skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can be done. I have done it twice.

My bachelors is in electrical engineering. I got into a part-time masters course in computer engineering. Due to work pressures and travel I dropped out. Years later with several years of diverse work experience, I got into a PhD software engineering program, successfully completed that and graduated. Both experiences at two of Australia's top universities.

I believe that my key to success was writing strong proposals in both cases and handling the interviews well. And in both cases I got adjunct teaching work as well.

In your case you appear to have a strong portfolio of work and teaching experience to support any proposal you may present. Good Luck.
Optical media is great for this. Too bad everything else about it sucks.
I despise David Icke but I think platforms like YouTube or Facebook should remain neutral. It's not their job to tell us what people should be looking at or not. Then what? We end up like China where we can only browse government propaganda?
thats basically my point, Companies still aren't taking responsibility for anything and are running the companies to keep the share price up so the Exec team can collect on their options in 4 years and move on. Similarly the government seems completely incompetent, and willfully blind to the risks being taken.
I get your sentiment but your reply implies online gaming really only came along after Skyrim.

Skyrim came out in 2011, the online first/focus of at least AAA games was prevalent well before that.
Quibble: HoWP was written and published during WWII.

Excellent, though.
Who is this guy? Aside from someone who says he started and failed many businesses from a smorgasbord of ideas. I went to his about page, but gave up after scrolling past the 30th selfie.
Some states like CA were prepared, but the federal government can’t leave these things for states to fend for themselves. At some point somebody somewhere will try to save a few million to make a budget match. Federal government burned 10 times that amount, probably the same day, on military

[1] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-27/coronavi...
I assume the parent is referring to the fact that companies, like Occidental ($OXY) were paying $3.18/share in annual dividends prior to this crash, while trading in the mid-high $40's (~9%). Now that $OXY is down at a near-term high of $15/share that dividend yield represents 21.2%. A few weeks ago it was down at $10/share (~31.8%). That's just one off-hand example, and it's pretty comparable across the industry. Even big players like $XOM were/are in a similar boat, if not to the same extent.

$OXY earnings is coming up this week and I suspect that dividend is going to get slaughtered -- after all, they elected to pay Warren Buffet's special dividend in stock in lieu of cash. If the op is super-long term, I assume they're suggesting that the stock could return, and with it, the dividend, which would be "30%" of your original investment.
For those who are unfamiliar, "Kirkland Signature" is Costco's private brand.
It's point-to-point. Unless someone is tapping your phone line, or you dial the wrong number, where's the insecurity?

Contrast that with email, which goes through any number of emails, sits in queues, gets backed up, etc.

Of course some of the time you're actually faxing a fax-to-email gateway, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Managing the stimulus money (in the US and everywhere else) is likely to follow the same path everywhere - give it out as widely as possible, find that one high profile dodgy case and prosecute loudly, and have an amnesty period for companies to return money if they find they did not mean it.

This will work fine(ish) for the larger employers, but the majority of smaller businesses are going to be hurting in ways that paying 80% of employees wages won't help. Imagine a city bar / restaurant- in a few months they can reopen, their landlord will now demand back rent, all their customers will only be seated at tables 2 metres apart and they still won't cover costs.

The post covid landscape is going to look weird till we reach herd immunity / vaccine. And a lot of businesses that will be viable post-immunity are simply going to need to hibernate for much longer than a few months.
I wonder how far you'd get by just using face detection but invert the result.
Whether or not you agree with him is one thing. Youtube, Facebook, and other companies are treading a very thin line around Provider vs Publisher. Sure, most people might think that Icke doesn't make much sense, but how long until something _you_ like is censored off the platform?

If you truly do believe in a table for rational discussion all ideas should be considered regardless of how far-out they may seen. By banning various controversial figures from one side, but allowing other controversial figures from the other side to continue, is diametrically opposed to the idea of "open discussion" you claim to be supporting in your argument.

You may not care. But then you are not a proponent of free speech on a platform. When the platform becomes a global nerve center for content the argument "they are a private company and can do what they want" must be looked at with significantly more scrutiny. It would be extremely naive to not believe that YouTube not only knows they have this level of control, but are actively seeking to exploit it.
Here is EPRI report - https://www.epri.com/#/pages/product/3002014979/?lang=en-US
David Icke is what Mr. Yuk stickers were designed for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Yuk
That's actually how a lot of businesses in rural parts of Alaska work, even places that don't require a boat or plane to access. My dad lives right off the highway in a small town in Alaska, and the closest thing to a grocery store is an old airplane hanger that one of the locals runs a general store out of. The owner makes weekly trips to Costco, which is ~4 hours away, and buys as much as they can fit into a big U-Haul, then resells it at their store. The selection is pretty limited, but they take requests throughout the week and will try to fulfill them on the next trip.
And what are those advantages? Function call ABIs are a standard way to change what is executing and come back when it is done. Does that really need to change? Other software architecture can be built on top of that, you don't need to change the way you call a function with assembly to structure software differently.
A legal alternative could be using a projector from a window to paint the name with light. Emit a shadow over the street is allowed (currently).
More here: https://www.zdnet.com/article/ghost-blogging-platform-server...
IMO censorship is wrong. To quote someone smarter than me:

> I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/01/defend-say/
These models are a great example of why it's important to have these retractions to cull out people who are just riding the wave and happen to be in the right place at the right time.

