skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one seems to be mentioning the lighting of the room you're in, inside/outside, or the time of day. Ambient light is one of the primary factors that make light or dark mode better at a particular moment. See redshift to make light mode more tolerable at night.
And yet iOS generates 80% more revenue than Android does[0]. If you want to make money, you can't ignore Apple.

[0] https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/03/apples-app-store-...
This isn't restricted to untraditional schools. At least one of our local state universities have stopped accepting credits from the community colleges due to the practice of transferring for the final couple years. Might be something similar going on here. It might be that they want the degree to represent the full 4 year experience at the school or it might just be the money. The cynic in me prefers the latter.
That's funny, an acquaintance of mine has been losing a bunch of weight with keto+intermittent fasting, and mentioned for some reason his libido goes through the roof in ketosis.
Police are civilians and should be treated as such, it shouldn't be any more legal for them to do something any other civilian would face substantial legal penalties for without facing the same penalties.
if only there was a way to accidentally amplify that.
Very few US companies operate only in the US as far as app development, and none of the statistics I've seen so far concern solely the US.

In any case, if you're making a social media app or other international app, an Android version is likely more important.
Build an acoustic guitar in your kitchen:
http://acousticguitarbuild.blogspot.com/
The New York Times Admits Key Falsehoods That Drove Last Year's Coup in Bolivia
The mycroft voice assistant has some tooling they used to create voices.

https://mycroft.ai/blog/mimic-2-is-live/
https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic2

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Festival Speech Synthesis has a tool for recording speech databases, and some tutorials for training festival voices.
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/research/projects/speechrecorder/
Abstract or not, it's completely qualitative / subjective. Easy to argue. Very easy. Try it: Pick a specific, abstract notion, name the institution, and talk to the students.
Facebook shows previews of pretty much everything you share a link to, so at a minimum they have to fetch the page/image to build those previews.
> I think it's more of a philosophy problem.

UX designers want money, and free software projects are rarely a paying gig.

GIMP collaborated with a UX architect between 2005 and 2012. That guy was paying for this stuff to his employees out of his pocket when he was able to.
Nop sorry, but I'm surprised that Flickr asks you for one! I wonder if it's some sort of geographical restriction.
Loads in Belgium ( no censorship )
When people start policing the police force, don't they become....the police (by definition, not legality)? And therefore susceptible to becoming just like the "idiots/assholes" they were empowered to deal with.

Certainly an interesting recursion problem.
Wow do I hate this sort of shallow cynicism... Let me guess: companies are always screwing the customer, politicians are all corrupt, the media is always lying, etc.?

At least verify the testable facts you're relying before assuming bad faith!

The only redeeming quality of your inane comment is how neatly it proves my point.
- Videos exploiting the adoption and subsequent "re-homing" of a disabled child YT: "OK let's keep those up!"

- Wait, someone made a personal choice to have anime boobs, and make decent product review videos? YT "Obscene! demonitized!" ... Think of the harm :P

Way to prioritize your powers of censorship for good there Youtube :P

Silicon valley is proving to be as regressive an arbiter of social mores as TV was before it, and newspapers and churches before that.
With remote work being more acceptable now, many of those jobs are likely to be shipped to Canada and India because of these upcoming immigration regulations.
Is this suggesting that only bad people get knocked off their horses? Or that everyone does.

If it's the former - do you believe the universe is keeping track of and making judgements on people?

If its the latter - would you rather not succeed at all?

Seems like an easy way to console oneself about feelings of jealousy/regret but i'm not sure how effective that would be for me. Feels better to focus energy elsewhere.
Maybe we're using different words for the same thing. But I've found that when I get "stuck" like that, it's because I'm trying to fit too much into my working memory, and I start losing track of it and am unable to recall parts of it, leading to confusion.

So I do what you say, except it's much more deliberate than just "slow down" and "re-read". I try to break the concepts down into chunks, and focus on being able to recall specific things about each chunk. First I convince myself that each chunk makes sense in isolation, and then what its "contract" is (how it interacts with related concepts and fits into the bigger picture). When I can easily recall both of those in a coherent way, I'm ready to move on. I use a variety of ways to practice recall, depending on whatever's most ergonomic (Anki, study sheet, deliberate practice, etc.). Sometimes I find that I lack enough understanding of other concepts to really understand a chunk, so I have to go recursively do the same thing for other concepts.

