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> I own a little website I use for some SEO experiments [...] can generate thousands of different pages.

Do you have more details on this? One could read that as if the page is designed to attract crawlers.
themodelplumber is a perceptive observer of human psychology, and they've described some of the ways people justify cheating with one narrative or the other. This isn't advocating for cheating or plagiarism, just hypothesizing why some brains are happy to do it.
You can simultaneously follow other people's licenses to the letter while also not caring if other people don't follow your's.
Dark mode has somehow reached meme status on the Internet, not unlike bacon, in that everyone now essentially either "f'ing loves" it or is (jokingly) deemed an untermensch.

Personally, I was never into dark mode so this article feels vindicating; nor bacon, for that matter. I think I just committed several incidents of e-blasphemy.
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Am inexperienced in the technicals of this, is "taking inspiration" from someone else's website grounds for a copyright or gpl violation?

When I've worked with designers it usually starts "pick a site that inspires you", where the deliverable has resemblance.
We have xrdp running for several years now. It works fine but took some effort to get there:

- Compile it yourself. The package that comes with your distribution is bad and has things like copy/paste disabled.

- Configuration of authentication takes some effort.
They were all arrested on felony charges and one was killed, and the media called them radicals... (iow, exactly what GP proposed)
That's because Apple is a monopoly, or at least Google and apple form a duoopoly. And if you make mobile apps you have to pay the google tax, apple tax, or more likely both.And play by their rules.
It probably doesn't work that way.

You probably do 3 years at this whatever and then WGU says "we'll take your history and art credits, now start the rest of your degree over with us". That's generally how this sort of thing goes.

Also WGU isn't known for academic rigor either. They're essentially like Excelsior and UOP and AMU.
There is an official RDP client for macOS. I use it every to connect to the Windows PC under my desk, while using the monitors on my laptop.
Thanks for the deep understanding shown in the posts. One correction: I am 36 years old with 2 kids born and raised in US now, was stating it was 22 years when I came to US. :)

I really appreciate that you understand the situation people like us are in. That is especially encouraging given the rapidly deteriorating situation in recent years. The great irony, however, is that, coincidentally, both China and US saw outliner leaders come into power. Like an old Chinese saying “the good fortune never come with a companion, but the ill-fortune seldom come alone” (福无双至祸不单行）.

Aside from activities here, I try to proactively engage with my network in mainland China to debacle common biases towards US. My personal goal is to improve understanding.

I have changed from a heavily indoctrinated young Chinese student to become one who is able to appreciate the deep cultural convictions and altruistic intentions of American people. I have seen the same vigorous pursue of better life and unwavering self reliance from both American and Chinese people. I firmly believe the value structures of American and Chinese people are inherently compatible. The confrontation should be avoidable.

I would be hugely disappointed if US and China end up into Cold War like confrontation. That will be an unprecedented waste of human value, and squander of historical opportunity of advancing the international community to a more productive stage.
I disagree because you already anticipate large scale deployment with that argument.
We already have a framework to define markets, called hypothetical monopolist test. It's conceptually simple; given a market definition, can a hypothetical monopolist impose significant increases in price without customers turning away? If not, it means there's competitors so it's not monopoly.

In this definition, Google's not going to be a monopolist as advertisers can easily reallocate their budget to alternative options (FB, Amazon, etc) to improve their ROI if Google decides to increase their fee significantly. Publishers don't have much options other than AdSense to sell their ad slots so it's monopsony(=single buyer controls the market). Not sure if the US antitrust law can handle this situation. If so, then this is going to be a landmark case.
I'm arguing that serving a no knock warrant, in the middle of the night, in plain clothes, without announcing that you are police, is an inherently wanton act.

If all no knock warrants are conducted that way, then I would indeed say that they are all wanton acts.

I don't care if they were following orders, or had permission from the state. Crime is still crime, and getting your boss to tell you to commit a crime is still a crime. Even if your boss wears blue.

Note also you've shifted the law slightly by saying executing the no-knock warrant how it's typicality done cannot be a gross deviation of standard conduct. Yet that's not what the law says.

The law does not say: "...disregard thereof constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a police officer conducting a no-knock warrant would observe".

It says "...disregard thereof constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would observe in the situation".

So let me ask you this: if you went down to Kentucky, and loudly broke into a house in the middle of the night" do you think it's likely that someone (yourself or the people in the house) could come to harm from this?

