skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.. But it's definitely far better than not having a college degree!!!
Is there any way for me as a creator to pipe in subtitles from that service automatically into YouTube’s captions? Because then you could have one person go there, write the subtitles, have the creator approve it and then all of the viewers can see them.
Ask HN: Do you regularly play games on web browsers?
I know people regularly play games on desktop and mobile, but what keeps the browser based games market from taking off?

The SPA standard could potentially lead to a new market for web based game products on mobile, which would be great. But while the market for browser games on desktop machines has always existed, it never really grew beyond the Flash plugin bubble of the mid 00s, despite proving to be an effective distribution channel.

So I wondered if any of you are either playing, developing or publishing games for web browsers, and what your experiences are?
Because the general public has no clue what ActivityPub is or the desire to learn how to consume feeds from dozen of instances when they could just download a single app onto their smartphone where all the celebrities already are.
I mean there's a lot more to university than "success preparation". While university is indeed no guarantee for success, it does seem to help a lot with your understanding of the world and your ability to think critically.

I'm lucky enough to come from a country with free decent universities, so maybe it's easy for me to say, but I can't even put a price on how my education changed every single part of how I think and understand the world. That it prepared me for a well-paying job is just a nice side-effect.

How well do you think the misinformation that laid the foundation for the political shitstorm the US is in now could have taken hold if most people had a college education?
Shift + zz
If the reporter lives from ads on her blog then she needs traffic, because more traffic is more income.

So bringig traffic to the blog is a big value, so she should pay for this service. But she doesn't, because search engines are free.

News sites can block google and other bots any time on their sites with robots.txt, but they don't because they want the traffic for free, while they even demand money from those who bring the traffic.
A secretive Pentagon agency seeded the ground for a rapid coronavirus cure
If it was 150Eur I'd go for it, 300+ is beyond my keyboard budget.
I can't even downvote on this site, but I think it is because your post seems to say Google News copies news without a link to the source, which is not the case.
Consciousness – A ‘Space-time Odyssey' (2014) [pdf]
I have an address specifically for that—it's just one letter and a few digits, redirecting to the main account. Works like a charm. Especially when the native alphabet in the country is not Latin and laboriously explaining which letter is which is a meme from the phone calls era. Whereas I can just call digits by the names in the local language, and everyone is familiar with hearing them.

Meanwhile, with my main-ish addresses, I've been told that they look like a random jumble of letters or a password. And once I've given one of them over the phone, took ten minutes easily—with confusion as to even how many letters are there.
Google is quickly becoming the Evil Empire of Microsoft of the Nineties (who, in turn, has managed to pull a 180). The soul left with Larry/Sergei/Eric, and we have corporate drones at the top seeking to maximize shareholder value.

It's only a matter of time before reputation catches up.

At the same time, Google is much less suited to weather a storm:

1) This quote struck me: “You can paper over a lot of problems by throwing money at it and hiring more bodies,” says a long-time Googler, who previously worked for Microsoft. Google went from a small, elite team of the smartest guys in the room, to just bringing in bodies with a pulse. The screening processes are, as has been mentioned many times, simply random.

2) The old culture carried elitism and arrogance, which kind of works if you're competent, but much less so when mixed in with incompetence. Cultural problems are tough to clean up. Wrong and arrogant about it is very poor.

3) Short-term profits are up, and they'll rise for a while yet, but the fundamentals seem to be increasingly evaporating. Switching from Google has a lot less friction than switching from Microsoft. Goodwill was a fundamental for Google. Even when Google tries to be good, it doesn't follow universal values. It's all grounded in a left-wing ideology that resonates with a tiny fraction of its customer base. We can all agree with helping the poor. A lot of people don't agree with identity politics.

It takes 5 minutes to switch search from Google to DDG, so I don't think there's the same stickiness as having Microsoft file formats and APIs.
I think employers are coming around to hire more non-CS majors, which is a good thing. However, most people I know of who got into software engineering didn't just skip college, do a bootcamp, and get a job as an engineer. Either they started businesses (which comes with its own financial risk), worked in some other technical area (IT, wordpress administration, etc.), or did a bootcamp in order to switch careers (and thus had acquired a lot of important soft skills).

