skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm honestly kind of amazed at how well-designed all of this is. I suppose that surviving the test of time does imply some sort of quality design, but this is remarkable.

I'm amazed more people don't copy the idea (rather than straight-up ripping off the colors). M:tg is so interesting because of how well-defined colors are. Because they're defined, colors truly have a personality, and - crucially - play different.

For a straight ripoff check Master of Magic too. Very cheap on GOG. It's a Civilization 1 clone with tech tree/progression replaced by spells! Complete with common/uncommon/rare/very rare tiers. The system is so inspired by Magic colors it hurts. But incidentally, it's brilliant! In normal Civ games, tech tree is super boring because of many filler steps and boring +1 bonuses. Even otherwise great Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri suffers from this. But because each step in discrete (each step is a spell!), you get something concrete each time you complete research. The game also has extensive city build-up and a combat system that inspired Heroes of Might and Magic serries. The game has many design and balance flaws, and without the unofficial Insecticide patch by kyrub (who deserves eternal praise) it's extremely buggy. But they did something very, very right as game developers keep trying to clone Master of Magic. The game doesn't care much for balance, but more for very flashy and ambitious ideas.

Another accidental bit of brilliance came from memory limitation. Computers at the time didn't have enough RAM to support large maps. So instead they made 2 planes connected by magical towers. Very heavily guarded. The other plane has unique minerals, 4 unique races, magic roads that are instant travel, very magic everything (2x magic node output too). In late game, hell often breaks loose when POWERFUL computer civilizations emerge. You can also try to break into it early and loot it, but it's very risky.
I though school entrance exams, particularly at the high school level, should be selecting for meritocratic principles such as competence and intelligence.

The reason it's controversial to some of us is that currently schools seem to be moving more and more toward selecting for obedience. This creates a feedback loop where the system selects for those that will not want to change it, but instead will play along.

It seems that when a system declares a purpose for an exam and then doesn't comply with that purpose, reasonable people would question it.

It also seems the feedback loops can be so intense the system selects those so willing and desirous to submit to authorities that they categorize anyone even questioning the system as 'ignorant' without any irony.

Unfortunately Chomsky is mostly ignored by people who would need to understand his point the most:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn2JZaUrMGM
Reading the judges' conclusions I have to wonder if Pepsi bribed some people to get away with the not guilty verdict...
You don't need your car until you need your car - i.e. you aren't driving to pick up groceries 16 hours a day. That doesn't make your car valueless.

Likewise, Linkedin isn't needed the majority of the time, until you need it - i.e. you're faced with having to find a new job in an industry where the right referral can translate directly into a job with higher income.

That's not valueless.
It's not that he feels the content adds 0 value, it's that he feels the content has negative value. By discussing leaving LinkedIn, he's in fact talking about a way he brought positive value to his life by removing a cost.
Most people know this and have no problem with it. It's pretty well known that the company won't look out for your best interests so you'd better do it yourself.
Looks like your god asked you lots of other things. He asked your fascist state to hate your neighbors for belonging to other nationality and (unfortunatel) being weaker than you, asked you to kill them, steal their homes, destroy their culture. He asked you to hate with a hysterical, medieval hatered successful countries like the US (which is probably responsible for all your problems according to state propaganda), threatening to turn them "into the nuclear dust" (say hello to Mr.Kiselev). He asked you to hate your ethnic minorities, forbid them to learn their mother tongue and their culture - you teach them New Russian History instead, with "Stalin the Effective Manager". He asked you to throw into prison everyone who had courage to tell the truth about your neo-nazi state, and hate everyone for being wrong color, faith, sexual orientation, political views or hating just someone.
You are right, I'm a former Russian citizen. I did not renounce my citizenship, I just do not recognize our totalitarian regime as a legitimate state.
How is this any different than the protections for other products that you have to buy? The whole point is you need to pay for it, and the producer needs to ensure you actually did so. I understand the technical issues with DRM which can have a poor UX sometimes, but for the most part it's only a problem if you didn't actually pay for the content. The rise of Netflix and streaming services show that it's working fine for millions.

Your arguments seem to be based on the assumption that content should be free. That's the fundamental issue, and I don't agree. I doubt many creators and producers would either, not without some alternative answer to monetization. Do you have a solution for that?
So, from the comments, it's not a real action plan, more like a scenario for case analysis.

Which is a shame. I'd really like to read about how well blockchain technology -- which is based on very transparent p2p communication -- would fare against the NSA or the Great Chinese Firewall if the US or China actually wanted to stop it.
You sure this isn't because LinkedIn was recently revealed to be a festering cesspool of racism?
LinkedIn has a news feed, and you actually look at it? There’s your problem. I’ve set up an OnMyCommand macro so that when I select some text and right-click, it will search for the selected name:

open "https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=__OBJ_...

