skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kev recently updated his site design and appears to have removed the dark mode option via CSS.
They were founded 36 years ago. How long do they last? How many of them are meanwhile void?
There is a very strong correlation between: local news stations with sizeable real estate interests (i.e., aligned with the interests of property owners, speculative real estate investors, and yuppies interested in moving to "safe, updated neighborhoods" that have been recently cleared out of the poors) and local news stations that print police press releases almost verbatim with absolutely no journalism actually being performed.

For more info: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-54-local-crime-re...
The payment one is just ridiculous and completely wrong.

Credit cards are already competitive i.e. Visa, MasterCard, American Express. And the payment space is one of the most dynamic and competitive around. Endless amounts of new startups and bigger players in digital payments e.g. PayPal.
Kent's article isn't so much about limiting the test coverage so much as preferring one kind (integration) over another (unit). He's right. Tons of unit testing in application codebases is a huge, stinking code smell in my experience. Usually it means the code is overly abstract (interfaces everywhere for "mockability") or unnecessarily complex (e.g. conditional expressions factored out into functions called in one site just so they can be tested separately) or both.
Sometimes we have to be reminded that technology can not solve all of our problems. I find one of the issues with my relationships is that I try too hard to help solve their problems. Of course I have good intentions, but focusing on trying to solve the problem can lead to forgetting to do small things similar to what you said about including her in conversations. Think about what she is experiencing. This is the most important comment I have seen.
That's not how it works. Due to the laws of thermodynamics, people don't gain or lose weight "regardless of diet". Some medical conditions can reduce metabolic rate or increase hunger, but even so for every person there is a calorie intake threshold below which they will lose weight.
I am a programmer but I prefer physical object business.

During Corona self isolation, I started creating and selling filament:

I documented the journey here:
https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

The price of filament is still going up.

Since selling filament I am working partime, mostly doing maintenance (updates/patches) existing application.
You are correct that Seattle has a tremendous amount of homelessness. The rest of your comment doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Sweeps - which you seem to be advocating - do nothing to solve the problem; meanwhile you ironically criticize tent cities in residential neighborhoods without seeming to understand that a tent city is a residential neighborhood and it is precisely the periodic shutdowns and relocations of tent cities and similar instabilities that exacerbate the homeless problem by blowing folks from place to place.

I wouldn't call Seattle's government "useless", but their effectiveness is certainly diminished by reactionary voters whose moral/punitive emotions get weighed more than evidence-based science on homelessness.
Some of us do. And we can’t run OpenAI’s model, so it’s not open.

The essence of open source is that the resources are made available to you (without warranty). That isn’t the case here.
I really wish auto dark mode (based on sunset time I believe) worked better on OSX. On my iPhone it works great and automatically switches to dark mode once the sun sets. On my MacBook it hardly ever remembers to switch across and I'm left with it constantly on light.

Really frustrating.
Hmm, I think it's only fair that we zoom in a bit from "everyone on HN complaints" to the details in question. Otherwise it makes it appear that you want to avoid discussing details in question which directly flow into the qualitative nature of this discussion.

I just re-read what you wrote. If you're saying your response was not a refutation, given that you wrote "is not best characterized as," I think it's pretty clear as to why that could be misunderstood, to say the least. It seems clear to me that you were replying in direct disagreement and also projecting words I never said right into your reasoning. And further, it now seems as if you're claiming that I'm being assumptive. This is just compounding, not helping.

I think specifics are important here because it's unfortunately common for people to attempt to sweep pesky details under their subjective-ethical rug in the name of [hand wave]. Since this is an ethics discussion some due concern to communicating ethically seems reasonable to expect. If that's frustrating, maybe you can at least see the frustration on both sides.
This is not open source but this was very good from their demo in terms of your own voice reproduction.

https://www.descript.com/lyrebird-ai

I hope good folks in there will help you, try reaching them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VnFC-s2nOtI
If you're on Yammer, look for the group "UoPeople Computer Science Majors Discord Server." Post a message to that group about HN. I'll find you and send an invite.

Several of the students on that Discord are doing this or have done this. I know one is just about to graduate from WGU after doing it.
Economy is still not on par.

As of 2018, China has 5x in GDP vs India. Population is comparable.
> my partner loves the "rainbow text" and knows when I'm working "matrix time" :)

I love this. My wife calls it "the black screens"
The fact is that almost every resources are written in Chinese. If you can read Chinese you can find plenty of, tons of useful and interested stuff. The reason those are not written in Chinese is that they don't actually need western people to read and discuss with them. Chinese developers are enough for discussion, tech talks...
Opportunity cost high: MBA.
Corporate sponsorship is the new prereq for a successful language/framework in today's world. It didn't used to be that way but it is now. Bring on our new googlemozillaapplefacebookmicrosoft language/framework overlords.
Set up a robots.txt that disallows Facebook crawlers, sue Facebook if the crawling continues for unauthorized access to computer systems, profit.
Your current plan sounds solid, although I’d mix in some text-based ways of gathering qual feedback.