I would love more different avenues for people to come to software engineering, and I'm rooting for boot camps, but I'm also skeptical about how universal the benefits are. I think coding is much more of a learnable skill than many already in industry give it credit, but I also think it takes years, not weeks, to learn to do it well.
More like having the best connection's from the university/family/friends ;)
Doesn't work, Firefox Android 68.11.0.
Weekend Roundup: Big Tech CEOs in the Hot Seat, Musk’s Biggest A.I. Fear
I was tolk that's how mattress sales work. They basically have their own specific SKU or line of name-brand mattresses and you can't directly compare or price match.

Similarly, my friend was a contractor and told me the paint manufacturers would have paint stores with good paint. The same paint was available cheaper at Home Depot, but the sku would be slightly different and the paint properties like thickness would also be cheaper (in the quality sense)
It seems likely to me that Google will fight that part of it in court. Paying for the content...battle lost. Being forced to surface the content, not so much.

I mean, that's like the government saying that not only do you have to pay a toll when you use CityLink (okay, user pays) but it is mandatory to use that road as the only option, and that you must use it every day.

I really don't see how that can stop Google from dropping news from the search results completely. Or coming to an arrangement with Fairfax, where they pay a tiny amount, and nothing to NewsCorp.
https://xkcd.com/566/
Show HN: Searchmysite.net – a simple search for the non-commercial web
Don't you see the irony in your own comment? If you never create type related bugs in ruby then you shouldn't encounter them in a typed language either because you are infallible. The truth is probably that you see all the type errors at runtime instead and don't see them as such.
Interesting but why would it not apply the same shifting within the green light spectrum which seems to be quite stabile?

https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2020/07/Plants...
There have been a lot of comments on HN recently about how the advertising funded search model is broken and how hard it is to find all the fun and interesting content from personal websites and blogs[0], so I've built this to try and fix that. Innovate features include (i) only listing sites submitted by validated site owners, (ii) detecting and downranking pages with adverts, and (iii) a (proposed) funding model of a listing fee and/or search as a service fee. For more information on the tech stack, go to https://searchmysite.net/ , search for "searchmysite.net", and click on my post which should be near the top:-) Bear in mind that it is very new, with only a few sites listed so far from the good folks in the IndieWeb community. The things I'm hoping to get out of the Show HN are: (i) feedback on whether it is worth spending any more time on, (ii) thoughts on whether the search for independent websites or the search as a service is more useful, and of course (iii) more submissions because the more content there is the more useful the search should get. Other feedback, questions, comments etc. also very welcome.

[0] e.g. "The Return of the 90s Web" (338 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23567744, "Rediscovering the Small Web" (121 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23326329, "If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs" (614 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23205588, "Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?" (228 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23202850, "Mozilla goes incubator with 'Fix The Internet' startup early-stage investments" (166 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23194178, "One company's plan to build a search engine Google can't beat" (319 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23960741
Although your wording is pretty rough, I agree with the idea in general. With no way to really evaluate an idea beyond "it sounds good" or "lots of people agree with it", most philosophers are just very wordy circlejerkers.
Now I have the intro music of the Expanse in my head.
RISC-V OS using Rust: Graphics
What chance to Facebook and Google have when even the laws of mathematics must bow to Australian law [0].

Be careful what you wish for though. As an Australian, I fear that Australian news media needs Facebook and Google far more than the other way around.

0: https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-laws-of-australia-will-tru...
Your attempt at pedantry has failed.

> Penneys is an Irish founded & HQed company

Primark/Penneys is still an Irish founded company whose headquarters and decision making happens in Ireland, regardless of who the owners are.
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I've been getting deep into the home office ergonomics hole now that I'll be working from home indefinitely. There's a real danger here - I generally pride myself as someone who is conscientious of consumerist tendencies, but it's become clear that my drive for better ergonomics is no longer about the actual facilitation of work or avoidance of injury. I have spent more time researching ergonomic setups than could ever be saved by marginal improvements in productivity, and my poor posture is by far the greatest risk for injury.

It's become about completing myself. Filling the void. Materialism: the belief that acquisition of something outside myself will finally bring me permanent satisfaction. But if you'll excuse the metaphor, the void we try to fill is a black hole of the cosmic variety: its pull grows as it is fed. Shoveling in expensive ergonomic equipment is little different from shoes or bags or guns or radios or funko pops.

Anyway, this next $250 I spend on an endlessly-adjustible retractable keyboard tray & fancy ergonomic keyboard will surely address all my complaints...
ProtonDrive beta launch in Fall 2020
I was just coming here to make this comment.

