skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of the legal issue, I sure hate it when social media services like Facebook and Strava crop my photo thumbnails to fit a certain aspect ratio. They frequently end up cropping out important parts like someone's face. I wish there was an option to not crop, and instead add white space around the image to make it fit.
Nice job! The output looks really nice.

It was also clever to output to SVG: one of the trickiest for beginning CL can be to get a GL window to work... Is not that is super hard, I just find that it is an common failure vector (there's always something like a library that is missing or something like that).

Could be cool to include instructions to run something like live-server [1] (or some CL alternative) to get instant feedback on a browser window :-)

1: https://www.npmjs.com/package/live-server
Themes...

Sitting in these Zoom meetings, that's about all I think about.

Three Participants:
https://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/shared/npr/styles/pl...

Four Participants:
https://www.feelingthevibe.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/NU...

Eight:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/thebradybunch/images/3/3...

Nine:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0b/a1/b6/0ba1b63cf281efbe48eb...

Silly.

Sorry.
It seems wrong to me to give person hood to corporations. I think letting John Smith do what ever he desires is fine. Letting some entity get legal protection in the form of limited liability should remove a large number of liberties. In other words bullying a company to me is different than bullying a person, but that's some what orthogonal to my other point.

Though I think in this context by bully the OP probably meant something like boycott.

I bought every Cory Doctorow novel through his publisher Tor because he gives them away for free and I enjoyed them. Tor have been acting like bastards to libraries. I now boycott Tor, so I am not buying his books, and I suppose that means I'm bullying the author.
> Why were a bunch of new Christmas songs written 60 years ago and barely a song a decade has been added to the repertoire since? George Michael is dead, and Mariah Carey seemed touch and go for a while, and those are pretty much the last two people to create a successful Christmas song (and the less said about Do They Know It's Christmas, the better)

I don't see how the Boomers get the blame here. The two obvious suspects in the death of the Christmas song are, first, the general decline in the quality of Anglophone pop music over the past few decades (with the biggest arguable exception being the rise of hip-hop, not a genre that's an obviously good platform for Christmas-themed top-10s) and, second, a decline in the cultural resonance of Christmas. Boomers are (directly) driving those trends less than later generations are, I'd assume.
I couldn't find the actual paper with this press release, even when searching on the website itself (which ended up just returning blank pages to me for some reason).
I found more info through another website[0]. At least this helps me, in principle, rule out the idea that they could have been mixing correlation and causation.

The one thing that surprises me is that they quickly go on to conclude that therapies should focus on what they studied. Quote: "Treatments for MDD, GAD, and PD should attempt to enhance perseverance and optimism."

A predictor isn't necessarily an actuator. I think that a few steps are skipped if a predictor is immediately used as a tool to correct an issue rather than to primarily track it. They would need to do a separate study to know IF one possible new treatment can come out of training in "goal persistence".

There are other ways to think about the results. For example, some of the criteria to diagnose a Major Depressive Disorder could be refined thanks to this kind of research. If a sort of "goal" or "persistence" assessment is tracked, the intensity of the disorder might be better perceived, which in turn could mean that therapists and psychiatrists could work towards more fitting treatment amongst what is already researched and known.

In any case, as someone with a fairly intense mix of two of the disorders in this study, I am always happy to see some research come out (especially when n >> 3 undergrads who were passing by).

[0] https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fabn0000428
It's a consequence of go's simplicity by design. You can't actually destroy natural complexity; only move it around. And if you're unwilling to design a proper container around that slowly increasing complexity, it just squeezes out between the cracks in odd ways.

In go's case, it's manifest primarily through magic (magic files, directories, comments, names, env vars, switches, etc that you just have to know how to invoke). Another warning sign is the need for an external build tool like makefiles in order to build-in-one-command because you need extra steps beyond "go build" (such as "go generate").
I live in Texas. The list of more-conservative areas in this country is very small. I am surrounded by conservatives, and these views are very common among right-wingers.

Pro-charter schools, free market medicine, 2nd amendment over all, free speech and "cancel culture" as prime issues of race -- these are generally in line with conservative positions, and very, very far from liberal positions.

And again, as I said, that's fine! I'm not disagreeing with the positions, I'm just saying that claiming to be "centrist' doesn't actually make you centrist.

Most people aren't far-right nor far-left. Most people, knowingly or unknowingly, adopt positions from each side. Holding both right-wing and left-wing views doesn't make one centrist, it makes one independent, and I think most people are in this category.
The problem is people want to call it "mixed zoning" but still have Karens on the central planning committee making stupid rules, e.g. they'll have "businesses" next to "residences" but a given plot will be explicitly designated as one or the other.