These models all look like toys. Things to play with. They have not grounding in reality, just dreams and ideas. I'm always shocked to see people use models like these to invest in early-stage seed and Series A even though we all know that dialing in the right product and dialing in the right sales/growth model mean way more to a startup at this stage's success than 1.5 vs 2% churn.
Would that have happened if these platforms "organised _the world's_ information, and made it _accessible_ and useful" instead of using engagement driven filter bubbles?
While channels with extreme stance that have public health repercussion are easy enough for them to shut down, I worry more about amateur channels with conspiracy-oriented bating materials that polarize people to either extreme.
Nano reads large files in chunks. Other text editors do indeed pull in the entire file before doing anything useful.
Yes, and the scary thing is that many folks--including commenters here on HN--look forward to it.
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Hi Emil. I just wanted to tell you I had a burst of nostalgia when I noticed your username. I got interested in computers and software browsing TechnoTux forums and trying (and failing) to install Parsix. I really appreciate the work you did on open source software and bringing them to Farsi speakers. I wish you the best wherever you are.
I installed the software in a Windows 10 VM to try it out and it fails pretty early with a message that says:

Glib::Error: No GL implementation is available.

Couldn't find much to help me out figure out how to fix that issue, I assume it's some missing dependency but... where do I go from here?
I predict a near future update from David on how the Lizard people plotted against our enlightenment once again by blocking him from us. Fear not, he has found new ways to make us aware of the consciousness field, saturn, and 5G its emotion affecting effects.
The Khan Academy mobile app is great. I've been doing about 15 minutes of study each morning while doing cardio at the gym (running makes it tough to use your phone, so walk on a steep incline for half hour, or stationary bike).

Basically - build in a little bit of time to do it into your daily routine somehow, and make it a habit. In a year you'll wake up and have made great progress.
I think you want people to raise the standard of their thinking and become more conscious of what really is. Yes, there's a good idea. However until people want thr truth they'll continue in their dreams and on the same day that people come to their senses the world will give up trying to gain happiness at the expense of others and we'll all be bodhisattva.
Just because that power can be misused doesn't mean they should never use it.
“Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets that haven’t made interstellar contact yet and buzz them.”

“Buzz them?” Arthur began to feel that Ford was enjoying making life difficult for him.

“Yeah,” said Ford, “they buzz them. They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one’s ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennas on their head and making beep beep noises.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7320721-teasers-are-usually...
Bad. Stipulating that you're correct in your assessment:

* the opportunity to drive trucks through and over the holes in the reasoning and teach people something through a "Stuff David Icke Says" parody channel is snuffed.

* Icke gets to assume a martyr pose.

* YouTube looks a trifle authoritarian.

The truth doesn't have to resort to heavy-handedness to prevail. Newton's Third Law applies (in a social way) in these forcing situations.
Yay another extremist swept under the digital carpet, problem solved - well NO.

This will just shift this extremist content to other unregulated and unmonitored platforms that will not engage in debate, but blindly accept such things.

After all, if people believe this kinda stuff, cutting of the head won't stop them believing, just shifts the problem out of the public glare, at least on the surface.
I’m sure new unnecessary spending will creep in as time goes on.
> Parker did some work around town, scrounged together $3k, and began taking a state-subsidized ferry to Juneau, where he bought Costco inventory to resell in Gustavus at a small markup.

> As the store grew, Parker and his father launched their own freight company, purchased the town’s gasoline station, and bought two of their own ships — a $300k “insurance policy” that gave Parker tighter control over the supply chain in case of an emergency.

I feel like they left out a step between $3k and a frieght company with 2 ships.
Pretty much. If it was just some guys project nobody would give a shit until it was actually well tested and proven.

But it was made by guy hired by Red Hat so instead of maturing and having to take actual user feedback before being used in anything significant it was pushed by a guy that vision is limited to "It works fine on my laptop".

Who then decided to reinvent everything along the way like log storage that still takes over hundred of file opens (and tens of seconds) to get "the last 5 log lines of a command" ( https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2460 ), because why the fuck use say SQLite when you can have fun evening inventing your own shitty binary journal format.

