skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...

The demonstration, an irregular event created by the demonstrators, nevertheless takes place near the city centre, intended for very different uses. The demonstrators interrupt the regular life of the streets they march through or of the open spaces they fill. They ‘cut off these areas, and, not yet having the power to occupy them permanently, they transform them into a temporary stage on which they dramatise the power they still lack.

The demonstrators’ view of the city surrounding their stage also changes. By demonstrating, they manifest a greater freedom and independence – a greater creativity, even although the product is only symbolic – than they can ever achieve individually or collectively when pursuing their regular lives. In their regular pursuits they only modify circumstances; by demonstrating they symbolically oppose their very existence to circumstances.

...

Either authority must abdicate and allow the crowd to do as it wishes: in which case the symbolic suddenly becomes real, and, even if the crowd’s lack of organisation and preparedness prevents it from consolidating its victory, the event demonstrates the weakness of authority. Or else authority must constrain and disperse the crowd with violence: in which case the undemocratic character of such authority is publicly displayed. The imposed dilemma is between displayed weakness and displayed authoritarianism.

..."

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj/1968/no03...
At a minimum get the following list of sentences recorded in her voice, http://www.festvox.org/cmu_arctic/cmuarctic.data

Make sure the recordings are of a good quality. This will ensure that you will have a baseline TTS of her voice at the minimum.
Prusa 3D printers are open source. Their main product over the last several years has been the MK2 and MK3 line of printers. Millions of clones have been sold by well-equipped Chinese companies. The clones sell for 1/3 the price, but make some cost cutting measures to achieve low cost. The result is that there is plenty of room in the market for the first party company and the clones.

Your suggestion that we outlaw business is clearly meant to be inflammatory, but it's unnecessary. Businesses like Prusa seem to be just fine without using IP restrictions.

> Why would a dr want to work on a solution for cancer instead of just treating people if the value gain is the same?

I would put it to you that you've misunderstood why people do things that they do. I am making a 3D printable off road robot and associated computer vision stack completely open source because I want to. It feels good to make something I think others will benefit from. I am able to cover my material needs with part time work, and I put a huge amount of effort in to my computer vision research so I can help contribute to solving tough robotics problems. The endeavor has cost me thousands of dollars in supplies and truly hundreds of hours of my own time. But it's worth doing.

You mentioned a desire to "protect your work". Well your work is not under attack when someone observes what you've done and reproduces it. Your work is still there, it's fine. But to advocate for IP restrictions is to say that you think I should collaborate with you to stop anyone else from copying your work. And I think that's a bad idea. Closed source technology is a big unchanging black box that stops up the works. We can make the cost of living dramatically cheaper for all people on Earth, but not with thousands of little black boxes everywhere. Imagine a huge open source software project that relies on a bunch of closed source modules. Developing improvements would be a pain. Why should we tolerate the same for the very means of reproduction of our society?
The new and shiny has already moved on to Pony, Zig, or whatever.
I've seen this myself, and I think this sort of moral relativism is pretty bad for society in general. You can spin a story of victim hood or power dynamic to justify anything unethical. What should be a fair transaction becomes a game of who can backstab first and who is left holding the bag. This I think leads to a breakdown in the fabric that keep things stable eventually.
Thanks! As long as the seeds grow, someone will enjoy the result. :)
Have all the business owners whose storefronts are now covered with graffiti ceded their properties to the group voluntarily?
There isn’t really any reason a first world lifestyle isn’t sustainable for everyone. France emits half the carbon per person and has a great standard. Similarly, higher lifestyle is tied to fewer children, and therefore less carbon emissions.

If there was one thing that we could do to increase sustainability, it would be to Increase quality of life as fast as possible
I imagine without any discipline though you just get a consistent set of tests that no-one has the bandwidth to go and fix or make unflaky. I wonder if flakiness of tests correlates with discipline to paying down tech debt and improving testing
I like the premise and I believe education should be a basic right. Someone should be able to pursue knowledge to the highest level and receive recognition for having done that. Now so often large corporations will not hire someone unless they went to a very expensive school, or at least their chances are much lower. So I like the overall idea here and I hope it will grow in strength
Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen is an anarchist commune too. [1] The police have largely left it to its own devices since 1971. They show up from time to time as the political whims change. Their green light district is something to behold, with the street vendors and their bricks of hash.

I've been a few times, quite lovely, would recommend.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania
one of our local state universities have stopped accepting credits from the community colleges

Do you remember which state and university?
Headless?