The Web Monetization standard is the solution to the problem described of wanting to support a lot of creators effortlessly. There are many creators I want to support, but don't want to deal with managing a unique subscription to them—and also don't want to support them with a minimum $5/month.
That's one of the reasons I said in mu post that I'm happy that split keyboards are getting more attention.

Most of the people still don't know about them. If more people knew about the benefits they bring, problems they solve, they would be much more popular. That would bring the price down, increase the choices available, bring them closer to the users. So you could probably go to a local shop and test it.

But they would lose the exclusivity feeling they have now. Which one do you choose?
That looks like a man that doesn't let life hand him lemons without a juicer.

Thanks for sharing that!
Or another metric: $5 give you a single digitalocean droplet, or a sub to CrunchyRoll.
The Mac was developed by salaried employees, so was Unix and C and all the Xerox PARC stuff. The internet and the web was developed by people getting paid for it. Knuth is a professor, he didn't have to do his work after hours for free.

My impression was that most successful open source projects (Linux, Mozilla etc) are driven by paid contributors.

I'm sure you can find some examples, but depending on your opinion on what the "best software" is, I doubt most of it is developed by people working for free.
What does "15m/mile" mean?
“ GPT-3 does not look much like an agent. It does not seem to have goals or preferences beyond completing text, for example. It is more like a chameleon that can take the shape of many different agents. Or perhaps it is an engine that can be used under the hood to drive many agents.”

Maybe the worm is a GPT3 analogue with the difference that a desire to replicate and seek nutrients is built into its nano-robotic physical shape thanks to a set of genes. So then what if one could train on massive amounts of data of physical worm-world interactions - perhaps they resultant robot would appear ‘conscious’ and like a true ‘agent’ simply because it’s in a body now and capable of navigating an environment...
I barely skimmed the article, but I don't find this surprising for a few reasons (some of which have been mentioned elsewhere in the comments):

- "University degree" is a heterogeneous thing. While there is such thing as non-economic value, the strictly economic value of a college education tends to cluster around a small subset of degrees.

- Many countries have enacted policies to increase proportion of people who get degrees. Far from fixing inequality, this has instead diluted the value of university degrees.

- All universities are not created equal. While it is possible (and even common) for employers to pay too much attention to the reputation of the school, it is also quite common for students to over-estimate the value of a no-name institution. I've found this to be moreso the case in the two European countries I've lived in for an extended period of time (France & England).

- The exorbitant debt incurred by university tuition in some countries (which need not be named, I think) means the ROI on the university degree has to also be exorbitant.

Have I missed anything?
Target was nailed because if you had their app with location services turned on, the prices would rise when you approached the store.

"Target updated its smartphone app Wednesday night after a Minneapolis TV station reported that some prices displayed on the app increased whenever users approached a store. In one case, a product's price increased by almost $150." ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/target-app-price-switch-target-...
What do you mean? News Corp definitely has a sizeable influence over elections, or at least they have had in the past. So it works in that sense.
The C64 retro market is well catered for, and there are already C64 PLA replacement options available. However, the C128 market is no where near as popular, so it's really nice to see it be given some love by this project. As someone who recently had to purchase a couple of PLAs for a C128 that I'm trying to fix, I can only applaud this effort!
Thank you, super helpful. Definitely going to give this a shot.
> If you are searching through logs to _find_ a problem, its far too late.

To be fair, this is addressed in the article which links to Netflix's blog on the topic and how they do so effectively at their scale: https://netflixtechblog.com/lessons-from-building-observabil...
Yeah, no. Europe and Asia-Pacific all adopted chip and pin just fine (minus China).
Nice, I'll give this a read. Thanks
> the last time I had an Argos catalogue in the house was probably more than 20 years ago!

If that was normal then we don't need to worry about

> less paper going to waste.

My kids love looking through the argos catalogue and planning what to spend their pocket money on
How exactly is this going to work?
College was a lot less expensive when I went many years ago. However, I suppose that if I had sunk what I and my family spent on it into local real estate, I could have made more money over the years. I have regrets about college--I wish I had taken more math, I wish I had studied more foreign languages--but none of the regrets are financial.
Warhol had a fascinating perspective on mass-produced pop culture, having enough insight to pretty much game the system
Right, but ads only pay for journalism insofar as newspapers sell, and papers only sell insofar as readers are interested in buying.
It could use an AVR but you don’t save much and the world is on ARM. You would “need” an ATMega 32u4 anyways for hardware USB support. A purposed KB IC probably wouldn’t handle split halves.
> I don't feel that it's deteriorating as much as that tech in general never properly understood how to do good localisation.