I think no-knock warrants are typically conducted by uniformed officers who loudly declare that they are the police, That's a very different fact pattern than what I said would merit manslaughter.
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> But if you can't do the middle-class job because you can't write, the piece of paper will only get you so far. It may get you an entry-level job, but you probably won't get much in the way of promotions. So even from that perspective, plagiarism isn't helpful.

Where do these mythical jobs exist where being able to write well is a requirement for career growth? Certainly not at engineering companies.

I wish what you said were true, but in my experience, "being able to write and communicate well is critical in the workplace" is one of the top lies taught to me when I was at university. We had to take a regular writing class, and a technical writing class to graduate with an engineering degree. And when I get to industry, I see no signs of people practicing what they're taught, and it doesn't hold anyone back.

Edit: I should say my experience is more about writing than communicating as a whole. People do need to be good speakers/presenters. But writing? Not really.
There was a recent study that discussed the Washington response being so effective because it was based on an assumption that seems to have been wrong: that there was widespread, undetected transmission of the disease starting from the first case in the state on January 15.

The study results show that there was probably another case (or multiple) introduced around February 13, meaning that there had only been about two weeks of community transmission instead of the six that officials thought. But because they thought it had been spreading undetected for six weeks, they reacted very strongly and put in strict measures quickly.

So it was probably technically an "overreaction", but that's what made it so effective and kept the situation from getting as bad there as NYC and other places.

Here's an Ars Technica article about it: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/washingtons-covid-19...

And here's the actual study, which also includes a similar situation in early Europe cases: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.21.109322v1
> Nobody cares what anyone wears at home we're talking comfort at work.

Comfort is independent of location, the only difference is that at home we prioritize comfort and that translates to not wearing suits.

> And again, a suit is ultimately a dress down garment requiring less care to put on than a track suit.

In what world? Track pants you just pull on and maybe tie up if there's some weight in your pockets, dress pants you have to pull on zip/button up and put a belt on. Some with the upper half, it's easier to pull on a T shirt than button one up. Neither are hardly arduous (hence my surprise that some people take "pride in their appearance") but a suit is definitely not the easiest option.

> In all this discourse nobody ever bothered to ask what dressing is even defined as and we're supposed to call ourselves software engineers.

Because we all have a functional shared understanding of what it means, if you have a definition that differs or constrains this general understanding then it would be much more useful to state it rather than vague hints.
> But your post said $5500 to get to 20fps. I think that budget would get you to 60 pretty easily.

The 2080ti is the fastest gaming GPU on the market right now. Period. It does not matter what your budget is, you cannot buy a faster GPU that that. Even if you buy a $10,000 quadro, you won't more than 5% extra performance in a best case scenario over the 2080ti.
...eh it took two dead versions of this story and multiple emails to the mods for this to get unkilled and it’s still weighted off of the front page. So it took serious effort and intention to front page a story over the power of flag mods and because of weighting still barely got the discussion deserved. I think a lot of people just must defacto flag things that aren’t about software or business?

I would come back here more regularly if I knew that actual huge news would be regularly discussed here, or if I thought interesting articles not about coding had much of a shot.

As good writing about CHAZ keeps happening or the situation evolves I’ll continue trying submissions.
> "One of Apple's biggest innovations imho was to make brightness +/- two of the default keyboard buttons"

Microsoft copied this with the Surface Book (at least). And in typical Microsoft style, the dedicated brightness buttons control the brightness of the keyboard internal LEDs. Changing Windows' screen brightness is one of the metakeys + del/backspace, not indicated on them.
> You are making this way too complicated.

> It's honesty vs. dishonesty.

Kind of like you're either a criminal or you're not. If you drive 58mph on a 55mph zone you are. Otherwise you're not.

Binary positions are always convenient, once you pick a side.
> Every keyboard should replace their F-keys with brightness by default (seriously, who uses F-keys? It's wasted real estate.)

If the keyboard has media keys, then, generally speaking, F2 and F3 will be linked to brightness by default.
Not parent, obv. But the syntax (or grammar if you like) although jarring at first, is starting to grow on me. I am not fully onboard yet, but it is an interesting idea.
Back in the day of CRTs there used to be a dial on monitors to set the brighness. Have you only ever used Apple computers?
there's something about hn that i can't seem to remember my pw (also, tbi). whenever i'm on a new device, i register. sorry about that.
Those work completely different muscle groups and are not at all comparable
Why didn't Google mention the ones you cited and the "many others" in its response to the CMA report? Do none of them have customers in the UK?
If we don’t cap out at some reasonable population, it seems to me we’ll lose basically all of the natural world long before the Earth can no longer support us through industrial agriculture and technology. I don’t like that trade-off.

