skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this is very poorly written. Even ignoring the fact that they appear to have just sourced all their info from the CMA(note below), they really need to tighten this up considerably. In particular, you cannot mix conclusions and introduction/background into the same section (when this happens, it is usually because someone is writing to a conclusion). Also, the overuse of lawerly adjectives (i.e. hyperbolic) and catch phrases really shouldn't fly.

Either way, I don't think the case is made particularly well.

Anytime you talk about prices, you are on very shaky ground indeed. If advertisers can't make money at a certain price, they don't buy it. Equally, Google's marginal cost is zero so they have every incentive to move inventory. Equally, publishers make money when Google does so the gross price is roughly correct (in other words, focus on fees...that is where the issues are).

There is conspiracy theory stuff here - Google are fiddling attribution measurement to favour search ads, they are hiding prices (no, publishers say this but advertisers are very aware of what they are paying...it is leaving their account), arbitrage...clutch pearls. There is inaccurate stuff here - imposing rigid market definitions (for example, the difference between exchange and Adsense is the publisher...most small publishers want a simple product like Adsense). There is directly contradictory stuff here - Google uses data to steal from publishers...but taking away third-party cookies will lower prices and publishers won't be able to bid efficiently...okay, which is it?

I think there is quite a clear case, it isn't made here. It needs to be far more concise. Google shouldn't operate exchanges and publish, it shouldn't operate exchanges and advertise, the exchange should be transparent. The core business here isn't complicated: I have something to sell, I need a venue to create a clearing price, there are other people who need to buy it. There is a long history of people creating venues that aren't fair, the solution is: create a fair venue.

All the stuff about trying to prove harm and say that Google is a bad actor who is doing all these secret, ultra illegal things (that no-one has any proof for) is, quite frankly, nonsense. It doesn't matter if Google is doing bad things or not. The point is that their market position gives them that opportunity, and most humans are greedy. Watching a lawyer try to moralise is an unedifying sight (this paper comes from a billionaire's think tank, watching someone try to moralise about other people's behaviour with their pockets weighed down with gold is...really not a great sight, particularly as this content is just copied from the work done by the govt in another country...a charmed life indeed).

CMA Note - I am from the UK and the CMA are terrible...mainly very well-connected Brits who either worked in business and ran their company into the ground or people who can't get a job in business at all. In particular, relying on CMA's market definition is perilous. Their logic is usually: what definition do we need to get the right decision? It is bafflingly inconsistent.
Fair enough. Would you say anything that I single out as worthless is, by the act of giving it my attention, worthy?

I assure you my toilet made an impact in my choices today of far greater import than Duchamp's found object.
They sure ask for a lot of information for signing up, which make me think that it is not free.
A UI element will almost never be perfectly square, exactly aligned on a pixel. And even if it was, LCD pixels aren't even squares. They are three rectangles with different colors and gaps between them. This fact means that if you want to have proper representation of even a pixel-perfect square, because of the gap between pixels and because of sub-pixels, a perfect representation would not be such.
That's cool, but I wish they'd polish the base experience a little bit first. As well as stop this 'everything on kubernetes' thing. Right now I need kubernetes for at least half of all Gitlab functionality, and I have no doubt this latest acquisition will be the same thing.
Regional accreditation is the "gold standard" in the US. National accreditation is consider below that. However, the school is accredited by the DEAC which is recognized by the US Department of Education. (Some have tried to claim the school is unaccredited, but that is false.)
that's correct, although the mayor (who has been very supportive of them forever, incidentally had Amazon campaign donation $350k) built various loopholes into the initial ban (namely, that the police chief could allow them to start re-using it). so, yeah, not much of a ban in the first place by the mayor.
Thats a brilliant example where we need to provide her with the device she needs.

I still dont want it as a product thats in every home
The Cotton op-ed was essentially advocating fascism. He was positively tumescent about the thought of using the army to kill American civilians. Regardless that it was published in bad faith (see: Cotton laughing on Twitter about it), the NYT op-ed was published without context, for an audience where over half are incapable of telling the difference between news and opinion (source: https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/confusio...). It was irresponsible and dangerous to publish it in the way it was published. The NYT admits it was a mistake to publish it and there were editorial failings in the process.

The old detached civil-libertarian 1000ft view, where "all opinions, however vile, deserve a platform from which they can be debated" is for an older time when these arguments were held in good faith.

Far from "a woke revolution suppressing speech", if we wish to keep free speech intact we each must work to deny a platform to fascist ideas (and the right in America is hurtling towards fascism if it is not there already) or there will not be free platforms for much longer.

Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. We are at that point with the American far right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

It is probably not a coincidence that the comment does not begin with "Google employee here" or contain a disclaimer that the author works for Google.
Here [0] you can find a decent summary of the book. For me the single most important point that the book taught me was that it's ok to write in books, they don't have to be in pristine condition without any text in them. The white pages in books are meant specifically to write on. They explain this point of the book in a separate blog post [1] for some reason. Anyway... I never used to write in books, now this has become a central part of my learning process. The physical act of scribbling a question mark next to unclear parts, rephrasing what is meant and so on has helped me understand complex material faster as well as made it easier to refer to at a later point (as there is no need to worry about any notes getting lost).

[0] https://fs.blog/how-to-read-a-book/
[1] https://fs.blog/2015/01/marginalia/
Life is short, do what makes you happy is what they say, right?

I've begun the transition from sysadmin into nursing to hopefully a NP certification. Maybe I can blend my background of cloud security and Kubernetes with medicine somehow. Or not.
How windows rdp manages multiple monitors, and window resizing when you aren’t on a full screen is bananas compared to vnc, the only problem I had is sometimes it d
I'll just add that many UoPeople students in the US transfer to WGU to complete their bachelor's degree. (WGU is regionally accredited, so it carried more weight. And it accepts UoPeople credits.)
> In my experience, learning ASL is more akin to riding a bike, than learning a romance language -- much less Chinese.

The fact that you had formal language classes in romance languages doesn't mean that's the only way romance languages can be taught or learned. You can learn or teach any language however you want. Some ways are more effective; some are less effective.

One reason students can't speak any French after taking four years of school French is that effectiveness isn't really a goal of the instruction (or of the students).
I think that code ships for all WebKit-based browsers (though not Chrome).
You can still try it, if you'd like to.
As both the OP and you are new accounts, I will ask the first question I can think of:

is this a marketing move to post it here?

Also, I watched the "Who is behind it" video and it did not answer the question, who is actually behind this? Is it a non-profit? Is it owned by by someone? Who founded it when?
When Apple happily works in tandem with a government which has imprisoned an entire minority and has been doing the same thing to Christians for decades, you get some perspective on how much they dress themselves up to impress their local audience, not because they actually care.
Actually no, that's not the case, rasterization is on-off at the hardware level. You need anti-aliasing for the behaviour you are describing, which very rarely works the way you describe - the best we have right now as far as quality uses multisampling.
My source is first-hand experience: the police do not enter Exarcheia, because they know that they'll be attacked if they do.

The Wikipedia page documents precisely what has happened each time the police have tried to establish a foothold in the neighborhood since the 1973 student uprising. They currently operate from patrols and bases outside of the neighborhood. Any effects they have on the neighborhood (like squat clearing) tend to be impermanent.
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

― Albert Einstein
Make sure to check Craigslist for high end office chairs, especially if you're in a highly populated area. I got a Steelcase Leap V2 for $300. I've been using it daily for five years
I'd feel much safer without the looters/rioters around
It's also extraordinarily unpopular, across the ideological spectrum[1].

>...which has fairly rapidly recently moved from the fringes to the mainstream of debate, and it is a policy openly and actively being discussed by many local governments, and already committed to by the Minneapolis City Council.

>but the Overton Window on that issue just underwent and sudden and massive shift.

Well you're right about that. Because it's insane, and generates clicks, likes, and retweets and so media keeps covering like it's actually popular despite the fact the inverse is true to keep generating their clicks, likes, and retweets. I've been waiting for the Star Tribune to actually run some local polling on this, because everyone I know still back there also thinks it's insane. My guess is they do run the polls, and don't publish the results for the same reason.

[1]https://twitter.com/databyler/status/1268555840098906115?ref...
It depends on the goals. If the goal is accurate frequency response and in particular absence of aliasing, then a little square is a bad reconstruction filter.

But for graphics, why should this be the goal? Perhaps a better goal is high contrast of edges, and for this the box filter is one of the very best. An additional advantage of the box filter is that it has only positive support, so there's no clipping beyond white and black. This is especially helpful when rendering text.

And honestly I believe that those huge sinc-approximating reconstruction filters are overly fetishized even in the audio space. The main reason they sound "nearly perfect" is that the cutoff is safely outside the audible range. Try filtering a perfect slow sawtooth through a brick wall with a cutoff in the audio range, say 8kHz. It sounds like a very audible "ping" at that frequency, with pre-echo at that because of the symmetry of sinc.
From first-hand experience working in Silicon Valley, I've seen some people move into independently wealthy "landed gentry" lifestyles, and certainly some younger people who left tech jobs to attend law school, but few or no people who left software for a different, but still remunerative career.
With that requirements you can do much cheaper even. 1000 PDFs of 100KB is just 100MB. You can put them on a 1Gbit VPS for just $1.5 to $5/month.

https://www.serverhunter.com/?search=PLJ-9TW-TWN

A dedicated box would cost just $7/month.
what do you think about "market penetration"?
It's true. The current "catch" is that the school is nationally accredited. This means you can encounter some issue getting your degree recognized (e.g., some grad schools in the US will not consider nationally accredited degrees, some schools only accept their credits on a case-by-case basis, and so on).