In the Features section of the xrdp GitHub project page is this:
"Connect to a Linux desktop using RDP from anywhere (requires xorgxrdp Xorg module)"

Does this imply that serving from a headless Linux machine is not possible like we can with vncserver instances?
Why would they want 30 years of archived websites?
I can’t argue with that. I think the syntax highlighting is also part of it. It’s hard to have vivid, readily meaningful colors against a background that is washing everything out. Shades of dark text just aren’t as compelling. Come to think of it, that’s probably why most light themes are “solarized”. I guess you can only go so bright.
>Customize your device for your comfort.

I think the better advice is, customize your environment for your comfort.

Often the reason why people use dark mode is that they use their devices in badly lit environments. It's not a good idea to stare into a bright monitor in a dark room, and the dark mode is arguably the wrong fix for the problem. Reading in dimly lit rooms is known to cause headaches and eye strain and should generally be avoided.

If someone really needs to work in a dark environment tools like flux/redshift are a better solution.
Bro I appreciate your reply and I want to remind you this is a wildly unpopular opinions thread so I'd encourage you to try to look at things from a different angle than playing the "I disagree" card which carries no merit here whatsoever.

As a hint I'd like to convey that the blazer is actually a dress down apparel compared to the outfits it replaced and the suit is designed as the ultimate comfort and convenience garment so if you can't feel comfortable in a suit and assume therefore it's impossible to for anyone to be comfortable in one, maybe you just haven't found the right tailor you know?

Which goes to my point that people don't understand what dressing up even means let alone how to do it.
Recent events cast doubt on your judgment of the government there. Unlike e.g. New York they have dealt somewhat effectively with the pandemic. Seattle was hit first yet seems to have brought the situation under control with fewer deaths than other American cities. At the very least, they didn't force covid-positive patients into old folks' homes.
> To make an argument by analogy the things you're analogizing have to be at least somewhat analogous. These plainly aren't.

Plainly to you, but perhaps your mind is just overly constrained when it comes to analogies? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy

Captain is to ship as board member is to ______?

Captain is to helm as board member is to ______?

Captain is to first officer as board member is to _____?
This is a relatively new CSS property I hadn't heard of yet.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
Here's a story from the San Francisco Chronicle on saving Stephen Hawking's voice: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/The-Silicon-Vall...
Black man arrested while exercising
Baltimore police are not exactly inactive, they are more like an organized gang (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/b...).
Just to note, majority of online CS programs I've seen, even many from state schools, seem to have less math courses than traditional programs.
>[...] This causes your lens to distort slightly, thus making the edges of the white text appear to be fuzzy or bleed into surrounding characters

The effect you're describing is correct, but the mechanism isn't. Aperture (pupil) size directly affects how focused the image is. The smaller the aperture, the sharper the image is. As an extreme example, if your aperture is a single point (a pinhole camera), the image can be focused without a lens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture#Maximum_and_minimum_a...

>I couldn’t find a scientific source on this, but a couple articles called it the “Halation effect”.

Articles describing this seems to say it's caused by the film medium, rather than being an optical effect.
I thought this was going to be about how coffee is a consistent color so you can white balance your customers uploads by asking them to photograph coffee in their ambient lighting.
I read the article with the same skepticism. That’s why I quoted it. I did not mean my quote to imply agreement.

The article seemed like police fan fiction, or social science fiction. It describes events that may have happened for reasons of causality and reality; they just as likely happened for narrative impact and viral effect. I try to assume good faith but the context is so unverifiable as to be satirical.

It’s not beyond the pale, however, and that is worrying. This could have happened, and even worse things have been done by law enforcement in America, things which haven’t had as much airtime as this post. That is the true tragedy, and that is the kernel of truth in the post, regardless of its veracity.
Same. Nothing was more gut-wrenching than watching the flash bombing and gassing of peaceful protestors from our rooftop. Something felt so unconstitutional and fascist about it.
Random question: what's the word for propaganda in chinese? I am also chinese but can only speak with poor vocab. Google translating it yields 宣传, which is a word that I do know but it means something more like "publicity" which loses all the negative connotation of the word propaganda.

I just want to make sure it's not a common mistranslation and that people aren't talking past each other. One side is saying the government is actively lying in order to manipulate people. And the other side might be interpreting as the government working on their public image... which is uh a lot more reasonable when put that way.

Funny how language shape the way we think.
I can't imagine US being all that significant.

Biden, Trump and various members of both camps command more than enough attention through their own Twitter accounts.

Likewise pushing political agendas is largely superfluous given you can just lobby politicians directly without needed public support.
There's a more recent map. It's a lot busier, but looks like they're building out.

https://capitolhillautonomous.zone/life.html#pid=23
If science says I'd be more productive with a light theme, then we need better science.

"On a biological level, our eyes prefer the contrast between a light background and dark foreground."

