skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some time in the late '90s a friend and i sat down and tried to design a UI framework that could cover lots of styles. We started with GUI and line-mode terminal, but hoped to add curses and the web (1.0 of course, so using forms, not JavaScript). I didn't know about block-mode terminals at the time.

GUIs and line-mode terminals are radically different, so you have to think of a language of UI primitives that are high-level enough to have a natural implementation in each style.

This is hard! For starters, a GUI is inherently spatial, whereas a command line is more temporal. If you want to specify a sandwich, say, then in a GUI, you might have three select boxes next to each other for the bread, filling, and dressing, and a submit button, whereas on a command line, you need to prompt three times, and perhaps offer options for going back and changing the selection. Or offer internal commands for viewing the lists and making a selection, for a more shell-like interface.

From what i remember, our API ended up looking a lot like web forms - the application presents a series of questions, each with a prompt and a structure for the answer (free text, select one from a list, etc). The GUI implementation then put together a (very ugly) GUI with a elements for each question, the command line implementation asked each question in turn.

We never got as far as trying to display rich information. That could have been a whole different set of problems.
Building a user profile portal with Flask, OAuth, and APIs
Is it just me, or does it seem silly that the man in the first advertisement is going to walk around with wet jean cuffs all day because he wanted to see his soap float.
High resolution(> QVGA) display panels is difficult to come by, especially at small quantity-per-months.

Those in the form of Raspberry Pi or Arduino parts are more accessible but still not cheap and not so high resolution.
No, the colours I'm talking about aren't defined as RGBI values.

Wikipedia has good introduction to the different SGR colour parameters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors

I'm talking about 3/4-bit (8/16 colours) not 8-bit (256 colours) nor 24-bit ("true colour"). The 3/4-bit colour palette is configurable in most terminals. True colour is not.
And a similarly specced Thinkpad will be perfectly usable if purchased in 2-3 years as they cycle out of enterprise fleets, and for a better price than the notebook in the article. Not a satisfying option for everyone, but a great one in my book.
Crowd photo yes. Photo of one recognizable person? Stock sites will absolutely look for a model release so that it can be used in marketing materials, ads, etc. You can, of course, simply publish it on a blog or in a newspaper or sell it as a poster without permission.
Not OP, but in SteamVR room-scale is typically used to indicate you can move around within a play area, and your avatar/camera moves as you do.

Its the way the setting is named in Steam, and in SteamVR games.

Example:

https://www.vive.com/us/support/vive-pro-hmd/category_howto/...
Trevor Milton can't manage to get through an interview without contradicting himself. Telsa-fan YouTubers have been calling him out for months.
Great to finally see some competition in this space.

Like a lot of other lesser-known industries, private equity has consolidated all the top self-storage software management solutions.

SpareFoot acquired SiteLink[1]. The combined SpareFoot and SiteLink were acquired by Cove Hill Partners[2], a private equity firm founded in 2017, and merged with storeEDGE[3], a third company, to form Storable[4], the company behind SiteLink, storEDGE, and SpareFoot. Storable just acquired Easy Storage Solutions[5], a fourth company, a few months ago. SpareFoot, SiteLink, storEDGE, and Easy Storage Solutions are now all the same company.

[1]: https://www.sparefoot.com/self-storage/blog/20604-sparefoot-...

[2]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/cove-hill-acquires-sparefoot-si...

[3]: https://www.storedge.com/merger

[4]: https://www.storable.com/

[5]: https://www.insideselfstorage.com/suppliersvendors/storable-...
And you're talking about $600-$1200 GPUs, plus similar or higher for CPU+MB+RAM. People who buy these things are willing to pay for maximum performance.
I don't have a clue how you would implement this. The difference in portability between spec and something like json-schema/protobuf/avro is that you can serialize the schema in these and then clojure and (say) python, go, java, C#, JavaScript applications can talk to one an other.

How would you propose to serialize clojure spec's and use them from a python app? Port the clojure compiler to python?
>Eliminate brush cleanup in CA, cut FD funds
>Forests lined with dried kindling that is usually removed
>Enter hot summer
>People ignite fires(PPG, gender reveal, arsonists)
>Omg, fires!?!

>Tell plebs its climate change, they're too retarded to investigate, just parrot narrative as truth
>Dust off Al Gore
>Prop up Greta
>Say all we need is more taxes to win against Earth
Here are couple of interesting facts from the article:

- Robin Li - Founder of Baidu, built the first link-based ranking algorithm, RankDex.