Yes and no. The majority of my experience with localization is via WordPress. Frankly, it's a PITA. Another thing to know, and so on. It's not an extension so to speak, it's another mountain to climb, another silo to wrestle with.

Furthermore, and yes this is unique to WP, it make no effort to leverage it's scale. Certainly, once (e.g.) 'Add to Cart' has been translated and vetted, it doesn't need to be done again. You should be able to submit your language file, have it parsed and spit back fleshed out as much as possible. Then you need only to focus on the bits that didn't find a match.

Yes. Some increase in understanding is in order. But an updating and upgrading of the tool(s) is over due as well.
fider has different approach, something more like Canny. Moufette meant to be embeddable and build-in
Fry's is still around, but going into the store is a little sad now. Last time I went (pre-covid) the shelves were full of cheap stuff and they didn't even stock what I wanted - a USB extension cable.
Jesus christ dude, this is a tech forum. Never admit you're a christian. NEVER!
I wonder if they can find any timelapses of nature being restored instead of destroyed.
Bert transformer model for Extractive summarisation
That's very relevant context. I had an impression that he considers Cardano worse than Facebook, while IMO it's mostly harmless project compared to major software employers.
In the CS field, the low hanging fruit is often worth more than the harder stuff.

It's all about show and very little about substance.

Building a flashy web app and studying for interviews will get you further than anything you learn in school.
I am sure they will fight to minimise their costs one way or another. Rather than challenging the validity of the law, another strategy might be to submit to the arbitral process and come up with a strong argument that, for the purposes of section 52ZP(2)(b), the "benefit (whether monetary or otherwise) of the registered news business’ covered news content to the digital platform service" is negligible, and for (2)(d), any "remuneration amount would place an undue burden on the commercial interests of the digital platform service." https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/Exposure%20Draft%20Bill...
Do black spruce have a waxy coating? They certainly don't appear blue, and they thrive in locations with much colder winters than the blue spruce.
I don't think anyone has figured it out yet, because if you aren't paying for news, then you are the product and not the consumer, and yet most news is still free.

...or maybe they have figured it out.
Why don't you keep shopping where you usually do, wherever you think you get the best value for money and donate to a charity instead?
As I have a 3440x1440 screen it just shows all the city and a bunch of the surrounding area I cant find it. I love that move scene went to see it with friend in theaters like 20 times. Every time I play GTA with 5 stars I remember Morpheus saying "never get on the highway"
Sadly that seems we are at the peak of fake news era.
Where there is no reason, no logic, only facades of 'good intentions'.

Its the ultimate divide and conquer.

Let the poor fight amongst themselves while the corporations get even stronger grip over democracy's neck.
The Settings page requires that you login, which only requires an email address.

The quick action bar on the search results page also has a smaller cog icon and other icons on it that will allow you to change several settings without logging in, but you must have javascript enabled to access them.
Programming Languages to Learn in 2020 – Fullstack Academy
Dont forget to get a present? I mean, the world has existed great for a long time prior to Amazon's existence. Now everyone acts like Prime is an essential service to life itself. It's pretty pathetic. Like, really pathetic. Your own failure of planning isn't an excuse to break your own ideals, but then turn around to act pious to that ideal. In essence, you then dont actually stand or believe in it, you just do it, when convenient for virtue signaling and cheap warm/fuzzies.
At the end of the day, you still need a reporter on the ground at location. That's the origination of any reputable news source.
>You don't need to get a phd to push the boundaries of knowledge, and often people who get phds aren't actually doing that. PhD is just a fake status indicator like an MBA.

Pick any field. Find some measure of who pushes the boundaries the most in that field. Check after picking the metric, not before, what percent of those making the advances had a PhD, compared to the field overall.

For example, in computer science a the top advances sometimes get a Turing Award. Turing Awards winners need not have a PhD. Most people working in computer science don't have PhDs, yet among Turing Award winners, 59 have one and 13 don't (and most of those have masters degrees).

The same happens in chemistry, physics, biology, engineering, history, geology, psychology, and on and on.

Maybe a PhD is more than a "fake status indicator"? Maybe those most driven to push boundaries very often get a PhD along the way to become more skilled in their field.

Care to present a field and a metric of who has pushed the boundaries the most for which we can asses the impact of PhD and non-PhDs where PhDs are not the most impactful?