skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even dark grey helps save battery on AMOLED displays: https://www.xda-developers.com/amoled-black-vs-gray-dark-mod...

Also, there's been conflicting research if blue light is actually harmful
Ah I see! I didn’t realize this accreditation distinction you’re making. My googling from here makes much more sense. Thanks.
I think that they should mostly avoid CSS when needed, and then it should use the default colours configured by the user. But when they need to specify colours in their document, then they should specify all of them (specifying only some colours and not others causes problems) and use the "prefers-color-scheme" command to implement it. It is then the user's job if they like dark mode or not. If you do not like dark mode, then do not enable it in your web browser.
Oh I assumed it required quite a bit of chess knowledge and skill. But I assume what differentiates a good from great player isn't unassisted chess ability. Basically I'm wondering how well do correspondence ratings track with unassisted ratings. It was my understand they don't track really well at the higher levels of correspondence chess.
First US woman to walk in space, dives to Earth’s lowest point
Well that chart speaks for itself - Perceptions about who contributed to the victory have clearly changed. With an almost direct attribution transfer from USSR to USA; while UK remains static. I can't help but feel this has in part to do with the rise and rise of post-war America and the relative decline of USSR/Russia.

Feeds into the old adage "the victors write history" - clear example of the fact that this speaks to the broader cultural narrative over a span of time and not just discrete points of victory.
Unemployment Rate for Computer Occupations Fell in May
Should this not be front-page news on every site?
Tip - if you are going to run the server 24/7 best to use an external USB=>sata HDD instead of a flash card. Did the flash route and after a while (multiple resets) the card just died, flash does not go well for unexpected power cycling. Best to use a mechanical drive better resiliency and recovery.

I used Raspbian (*versions wernt important), mainly I'd choose a distro that works for the versions of server software that you want to keep updated (i.e. older=Ubuntu, newer=Linux Mint)
ResNet lead authors were from UC San Diego and the Transformer was a collaboration with U Toronto. There absolutely is innovation coming from industrial labs, but industrial ties to academia run deep -- especially at Stanford-born Google and affiliated organizations.
That's amazing. Any idea what piece of middleware on your own server was doing that?
But how is it a reliable indicator of any sort of failure if it doesn’t always fail? Doesn’t it erode trust?
So, Correspondence Learning? Like http://www.open.ac.uk/?
Are you maybe overstating that? 8k should be worst case 25% the speed of 4k, so a single 2080 Ti should get you there in eg the new Modern Warfare.
Sorry, the lol was meant as a reply to ‘ One could argue that GitLab gets more and more mature but somehow still has Peach Fuzz.’
Some other minor improvements that made my shortlist:

> On a Unix system, if the kill command or kill system call is used to send a SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, or SIGFPE signal to a Go program, and if the signal is not being handled via os/signal.Notify, the Go program will now reliably crash with a stack trace. In earlier releases the behavior was unpredictable.

> Allocation of small objects now performs much better at high core counts, and has lower worst-case latency.

Plus some usability improvements to the flag lib. I’d love to see this get closer and closer to spf13’s, taking the best and most stable parts. I love spf13’s contributions to the Go community, and a lot of these ideas deserve to be in stdlib in my view.

Anyways, I love how each line item in these updates is a small and unambiguous step forward. There’s something very satisfying about tools that systematically get better with every release.
I took a semester of courses from UofP. It had a wonderful diversity of ages, genders, and nationalities. Interacting with those people through peer assignments was interesting, and I applaud what they're trying to do.

Ultimately, however, I found the entire thing way too tedious - full of the classic "make-work" and silly hoops. The level of pedagogy was very basic.