What you really want is the small businesses which start off being operated out of the proprietor's residence. A hair salon in a converted living room, a restaurant serving food from the owner's home kitchen. Something that can start off as a side business yet can advertise without getting into legal trouble and grow into more if it's successful.

You get a few of those in an area and someone decides it's a good place to knock down a house and put up a five story building with condos on top and a coffee shop and a bakery on the ground floor.

You have to let it grow organically like that or you just end up with abandoned "commercial" buildings because businesses fear moving in when they know their success would lead to increased rents as a result of the limited amount of designated-commercial real estate in the area.
it could be you can't see that thread anymore because a lot of it was flagged dead. if you turn on showdead in your profile, threads like that will be visible.

it could be you are talking about the one that starts here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23867618

dang gets around to taking notice right about here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23868001

dang says: "We've rate limited your account again for perpetuating flamewars on this site."

you said: "I've been explicitly told by the HN moderators that my opinions on policing - which are well within the American mainstream and probably a touch left of center - are so controversial they constitute flamebait and I shouldn't discuss them here."

that does not to me sound at all like a good-faith representation of what dang said.
Time zones were a premature optimization. Now we all have GPS, so we can return to location based times.
How about we don’t start wars based off a twitter feed?
This dismissal is both factually very far from correct, and, I think, an example of the toxic partisanship that is too common on the internet.
I’m saying there are policies that an overwhelming majority in USA supports, such as universal healthcare, taxing the rich, stop foreign wars, stop police violence, reduce carbon emission, etc. which will never be enacted in the current political climate. Our choices—well the voters choice; I’m not allowed to vote—is basically: Not getting what we want or not getting what we want plus inhumane bigotry.

If this were a real democracy, popular policies would be enacted, or at least be on the ballot. But this is not the case. As evident from the Black Lives Matter protest, riot seems to be the only avenue for change. And as popular policies keep getting put on the back burner while corporate interests keep getting the front seat regardless of who we vote, the illusion of democracy will frustrate more and more people. The more frustrated we get the more likely we will resort to violence.

I’m not saying that violence will lead to good outcome (it probably won’t; as history shows), but an ever angrier and more frustrated population will eventually use it if democratic means remain unavailable. That is more and more people will vote for the Guillotine if the only options on the ballots are: a) business as usual, or b) business as usual + hating minorities.
NT didn't have the gradients either. 2000 did.
> mob induced censorship

That's called "living in a community". It's impossible to interact with other people without providing some level of acceptance or rejection of what they are doing, whether on purpose or accident, whether they interpret you correctly or not.

Even just walking away communicates something.this isn't always bad, it's how we enforce norms that are not laws. Lie or act in a way I do not approve of and I can choose to stop or limit my interactions with you, and I can express my opinion to others. I this way I am censoring you in a small way. It's how humans interact, and it's useful and good when used in moderation for good causes.

When not used in moderation, and when a million people jump on a single person and express enough displeasure to cause severe ramifications for relatively small offenses, then it's not good.

I don't want to see racist rhetoric in the same way I don't want to see poor behavior at others expenses. That is, I want it allowed, but for people to face somewhat appropriate ramifications for the offense, to discourage them from spouting it everywhere people do t want to see it. To be clear, I mean it in the literal, bit colloquial sense, in that it's a preference, not a call to censor others be preventing it entirely, as overreactions are what I'm arguing against.
So this is based on one anecdote with one company and this ends up with a blanket statement about society at large?
Before using it I thought the if err != Nil would be annoying, but it actually isn't. I think a sum type would be better, but the pattern is common and honestly not very different from a match on a sum type.

In general I agree that it does lead to code that's more familiar even if it was written by someone else. Having only used it a few months now, I can definitely see where the value in go lies.
Coming from Latin America,this was the best way for someone to get their business started and get some extra cash. From selling candies, to food and groceries. All that came to an end when Walmart and other chain companies such as 711 or Oxxo appeared..
A detailed look into all the businesses that received SBA's PPP loans nationwide
anecdotally I've heard some companies are doing a "meet in the middle" sort of scenario that means the employee still is incentivized to move away.

Eg: moving to 10% lower CoL? then it will only be a 5% pay cut, or something along those lines.