On a biological level, our eyes prefer not to stare at a light source all day every day. Yet here we are.
That’s somewhat correct

But at least for email/calendar backend its exchange

The internal replacement clients for calendar and other things are killer...have yet to find replacements

For the most part though they use Facebook internally for messaging and regular communication (technically now Worplace but before it was just Facebook)

Email is really just for external folks
It looks....empty. Thanks for taking these - looks nothing like the media portrays it.

BTW - love the church picture (I think it’s the one in Spain?)
That's an assumption. Severing the financial tie might not necessarily fully sever the operational relationship. Obviously Google would be pushing that narrative hard, but it would be relatively easy to push back and say, "Separate companies with a non-exclusive relationship would still be lucrative and so the two companies that result from this action aren't going to give that up just to spite consumers/regulators."
I thought this article was going to point out that something had been discovered that challenged our belief about the way light influences our own circadian rhythm—nope! Dark mode for me is imperative, since I use my devices at night, and want my body to stay aligned to it's internal biological clock as closely as possible. Pretty significant omission.
Even with Obama in office...

Ha! This is a better jest now than it was ten weeks into his administration!
Yes, it is. Not in defanged US antitrust law, but in reality.
Huh, without taking a position, I get a lot different impression of those numbers than you. 23 billion profit against 31 billion dollars in revenue implies a 190% profit margin. And I wonder if those numbers even fully account for the effect of Android on their dominance in other areas. I think most companies would love such a generous profit margin.
Lol, the person you're replying to never said, nor implied that.

I'm not trying to knock you, but your comment reminds me of the type of exchanges where one person says says "men do a lot of work", and the other person replies "are you saying women are lazy?"
Google already does this, bolstered by their monopoly. You used to be able to listen to Youtube videos with the screen off without paying them.
It has reflections of the Summer of Love and 'Human Be Ins'. Instead of racism, the common cause was the Vietnam War. Instead of CHAZ, the Haight Ashbury.

From the descriptions of Seattleites (sorry) in the thread, it seems there may be more to compare than contrast:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Love

Have we been here before?
I have a genuine curiosity about GitLab as a business:

Are they actually growing much more in the mindset of developers since GitHub started doing some things right?

I have personally always wanted alternatives and GitLab* is a good one, but the reason I can not say they are a great one is because somehow* their story to me feels too much "against GitHub" than their own story.

GitHub made a lot of mess and eventually they undid some or just enough that they still retain the lion's share of public repos/projects. This matters a lot because community is great power, whoever holds it, holds key to future mindshare.

I want GitLab to be a larger part of the developers mindset everywhere, but I am not sure that is happening at the moment. Why not? If my assumptions are wrong, that is also acceptable to me, would like to see some signals.

* typo fixed
Colour is orthogonal to brightness for LCD screens.
https://www.xda-developers.com/amoled-black-vs-gray-dark-mod...

According to this article there is a difference (between grey and black), but it is very small?
Re: Your Edit (Note: Didn't downvote you.)

They can't "take it all the way." If they removed the requirements (e.g., English proficiency, high school diploma equivalent), they wouldn't be accredited.

See: Section VIII. D.

https://www.deac.org/UploadedDocuments/Handbook/Accreditatio...
I'm not saying that at all. But looking at a feature matrix or hearing from a fan what the great parts of a language are isn't enough to convince me to adopt it.

If it's been around for 2 decades and hardly has any adoption by large companies[0] I personally am not willing to learn it (unless that changes).

I'm not necessarily using adoption as a proxy for quality either. If there isn't any meaningful adoption it's not like I can join a company to write it or have an easy time convincing my manager to try it. It could be the greatest language on earth but if I can't write it then it doesn't matter.

[0]: https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html
Presume that my accomplishments stand on my own, and the only thing getting in my way is that I don't qualify for a VISA under NAFTA. What I'd need would be a

> Baccalaureate or Licenciatura degree; or Post-Secondary Diploma or Post Secondary Certificate and three years' experience.

Now you and I know this is pretty much just a sheet of paper, but what's the cheapest/easiest way for someone who already has professional accomplishments to get that sheet of paper?
To understand the difference between a small pupil and a large one, it's useful to understand how "aperture" settings work on a camera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture

Specifically, bright light results in a small pupil which allows for better focus. And low light results in a large pupil which reduces focus.
What does the title refer to?
I once made a persuasive argument that this was the proper interpretation of a pixel, and got a major app to adopt the convention. It wasn't until much later that I discovered the error.

The problem comes when you try to align raster images with vector ones. Instead of starting a line at 0,0 you need to start it at 0.5,0.5. And heaven help you if you're combining raster images at different resolutions, they'll never line up.

