skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
End result: https://youtu.be/34AmKPJNfCg

The video is approaching uncanny valley. The audio isn’t there yet. Interesting how far laymen can get with this already.
Pretty cool!

They have mobile platforms on their roadmap for quite some time now, but somehow the project doesn't seem to get much traction.

I guess, Dart would be dead by now, if it wasn't for Google pushing it with Flutter.
Coordinating Complex Behaviors Between Hundreds of Robots
what's the business model supporting this?
The Far Side debuts first new comics in 25 years
This is an awfully confident statement that is unsupported by available evidence on covid transmission and health risks. On what basis do you say that in person classes are completely safe when reopening of indoor spaces has led to massive upticks in infections across much of the US?
How Entrepreneurship Is Mutating in the Midst of a Fast-Changing Society
Researchers Develop Computational Model to Build Better Capacitors
Yeah, I've been able to use it for months (FF on Mac)... Was it rolled out to certain computers for testing before?
It's a shame we can't re-title this article

'after getting caught black hat claims to actually be white hat'
They hadn't invented podcasts back then...
There are a ton of papers on the properties of stable matching under random preferences. The classic paper (Pittel 1989 https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/0402048?journalCode=s...) calculates the average rank of men and women for their partners under male-proposing Gale Shapley. They find the men's average rank is O(log(n)) and the women's average rank is O(n / log(n)). Depending on how you calculate percent advantage, that roughly matches your simulations.
Amazon will allow you to play the songs you buy online and download them. The downloaded songs could be played on your desktop or Android. Probably not as helpful as being able to play them anywhere and sync to your offline device. Although I think Amazon's music service might let you do this, but I'm not sure. I just stick with the oldschool downloads.
I think we can keep things where they are. The current restrictions aren't great but they are sustainable:

- Virtually no travel in and out of the country (goods still flow though).

- No gatherings > 50 people.

- Keep 2m away from others (except for "bubbles").

- Wash your hands.

- Masks in certain situations (not mandatory for most).

- Various limitations in place as to how businesses operate, e.g. distance between tables in restaurants, physical barriers, cleaning, one way aisles in stores etc etc.

Since I'm not the type or age who goes partying out in crowded bars or to packed concerts that stuff doesn't really bother me personally. Sure, it's no fun, but the alternative seems like a lot less fun. In my (global) company we all switched to wfh when this started and I'm fine with that.
An insidious effect of racism is that one can explain any negative interaction through that lens if one is inclined. Based on her post, I don't actually see racism, I see someone with a stronger background and more bona fides being more successful at pitching than someone with less of those things. In most other situations, HN commenters would be saying something like 'anecdotes are not data'. I think it's hard to draw large scale conclusions of a 'different reality' from this.
BTW: One of the larger contributors to desktop lag on linux continues to be the lack of integration between the scheduler and the WM. The idea that demand paging is causing a lot of general latency doesn't ring true to me. Maybe on initial startup, but once the machine get started most OS aren't doing actual disk io to satisfy random user interactions. Things like the windows sendTo list, which is actually a bunch of links in a directory (unlike most of the rest of the shell which tends to be registry based) end up cached in ram and don't actually result in disk IO (and you should delete entries you don't use). You might argue all the user->kernel crossings build these lists on the fly are a problem, but frankly unless you have a incredibly long lists of file associations, etc a few hundred API calls don't contribute to the overall lag much.

On linux (which always seem to trail on the responsiveness metrics) a lightweight DE can help, but scheduler tuning makes a even bigger difference. Just switching the power profile to performance is far more noticeable on linux than most other OSs. If your not aware of the work of Con Kolivas you should read up on the history there. Everything is a lot better than it was 15 years ago, but a number of the core problems really haven't been solved.
If the government decides to attack your rights, facebook won't save you. Your examples are all valid things to be concerned about, and i would argue that being reminded of the government's existing power over our lives would increase civic engagement.
Scaling Queue Workers Efficiently with AppSignal Metrics
The last useful thing I learnt is the company always wins and you are worth nothing.
If your product is able to spread by word of mouth, then I'd argue you were working on an important problem. People generally don't recommend things that are not 'important' to them in some way.
Isn't this what Clinkle did? Or some other failed startup I can't remember the name of?
This is all true, and it's also true that those in power use power to serve their own interests and the interests of their group. That's why power must be contested. If you're neutral, power is serving you or else you'd be incensed.
Traction etc don't matter to the point she's making.

Her husband sent the same info as her and got response. She got radio silence.