I do find a lot of stuff behind systemd useful but the ever-present half-assness of its solutions is annoying. Half-assed logging here, half-assed dhcp client there, quarter-assed ntp client elsewhere, all while basic functionality is still riddled with edge cases.

Still a net positive over having to fix yet another fucked up init script...
I'm sure there's plenty of online communities out there that you can watch/read right wing conspiracy nutjobs opinions on. This is not comparable to China - YouTube is not the government. They're a private company choosing not to host this content.

Where are all the free speech advocates complaining about YouTube not hosting porn, or demonetizing videos with swear words in them? Why do you only come out of the woodwork en masse when it's the right wingers being censored?
Comparisons must be made relative to peers. If their stock doubled, and others’ tripled, then it could be a sign they’re potential is maxing out.
Fine, if youtube is going to censor conspiracy then they should censor all conspiracy disinformation channels. Haven't there been a bunch of conspiracies peddled by CNN, MSNBC, Foxnews, NYTimes, WaPo, [enter almost every major news outlet] just within the past few years alone? What about politicians, government employees, business people, celebrities, late night hosts, etc who peddle conspiracy? Will they be censored?

So according to youtube, only the wealthy connected elites are allowed to espouse conspiracy?
he deserved to be kicked off for his virulent antisemitism and Holocaust denial a long time ago, guess the pandemic conspiracies did him in. Good riddance.
Mick West's explanation of "Go Fast" seems highly plausible (the video could be reproduced by a weather balloon, with parallax producing the difficulty of getting a radar lock and the appearance of fast movement). But for the other two, even ignoring witness testimony, it seems like grasping at straws to fit a narrative to a predetermined conclusion.
that person didn't realize the damage propaganda could do with modern tools. Unfortunate reality is our cognitive biases can be exploited, and complete freedom of speech is not in the best interest of the majority of humanity.

This is a "loophole" that is exploited over and over again by climate change denialists, cigarette companies, nazis...
Kinda like Lustre?
So I'd heard, which is why I picked up the MGS HD collection... and was pretty disappointed. The game has aged really poorly; camera and controls were a mess, stealth gameplay was rough, story & writing were... distasteful (the gender politics of the game have aged especially badly). Most of the joy of the game came from watching a youtube video of all the small details & easter eggs, which make for glowing forum posts but bad minute-to-minute gameplay. I was glad to see the end of it.
Clippy is not dead! His spirit is alive in every website that has a useless, stupid chat bot at the bottom right.
Very cool! Another application that is great for collaborative prototyping is precursor [1]

https://precursorapp.com
Good things still exist in the world
I've been working on a pricing project using a methodology largely influenced by Nagle's work. The premise is that it's possible to learn what customers value before pricing something and for the price to be optimized around customer value, and perceived value. It feels much more promising than other pricing projects I've been involved with. This podcast gives an overview of some of the thinking here: https://impactpricing.com/podcast/ep46-alan-albert-why-much-...
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Deplatforming works, that's proven. The truth is more fragile than you think.
If something _you_ like is censored for the same reason David Icke was censored, then you can get the fuck off YouTube and Facebook yourself, and throw your little right wing victimhood hissy fit as the door hits you on the way out, just like Milo Yiannopoulos did, then subscribe to his mailing list or read his blog or buy his book. YouTube and Facebook aren't obligated to tolerate him spreading his filth on their service, and if you think they are, you have no idea what the First Amendment really means.
I'd previously dismissed him as a quack, but hey, now I'm thinking maybe he's onto something.
Actually it's been pretty conclusively shown that removing extremist content from mainstream channels pretty much prevents the ideas from propagating in the mainstream. If the cockroaches want to crawl under the fridge there's not much you can do to stop them but you can stop them from breeding on the table.
Yeah, there is a certain cinematic je ne sais quoi about his flourish. I feel like it's a window to a very prosperous fountain of creativity and all I have to say is that I'm very proud of the people who got to put those designs and systems in place.
Another one released today by Thunderf00t:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs
I'm in the same boat as you, except that I classify most games that I enjoy as type 1 fun. Mentally taxing, frustrating, making the victory so much sweeter. This, learning "hard things" is type 1 fun. Until it isn't. And then I do something else.

I'm also "ADHD." Quotes because after 30 some years living with the diagnosis (and reconfirmed, both by others and myself), I still don't really know what it means. Something sometimes discussed is "hyper focus" for ADHD folks. Honestly I think this is just a normal expression of that other quality: a total inability to engage with something once it becomes boring. And excitement for those things that retain interest. Naturally, things that are confusing or complex tend to be impossible to initially approach, but gain momentum as you gather more clues and understanding.