Apologies to non-Mac users. OnMyCommand is at http://www.abracode.com/free/cmworkshop/on_my_command.html, though for beginners I will immodestly suggest my fork of the ReadMe: https://github.com/abra-code/OMC/pull/9/files
Why does FB need a crawler? Their users provide the content for their site. Is there an FB web search engine?
yes, distance when you can, and wear a mask when you can't. for everyday situations, you don't need both, even on the train/bus.

also, it's about a threshold reduction of risk, as zero risk is practically impossible and counter-productive.
The value I see in LinkedIn:

1. My linkedin contact list is >300 people that I worked closely with over the years and all have seen me kick ass. I have actual email addresses for <10% of them.

2. I can browse my list and see where they are currently working. "oh gee, Mary works at coolCo, I should reach out to her because I' like to work for/with coolCo."

3. When I want to let them know that I started a new business venture, I can send them a message that is less obtrusive than an email.

4. If I give a prospective client my linkedin, they can see a) a brief summary of my resume, b) that I have a lot of contacts in x space, and c) that they may know some of the people I have worked with over the years. These all give me some measure of credibility.
I'll chip in because the OP's sentiment is fairly understandable, as there's no concrete metric that people use to quantify how "useful" one's tagline is on Github.

Also, you did mention that OP isn't attacking anyone, so I don't understand the purpose of flagging - even though the post may "seem" negative. I personally feel it's not.
Please have a closer look at those patches. 98% of it is constituted of C preprocessor ifdefs. This means that most of them just enable the same features as Linux alongside other operating systems. Most of it is purely code configuration. Haiku instead reimplement many parts of WebKit, instead of relying on mature code. This is the reason why the WebKit performance on Haiku is so poor.
Holy shit, this is absolutely fascinating. I find it incredibly interesting that this scenario of a "Generation Z Rebellion" was constructed in 2018, and projected increasing tensions until 2026, at which point things would flame up. Yet the current pandemic has essentially forced everybody's hand and put history on fast forward. Maybe, in the end, the pandemic will end up being a strategically good thing for the United States, at least compared to how our adversaries will fare.
This incident is actually so much worse than the George Floyd incident in my mind. The police force as an institution decided that it would be okay to bust down the door of the home without identification and with guns drawn, knowing that in such an operation it is very possible that someone could get seriously hurt. In the end, it basically comes down to the law enforcement institution deciding that the lives and safety of the occupants of the home just don't matter that much.
> When we published in a paywalled journal, we had the option of paying an APC [0] to make the particular article open access. So in that sense, we were not 'required' to relinquish copyright. It was just costly to retain it.

It's worth noting that some (maybe even many) journal open access options do not allow the authors to keep copyright, even if they pay money! Open access ≠ keeping copyright.
Very cool, would love something like this. Your video gives a fairly straightforward incident response which traditional tools would work equally well on. Can you describe a situation that Zebrium does better than legacy tools? Perhaps a hypothetical unknown unknown.
That would make sense if people were countries.
When you paste in a URL to share it with your friends, Facebook tries to grab some information from that webpage to provide a summary.
I feel like it occupying space in your mind for years, even if only for a few minutes at a time, gives credence to it's value as art.
The timelines are ridiculously off, and they continue to release underbaked features to their beta testing customers. That's actively dangerous.

As for the touchscreens, so much of that speaks to Musk's credibility. He seems to make decisions, like with Autopilot above, more for PR than for safety. I can see why people are going to be skeptical when he claims touchscreens are best for space usage/
Anecdotes and all that, but a friend of mine had Deep Brain Stimulation surgery for his essential tremor. The surgery was performed at Stanford and the total bill was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. His out of pocket charge? ~$1200.

I have a hard time rationalizing his recent experience with the assertion that you have to be a millionaire to receive top-flight care.
Any references for sub-gradients and convergence proofs I can take a look at?
The thing that always irritated me about GIMP is that any functionality gaps between it and Photoshop would always be summarily dismissed as “oh no, you’re just used to Photoshop”.

It looks like it may have been fixed now, but I distinctly remember GIMP having separate tools for “scale”,
“move”, and “rotate”, each of which had slightly different UIs. People didn’t find that confusing because it was “different from Photoshop”, they found it confusing because that’s a terrible UI.
Ion – Decentralized Identifiers Developed by Microsoft
A "Culture Club" seems to have been a place people went in soviet times when they were bad (or even already halfway decent) at things, in order to improve in a supportive environment.

So far, the only clue I have as to how close practice came to theory is the 1956 film "Carnival Night", in which old-school russian hackers mess with the power and information nets of their club in order to save their New Year's party from a Party functionary who takes his leadership role entirely too seriously.