Some people are more comfortable communicating in text, and removing the interviewer can lead to more honest responses (by virtue of eliminating interviewer bias).
Try Hanabi: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/98778/hanabi "Multiplayer Mastermind with cards" is not too far off of a description.
are you hiring?
https://boardgamegeek.com/abstracts/browse/boardgame

I play patchwork and Azul regularly and like them.
In case you have not yet encountered John Taylor Gatto's 7 lessons:

http://www.swaraj.org/multiversity/gatto_7lesson.htm

Also, the "famous" TED talk on educational paradigms that you may have seen or at least heard referenced

https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_changing_educatio...
I think, plagiarism also harms the character. If instead of doing things right and put effort, you cheat, eventually you learn that doing things right does not worth it. And then it becomes a personal trait, so to speak.
The left real quiet on this one.
Rather than argue against dark mode because it's bad for your eyes, I'd prefer to focus on how it's hard to do well with user generated content.

Let's say you users draw diagrams with SVG and the background defaults to white. You make a dark mode. You can't easily fix the SVG. You can't just set the background to black. The SVG's dark colors won't be readable. You can't just set the dark colors to light colors as you have no idea what the diagram is trying to show. The best you can do is set all images to have a white background so any image with transparency is shown in the default but then you end up with large white rectangles on an otherwise dark page which is jarring.

I actually mostly like dark mode. My editors have used dark colors since the 80s. My terminal has been set to a dark color for as long as I can remember on any OS. But, maybe because of bad color choices, I can't focus on stackoverflow's dark mode at all. Maybe it's the blue on dark gray they picked. I don't know what it is but I can't read it.
>Homelessness is a complex problem which I believe namely stems from psychological and substance abuse disorders

I think this is about as useful as saying "homelessness is caused by loitering". We're confusing cause and effect. Try living on the streets for a few years where people treat you worse than shit without developing some mental illness or abusing drugs to deal with the stress and loneliness. If you think that the cause is mental illness and drugs and throwing money at it mostly does nothing, why do you think San Francisco has by a long shot the highest rate of homelessness in America?
no but poach the right resource and it puts you quickly on par with the competitors. What's that poaching cost?
We need for-real contact tracing. The US has now spent trillions of dollars on band-aids, but I haven't seen a single contact-tracing report for our metropolitan area.

When we had measles outbreaks in Washington State, there were regularly published lists of locations and times where cases had been observed. I haven't seen anything like it for COVID-19 yet, nor any contact-tracing numbers. It should be straightforward to report the fraction of cases discovered through contact-tracing daily. As we get a handle on the virus, that fraction should grow toward one.

If we knew where every case was, today, we could substantially attenuate the virus' impact within a month.

Washington's case load is on the cusp of rising again. Now is the time to make it happen and hammer the virus to zero. Almost any investment in contact tracing is going to pay for itself.

Getting the virus under control is our ticket out of this mess.
Fox is by far the most popular news channel in the US and pretty close to bigger than the rest combined.
A language is more than just a technology: it's an ecosystem of libraries, platform APIs, developer mindshare and experience, familiarity, legacy codebases, product support. Don't discount the weight of all of those auxiliary, human factors.

Rust, culturally, comes from the web. That's why it has the most traction in the web server/WASM space for now. It's starting to poke its head into Systems use-cases because of the sheer weight of its memory safety benefits there. Maybe in a few years it'll get some real use in the games industry (real industry; not just enthusiasts), though Unreal remains a bastion of C++ that isn't going anywhere anytime soon. But then there are some dark corners of C/C++'s territory that move even more slowly, and where the cultural shift will take a long time. I think to a great extent, embedded falls into that category.
> if a study can't be replicated then the study is wrong isn't it?

Not necessarily. Maybe the replications were flawed. Characteristics of a population can change over time. Blah, blah, blah. It's incredibly hard to say something is flat wrong or absolutely correct. A good scientist uses what others might call "weasel" words (I hate that term), like, "The data is (in)consistent with the hypothesis."

The more evidence that mounts for or against a hypothesis, well, it's up to you to decide how to act.
How concerning should NO2 be?