So I see it as more of a memory problem and not "understanding". I don't really know what "understanding" means, to me it's all just memory--memorizing why something is true/makes sense (by relating it to stuff I already know/memorized), and then memorizing how that thing fits into other contexts. If I can't load that stuff quickly into my working memory, then I don't "understand" it.
Ice Lake outperforms Zen2 in IPC but it can't run on higher clock speed (on efficiently) and can't ship many chips. Many of it is due to 10nm manufacturing.
Yeah, I don't know. The left needs to hold a mirror to themselves and realize that they are more and more becoming just a mirror-image of the right. The idea to "just let it all burn" is just so Trumpian. What the left hates about Trump's tendency to trample all over our international relationships and treaties—they're now advocating for in terms of destroying private property. It's an amazing double standard; and it's the very attitude that will get Trump reelected this November. A shame to watch.
Also option / result types as well which are super nice
I wonder what drove Microsoft to fo it differently (and wrongly), despite that GL had already solved this.
But is it enough to get me a visa to work in the US? I'm already a self-taught programmer, 5k is cheap to have the option of working in the US.
The definitive write up of their fears is in the book “Has Globalization Gone too Far?” by Dani Rodrick (1997).

It was not well received at the time, but sadly, it’s predictions have been proven correct over time.

Here’s a contemporary negative review of the book with a point by point refutation of its contents (it is painful to read with the benefit of hindsight): https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewconten...

Here’s a chronology of related protests, ending in Trump. You could read up on the individual events, I suppose:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trade-nafta-timeline-idUS...
> An expensive chair won't make you more productive or a better thinker/programmer/sysadmin/whatever.

It actually does. When you can standup without pain or position in it ways that support you correctly with “high end” features like forward tilt.

Specifically to the Aeron - they have a 12 year warranty and are useable and comfortable for as long as 15-20 years. Most Commodity office chairs are Made with filler materials that decompose and don’t hold their shape and particle boards that slowly degrade in the bolt holes compared to an all / mostly metal construction.

Also the components like the gas cartridge are better in the nicer chairs and survive moves better based on my experience.

To each their own; there are great chairs on the market for $100-200 but don’t disregard all the great things about high quality seating.
Ah sorry, I meant the previous city council, who had been doing a good job it seemed like at balancing the city's growth with the social problems that were becoming more evident at the time.
cable news, evening news, most news on TV. Its a weirdly common viewpoint, at least after the past 2 weeks, that law enforcement officers do not lie.
What is "high standard of living" anyway? How many yachts and airplanes is it? How many cars? Other modes of transportation? Average kilograms of stuff owned and used per person? Living space? How long you have to travel to work or how far? How much do you strictly have to work to live at that level, if linear scaling would be sufficient? How much energy, thermal and electrical is used to sustain and separately embodied in production of your stuff? Etc.

Once we define the threshold of high standard of living, we can optimize for it. This is literally when we say "nearly nobody can live as opulent as this" and can condemn waste. Feel free to pick say 90th percentile or something.
Not a bad choice really, even though this one is more about physics than math - but hey, what is theoretical physics if not math mostly, right?
Reminds me of something my complex analysis prof said with respect to some constant that it was unknown whether it was rational or irrational: “There’s no reason to think it’s rational, and statistically, the probability of any real number being rational is 0.”
Maybe I just don't get it, but this design seems impractical for systems that use the network alot.

I work on an app whose basic structure is

1. Receive data from a webhook (not controlled by me)
2. Make some HTTP requests based on data from 1
3. Send data to another HTTP API

The core of the logic is in step 2. How can I possibly have a functional core here? Step 2s behavior completely depends on the HTTP responses.
Peter Thiel said you can tell if a company is a monopoly by the way they talk about themselves:

“Anyone that has a monopoly will pretend that they're in incredible competition. If you're a non-monopolist, you will rhetorically describe your market as super small, you're the only person in that market.If you have a monopoly, you will describe it as super big, and there is lots of competition in it"
I have a related theory, which is that a prime differentiator between astounding life success and abject failure is which drugs you get addicted to.
That's what I'm finding. I started with one course because I was worried about time to study and time with my wife and child, but now I'm thinking I could do 2 courses probably without too much concern.