(would a community college be a rough US equivalent?)
While this is really good news, it's still mind boggling to me why giving taxpayers free access to the research they paid for is still a controversial thing at all in 2020. Not to mention the benefit to science of giving everybody free access to everything.
It is not a novel idea and I don't think it is practical. If the natural language was practical for bash we would already have already "list directory" instead of "ls" and so on. "ls" is just 3 keystrokes while the natural language option is 15, 5 times more.
“All Lives Matter”, as a matter of (fairly recent) historical fact that is widely recognized by both most people using it and most people hearing it, was coined as a direct dismissal of “Black Lives Matter” and its message that there is a need for recognition of an accountability for aggressions against black people.

(While we’re in the neighborhood, “Blue Lives Matter” has a similar origin, with added cynicism given the long-standing widespread social and institutional hyper-response to any harm to police, much less fatal harm.)
This is a great tip, thank you!

I find the best museums and exhibits help you get into this mindset; I'm reminded of an exhibit I saw at the Tate Modern about Picasso in 1932. It provided not only the context to his art, but to him as a person. I was able to better understand how his art was shifting at the time due to the nature of the world around him and his personal relationships. It really allowed me to see the artist through the art and the art in its context. https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ey-e...

I hope that I can take this idea to domains outside of art as well; considering the context of everything we encounter is important for a better understanding of our shared world.
I've been looking into supporting UTF-8 characters to create graphs with non-English text using Graphviz in an application that's used on a number of different machines. Is there a straightforward way of doing this right now?
It would be nice if we could add a fonts folder in our application folder and set a relative path to it for Graphviz to perform its lookup in without having to rebuild Graphviz without fontconfig.
On the surface I can't see why no instances of infection being traced to travel on Japan's commuter trains has any relevance in a conversation about London's strategy for decreasing infection risk.

From the article you linked:

"Oshitani says riders are usually alone and not talking to other passengers. And lately, they are all wearing masks. “An infected individual can infect others in such an environment, but it must be rare,” he says."

Tokyo has benefitted from both a fall in the volume of passengers on the Metro, and an infection rate of 0.5 per capita. The virus is more than 500x as prevalent in the UK as a whole, and more than 600x as prevalent in London.
"When you say you are good at something, that's arrogant. When you say you're bad at something, people tell you that you're not, or treat it as weakness."

There are a thousand ways to say you're good at something. Some of them will make you appear arrogant, some will make you appear humble, with endless options in between. I don't know who this author is or what specific axes they have to grind, but instead of taking broad swipes at all of society, maybe consider your own communication skills and how they are not leading to the results you desire. If you're starting from a position of "there is one way to express a thought and it will always be met with this specific response", you are a pretty far way from actually improving your situation.
> Their justification for needing it is that the API team takes too long to implement changes, and endpoints never give them the data shape they need.

I've certainly seen timing issues between frontend and backed teams; actually, I don't think I've ever been on a project where that wasn't an issue!

But on my last project, which had a GraphQL backend, this was still a problem. The backend integrated with several upstream databases and REST APIs, so the backend team had to build the queries and implementations before the frontend could do anything. At least with REST they would have been able to mock out some JSON more easily.
This may also be useful. Free and open source.

https://www.tobiidynavox.com/en-gb/software/web-applications...
How does this compare to ELAN (https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan) in regards to doing the actual annotations/transcriptions? Or could ELAN/EAF-files perhaps be considered for input formats in future releases?
IPFS seems perfect for the purpose. Files are content-addressed and a request for a part of a file can resolve to any accessible peer that has it. A peer has it if they have pinned it or if they have accessed it themselves recently so that it is cached on their node. This way, users share the load for popular files, donating both bandwidth and storage.

Torrents also seem like a perfect way to donate bandwidth and storage, and the IA already uses those.

The only problem with these approaches or generally any distributed file store is that someone will have to share a copy, so you'll mostly be donating bandwidth by storing a redundant copy of data that they likely have to store themselves as well to guarantee accessibility.
Heh, I have my Hacker News profile listed as a main contact on LinkedIn.

Recently a recruiter who didn't get a response on LinkedIn itself wrote an email, which began:

I'm writing because I found your Hacker News profile from your LinkedIn...

That just felt right somehow.
Unlocking the “Chemome” with DNA-Encoded Chemistry and Machine Learning
I think people might be freaked out if they learned just how many stores/attractions already have similar tech implemented. Ah who am I kidding, the average person doesn’t seem to care all that much - quite unfortunate.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-te...
Unrelated, but has anyone written a Chrome/Firefox extension to browse the web sending out Googlebot or Facebook user agent?