I dream of (and am actively working towards) a day where the computer's potential as a new educational medium is fully realized, rather than the current parade of attempts at transplanting a brick and mortar classroom into a remote asynchronous delivery system.
Let's wait a while and see how it ends.
ugh why is ipv6 impossible to understand :/
What does “neoliberal” mean in this context?
Always happy to learn about more good ways to use PostgreSQL!
Well, if filtering for UA really makes things difficult for bad actors, they do suck but more in as a technical opinion than an moral statement.
Algorithms is a separate course.

https://my.uopeople.edu/mod/book/view.php?id=45606&chapterid...

Note that this syllabus is somewhat out of date. The second textbook link is a bad link. I can't find any material on the (unofficial) CS Discord about updates to the course.
As costal erosion becomes a bigger problem, I wonder if there will be a lot more geo-textiles used on the coast line to manage it. Textiles made of plastic that will eventually just wash into the oceans.
Where I live on the Sea of Japan I am constantly finding all kinds of things washed up from China, Korea and Russia (along with all the fishing gear). There is very little I could do locally to clean up the beaches here.
One of the more... interesting... conspiracy theories about this is that Donald Trump is trying to punish Google for being insufficiently supportive and helping the business of his noted political ally... Jeff Bezos?
Interesting strategy to deprecate x86 features, just make them slower and wait for compiler and language developers to avoid slow instructions like fire.
Possibly the original authors benchmarked against CPUs of the time and found that multiple pauses worked best.
For most of my life I would have unthinkingly attacked any attacker of the traditional foundations of mathematics (including the standard definitions in Analysis, Measure Theory, etc). But after reading Michael Huemer's "Approaching Infinity"[1], I am now sympathetic with your skepticism.

A shockingly large amount of pure mathematics is asserted (with either no or little argument) as the best foundational groundwork for numbers, infinities, measures, etc. Digging a little deeper shows much of the dogma to be a dubious foundation for mathematics, leading to absurdities like Cantor's function (which 99.9% of math students marvel at, instead of more appropriately wondering "wait a minute -- maybe this means our foundations are messed up?").

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Approahttps://www.amazon.com/Approach...
I thought that developers would eventually be hit hard by this.

If anything, the recruiters seem to have stepped up their work. My LinkedIn is awash in jobs. My inbox is getting something every 1-2 days. Jobs I applied for even a year ago are now getting back to me.
Yea, I forgot to mention it, but it's the same way for all of the major library systems in Ohio as well. My local library is connected to Dayton's system, but I also have virtual cards for Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati. It makes finding audio books much easier.
> Power struggle between teachers and students via...

Uh, did I say that, or were you intuiting? Not exactly a learner's approach :D

> Plagiarizing some work doesn't really hurt the work, it hurts you.

Except when it benefits you? This is the subjective perception I was talking about. That their mindset differs does not instantly make them wrong, especially when you can throw a dime out the window and hit an educated professional who falls short of the best (heaven forbid the "perfect") ethical standard.

Ethics is, and should be, hard. If you put words into my mouth, is your position ethical? This stuff requires the ability to stick around, listen, learn, and stay in the game, moreso if you plan to claim the high ground.
An assertion that one court somewhere on the planet erred in a spectacularly ridiculous way isn’t evidence of anything.
You can try this little essay by Stillwell: http://www.math.jhu.edu/~smahanta/Teaching/Spring10/Stillwel....
GPT-3 and Arithmetic
At some ratio yes. Otherwise we shouldn't enforce any laws, and I don't think a state without any laws enforced is a viable one.

How many escaped drug dealers are worth one Breonna Taylor, depends completely on how violet the drug dealer is. Non-violent drug dealers, there isn't a number. But as the drug dealer gets more violent it requires fewer.
Do you know of any android app that I can take notes of what is on the screen?
Ah, it's not on the curriculum, it's an elective: https://www.uopeople.edu/programs/cs/degrees/computer-scienc...
Yes, if you freeze deps you can just install to the system paths in a Docker container. But most people who I've distributed Dockerized ansible git repos to don't read the README and don't try to run it in Docker, so they flail around trying to get it running without a venv or anything, until I finally convince them to just use the container (they're not familiar with containers either so it's almost as much of a slog).