Your point of "same output, why not same return?" makes sense, but this way employees are incentivized
And that is why you need tax penalties such as long term unoccupied property taxes and non-resident investor taxes to counter incentivize such behavior.
It was written in benefit of Ethiopia, a Christian country since before the Anglo-Saxon invasion…
The dropbox thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

I don't agree with you that people are being jerks there in the way that they are here.
Wow, that's really fucking terrible. That should have brought up so many red flags. At this point I'm of the opinion that sensitivity training shouldn't be something done post facto as an apology. Give sensitivity training to everybody preemptively. First, sensitivity training is not and should not be a punishment. We should all be at best excited and at worst neutral about expanding our worldview and learning from others. Second, we shouldn't have this weird system where Alice calls Bob out, HR makes Bob do sensitivity training, Bob has some resentment for being embarrassed and Alice still doesn't feel comfortable around Bob.

Also sensitivity training isn't the best name. It practically writes its own insults. Maybe call it something like diversity promotion or anti-racism training. It's a lot harder to opt out to anti-racism training.

We all have blind spots. We need to erase them. Let's do it together.
Yes! When I lived in an old house in the outskirts of Chico, there was a random little coffee shop right down the street. Seemed totally out of place but I loved it. I would really like small cafes and shops inside the Suberbs!
I concede the point though changing settings on some of their devices should not require the cloud. I appreciate their design allows you to change stuff from their web console and apps, but the dissenters in this thread make great points with good counter examples.
> Zen of Python

You lost me there. If you're coming from a Pythonic point of view you are doing Ruby wrong. It will never compare on that standard because it's not Python and it doesn't need to. Python's pillars are opinions, just like Ruby's.

Ruby's got it quirks but I consider Python to be the wrong one. Ruby's my zen (and luckily it pays good). Python syntax is wordy and awkward to me, and "Pythonic" might be great for newbies but I find its principles slow me down.

To each their own.
I advocate a solution similar to proposals floated years ago on alt.pave.the.earth on UseNet.

1. Disintegrate the moon, anyone who has ever advocated for lunar calendars, and anyone who fails to convincingly support this Plan(tm), converting their mass to energy that we can use for productive purposes such as orbital adjustments.
2. Adjust the rotational period of the earth to an aesthetically pleasing multiple of the length of the solar year. Adjust the axial tilt and orbital eccentricity of the earth to eliminate "seasons".
3. Adjust the definitions of time units to aesthetically pleasing multiples of the now-constant solar year and rotational day.

Problem solved.
The Dreams of Google's AI (2015)
> I believe that 3-5 is roughly the amount of people...right grouping for one room

Isaac Asimov commented maximum creativity is 3-5, but a variety of firms have found the optimal team size is a “two pizza team” (6 to 10, typically 8).

Google the term, you get tons of discussion from blogs to journalism, that can lead you to papers:

http://blog.idonethis.com/two-pizza-team/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/24/the-two-p...

In any case, what pattern does the screen divide into for 5? Of course there is a max number, arguably the number of individual pixels if you wanted each participant’s presence indicated by a single dot, but the practical limit is much lower. How many can you do? Why not test more?

Currently Teams on iPad is 9, the increase from 4 was news:

https://winbuzzer.com/2020/04/14/microsoft-teams-is-doubling...

Zoom is 42, so Teams plans 49 shortly:

https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/15/microsoft-teams-zoom-49-v...

A 7x7 grid on an iPad Pro works out to something like 390x292, well above the 320x240 that was a fine streaming video size back in the day.

PS. If you haven’t done more than 5, say so in the FAQ.
Has there been any significant success stories wherein people made a fair return on their time under the "fund me" model?
Yep. Nostalgic times! Memory flyby to a bygone era!

Wish could time travel and live that life again!

Not a fan of the current developments though! Sadly!
how about we just do away with months altogether. One or two days per year that aren't in a month would be weird but 365ish days should be fine, right?
> (6) Your original message said that you believed they weren't using an a12z for the demo

I never claimed this

> (7) The comment below yours suggest that "One can certainly write software that virtualizes another machine". They were more than likely referring to para-virtualzation in their comment.

Well, yes and no. Virtualization (in the context of VMs) is about sharing the hardware between multiple OSes, so the statement about "virtualizing another machine" didn't even remotely make any sense. This led to my original comment, "emulation isn't virtualization."

And one small thing, it was the comment above mine, not below.

> (8) You responded saying you didn't know what software virtualization was, it is almost always para-virtualization.

Where can I find refereces to this term that supports this statement? I looked, and found the term "software virtualization" being used to refer to containerization and programming language runtimes, but not VMs.

