace.
I like this idea! Any plans to expand to types of art which are not paintings? e.g. I love colorful geometric glass art, and to the extent I collect art [I have definitely noticed the "I should buy some art" urge growing as my age and salary grow], that's where I expect to spend my dollars.
Like trees, bridges, fire hydrants, cars, buses, house numbers, etc?
I'm fine buying prints or other similar things online but with original art, you need to see it in context and detail. I would love some sort of pseudo-VR style experience to actually get a sense for texture and depth. For example, this one taken at random* is almost $5k and on my 4k laptop screen the zoomed in version isn't particularly crisp and I only have the one fixed zoom level. I can imagine paying in that ballpark for art but not under these circumstances. I can appreciate that there might be issues with having too high res an image available, etc., but still... Maybe you could mitigate this with similar return policies to the online mattress places. As is, the risk of spending a lot and ending up with something that isn't quite what you expect is just too high for the big ticket items.

* https://artinres.com/artworks/rebecca-kaufman-pre-experience
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Pidgin[0][1] supports a great deal of protocols and there is "End-to-end encryption, through Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR)" plugin you can install that can be used for just about everything it supports. If ICQ NEW still supports OSCAR it can probably used out of the box, there is also a plugin[2] for the newer WIM protocol.

[0] https://www.pidgin.im/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin_(software)

[2] https://github.com/EionRobb/icyque
SARS was closer to 1999-2000.
I think part of their idea is that the sometimes-alienating "fine art" distinction, and the expectations around pricing that go with it, is keeping available art from people who would get a lot of pleasure from living with it. I think there's a type who thinks fine art isn't for them but will be shocked and pleased to be able to get a real, individually made art work for such a low monthly cost.
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This kind of dismissive response is in line with the examples provided in the OP.
Julia punches well above it's weight in libraries, especially for datascience and has the best online community I've ever been a part of. Googling an error in julia definitely won't give you nearly as many StackOverflow hits, but the community Discourse, Slack and Zulip channels are amazingly responsive and helpful.

I think a big advantage of Julia is that it has a unusually high ratio of domain experts to newbies, and those domain experts are very helpful caring people. It's quite easy to get tailored, detailed personalized help from someone.

This advantage will probably fade as the community grows, but at least for now, it's fantastic.
Thank you. I also like the idea of having a separate Playground and making it like a pixel-game.
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Does anyone know which departments/roles saw cuts?
I miss ICQ's numeric UINs so much.
Almost nobody I know uses encrypted chat in Telegram because it has such terrible UX. I don't have a single encrypted convo either because when we try, we always go back to our unencrypted one.

For a good UX impl, check out Keybase. It's encrypted chat feels just as good as Telegram's unencrypted chat.
I read Liz Phair's book earlier this year, and Oberlin does (or perhaps did) do that for students, for something like 20 bucks a year in the 80s for UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS, crazy.
> In a way

In a way? Taiwan has less than 350 cases. They didn't wait for the WHO recommendation. Hundreds of thousands of people are going to die because of greed and bureaucratic incompetence.

Giant centralized institutions are not the solution to humanities' ills and dealing and cooperating with corrupt foreign powers isn't either.
I don't think the author being a member of Django adds any weight to his arguments.
Maybe an attempt to get some of the 500k+ hikikomori back into the workforce could be made. A majority are working age men.
I saw that you were hacking on... Haskell..? In that video?

Where does Haskell fit in with Godot and Simula?
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It might be a bit hyperbolic, but the end result is the same. Rather than compromising the integrity of their app, they'd rather no longer offer it to an entire country's market. Whether it is "dumping" the users or "pulling" out of the market, what's the difference? Lavabit shut their entire operation down once they were forced to compromise their system. While Lavabit didn't have much notice, Signal is signaling their intent to their users. If that signals their users to take action by contacting their congress critters to put pressure, then it seems like a good idea.
This is cool! One small UI recommendation would be to make the pagination (1 of 92) in the bottom right bigger and more prominent. I almost couldn't find it.
Generally, there are three kinds of errors.