I hate technology.
Do Nature's spinoffs have any prestige any more? Anything in a Nature spinoff related to batteries comes across as PR Newswire level material. If that.
> media that treats cop lies uncritically

Which media is that?
The point I'm trying to make is that compartmentalizing things is good, because compromise happens. Don't bank where you browse and email.
> many people are personally not benefiting much from the tech-boom in the area

Gosh how can you be so jealous of people you're willing to destroy their stuff. It's the same kind of xenophobia that fuels anti-immigrant rhetoric. People upset that those moving to 'their turf' happen to do better than them.
> Most of the parts of the bureaucracy that I think are useless are the parts that are non-negotiable from a legal perspective.

When we look at e.g. higher education, for a place that's particularly guilty of this:

Administrative costs have grown to be approximately equal to instructional costs at universities, from about a quarter of expenditures in 1980.

In essence, our desire to prevent waste and to ensure that money is spent the way we'd like has created an ever-ballooning set of administrative work. It might be better to tolerate a somewhat greater share of instructional and research expenditures being wasted or spent in non-ideal ways.

Any time there's a small bit of waste or money spent in ways we don't approve of, the impulse is to create rules and administrative procedures to prevent it from happening again. But this effectively creates a perpetual overhead for what may have been a one-time, very minor problem.
> This has more to do with far less sedentary lifestyles than sugar and processed food. A calorie is a calorie.

This antiquated trope is like HSV; it just won't go away.

Edit:

To clarify; consider the effects of {hypo,hyper}thyroidism, which include weight-gain and weight-loss, respectively. Regardless of diet.

Now consider the fact that what you eat affects how the endocrine system functions, similar to how thyroid disease wreaks havoc with it.

That's just one example, and I'm no expert, but have read some books on the subject. Another I vaguely recall is the pituitary gland getting damaged or otherwise malfunctioning causing uncontrolled weight-gain regardless of diet.

It's these edge cases of malfunctioning human bodies that helped illuminate how its energy storage is moderated with hormones. It didn't take much to confirm different foods trigger different hormone responses once scientists knew what hormones to look for.
The first one is an attribute of homo sapiens, but not other, extinct, humans like neanderthal. Spearthrowing appears to be an adaptation that is unique to our kind of human. Sportsball fans everywhere rejoice!
For prints Costco and Walmart have some crazy low prices and they often advertise them as archival quality as well.
Anyone can deliver video. It is just cost prohibitive unless someone else - in this case Google - is willing to subsidize it as basically a break even business.

Is anyone really clamoring for another mobile OS? Manufacturers can already basically bastardized Android anyway they wish.
Except when their boss hired them because they're clever and can solve extant work problems (huge workload) via a happily-localized scope of concern. I've seen this easily placed back on the employer. Non-FOSS versions happen in various industries all the time.

You can make the argument that legal teams exist to relieve the very potent pressure of this uncomfortable situation for those on both ends. There are truths here that flow right up to the top and all the way to the bottom. Attacking those perspectives is too hard. Better in some ways to set up social norms around it. Thus, lawyers, the concept of win-win negotiation, etc. Just when your anger is boiling over you learn that the C-levels want you to drop the moral crusade.
truly all of the people that receive college degrees and out earn their high school analogues bring so much value to their degrees... i think you have the causality backwards.
could’ve renamed “of the People” to something in Latin to make it sound more legitimate.

University of Populi

Homines University
All antitrust lawsuits contain a narrative. There will be at least two narratives, one of which will be Google's.

As for "reality" you would need to be more specific what you mean.

What if someone said, "Who cares if they are slicing a market to fit a narrative?"

Are you saying the authors who are "slicing the market to fit a narrative" are not allowed to do that? Or are you just saying you do not like that they are doing that? Or both?
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The mainstream media is often more factual and less biased than alternative media.