I was surprised to see that on this map Tokyo seems worse off than Bangkok. On AQI measures it's typically the other way around.
Something about witch hunts and lynching perhaps?
I live nearby but I haven't visited. I've been staying up on different livestreams however. I would say it's a naive waste of time, but clearly it is an outlet for people to feel creative and free, and there is some value in that. I think the long term is that people who support it are going to look back at it and cringe at some of the fantasies being played out.
That's not universal - anecdotally I've seen Android versions that end up generating 80-120% more than the iOS version (per user). It depends a lot on the market and your product. Also, in other situations I can't help but wonder if it could be put down to Android's 2nd class citizen status in many companies. If you're going to give your iOS users a native experience (with no expense spared) while doing the bare minimum for Android (or not at all) then yes - you will earn substantially more per user on iOS.
>It's not something I would recommend for weak learners and/or for many who need a regionally accredited degree.

I should hope not given the fact that they are not regionally accredited and now that they have finally applied they likely won't be for another 2-3 years. Assuming they pass.
The first (of several) demands reads:

> The Seattle Police Department and attached court system are beyond reform. We do not request reform, we demand abolition. We demand that the Seattle Council and the Mayor defund and abolish the Seattle Police Department and the attached Criminal Justice Apparatus. This means 100% of funding, including existing pensions for Seattle Police. At an equal level of priority we also demand that the city disallow the operations of ICE in the city of Seattle.

https://capitolhillautonomous.zone/demands.html

This is a fascinating experiment that seems to channel a number of forces bubbling just below the surface for decades. The futile, never-ending war on drugs. Police violence. Lack of police accountability. Institutional racism.

What will be more fascinating is what new political parties develop. These demands are well outside the mainstream, but given recent events, not impossible to see being implemented to one degree or another.

But neither party has the alignment of interests for this kind of reform.

Without a political party, it's hard to imagine how anything changes after the banners and barricades come down.
> The entire Democrat party has taken a massive step to the left and shows no signs of stopping that shift.

The democrats just rejected the closest thing they had to a far left candidate for a pretty standard liberal and there are maybe a handful of elected officials who even flirt with far left ideas.

And anarchist show their face whenever these chaotic events happen. Once things die down and the autonomous zone is dissolved you wont see or hear from them in mainstream media tillthe next mass protests.
Wait, this is interesting. I thought plagiarism is universally bad? Can someone explain?
But with an autopilot, it seems more likely that you can get away with it.

I don't know why so many people can't understand this simple thing: people adjust their behavior to perceived risk. Things that appear riskier cause people to be more careful, and ones that appear safer make people more likely to be negligent. The gap between perceived risk and real risk is more dangerous than the real risk.
What’s at the Bottom of the River Rocks, Pebbles, Fish or Plain Sand
People also need to remember that being a monopoly isn't as big of a deal as what you do with that monopoly.

If you try to extinguish competition like Microsoft did then you're going to be in trouble. Google Search for example has been routinely expanding to favour Google properties e.g. shopping, travel, news over third parties. With shopping being particular egregious where they are now starting to bypass third party ecommerce checkout flows entirely.
AWS EC2 C6g and R6g Instances with Graviton2 Arm
Google and Pike get you in the door. Goroutines get you to sit down. The onboarding-oriented nature of the language and ecosystem convince you to sign.
https://autochess.onl/
And yet almost nobody uses Racket and J. I think they were talking about more wide-spread use.
Oh, Jesus Christ... I live about 3/4s of a mile from the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone". The way people are talking about this is ridiculous.

It's basically a bunch of wannabe Marxists LARPing.

They call the area "self-governed" and "abandoned", but the city had workers mowing the grass at Cal Anderson Park, two days after it was "established". There are cops sitting like 10 blocks away in case things get out of hand.

CHAZ is basically a block party at this point that the cops letting exist while tensions cool down a bit. If anything started to get of hand, you can be certain the police would be on the scene any moment. It's autonomous in the same way my house is autonomous. The police will let me do my thing until they get wind that I'm doing something decently illegal.

If you want to see a real "Autonomous Zone" in Seattle, 3rd and Pike is your spot. The cops let pretty much anything go there and it's a crap hole.

Edit: I'd like to add, I'm not trying to take anything away from their message. I think these protests need to be happening. I just think it's stupid that people are acting like some outside of the government people first commune has been created when really, it's basically the same as when people set up a bunch of tents in the park during the Occupy movement.
>> Large numbers of people lack stable identities and preferences. They are easily influenced by whatever novel state or circumstance they find themselves in. They will follow the rebels one day and demand the gendarmes open fire on the aforementioned rebels the day after. Others systematically falsify their preferences.

Publishing an essay like this in response to the unrest that resulted from the murder of George Floyd is highly objectionable. A tone of impartiality has been affected to hide the blatant prejudice of its author.

I don’t trigger easy, but even I can tell this kind of content has no place on Hacker News.