However, if you know that going into it, you know the primary shortcoming. (Fortunately, I have a regionally accredited degree already, so I didn't care about that.)
A true unixer.
Congrats! You successfully found me a replacement for TuneIn :)

Navigating on a map is so much more practical
The problem there is phishing. If you trust the bank's site but you don't realize that you aren't on the bank's site then you're screwed. Sure, this doesn't apply to you; it only applies to 90% of humanity.
Some of my favorites from testing so far are:

- container volume in and out of ports (which are usually in industrial zones right next to airports)

- daily crop harvest rates from the midwest states

- a small undergrad research team in Oregon is analyzing the mist and water turbidity of Willamette Falls to determine flow rate and the impact to salmon runs

- estimating the amount of oil moving in and out of Cushing, Oklahoma by measuring the shadow cast on tanks over 3,500 times per day

- wildfire detection and monitoring on non-daylight flights

There are a bunch of other demos and use cases on our social accounts as well--we're @notasatellite on all the platforms.
The tricky part of ephemeral culture is keeping it ephemeral while still allowing it to reoccur often in new forms, and not just having a crystalized form of spontaneity that future generations are supposed to appreciate in the correct way.
That wasn't really common sense in that definition of the term, rather it was thinking of advantages versus disadvantages. I don't think that considering the reality of people outside of your own group is "prejudice", yet it is common sense.
Sounds like you might want to file a bug against your browser, or pick another one, because in a somewhat fortunate twist the things that don't work at the social media scripts ;) But on a more serious note, surely you can make a comment that's better than that…
This Article Was Written by Open AI’s GPT2
99% of people will never follow that advice.
Hi. I attended this school and then got accepted to another more standard institution, which I applied at the same time to. The new institution, learning I had been attending U of the P, promptly told me that U of the P credits would not transfer. Universal transferability in question, I opted out.

I did enjoy meeting people from all walks of life, all over the world. However, I also saw a grossly wide range of educational professionalism in the students. In the introductory mandatory writing course, for example,there were a number of classmates whom could not grasp the idea of plagiarism being unethical. With a plagiarism assignment graded by those peers, it was difficult to not feel like higher educational learning was moving along for oneself at a progressively intellectually challenging pace.
Well dang, we're certainly not inviting you to utopia.
CPUs you can implement on FPGAs or something else whereas FPGAs are really only useful if you can get it made. Getting the design rules from a foundry usually involves an NDA and you will need (proprietary) EDA tools.

Also the utility of open source CPU cores is much higher than an open source FPGA since you're not going to be able to customize it anyway because of mask costs.
Catan at 25: Checking in on a Once-Revolutionary Board Game
It’s definitely not an idea that originates with me! :)

I think I got it from a German Literature class. The professor had us read some formational texts, and one of them was a theory for the establishment of religion, written by some German 20th Century thinker. I can’t find the source now, but it was probably a pretty mainstream one, for all you internet sleuths out there.

He tried to put forward an evolutionary theory of religion. Basically, a tribe would come into conflict and children would kill their parents as a result. To try and prevent the same thing from happening to themselves, the children invented rituals that they taught to their children, so that they could control and direct their violence away from the parents. Instead of killing people, they would kill effigies made to look like people. Eventually, the children associate the effigies with their parents. But they like their parents, so they leave out the whole killing part when they teach it to their kids, who come to worship the effigies. They then kill animals instead of people. And so on. It was a really interesting exercise of rationalism!

If someone can find the source for me, I’ll give them my 2 internet points :)

Edit: I think it was Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard.
Everyone recommends Aerons, so I gave in to it.

I haven't tried anything between £70 faux leather nothing from Amazon, and this (second-hand for £200, one can pay more or less) Aeron, but yeah, it's bloody good.

I warmed to it most after receiving it, when I realised that since it's a single chair that's so popular, you can buy every spare part! You can buy the upgrade parts that distinguish your chair from top of the line! It's simple, repairable, and comfortable. And people that know about such things and dish out awards for it say that it's elegant, too.
Your bringing up points we've gone over already and which I answered. Like where I talk about my university experience with such thought experiments. But never mind that. According to you, I've never seen such thought experiments.