The modern web is superior by almost any objective measure, including quality of content, to the web of the 90s. Yes, this even includes content on services and social media.

RMS got what he deserved.

Significant whitespace is just a slightly messier form of brackets using non-printing characters. The elegance is an illusion.

Languages which compile to javascript are just linters with delusions of grandeur.

Firefox > Chrome

Lisp has syntax.

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Are you willing to share more about what you're working on? It sounds interesting.

One language app I tried for a few minutes was a VR app that put you, for example, on a train, and you had to have a relevant conversation. It was cool, not sure how effective because the GearVR I used at the time made me sick too quickly.
You didn't answer my question. That pretty much says all that needs to be said.
I'm there not because I need it either. I graduated from a software bootcamp and I've already been working for 2 yeast, so I'm good. However I found out UoPeople and researched them a bit e.g. called a local college 's HR department to find out if they'd recognize someone with a degree from there to teach and they said yes. My next thought was to review the Visa process for a couple countries; this is my primary interest and motivation. None of them specified where the Degree came from only that it was a sanctioned/Accredited institution.

So I don't really care about the details. I learn more, great, but otherwise I'm happy because I just want to be able to apply to get into Europe or Asia as a software developer in the future and not worry about whether I have enough points, etc to pass the rigor.

All of that being said, the first course was a gong show with lots of academic violations, but like all things in life it's what you put into it and I plan on graduating with Honors, so even if it's a weak degree I'll still be able to respect my work and effort.
Nice to see this here. Maybe the "hacker" in HN is returning.

Wish I was in Seattle to go check it out. I love this kind of thing.
The city has put in Port-a-potties and there are maps of nearby businesses friendly and with restrooms. Iirc, there is also some sort of plan for trash collection.

The coronavirus bit still isn’t good, but the city has learned for the hygiene bits.
Well I am a brown man who's lived in America my entire life, and I've never been harassed by police. So there you have it... eyewitness testimony. And yet somehow I suspect the people that believe that America is a police-state dystopia won't change their mind one bit.

It's almost like ... anecdata isn't trustworthy...

EDIT: downvoted for pointing out the hypocrisy.
Unfortunately not here in Seattle.
> and a job well done is its own reward right?

Sure, if the life you want is to be at a desk for 8 hours a day regurgitating your superior's existing biases back at them, go ahead. I find employers much prefer someone that can attack a real problem and think critically about potential solutions from multiple levels of analysis. If all you're good at is chewing someone else's cud and spitting it out with a slightly different word order then you're useless to people that actually want to solve problems.

And, sorry to say, credentials are counting for less and less every year. If employers have to take a year to train you to think critically, then what use does a credential serve as a filter? I wonder why that's happening...
This one is amazing and not to be missed: http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm.
So, you are okay with people violating other peoples licenses and ignoring copyright. Gotcha.
What did you contact them for? Just curious as I've almost always heard they're like Google and impossible to get a human response from.
That’s fair. I really like the contrast. Dark side of the moon is nice, but it’s always left me wanting more.
Homelessness is a complex problem which I believe namely stems from psychological and substance abuse disorders. I think there is likely a relationship between the amount of income inequality in a society and the amount of homelessness.

I do believe that we should support the homeless populations of our cities; but if you're familiar with Seattle's homelessness problems in particular, you'll know that the city has essentially thrown literally hundreds of millions of dollars at the problem to little effect.

I don't believe Seattle should follow a path of growth-at-all-costs and ignore the social problems the city has; but the city council here is staunchly anti-business, and that carries a risk-too, like the original commenter said—take growth for granted and you can end up like Detroit. In that situation, no one prospers, and everyone suffers; which we definitely don't want. It's a fine line to walk. That's all I'm saying.
this url (maybe they updated it) does not require an account
But isn't this abstract notion of improvement supposed to be the entire point of education? It feels to me like education's purpose is undermined by its role as a prerequisite for a middle-class career. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. People are deeply different in their world perceptions.