Edit:

Another selection:

>> The present saturation of electronic media (television, radio, and online communications) also enables rapid and often whiplash-inducing swings of opinion among both elite tastemakers and plugged-in information consumers. These sudden swings, in which everyone is demanded to suddenly accommodate themselves to their group’s new consensus narrative, occur too frequently for anyone to hope to adapt to them. After each swing, the group makes a totalizing demand that the individual publicly submit to the new motto and signal support for it.

This article is utterly unworthy of this platform. In case anyone is unsure, Black Lives Matter.
That study is US-only, too. If you're making a solely US-based ad-servicing service (which makes very little sense, and if you are you should spend time on internationalization before spending time on your iOS app), otherwise if you are making a subscription service only in the US that does make sense.

And even if the trends did hold up internationally, and I really suspect they don't, Android would still be better for ads and subscriptions internationally due to nearly three times the market share, despite a bit more than half the disposable income.
Not to mention that the booming housing market is making it difficult to get lumber, plywood and siding for my business.
If the US is conducting psy-ops on social media against adversaries, wouldn't they use media companies popular in that country? And, if that were Twitter, wouldn't the language barrier still make it relatively harder for Twitter (a company staffed predominantly by English-speaking employees) to investigate?

Additionally, does it merit discriminating between offensive and defensive psy-ops? Might there, for example, be government-controled bots injecting wholesomememes content into the feeds of depressed government employees? Does Twitter have a different obligation in that context?
>The whole premise of antitrust is that monopolies are harmful in lots of systemic ways. We must assume that most are unknown.

This is completely untrue. There's a clear economic reason for why a monopoly, defined a certain way, is bad (reduces overall utility, worst outcomes for consumers, and everyone's a consumer). That's why we have antitrust. If the definition of a monopoly is changed arbitrarily, then the original arguments about why it's bad don't necessarily apply, so the concept becomes meaningless. Making arbitrary, unprincipled decisions based on what people not educated in economics feel might be bad is a great way to drive an economy into the ground.
> I just took the euclidean distance between the given color and (0,255,0)

If you used HSL, you possibly could match on the hue while being more lax on the brightness and saturation—so a pastel-pink color could still match to a red image. Not sure if the database can use different weights for positions in a vector (though with pre-processing S and L could be collapsed to narrower ranges, so they match more freely afterwards). Just need to make sure that white and black aren't matched to random hue values.

Though, I guess if you use only the distance to fixed chosen high-saturation values then it's about the same thing.

Except it seems that with just RGB distance, a semi-saturated cyan or yellow color might be counted as closer to ‘pure green’ than dark-green. Something like (0,255,180) vs (0,70,0).

Also:

> values('(${ color })'

2020 and still no placeholders.
Goldman Sachs seems to think Google is paying Apple nearly $10 billion.

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/google-pays-apple-billio...

Google could easily support Android with $100m a year if that.
I wonder if a similar principle is at play when people throw links at each other in place of a debate
You have the distinction of being the most offensive person I’ve read on Hacker News.

Your flip summary of the Black Lives Matter movement lacks understanding and compassion.

Please refrain from posting about anything that matters to others. I fear you lack proper judgement.
Intersection of Physics and Math
Yes and many others. However the reach of the ones I listed is huge.
We have centuries of printing experience saying black text on white background is what works best.
This baffles me.

How do you tradeoff with learning and “doing” i.e writing code or putting what you have learnt into practice?

I can’t finish a technical book without getting the urge to implement
Why are there no live examples on the page. All I see is video presentations and some cached API response.

Is it a confidence problem? Are the OpenAI folks not confident on a single use case? Or did I miss the live demo somewhere?
Short version: Its not great but if you want your credits to transfer you go to a regionally accredited school. Its old and spent a large part of its history entrenching itself in the American education industry, therefore its automatically granted legitimacy.

There are schools with a shit curriculum that have regional accreditation. The reason it matters to Americans is because most large universities are more significantly more accepting of transferring credits that come from a regionally accredited school.

I've been to nationally and regionally accredited schools. My degree was from a top 200 school in the US. The classes I took at the "lesser" institution were significantly more rigorous and significantly more effective at teaching skills relevant to the major I was studying.

I've known several people that went to schools that have been sued or otherwise have terrible reputations for being predatory for profit schools like ITT and the University of Phoenix. Their coursework was frequently more difficult than mine.

To be fair though, those schools were sued partly because of their shady high pressure sales tactics and for tricking people into taking on massive amounts of debt to take classes. That's pretty scummy, but based on the experiences of my friends it seemed like they at least had legitimate work to do in order to graduate.

Note: I don't doubt that on average the regionally accredited schools have been more thoroughly vetted. I'm just saying accreditation is not even close to perfect so the only reason it matters in the US is because the credits are easily transferable.