That's the point. Not whether or not the content was good.
Perception is where it begins. Then you can start to reason. Case in point: just the other day I drove past a line of cars. Right hand side passenger door opens, so I slow down by lifting a bit and sure enough, less than a second later the driver side door gets flung open. If not for reasoning then I would not have lifted and likely would have hit either the door or the former driver of the car when they got out. Those little hints that we humans are good at processing (passenger disembarks: driver likely to follow) would be very hard to teach a computer in such a way that it would not lead to false positives all the time.
Some students can't return for legal, practical or health reasons until covid is done (other can but probably shouldn't for personal reasons). So they lose their visa and won't be able to finish their degree when things do reopen.
They did: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/android-n-switch...

The runtime remains ART, though, but that wasn't the issue in the lawsuit.
What about the citizens that this impacts? You know, the people offering up apartments for rent.

Would you like to lose money because the US Government decided to kick out students for no good reason?
I think the hockey stick growth of online dating is directly correlated to reduced social activity.

"Bowling Alone" captured part of the phenomena 20 years ago. That hasn't changed. Even things like little leagues and soccer clubs for kids are declining in many ways and much more commercial activities than they were in the past. Even worship has changed -- high growth religious services are scaled-up entertainment and child care focused vs. community.

Personally, I don't buy into the notion that people have changed. People are people. I think the environment has changed and people are playing interacting with it based on the funnel they get sucked into.

The online dating services are listing real estate agents -- their interest is in a higher number of conversions per customer. They will optimize for that metric over time.
This is a well known Mac thing, and its one of the top 5 reasons why I moved away from OSX and refuse to support Apple users.

Safari enforces the OSX "thick antialiasing", causing really thick fonts. This also causes really thick fonts, unreasonably so, in normal non-web apps.

The reverse, unfortunately, is true: a lot of web developers worship at the altar of Apple, and have screwed up perfectly good websites by making their fonts too thin: on every other OS, with every other browser thin fonts break.

If you are a web developer, for the love of all that is holy, test your website on a normal Windows machine, with a normal 100% DPI conventional monitor, in both Chrome and Firefox. If it misrenders, this is on you, and you will look positively incompetent to the 95% of users visiting your website.

Apple users are a vocal minority, they do not represent the silent majority who will easily click away from your website because its unreadable.

The fix on OSX, if you're still willing to use that, is `defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 1`, and if you have a non-Retina display, combined with `defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO` to turn sub-pixel font rendering back on.

Defaults are 2 and YES, respectively. AppleFontSmoothing accepts values 0 through 3. 0 is off, 1 is light, 2 is medium, 3 is french roast columbian bold.
One should rather not generalize a whole group of people based on experiences of a few individuals one knows. History has shown it to be a bad idea. If you want to have a debate in good faith, I suggest you provide facts not ad hominem attacks.
Sounds like a Nash equilibrium.
Bravo!
I switched from Ubuntu to Debian to escape the Snap Crap.
This is exactly the issue I have with it. It feels like an attempt to control app distribution on Linux. No thanks.

I'm so sick of the app store model. The app stores usurp control of distribution from developers which adds risk which reduces willingness to invest and the result is that app stores attract low effort, low value apps unless they're coming from a huge company. Everyone loses except the app store owners, big platforms like Facebook and Spotify, and spammers / scammers.

The app store model is one of the worst things to happen to tech in my lifetime.
F-1 students don't have access to the labor market outside of OPT which is limited and subject to government approval.
>> The 2010’s showed a monumental rise in online dating, and the number of people who have met their significant other online is only going to continue to grow.

> Interestingly enough, wife and I met online, in 1994 (EFNET, IRC). I think people started to meet online before 2010.

Certainly, but back then meeting online was highly unusual and there was a period where online dating had a bit of a stigma. It's probably only been in the last decade or so that it's been fully normalized.
Well, one of my kids is an 8 year old and did 'remote schooling' and managed to keep up with the regular curriculum just fine. The big difference is in the schools, not in the kids.
Why IBM Doesn't Agree with Google's Open Usage Commons
It's still a hundred times better than some kind of a manual process. I can at least view the history of files with good tooling and the build pipeline etc. are manageable.
The oddest thing about this whole topic, especially in light of the current social unrest in the USA is that people seem to totally miss the fact that Universities, American tech corporations, and the whole American economy is a cynical human resource extraction operation that syphon off the best and brightest to keep the American economy going, where it would have an immensely hard time running otherwise. I see that as the core motivation for the Harvard and MIT lawsuit, keeping the flow of that foreign talent drug flowing, not some kind of emotive narrative about injustice or unfairness.

The American economy and society is essentially a kind of massive Ponzi scheme or con job (short for trick of confidence), where the foreign "human resources" are required to keep the scheme from collapsing. The day that China, India, Europe, Russia, etc. realize that they are being extracted of some of their very most important and valuable resources, their best and brightest, and they cut the USA off; it will cause massive panic and pangs of terror among the US ruling class that needs to keep the flow of fresh supply of the foreign best and brightest to prevent their con job from being exposed.