The proper way to work is to put the pixel center at 0,0 and let it extend from -0.5 to 0.5. This works out well with reconstruction or resizing filters, because they're symmetric around 0,0 too.
While true, it'd be nice if they could meet in the middle. Laptops and phones autodim but I can't say I've seen this on desktop monitors. I see dark mode (not enough of it though), auto dark mode much more rarely. Lights that autodim are a thing but not common and usually part of the internet of shit.

I don't really want to customize things multiple times daily. And if I have to pick, it will be dark, because it's easier on the eyes when the sun goes down and I dim the lights in anticipation of going to bed.
Yeah thanks for pointing it out. This was a very preliminary version, hoping to clean this up over the next few days
> Why don't we have a single language so that we can do cross platform development

We do, we have dozens of them, C, C++, java, ruby, python, c# to name a few. We have at least a half dozen cross platform GUI toolkits to go with them, Qt, Gtk, swing, wxWidgets, tk. Pick whatever poison you want, they're all much better than electron.

I suspect you're right about rust though, something newer and shinier will come along soon, if it hasn't already.
New milestone, SafeNetwork releases *Vaults from Home* (for testing)
This is an important milestone in the pursuit of a truly decentralized, distributed and autonomous internet, for the people by the people.

This early version is released for community alpha testing, and anyone is invited to download to play with the angular stone of this gargantuan project.
Good catch, should be fixed now
Twitter takes down Beijing-backed influence operation
Revealed: Trump backer’s spy firm used by Met Police and Cabinet Office
They are wrong if they think Google is a monopoly on "open web" advertising anyway.

Facebook's Audience Network allows you to buy ads on 3rd party (open) websites[1] as does VerizonMedia/Oath

[1] https://www.facebook.com/business/marketing/audience-network
Gitlab is much cheaper and for companies building closed source projects there’s no need to be using what the “community” is.
I didn’t mean to imply the current protests were hopeless. I certainly hope not, and you’re right: They can start with local action.
Yeah, I was thinking of making a climate change comparison. Maybe civilization is at a scale that wouldn't allow its own survival should the environment change "instantaneously" (50 years, for a global civ that's endured essentially continuously for 6,000-10,000 years, is instantaneous).
I am thinking if it was an opportunistic PR. They knew he was resigning for some time, but didn't want some bad PR from it as Keller was known as the man to save Intel. Given the market situation today they have decided to rush into this announcement.

And yes I do agree with your take on it. Intel has some of the best PR and marketing folks in tech industry. The writing is surely something to be worth looking into.
I also use light mode on a Mac, as I hate the reflections in dark mode. If there's a nonreflective display though, it's dark mode all the way.
Ask HN: CLI tool to download webpages and convert to Markdown?
Is there a CLI tool that downloads webpages and converts them to Markdown?

I've just started using Obsidian https://obsidian.md/ and would like a way to save interesting blog posts and articles.
1) Twitter is accessible by Chinese nationals in Hong Kong, Taiwan and abroad which is whom they are trying to sway.

2) US doesn't need to spread propaganda through Twitter. Trump administration will routinely just come straight out and accuse China of doing X or Y.
I'm not a dietitian, but I'm pretty sure that's wrong...

They're very starchy and high in carbs, and very low in protein.

So you can eat tons of them and still not feel full.
Yes, it will be interesting how GC/runtime languages get along with WebAssembly in the future.

At the moment everything I saw looked rather bleak.
I think of as these rent-seeking organizations that don’t provide value and don’t need to exist.

For example, Elsevier has this monopoly on publishing so they need to hire staff to manage everything. Those staff do real jobs- accounting, sales, IT, etc- but there is not value created. So I might call that bullshit.

Layer of layer of real functions and interdependencies of people and groups all costing and resulting in salaries. But if you entirely removed every Elsevier job from existence it could be replaced by scihub with minimal disruption.

Poof all the jobs could disappear. I think of meaningful jobs as those that create some objective value.
Wow! 100% agree on public schooling, I've witnessed it firsthand here during the pandemic. The kids were way better off without it.

I'm feeling your other points too. It's funny how wrong we can be about such fundamental issues.
The article talks specifically about a .net issue, so it's not unreasonable to wonder how widespread the issue is in other platforms. I was wondering whether this was a significant issue for Linux/MacOS myself.
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.
I hadn’t heard of CHAZ until now.

Zona, Galaxy News Radio, Radio Free Europe... so many cultural touchstones for CHAZ to riff on. It must be a designer’s utopia!

It also reminds me of Daily Mail Island but at another end of the political hyperspectrum.