I wonder if you can bypass paywalls or see things that aren't generally presented to regular users
AGI in text is < 3yrs away.
Microsoft announced it will not sell face recognition tech to police
You have to imagine people in poverty and a sum that is not only poverty-ending, but probably allowing you to live in relative luxury, probably allowing you to start a business to have a better source of income. Assuming you're an American not living in a leaky tin-roofed cardboard box in 2020, sure, for you $40,000 is not that sum of money, but in early 1990's Philipphines it probably was...
Thanks for these screencasts. Very informative. You sound like you grew up in Rathgar or Rathmines.
From scratch: reverse-mode automatic differentiation (in Python)
Hall – A project manager for the Guile programming language
Those were some of the same concerns I've had going into it, but I've found that the plugin library for flutter is actually already surprisingly mature, both for official plugins and third party. Adding and using plugins is also easier than any other tool chain I've used.

Sqflite, rxdart, etc have worked well for me, though I will admit that this project is mostly just UI/CRUD so I've had to do very little native work.

I guess I'd say that flutter is already in a really amazing place for apps that aren't heavy on hardware-specific dependencies (like camera, AR, etc.).

I have my fingers crossed that the community will continue to grow to the point that it will flourish even if Google pulls official support at some point...
I found that my GIMP skills increased significantly after browsing through the great tutorial collection, "Meet the GIMP!". I'm not an artist by any stretch, but even just learning how to use layers and layer masks properly made a huge difference.

https://www.youtube.com/user/MeetGIMP
Do you already have data models and ML to handle these tasks today, or are you still building data models with the aid of the clients who sign up for the service?

If you have a functioning platform today, what percentage of events end up needing human escalation?

Asking these questions considering the early stage of your product.
I think I might be fine with one inbox but have the system either prompt me about cleanups or just do them based on confidence.

It can even unsubscribe me from lists I don't actually read, etc.

Basically automate things to keep a clean inbox. Everything in the inbox should have a purpose, and when served be moved elsewhere.
I somehow doubt that they actually lent books to an unlimited number of people, since an unlimited number of people don't exist. So then you get into questions like, did they actually lend out more copies than exist in all the libraries that are physically closed? Probably not, right? Probably not even close to that. So that's an interesting question on something like digital inter-library loans.

And we still haven't heard their response, only what the plaintiffs are claiming.
No, I didn't mean to imply it.
No, it is not. For one, it's a corpus of read speech, which means it does not capture well the characteristics of conversational human speech – hesitation, disfluencies, different tones and registers, etc. LibriSpeech has a paper explaining the design of the corpus, all you need to read is the first sentence of the abstract to know what it is supposed to capture:

This paper introduces a new corpus of read English speech, suitable for training and evaluating speech recognition systems.

http://www.danielpovey.com/files/2015_icassp_librispeech.pdf
Everyone can read clearly it's your main installation.
Ah I see. It's a PM981, from late 2017. Interestingly, the GSmartControl GUI says it doesn't support SMART. But now that I try smartctl -a, I see a bit of information, though not much. The only things regarding failures seem to be "Media and Data Integrity Errors" and "Error Information Log Entries" (which I'm not really sure how to interpret in terms of what's too high and what's too low). Other stuff is just temperature and other statistics. Not sure if I'm supposed to be seeing more, but I feel like hard disks used to report more than this!
“No place accepted them” is also largely denial by force (both at boundaries and in the interior of they manage to evade it at boundaries), just from the other direction.
Views like the ones you've expressed here, which frame this as a property issue, will lead more and more to begin to think that intellectual property isn't "property" at all.
Travel visas based on country of origin - which is really a proxy for race.
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> The facial recognition start-up violated the privacy of Illinois residents by collecting their images without their consent, the civil liberties group says in a new lawsuit.

>In a suit filed in Illinois, the A.C.L.U. said that Clearview violated a state law that forbids companies from using a resident’s fingerprints or face scans without consent.

>Under the law, residents have the right to sue companies for up to $5,000 per privacy violation.

...

Up to $5k doesn’t seem adequate in this case.
Note that Biden is probably anti-tech:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200525/22294444571/why-d...
I mean let's be at least a little real here, and I identify as Left, but for a lot of people the protests and upheaval were a cure for boredom, conveniently packaged in a morally indignant reply to "What about the viral pandemic we have no cure to?".

I really don't see much difference in people going after direct Right wing protest to the lockdown itself and people saying the lockdown is somehow superseded by moral virtue: in either case you are saying some higher principle overrides your duty to your fellow human beings (in keeping the curve low...). This "letter of the law over all"/legalism is, in my experience, the basis for modern all American ethical negotiation and it has to be changed.

Just earlier this week the CDC chose not to admonish protesters for the worthiness of their cause: that should be orthogonal to the CDC's duty!