I think you will love the Chinese saying of 'you can you up, no can no bibi'.

It does have a point I'll admit. But then we also need to consider the consequences of having such a perspective in the relationship between those who rule and those who are ruled. Most things are double edged swords. :)
Though the content is free, having all public domain art amassed is a useful service and I too would like an API. I'd even pay for it!
Yes, DigitalOcean offers S3-compatible storage: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/. However, they use a different pricing model than Amazon S3: they charge $5/month for 250GiB (additional storage is $0.02/GiB) + outbound data transfer for the first 1024GiB is free, then $0.01/GiB.
We're talking about US antitrust law and its enforcement in this thread. And in the US market iOS is the priority for app developers.
> I'm confused about what the remedy is supposed to be, or what outcome the AGs are seeking.

Further down the article this is mentioned:

> If the federal government is in fact in the beginning stages of antitrust action against Google, what should we expect to see publicly?

> They’ve said that they’re going to file a complaint in the summer, which is really quick. So that would be obviously something to watch. And then the states are going to presumably file a complaint also at some juncture, probably after that. So then we will see what those complaints say, what kind of conduct they allege as being anti-competitive. Or perhaps the federal government doesn’t file a complaint, but they settle. They say, “Well, here are the six things we didn’t like, but you’ve changed your behavior, and so therefore that’s remedied the lost competition and we’re not going to bring a case.”

The situation that they are trying to address is a novel one and will likely require a novel solution. The AG's are not business people; their interests are in protecting their constituents from harm caused by monopolistic players in the market. How that is to be done, remains unclear.

I imagine the prosecutors will learn more about Google during the course of this process and they will come up with a solution that would allay their concerns.

If it looks a bit like bullying, it kind of is. The Government is the other pillar of power and steps in occasionally when its interests (usually things relating to the betterment of society, not always) need to be protected. It has the power to control the destiny of corporations that grow too big and "abuse" their power (whatever that might mean). This is how society works; if corporations operated with unfettered control over everything, society would quickly degrade into a dystopian hellhole (this is unfortunately already happening in the US, see the freeze on minimum wages at the federal level).
Given the age of the card, it's most likely a reference to the first intifada which was notable for widespread throwing of stones by the Palestinian.
I wrote a tutorial a while back on how to do this in Postgres using the Google Cloud Vision API in case its useful for anyone..

https://medium.com/@adamgross_6978/getting-started-with-json...
Thanks!

Yes, you can always reduce problems in P or in NP to a TSP. (In this case, I didn't see the reduction immediately, hence my question.)

But a reduction to the general TSP is basically never useful, since general TSP is so hard to solve. (Perhaps the reduction is useful, when you don't know whether your problem is even in NP or perhaps more complicated, yet.)
> The media coverage of it is WILD

Yep. I live three blocks south of CHAZ and it's so overblown. Conservative family from the east-coast have told me they're very worried for me, and I check fox news and see images from "Seattle" of parking lots of cars on fire. Those images were from Minneapolis last month, not even from Seattle.

As another nearby commenter said, last week when the police were here gassing us, throwing loud bombs at protestors at 1am, and having 24/7 helicopters directly overhead, it was hard to sleep. We could feel the gas blocks away. Ever since the police vacated the precinct and "CHAZ" started, things have been so peaceful and safe in this community.
As an outside of US person, I won't expect US car manufacturer going to record top sales on all over the world. In EV era, I expect Tesla would get BMW position but not Volkswagen/Toyota.
This! I would love to see google broken up and admittedly dislike the company. But I think that they are declining on their own.
Robinhood Convinced Millennials to Trade Their Way Through a Pandemic
A White Woman, Racism and a Poodle
if it's anything like occupy wall street then it will be abandoned when burger king stops letting them use their bathroom
Don't threaten me with a good time!
Your blog is awesome! I'm really glad you commented here, or I wouldn't have found it. I even forwarded your most recent post to some friends.