The eugenics thing is doubtful; what exactly is the mechanism that ties eugenics to population controls? There are myriad ethical ways to control population. For example, just make all countries advanced and the people will choose to have fewer children, as is happening already now.
How about disabling Send anonymous usage data to Postman? Does it still collect HTTP payload that which is sent and received?
This is a (very recent) anachronism.

Most people in antiquity saw children as a blessing. The more children you had, the larger your bloodline would be. In fact, being unable to have children was a point of shame for a woman. It wasn’t until the rise of the modern era in the west that people started wanting small families or no children at all.

You can still see this idea of children as a blessing present in some communities that haven’t been westernized, e.g. some Mohawk communities in Canada.
I'll never stop speaking the truth. Had a white professor in an immigration history class attempt to discount my view of being an actual child of immigrants by saying I had become a white person. The gaslighting of immigrant experiences is real. Thanks for the support!
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Some products have started doing public github “roadmaps”. Use github issues to get more accessible public feedback but who knows how that gets processed internally.
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All the clubs, bars, and schools have been shuttered for months. That buildup of stifled young adult socialization energy had to be dumped somewhere.
Could be the IP address OP is showing is actually from an X-Forwarded header or other proxy header (but not the actual source of the packet).
It's a pity that Australia doesn't get much sun and has to rely on coal ;-)

The sarcasm was good natured but tempered by the fact that the US (my country) has waged a war on solar energy and continues to promote fossil fuels for the benefit of the patron class.
I think it’s dependent on the app. Lots of third party apps don’t seem to correctly implement listening for the theme change. In Chrome, for example, I always have the Dev Tools open in a separate window, and the theme seems to change while my Mac is awake, but if the theme is supposed to change while my Mac is asleep, it won’t ever change even after waking the machine up.
So is a permanent magnet also quantum matter? Classical physics says the net magnetization of a solid is zero.
Not the parent but your question and the implicit accusation is way too overblown. The design here is so generic that it can easily be used by tons of site out there. It's just a few lines of CSS here and there and if I have a design like that and come across something similar I would just chalk it up to someone with similar taste. Going out of your way to demand attribution for it is the very definition of petty.
Easy in the top 2 trailers I saw that stream (with the other one being the teaser with the astronaut and the little girl)
Google's motto was and is (they remove it and put it back various time) "Do No Evil."

They were the tech darling who innovated and created great tech products/services and all behind this mantra.

We have since seen here on Hacker News the evil they do... i.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929 being one example of many.

They get so much flack because they chose to have and promote that mantra then failed miserably in front of all here, many whom they inspired to get into tech and strive to work for them. Personally, you couldn't pay me enough to work there!
Any chance yo can point me at any notes you have about compiling it? I haven’t managed to do it with latest source successfully.
> You're deluding yourself, as people who go to these dead end institutions often do. You're of course free to do so, but if you think you are actually going to a real university, you're going to be in bad shape.

I am curious. Why do you think I'm deluding myself? What do I stand to gain?

I've already stated elsewhere that my pursuit of this degree is purely for the love of learning. I've also stated that I already have an existing bachelor's degree from an RA school. I even have grad school experience--again from an RA school. I don't need this degree for anything.

I don't benefit anything from deluding myself. However, I do think it's important for other students to have a realistic understanding of how they can benefit from UoPeople and what its limitations are.

By saying "credit don't actually transfer" you're spreading misinformation. They do. They have.

Will they transfer to most RA schools? Probably not. Will they transfer to some, including some prestigious schools? Yes. These are facts. And it helps provide a realistic perspective to potential and/or existing students.
> Most of the work in hospital are still done by painful paper work.

Sounds like there is something simple I could build.

> But making hospitals computerize has failed.

Can you figure out why?
> At the normal study pace, you should be ready to put up to 30 hours per week when taking 2 courses. In reality, it took me half of that time. Usually 10 hours per week.

30 hours per week for just 2 courses? Are these courses covering more than a typical university?

In my undergrad, I took a minimum of 5 courses per semester (16-20 credits). Scaling from your expectations, that would be 60-80 hours per week? I doubt I went over 40/week, including lectures (admittedly, it wasn't a demanding university).

Just giving you my 2 cents so you don't assume that the time you spent per course is all that different from a traditional university.
Thought it looked familiar, and I realized I saw the idea in an old Nikita Propokov screencast. Nice to see him mentioned there and Clojure code as an example.
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A desk, and being set aside for only work related activities.
But is it correct to call it a Chinese artwork, because it is found in the territory of modern China?