> While there is full-hardware virtualization

I couldn't find anything about this either.
In something like the US News and World Report ranking system, a ranking of 25 vs 40 would put them in an entirely different tier.
Would someone elaborate on the choice of canvas vs DOM for grids like this? There is this older stackoverflow discussion[1] that seems to indicate that one can get decent performance with large data volumes by maintaining DOM cells for just the viewport area and managing the grid content in response to scroll events. Since the row heights are fixed, the scrolling algorithm should be manageable. So why a canvas rather than DOM?

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2402953/javascript-data-...
I used to use a bastardized version of this on our team calendar on the whiteboard at work (just the month/year, ignoring the fact that French Republican months don't correspond neatly to Gregorian months). I was able to get away with it because the month/year were not really functional parts of the calendar. I doubt I could have gotten the team to fully adopt the French Republican calendar, although it would have been fun to try.
Certainly releases interesting papers ha wormholes and vacuum energy

nice username
The corner store kinda sucks. We always used to go when I was commuting and my wife was pregnant because we were strapped for time.

But now that the governor says to go once a week she makes the trip out to the big, nice grocery store and we get better food for less money.
I suspect many of those who are ad-averse like me use third party clients and ad blockers, and have an inherent distrust of ads, so I doubt I'm worth much to an advertiser considering my engagement rate is zero.
Japan also has strong privacy laws, extending into excessive and absurd defamation laws.

For example, if you have piles of proof of someone committing a crime like sexual assault and the cops refuse to take it seriously, you can reliably post it on Twitter these days and people will take it seriously. In Japan, the person who committed the crime can reliably sue you for ruining their reputation and win. Stating actual plain facts about a person that harms their image on any public platform will land you in trouble, unless it’s something that’s clearly in the public interest to know (like if a company is putting arsenic in their baby food). It’s likely one reason why incidents of work harassment and abuse only become public after someone kills themselves.
But in most cases, it's not considerably easier to make money, at least significant amounts of it, several decades after publishing a creative work. Who is paying the same price for software from 20 or 30 years ago that they pay for the equivalent today, or even 10% as much? Most big movies make the lion's share of their revenue during the initial phase of distribution in theatres and then the second phase of availability via streaming and physical media over the next few years. A lot of big games make a large chunk of their money in just the first few weeks after launch. Traditionally, a book that wasn't still making a lot of money would go out of print, which meant that for anything but the classics or best-selling authors, you'd have to look for a bookshop that still had a copy on the shelves or some second-hand source after a few years.

If copyright is primarily an economic tool, intended to create market forces similar to other products and services in order to promote activity within the creative sector, then a much shorter copyright period is perfectly justifiable. The few works that still make significant money after several decades usually also made huge money in the decades before, so copyright would still provide a strong incentive to create and share such works.

One interesting thing about modern economic models supported by copyright is that they do make more of the long tail viable: a work aimed at a relatively small niche or with unusually high production costs can still be economic to produce if you can recoup the costs over a longer period, and with digital storage and distribution this becomes more practical. But even then, how many works would be viable after 40 or 50 or 100 years but not after 20 or 30?
I have relatives who grew up on a farm. Their jobs and their parents' jobs were at home on the farm, and they all worked together. It was something I was always envious of, although almost everything else about farm work is tough.

Now many of us might have a chance to live similarly. The schools will eventually reopen, but in the meantime many of us are working at home with our families nearby. There is a greater sense of family connectedness, and less peer connectedness. I actually think that is a good trade-off because spending too much time with people who are similar to you in age and interests causes some social skills to atrophy.

We can relearn to live how most people in history have lived.
I developed https://www.activegoals.net with mental health in mind especially since I deal a lot with the autism community who usually have poor executive functioning.
This must be in the runnings for this years “headlines that wouldn’t make sense x years ago” prize. I feel like my head is spinning with all the different actors just on the internet, let alone IRL, who are able to make headlines. What will seem strange and new to us in the future, after the shine wears off cryptocurrencies? Will that day ever come? I feel that interest in crypto is part journalistic fad, part world-changing event. Which is which depends on who you are, what you need it for, where you are in the world, if you can mine it yourself or must acquire it via the market or other means, and so on.
Different strokes for different folks. The corner bodega in my old New York neighborhood was open late into the night and made a good bacon egg and cheese sandwich.

The important thing is that we should not legislate these out of existence.
That seems very optimistic to me. Ethically, Facebook is the perfect exemplar of an internet-oriented company. No better, perhaps, but no worse either because it's such a low bar. It seems at least as likely that any replacement would turn out to be even scummier, simply because it would absolutely have to hire from the same talent pool and would have had even less time to figure out what all the ethical dangers are.

But it's simply not going to happen, so this is all moot.