According to you, I'm ignorant for not agreeing with you. Such a way of seeing things (combined with your reading comprehension skills) must make life really hard. So I'll concede and say sure, you're right buddy and I'm simply an ignoramus.

I hope you have a great evening and I wish you all the best in life (truly and honestly)
True, let me rephrase:

The drastically reduced catalog makes it currently unattractive to a heavy gamer. Granted that this is very subjective.

My taste is very complicated, so it's of course my own problem, but the number of titles is indeed very restricted.
Foods types have different hormonal impact on our bodies. Lots of variables at play. So if you eat pure fat vs. protein vs. carbs you are going to get different outcomes in the body.
EC's JRC to Release AI Tech for Coronavirus Fact-Checkers
I know this is off topic, but: There are too many of us. If we can't override our survival instinct to multiply (and consume) uncontrollably, then we are at risk of making ourselves extinct. Then there will be none of us.
For the purposes of satiety you are correct. For the purposes of bodyweight, a calorie is a calorie. How that bodyweight is stored (fat vs muscle) is dependent on exercise + whether the calorie is from a fat, carb, protein or alcohol (the four macronutrients).
Shai Reshef is the person who started.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kH-uYwt0qs

It's non-profit. Not sure who "owns" it. It started in 2009.

Edit: Addendum. I'm not sure they need marketing. When I started last year (Sep 2019), they had ~20k students. They've added another 10k over the course of the academic year. I believe they were at 5k students in 2016.

I'm actually concerned about the sustainability with this growth, but we'll see how this ride goes.
I'll look, but I'm not sure I even have the code any more. That was a long time ago. It had a software triangle rasterizer that pulled from a 3d voxel array to slice it. I always wanted to update it to store in 3d z-order so it would perform well on all 3 axis but never got around to it.
Since "五毛” is used everywhere for netizens to verbally attack anyone who speaks positive towards CCP and Chinese government, I'd say this seems an inappropriate use of language.

Instead, we probably should label this group as the “government sponsored online moderator” "网评员”. This is more revealing of what actually is happening, I.e. Chinese government hires people to influence and monitor online communities.

On the other hand, there are many people who does think CCP and Chinese government is good overall, and support them. Which I do not think it's fair to label them as "五毛”. In case you find this unbelievable, I'll risk being further misinterpreted, by citing the die hard trump supporters being labeled "white supremacists", which I believe is harming the unity of this country.
Interview with Tim O'Reilly (2018)
Tesla is not selling these trucks to pilots.
Tuition-free, not completely free. There is a require one-time app fee and exam fee for each course.
Seems like GenZ is having their occupy moment. The police is probably just waiting for them to get tired and go home. In few weeks back to "normal".
Racism Affects Your Well-Being
I've never heard Visa or Mastercard characterized as monopolies before. Is that true? I guess I always just thought they were so regulated that nobody wants to try and enter the market (except Discover who I happen to bank with)

Not to be too tangential here but does anyone know if Visa/Mastercard monopoly has a negative affect on the consumer right now? I havent noticed one, so it must be a lot more subtle than, say, internet / cable monopolies.
1 character repeated 1877302224 times has a compression ratio of 99.9% ~1.9GB compresses to ~1.8MB.
It seems that in Polynesia, South Pacific and traditional Hawaii, the leaders in society were ideally fat and massive. My guess is that these were the people who were better suited to survival on long voyages across the Pacific.
Is posting here a marketing move? you seem to have skipped that question.
By simply google a bit, found another website (not mine):

https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/hledej.php?hleda=art

No idea if there are other good sites like artvee, good job done!
Yep. If you have the desktop app installed, look for Two-Factor Authentication under Watchtower and it'll tell you all the sites that can use it. It's easy to set up too, it can scan a QR code on your screen. Some people believe that it's more secure to not mix your password manager with your 2FA though, since it's not "true 2FA".
> The pizza restaurant next door is a monopolist in the pizza category on my street.

That's ridiculous. Sure, it may be easiest to order from the guy next door, but if you don't like the pizza next door, you can easily call the guy 3 blocks down the street.

My point is you have options when it comes to pizza. There are many types of businesses that simply do not have any options besides Google. Don't believe me? Ask literally anyone who works in digital advertising. If you were planning any kind of digital ad campaign that relied on search, and you said you weren't going to spend on Google, they'd think you were insane. "Oh yeah, I've decided to put all my search ad spend on Bing." It sounds ridiculously laughable just writing it out.
Why do you think the Chinese government needs sponsored online moderators?

I don't see a need for moderators if many people believe they are good and support them.

It certainly seems like they use them to censor people who object to them and keep themselves in power.

To suggest censoring of the phrase that calls them out is comical.