13K years ago is long time, and there could be different ethnic groups living in that territory, which might be or might not be related to any of the modern Chinese ethnic groups.
> Too often people approach these topics as personal attacks

Because they are personal attacks.

> I don't believe anyone thinks the BLM movement is saying "Only Black Lives Matter".

Then act like it.

White people die at the hands of cops, too. Fight for them and you get every Republican in the country on your side.
A calorie is a calorie, except that different kinds of calories that you eat will almost inevitably cause you to change the amount of calories you consume and the amount of calories you burn.
Dark mode is an accessibility feature that people happen to enjoy, I need it.
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To be honest, I think the book is used widely because of the title. There are many (hundreds, perhaps even thousands) of good math books out there with standard titles, and from what I have seen, most learners will not bother with them, even though they are totally capable of understanding math AND the books would do a decent job at explaining.

The irreverent title gives me just one extra moment of attention with the cold-reader, and if I can capture their interest in that moment (the first section also has a swearword in it), and get them to bring their "math guard" down for fifteen minutes, then I can "convert" them to the beautiful subject.

You're right that the same "feature" of wow-this-book-seems-to-be-different is also a turn-off for most people who are already pro-math. This cannot be serious math if there is a swearword in the title. Some readers have said they get the sleazy "learn math in three-easy-steps feeling!" when they see the title. That's just life—you win some you lose some ;) I am less worried about people who already like math, since they, having already overcome the fear of math, can learn all the other good books out there.
Maybe a 100 years ago. The government has invested high tens to low hundreds of trillions of our dollars into the military at this point. Guerrilla warfare on peoples own land is almost impossible to snuff out but the people also can't possibly "win".
F.lux deserves a mention
Looks absolutely awesome!

We love you, Elon!!!
Battle Line [1]. Absolutely fantastic 2-player strategy card game. It has a lot of deduction built in. Since every card is one of a kind, you can win by playing a “bad” card in one place if it proves your opponent can’t win in another place. Love it!

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/760/battle-line
Apparently light-on-dark is terrible if the person has astigmatism: the edges get very blurry and doubled. There was an article on HN about this, specifically about keynote slides. Also apparently “in Europe and Asia, astigmatism affects between 30 and 60% of adults” (says Wikipedia).

I have it too, and couldn't figure out in the past why text sometimes looks horribly blurry and sometimes doesn't. With this knowledge, I realized that dark background is likely a factor.

So I like dark mode for the OS interface because it gets out of my way then, and just plain looks better. Same in apps where I click on icons and look at images, like in image editors. For reading, dark mode is torture—both with bright white text and low-contrast dark. When sites begin to switch to the dark mode following the browser, I'll have to disable that in the browser settings or deal with bright system and app interface.

However, why I can and do code with dark themes is a mystery. I even tried to bend Emacs to use a light theme for Org-mode and a dark one otherwise (not much luck, though).

I do wish that screens in the ‘light mode’ were closer to paper in terms of eye comfort. I had an e-ink device, and it was a godsend, pure bliss—you'd think that lower contrast would make reading harder but no. Something like HN's ‘black on a bit grayish with a hint of red’ emulates the experience somewhat. Just don't make text gray, please.

In related news, I'm irked that I can't have high monitor brightness for photographic images but lower for swathes of white background under text and in Jony Ive's bright flat windows. Because, you know, photos don't tend to have flood-fill of 100% white. Maybe I'll kludge something up for the browser to amend this.
Ask HN: Why did Amazon buy Alexa?
In 1999, one can understand Amazon's need to study patterns around emerging traffic trends in dot com's that could lend to its fledgling online business. Fast forward to 2020, how does Alexa.com fit into Amazon's business model? Does it have anything to do with AWS?
What does Health Science mean? medicine?, is there any way to study medicine deeply on the internet for an outsider? a programmer for example?
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One more nice thing that some computers do is automatically adjusting brightness depending on your ambient light. Like phones which have dedicated light sensor. But at least my computer uses webcam (or sensor near a webcam) to determine ambient brightness and adjust monitor brightness. EDIT. ah, yes, and i don't use external monitor. But makes me think, why monitor manufacturers have not added that one light sensor to their products.
Are you disputing that google has monopolies in search, browser, or hosting user-generated videos? Because, as I understand it the argument is google is abusing it's monopoly power in those areas to increase prices for ads.