There is all this talk of slavery and colonialism and resource extraction of the past that has sabotaged and disadvantaged countries and societies and communities. In reality though it never stopped, it only took on a different and largely more profitable form like how a con artist may shift and move around and dissolve and form new companies as needed while the con always remains more or less the same.

The same cynical exploitation and extraction of resources from one society to fuel and enrich another has always remained in place even if the branding, labeling, and narrative around it has changed over time. If people want to "tear down the system of exploitation and abuse" (or however it is characterized) all they would need to do is stop feeding the American economy with their best and brightest, let alone even their hard working manual labor like Central America is doing, who are not available to contribute to developing their own societies because they are busy serving the American corporations to "Make America Great Again".

In reality, the US economy is so riddled with massive holes and flaws that it is like a sieve that requires a constant and ever larger flow of the best and brightest and hardest working and most motivated and driven just to keep the con going. If that were to seize up, if foreign countries and leaders realized how they were sabotaging themselves and stopped fueling the US economy, the energy and economic activity of the USA would immediately start draining out at a dizzying rate.

I would love for someone to correct me if I am looking at this incorrectly.
Thanks for being sensitive to other people's concerns
I didn’t hear a lot of empathy in your argument.
When I use FaceApp to make a picture of me look female, it looks like my sister, which I don't find very attractive and many people say my sister is hot.
But they responded to her husband, but not her.

Supposedly the same content, same info. Just the sender was different.

Unless of course you think she's not being entirely truthful.
Same. I'm running Linux as my primary desktop and server operating system for ~16 years, and I don't really care if it's becoming more mainstream on desktops anymore. It's already working perfectly fine for my needs, so I don't even want it to change much.
Show HN: Kubework.io – Kubernetes Job Aggregator
Thanks for the heads up. I actually did look at that reference, and in particular, the WebGL State Diagram is fantastic. Unfortunately, it still uses some helper libraries that, for me, obscure the core APIs. That said, WebGL Fundamentals is definitely going to be one of my references going forward.
spend less money on Safeway and more on servers...
I hope we learn the lesson of Blizzard but it doesn't seem we really are.

For the scripted part of the application, you can allow 3rd party plugins. If you do, you should keep tabs on the success of different solutions in this Marketplace of Ideas. You should absorb (probably native code) the ideas with the broadest appeal. But don't forget to find a way to compensate the person whose plugin you just deprecated.

Anything you don't know will stick, should be done on the cheap, and in a problem space where porting is expensive, scripting seems to be the winning strategy. And some commentary from various game authors suggests to me that the scripting language also opens up some development parallelism that is harder to get with an API.

We get the majority of the features of jQuery in HTML 5, and I bristle a bit when people try to act like jQuery is dumb. jQuery won. We are here now because of jQuery. It is useful even if you never use it, maybe especially so.
It's not typically attending the classes themselves that are the benefits of going to college. It's working with other students on homework, projects, etc., networking, socializing.
For Postgres specifically, I've been enjoying Bruce Momjian's blog lately [1]. He posts some tidbit every day or two, and not trivial things you'd already know. depesz.com is great too and really helps you stay on top of what's new in Postgres. And the pg consulting companies post quite a lot of great articles that aren't really about selling you something. (Obviously they would be happy for you to hire them, but that's pretty indirect.)

[1] https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2020.html
Officer's attorney seeks dismissal of charges in George Floyd killing
I’m constantly getting “trump approval” campaign ads. Oh the joy of living in Florida.
> Like Linux Mint is doing the same? There is no control being lost by using Ubuntu versus Mint.

If I understood the issue correctly (and I may very well be mistaken!) the problem Mint has with Canonical is that Ubuntu has "hijacked" (for lack of a better term) some apt packages so that they now actually install snapd and the snap. So you think you're opting out of snap, but when you use apt to install Chromium you end up using snap anyway.

If I understand correctly, this is Mint's main complaint: that Ubuntu seems to be hijacking apt packages with snap.
Judging by the example in TFA, we must have very different conceptions of what "beautiful" means. That is an atrocious application.

* Ungodly amounts of whitespace (seriously, look at that sidebar, look at that search bar. WHY? too much optimisation for what "looks good on a screenshot", maybe?)

* Undecipherable symbols where there's plenty of f#cking space to write labels god damn it

* I bet bad/nonexistant keyboard support (remember alt-* to navigate menus?)