My only worry is the Math course. Not having gone to University or high school in 20 years I'm fearful. The other courses have been easy so far though, but like you I'm working on the field, so it's not so new to me.
What music do you listen to when you work?
Exactly. Making police a class above was a mistake from the beginning. Suddenly you have a class that can use violence arbitrarily against the other class with hardly any penalty unless the "lower" class makes a big protest about it. It's really horrible and is a perfect system for turning "sheepdogs" (people who want to protect others) into "wolves" (people who pray on others) through peer-pressure, secretiveness, and lack of accountability. And worse, it draws wolves in the first place.
Everything existed before all theories were created, duh.
This isn't a subjective ethics problem. It's a competence problem. If you can't formulate your own thoughts into a coherent statement (the purpose of learning to write) then you'll be useless to anyone that needs new coherent arguments.
You don’t have to show it to your professor.
About thirty minutes on a laptop and my hands/arms/elbows start to hurt :/
American Indian tribes thwarted in efforts to get coronavirus data
And if you’re the only one offering said service?...
GIMP is the only program in my Fedora 32 installation that still requires python2. I hope they will get rid of both GTK 2 and Python 2 soon.
I’m curious who would argue against there being a pandemic ? The prediction seems quite obvious just based off historical periodicity of pandemics.
the palette approach is a little reductive. we've built a solution in this space, a more robust approach would be to get the dominant colour, and from that colour brightness and tone extract the accent colour and the contrast colour by considering both distance from the dominant and extent on the image, that solves the problem of having a weighted palette ignoring, say, a red stitching because it's too small
30s is so young, though! If you don’t have kids, the world is still wide open to you!
From what I understand D ownership is based on function attributes which means it's enforced only across function calls and only as an opt-in. In Rust this is done across everything, so function basic blocks are also validated.
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Reading the comments in this thread, it seems like there is a real need for a version of this that focuses on being more rigorous and achieving regional accreditation.
This is under the assumption that you see college is a program of self-betterment and not busy work for receiving a degree that says you can have a middle-class job. It feels like even the universities themselves see it as the latter these days.
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worries? its the most accurate obvious observation
I think the media has been playing this up like crazy to try and get the alt-right to react. The alt-right consensus, at least on 4chan, is the absolute best thing for the alt-right to do to get the Democratic party to look stupid and inept and invite a voter backlash is to do nothing.
Can you just use a Yeasu G-5500 rotor?
Not sure anyone is "convinced", but yes, there are stories of uncertain believeability suggesting that there are people with guns at the "border" demanding ID to enter. Sounds dubious.

Also, that the Antifas are asking for protection money from businesses within the zone. Again, dubious.

But, if either of those things are happening, I'm pretty okay with putting an end to them, by whatever means necessary. Threatening Joe and Jane citizen with violence is not cool.
The article is talking about something called BPE but it's not defined anywhere. Chasing links I see it's about tokenization and how it's "weird".

> BPE tries to be efficient, so it doesn’t waste token slots on spaces if it doesn’t have to. A word is almost always preceded by a space, so instead of representing “ example text” as four tokens (space, “example,” space, “text”), it represents it as two:

> [(' Example', 17934), (' text', 2420)]

Apparently this is a problem because when feeding prompts to the system you will get different results.

> So far, seems innocuous, right? But what if you’re feeding a prompt into GPT-2? Unless you’re hip to this particular issue, you’ll probably type in something like

> “Example text”

> which becomes

> [('Example', 16281), (' text', 2420)]

> Compare this to the one above. Yes – instead of token #17934, with the preceding space, I’ve unwittingly fed in token #16281, without a preceding space.

Maybe someone should figure out how to write a neural network for tokenizing text in a more natural way since it seems like the tokenizer is hand crafted and is essentially a hyperparameter that can not be optimized with gradient descent.
A Bitter Election. Accusations of Fraud. and Now Second Thoughts
- Public school and forcing kids to go to school is incredibly harmful to children, parents, families, and society. Forcing children to go to school is completely unnecessary.

- Mutual credit is a superior monetary system to our current one in every way: An elastic money supply, no bank runs, access to credit for everyone, no inflation, decentralized with no central bank, no moral hazard from seigniorage.

- Advertising is a wonderful sustainable business model that benefits both the consumer and business. There is no privacy issue that causes anyone harm from advertising.

- Business with large or complete market share is not bad at all or harmful to consumers, and the only true monopoly comes from government legally protecting a business from competition.
The problem with US antitrust laws is that they ignore global competition.

Breaking up a Facebook or Google does not provide for more competition, it actually will provide less competition as another large global competitor with get even bigger by swallowing up their users.
I just change the brightness of the monitor twice a day.
I also alter ligatures and diacritics depending on the context— y, g, i, and t especially.
I have many, but perhaps too many so I will not write it on here right now. When I think of something, then I will write it somewhere, and then it can be read (I hope).
The most politically correct software project in the world
I love D but I think the GC is a good argument for Rust
That was and is always true, since the beginning of time.
Normally I bounce around from ambient/IDM to jazz to classical.

End of day Friday I put on my weekend playlist that’s mostly 90s/00s rock, like blink-182, Sum 41, STP, Incubus, Green Day, Taking Back Sunday, etc.
Satiety vs calories is everything. If you give people “all you can eat” bland boiled potatoes with no butter or salt and nothing else, they will not overeat. They will lose weight.

The same goes for rats. Give them all they can eat of bland nutritional rat pellets and they’ll maintain body weight. Give them Doritos and McDonald’s, on the other hand, and they’ll gain weight like crazy.