I have great sympathy for those that try to go "the hard way." I did that before I got into software development. I denied my misery (of not software dev) for a decade because I understood that hard things are hard, and believed my misery would pay off.

Turns out, I didn't have all sides to the equation. Hard things are hard AND hard things that you are passionate about can be your way to contribute to the world. Doing something that is "hard" BECAUSE it is hard only because you have no passion in it is a bizarre but plausible scenario for what I imagine are many HN readers.
>Yay another extremist swept under the digital carpet, problem solved - well NO.

Well yes, at least partially. Studies of bans on hate communities on reddit have shown effectiveness not only in reducing the total hate, but also, and this is important, changing the behaviour of individual users who were active in the hate communities as they moved towards more moderate, diverse communities.

[...]
"What they found was encouraging for this strategy of reducing unwanted activity on a site like Reddit:

Post-ban, hate speech by the same users was reduced by as much as 80-90 percent.
Members of banned communities left Reddit at significantly higher rates than control groups.
Migration was common, both to similar subreddits (i.e. overtly racist ones) and tangentially related ones (r/The_Donald).
However, within those communities, hate speech did not reliably increase, although there were slight bumps as the invaders encountered and tested new rules and moderators.
All in all, the researchers conclude, the ban was quite effective at what it set out to do:

For the definition of “work” framed by our research questions, the ban worked for Reddit. It succeeded at both a user level and a community level. Through the banning of subreddits which engaged in racism and fat-shaming, Reddit was able to reduce the prevalence of such behavior on the site."
[...]

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/11/study-finds-reddits-contro...
> Why do you only come out of the woodwork en masse when it's the right wingers being censored?

Because only the right wingers are actually being censored...
I see a lot of people not wanting to offer alternative solutions to the treatment of this particular individual's content: if you're not in favor of removal, then what? This content can't be allowed to stand as-is.

I'm sure you'd complain about any measure other than leaving this individual alone. If so, you deserve to be angry, because you're part of the overall problem.

Edit: To remind all of you, downvotes should be reserved for things that are strictly disruptive or not contributing to discussion. Unless we're free to disregard the rules, now.
I've done the same and also reverted, but found it easier in summer (no fear of getting out of a warm bed, plus earlier daylight).

That said, I get by on little sleep and can be productive in the evenings when I know I have more time available if I get on a roll. Wake up at 5am and parents inevitably have kids up and distracting them from 6:30. Work at 9pm, and you can carry on until 3am or longer without distraction.
Gtk's and horizon's OpenGL requirements (3.3 core profile + extensions) likely aren't met by whatever graphics adapter your VM implementation provides.
Give your self more credit then. Building and completing ANY game and having it played that many times a week is a very handsome achievement indeed. Link up and share :)
>"what's wrong with people?!"

some like setting goals with their hobbies. achieving those goals takes discipline most of the time. there's nothing wrong with trying to optimize how go about cultivating that discipline.

of course if you're trying to be disciplined compulsively then that's a different matter.
Not sure I agree, for two reasons. First, capsule networks have been shown to outperform standard architectures in at least some tasks (see the above papers). Second, and perhaps more importantly, the large and growing chorus of people -- from corporate executives to government regulators -- asking for models that are "explainable" and "interpretable" really couldn't care less as to what kinds of models are used. (In my experience, non-technical people with decision-making power are almost always willing to trade performance for better explainability/interpretability/assignment.)
A few people managed to get pictures of ISS transiting the sun during the eclipse in 2017
https://earthsky.org/space/iss-transits-sun-during-eclipse-a...
An amusing casualty. Newsweek states:

>David Icke, Man Behind Coronavirus 5G Conspiracy

Can this be true? Does David Icke have a following that isn't just laughing along with it? I remember his reptilian shapeshifter theory being a running joke from back when I was in high school in 2005!

Surely, someone else must have started the whole 5G conspiracy theory, right? Icke just latched on to it?
Yeah, and just imagine what politicians could get away with if they had laws that allowed them to prevent people from speaking their mind.
> complete freedom of speech is not in the best interest of the majority of humanity

isn't this one if the founding principles of chinas brutal totalitarian dictatorship
> that person didn't realize the damage propaganda could do with modern tools.

No that person did. It's precisely why he was against censorship. Propaganda is rather useless without censorship. It's why china, north korea, nazi germany, etc had censorship.

> This is a "loophole" that is exploited over and over again by climate change denialists, cigarette companies, nazis...

Right. Imagine if cigarette companies and nazis had the power to censor...

Your comment is actually in support of free speech but you are so blinded by agenda that you can't see it.

Nazis supported censorship and used your exact reasoning to censor. Think about it. The chinese government uses your exact reasoning to censor. Think about it.