* Ugly to look at (subjective)
* Fixing things

* Weightlifting

* Cardiovascular exercise

* Sewing
PiP works on Firefox (and likely Chrome, haven't tested) for Android.
iOS just announced PiP support, but formerly on iPad had PIP. A quick google shows that PiP does work for Safari on iPad.
What about the tech behind?
Except that her experiment changed three variables: her husband is male and Asian and an ex-Google engineer, while she is none of those. So it's not possible to draw the conclusion that the difference in response comes only from race.

(To be clear, I personally believe that race & gender do have an impact in the response from VCs, I just don't think her experience proves it.)
None of them are religious.

Negative selection bias as in people who are less capable to maintain long term relationships are more likely to have a lot of dating history.

Conversely, people who are super easy going and great partners to be with may have very few people break up with them (and kind of succeed on the first try).

Or another way to put it: To have a long dating history with a lot of different partners, you need to have broken up (or been broken up with) quite a few times. This could be due to circumstances outside of your control, but that is probably not true for all people in that category.
I worked for a company that did those sort of things. It was bought by three crooks who then spent a ton of VC money on themselves. Porsches in the carpark and flights to New York on Concorde. Needless to say it didn't last long.

The only other person I know who flew on it was my wife (before we were married).
Screwing around with ports is what Apple does best.
This sounds perfect for my burning man camp. Now we won't have to sit at the pepper mill debating how to split things fairly.
The BLS is the bureau within the labor department that computes these numbers. The BLS is the department of labor.

There are different numbers based on unemployment claims vs. a survey of people who say they're looking for work. It is possible to look for work while not being eligible for unemployment insurance, for instance.

During COVID in some places it is possible to receive benefits while not actively looking for work, as the government has shut down many jobs. This is a matter of nuances in the definition of the figures.
Software and business are also too human unlike something artificial like bowling. Creating beautifully architected and amazing abstractions with full test coverage at a startup churning out MVPs is actually a very bad approach even if it's objectively following "best" practices.
Cool idea, though I couldn't get it to load yet. Will look after the deluge of interest goes away!

I'm curious: do you see any risk of folks indirectly tracking you via your transactions?
I started making an edit of that, then I died inside and decided not to.
From floating guts to ‘sticky’ blood – here’s how to do surgery in space
>OK. Well, I've been using it wrong then :)

You are actually correct, it's the English that use the word wrong.

Spicey should be a measure of the variety of spices used... A very small % of people from spice rich countries would consider pepper a primary or default "spice".
Clinkle sounds nothing like this.
So they're vetting out black women because they haven't had the necessary experience, because hiring and funding is biased against them, particularly because they haven't had the necessary experience.

See the problem here?
http://archive.is/E4QT8
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A nested Kanban board. Roadmap: Team assignment, a Gantt chart, and a graph view of the nested cards.
Why should they do everything open source? To keep happy a few bored FOSS maximalists, who have neither real interest, nor use for the code?

We develop open source applications ourselves, and the amount of jerks who drop in from time to time and teach us how to do what (without contributing any code or donations, of course) is overwhelming. They don't care how you pay your bills and how much effort it takes to make things happen.
> seems like a recipe for confusion and anger.

People where "suddenly Chrome is gone" will be angry too.

Just imagine the outrage of a title like "The update to Catalina wiped all mac users' browsers with all their bookmarks and history. Forever".

And those are the people that cannot easily solve it. The person being able to know what a "Transitional package" or the difference between snap and apt is, is also the person who knows how (to google for) to move the old ~/.config/chrome/ directory into the snap.

This is also the person being enraged that Ubuntu offers a mechanism for all the people who cannot do that themselves. That sounds quite selfish to me.
Debian has a lot of rules, some of which prevent statically linked binaries, like Go programs, from being packaged and shipped with it. A notable example is lxd.

Appimages are great but there's no sandboxing or updates. But hey, we used to downlad debs and install them by hand on Debian 1.3, before apt was a thing. Maybe appimages could be signed and distributed in a similar fashion.
Truepill (YC) Raises $25M to Expand Telehealth Offerings
The author seems clear to me that she is considering both racism and sexism.

> Curiously, when I used my husband’s email to send our pitch, that’s when I started getting some responses. Do VCs only read pitches submitted by men? Do they prefer to hear from someone who is Asian rather than Black?
US Senate Panel OK's Backdoors-by-the-Backdoor Earn IT Act
Current Bill Status:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s3398

Write your representative to oppose the bill:
https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-bill-before-it-b...

Learn more about what this means for encryption:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cyb...

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/08/burn-the-earn-it-act/

https://signal.org/blog/earn-it/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-bill-governmen...

https://medium.com/@console.blog/action-tell-your-representa... (OC)
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 865: Breaking the 3GHz Threshold
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