The first kind is clear mistakes: "its" versus "it's" is a good example here (in this case, driven by the fact that there is no aural distinction between the two, and that the possessive is designated by 's most of the time). Even the most hardcore descriptivist linguists would not object to marking these as errors.

The second kind is where language changes, and the speaker is trying to prevent the change. The figurative literally is the example of this "error" in the video; another well-known example is "decimate," whose original definition means to reduce by a tenth, but whose modern definition is vaguer in the exact amount, but usually more evocative of reducing to a tenth. It's not so much prescriptivism here as it is people wanting what is inherently dynamic to be static.

The final class of "error" is the entire class of constructs that lies in the debate of prescriptivism versus descriptivism. In some cases, such as the who/whom distinction, it has practically disappeared from the language in all but the most formal registers [1]. Some of these rules come from older English grammar that has weakened over time. Some come from people who imported the rules from Latin because they couldn't squeeze English grammar in classical Latin/Greek analysis, or they just thought it sounded better (most notably, prepositions and the placement thereof, or the splitting of infinitives). Some are merely thought to sound bad--the prohibition of passive voice falls in this category, despite the typical inability of adherents to identify their occurrence [2].

[1] It might be more accurate, from a descriptivist point of view, to label who as the correct pronoun in both the subject and object cases, and instead note "whom" as a variant of "who" in the object case that is used to indicate a degree of "showing off" one's knowledge of grammar.

[2] The sentence this footnote appears in has a usage of the passive voice. If you're uptight about not using the passive voice, then first correctly identify where it is. If you can't do that, then stop being uptight about it.
>the cost per unit of computation or storage was the floor on the cost of computers.

What do you mean? That the energy bill for computers is bigger than the material bill?

What else but the price of the hardware has determined the price of computers?

>I expect PV to drive the levelized cost of power below $0.01/kWh

For some time, this is possible. But if there is a sea of energy, people will find a way to use it. Then, demand rises and prices will rise again.

Sooner or later, material science, genetics and everything else will simulate everything. Progress will depend on the amount of energy that is spent on those calculations. The cloud will take any energy that it can get. Bitcoin was just the start.

Humans take roughly 2kWh worth of food per day. We are willing to pay about $20 for it. It might as well be that energy prices rise to $10/kWh. Not because PV itself is expensive, but because somebody owns the land where the PV modules are standing.
Because you can look at the code yourself and verify there is no backdoor. You can never verify anything by looking at the money. You can ONLY verify anything by looking at the code. So stop looking at the money, start looking at the code.
Why do the design in the US? Chinese engineers are doing great designs themselves, and for less than American salaries... And they can visit right there on the factory floor, talking to the manufacturers directly about how to make their designs, in the same time zone and the same language...

Are US engineers imagining the same ideas about being irreplaceable that an earlier generation of American machinists, tool-and-die experts, and manufacturing workers also did?
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That is an interesting question. I would like to buy a nice painting or a sculpture but how can I distinguish a piece that is worth considering.
SimulaVR (unrelated to Simula) is written mostly in Haskell, with Godot as the engine.
Not sure what you mean by pancake.

But I feel its mostly rotational motion that is perceptible in VR demos rather than translational motion. I suspect that's because a small rotational motion results in a large shift in perspective for objects in the world that are some distance away from the camera while small translational movements don't really result in a significant perspective shift.

Would be interested in seeing what research into human head motion while sitting/standing/walking/etc. shows though.
I remember going through my insufferable 14 year old phase where I thought that video was the shit. Now I will gladly deck anyone who thinks it's good.
Not really, it's just something I've seen used as the most common counterargument to "tighter economic connections decreases risk of war", given that apparently in 1914 people thought international war was nearly impossible due to all the trade interdependencies. I honestly never dug deeper into the similarities and differences between then and now.
What you say may have some truth in it. However, does having a stake mean that it is okay to act overly emotional and occasionally throwing out rational analysis?