It should be a surprise to nobody that capitalism has optimized junk food to be as addictive and non-filling as possible.
Orthogonally to this, I also think that the code you write conditions the way you will update the code later, when adding features, fixing bugs or refactoring.

Code has two sides: executed code and edited code.

Both actions, executing and editing, obey some laws with respect to the resources these processes consume, such as time, (computer and human time) and space (RAM and file/LOC count).

Theories which detail how processes consume resources apply to both computer and human processes dealing with code, be it as a running program, in the text editor or when it comes to team management.

However you have to understand the results they give you depending on which operator executes the process you consider.

We humans are very slow when compared to computers and as a consequence architectural decisions can greatly influence the time it takes to maintain a code base. As compared to computers we can handle less complexity classes. Code that takes polynomial time to edit is out of reach. Code that takes linear time is the most frequent case but it's barely OK. Editorially linear code is just like computationally polynomial programs: although for the sake of the mathematical argument we ignore them, constant factors do matter.

This is more important I think than mitigating risk at the tech stack level (far above, from the management floor) since the benefits you gain in compressing code (architecturally speaking of course) outweighs tech stack balancing.
Lol we’re all thinking the same thing here aren’t we?
I really like your series, especially your workflow tips and anecdotes. I could do without being interrupted mid-video to ask for my email, though.
I think the remedy would be to force them to sell data as a utility. This would help with the anti-consumer ad auctions where there is no information outside of google.

It would also make it so they couldn’t put their own services as easily above organic search because organic search data would be available.
Engineers learn languages because of success stories by other companies—not by the merits of the syntax or one-off tricks like compiling itself in 5 seconds.

The fact that Firefox uses Rust for the browser engine or that Dropbox uses Rust for the sync engine is the kind of thing that gets me interested.
> The media coverage of it is WILD
> People on the internet are convinced it's protected by armed guards and people are dying of hunger and instead its...like a music festival campground

This seems like propaganda in its own right. With the exception of Fox and Sky, most news coverage I see on YouTube is neutral or positive:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=capitol+hill+au...

Most mainstream coverage of protests in general seems to be totally biased in favor of the protestors and against the police. The only big channels that show anything going in the other direction are, again, Fox and Sky.
I'm surprised with full 60fps 4k support. PS4 doesn't even have fixed 1080p 60fps support for all games...
Really like the controller design, seeing it besides the new console, it looks even better. I found the console design a little strange and bold at first. But I kinda like it now.

For the games, looking forward to Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Sackboy: a Big Adventure, Oddworld: Soulstorm, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Godfall, Demon Souls and Horizon: Forbidden West. But that cat game got me intrigued, lol.
So normal citizens should be able to put cuffs on other citizens? Put them into a car and drive off?
>White text scatters over the iris on a dark background, so it’s harder to read the copy. I’ve even read it in UX articles.

That doesn't make sense. Why does light from white text scatter, but not light from white background?
bit rot? 1 off anywhere in a DNS request could slam someone
Sonic Pi might interest you if you don’t know it already. It’s an alternative to DAWs where you use ruby code to make music

Here’s a demo https://youtu.be/KJPdbp1An2s
Because Rust is new and shiny.

People who use Rust aren't using it to solve real world problems, they're using it to scratch a novelty itch.

D is a tragedy in my opinion. It's an excellent language that just doesn't fit the political needs of any of the big players.

We have Swift which is a worse version of C#, we have Go, we have Java. Why don't we have a single language so that we can do cross platform development and abandon web browsers and javascript? Because politics. Every company needs to toot its own horn and suck up smart intelligent people so that they don't create a real competitor, and so we have a dozen languages that share 95% of the features and are all incompatible with one another and no one sane enough to say this is crazy, I'm going to take my FAANG money, move to a place with cheap rent and put an end to this madness.

It's only a game developer of all people, Jonathan Blow, that's doing it and his creation is a C++ replacement for games, not general purpose software. Sigh.
The scary thing is that this protest is foreshadowed by the WTO protests also orchestrated by 'left-leaning' groups, and now we have a president -- Trump -- who is very much against the WTO, except he's bad now because they've moved beyond that.

The other interesting comparison here is the varied response to this and the Malheur National wildlife refuge occupation.
Because there's a movement called "Rewrite everything in Rust"
I don't believe coffee (good or bad) contributed to this article.
I would speculate no. It's not a well recognized degree and has little history or experience to back it up.
That seemed to be what they were describing, but with dynamic dependency detection via introspection.
The entirety of the universe is contained in the preceding two comments.
Its also how Vatican City exists as a sovereign state, and also many disputed territories that enjoy peaceful inaction as long as nobody brings it up

so if you squat long enough anything is possible.