I also disagree on one thing here: the claim that China is projecting power to the rest of the world, that is trying to conquer the world or becoming an American style militaristic empire. In my opinion this is pure projection (in the psychological sense). China wants to defend themselves from a US invasion or blockade. They are not interested in controlling or occupying other countries, they just want to be able to do business.

What about South China Sea you may ask? They do it in order to deny the US from using that area to blockade them, not to conquer other countries or deny other countries from normal usage. See https://www.quora.com/Why-does-China-want-to-control-almost-...

Note, I am not saying whether this is a good or a just thing. But it certainly is different from how most westerners understand it.
I'm sorry if I was unclear, but

> All it does is keep track of email->matrix ID mappings for users who have published them

This is what I mean by "it leaks the userlist." Matrix (the organization) stores the email addresses of my users, along with some mapping that could allow Matrix the organization to correlate email addresses with my server. To me, as a server operator, this is a deal-breaker, even if it was just email addresses with no mapping. I see this as a privacy violation against my users who trust me to hold their information privately and securely. My understanding is that you cannot join another Matrix homeserver server with an identity established on a homeserver disconnected from the vector.im identity server, which effectively forces the homeserver operator to use the vector.im centralized identity server if you want, as an end user, to actually take advantage of federation. I do not know how a user is supposed to take their login from one homeserver to log into another one if the first homeserver is not connected to vector.im.

Please correct me if the above is wrong.

Additionally, when I set up Synapse I was not presented with any kind of GDPR info, and it wouldn't make sense that I would be, because the GPDR is for end users, not site operators. Maybe this is presented to new users who connect to the public reference Synapse instance using Riot.im or something, but I'm not talking about this issue from the perspective of an end user, I'm talking about it from the perspective of a homeserver operator. I got about halfway through the homeserver setup before I realized that vector.im was necessary for identity lookup and I realized it only by carefully following the docs. This was long before the 9/27/2019 blog post was published, so I guess maybe this has been addressed somewhat. I have been following Matrix now for the better part of a decade.

If federation is possible without identity mapping done on a central server, then I too wish that identity mapping was never implemented.
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You're saying the official figures are wrong in such a way to understate inflation after, but not before, 2008? What change in 2008 caused that?

Isn't it more likely that the price rises in Bay area property have been compensated for in other areas and sectors?
> when this inevitably fails again

May I ask where your confidence comes from?

I’ll actually be more surprised if this doesn’t go through, at least in some form.
Congrats on the launch, folks! It looks really nice and I loved the idea! The first thing I thought was "hey, maybe NOW this is an incentive to put my paintings somewhere trustworthy and see if it's commercially viable" regarding the stuff I do with acrylic and spatulas but then the whole artist application page felt... very unwelcoming... is it only for "real" artists with detailed portfolios and studio addresses? I didn't want to leave the application page feeling I'll be only allowed in Etsy-like places and be happy about it.
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I've had the pleasure of purchasing a work via Art in Res and seeing the platform develop, and I can't wait to watch it continue to grow. Both sides of this market place—artists with serious art practices but no commercial gallery representation, people who love art but can't afford to buy from galleries—will get so much out of being connected to each other.

If you haven't ever lived with art made by people who care deeply about making it, I suggest you set down $30 and try it! You'll be surprised how much it can enrich your life.
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My advice, like with anything, is to learn the fundamentals first. In this case, that's CSS and its box model [0]. You don't need to learn every nook, cranny, and idiosyncrasy of CSS, but enough to know what's going on in higher level abstractions. I would just start with an empty html file and play with layouts devoid of any JS. Beware of outdated html/css "tutorials" online and stick to updated resources like Mozilla's MDN. Once you get the hang out modern layout models like flexbox and grid, I would recommend using a 'functional' css library like tailwind [1].

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Box_Mod...

[1] https://tailwindcss.com/
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