- Jeff Bezos is an early investor of google.

- Google’s PPC model was remarkably similar to Overture (owned by yahoo). Google settled the lawsuit by offering GOOG shares as compensation.
Scott Manley did a quite good video about "How The Red Skies From Fires Are Related To Blue Sunsets on Mars" in which he has this exact issue with his phone making the sky white instead of red- which he also discusses. If you aren't familiar with his channel, check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOIBQIpdv10
I didn't say 'gourmet' though, I just wouldn't personally put one of those rubber squares or anything out of a bag even on a burger, because I think its horrid. I would use real cheese cut from a block that hasn't been coloured some rancid colour, even if cheap decidedly non-gourmet cheese.

This stuff looks like it's modelled off the horrid stuff, rather than imitating anything that I would want to eat, so I just wondered what you were comparing it to in saying it's superior.
My Pixel can't even capture sunsets because there's no way to turn off the HDR processing anymore :(
The terminal bell is completely abused, and as irritating as heck.

I turn it off as soon as I can upon installation of any distribution.
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/09/09/apple-designs-masks-for...

Just for their employees, not for sale.
The virtual version of Joel Spolsky's "Good managers move chairs out of the way to assist programmers getting work done" (heavily paraphrased from memory).
“[t]he sensible way to proceed is for [Epic to comply with the agreements and guidelines] and continue to operate while it builds a record.” Id. “Any injury that [Epic Games] incurs by following a different course is of its own choosing.” Id.

Page 5

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.364265...
I honestly though "you can keep the app as long as you connect the wifi" and "safari won't wipe your data a long as you enter the site one time in every several days" the same kind of bs.

It's not solution, it is workaround for the apple's creepy behavior.
> Today, we are launching Facebook Campus, a college-only space

This seems strangely familiar...
> Default to standard terminal colours

That's my point :)
I'm listening to this podcast about the ban and it's loaded with concerns.
https://xraypod.com/show/banned-in-pdx/biz-and-tech-groups-a...

For one, the lobbyists and pro-tech groups that are against the ban, have nothing to say about what happens when the tech is wrong. They're painting a perfect world where the tech is solid and used for things like identifying missing children.

The podcast describes the high level of false positives in the algorithms. They say "top performing" algorithms are pretty good, but generally speaking ... no. Not good.

And there's the implementation. How does this get rolled out? Who's responsible for breaches? Who can access the data? Will anyone be able to sell access to the data?

But I always come back to: what happens when it's wrong? And I don't expect perfection. KNOWING that this tech is flawed, it's important to ask "what level of flawed is acceptable?"
On the contrary, apparently you're unaware that a ton of languages and serialization formats have ‘null’. And there's nothing special about nil in Lua, it's just called ‘undefined’ in other dynamic languages (possibly with minor differences). Lua doesn't have a proper ‘null’.

But yeah, this discussion is pointless since you're obviously not concerned either about the use-cases of exchanging data with languages that are not like C, or about keeping structures ‘schemaless’ in Lua code.
I ran across an old and very nice portable Smith Corona typewriter the other day and of course I opened it up and gave it the required typewriter inspection: holding down tab until the carriage rings the bell. What a delight.

This project is really great, but I cant help but want to remix it to hide the guts within the bell! I also kinda want to hook it up to a pinball knocker and put it under my coworkers' desks.

Anyone else have the unending list of cool projects to build that you can never seem to start?
Surprisingly, Harvard is not on the list of trial colleges.
Bogotá burns as protests erupt against police brutality
Forestation may be going up but what about fragmentation of wild land? It seems like because of cars, people can and do build houses all over, scattered about. This causes habitats to be broken up by busy roads, which kills animals, messes up migration patterns, and more. A lot of those people will kill or drive away all the animals surrounding their house. They spray for insects, trap all the animals, block their food sources, etc. Sure, they have trees since they are not using the land for agriculture, but I'm not certain that it is ultimately better for animals.
It appears they've come full-circle.
> Except that The Washington Post operates independently, and has strong editorial standards, something that a lot of "news" sites on the Internet today don't even pretend to have.

Right, your news company is the only one that doesn't smell. Maybe you should adopt the motto "fair and balanced" to reflect how editorially independent and objective you are.

> Martin Baron, the paper’s executive editor:

The newspaper's editor says that he is objective? Zuckerburg also says facebook is all about user privacy. So it must be true.
When Kuma is being deployed in multi-zone mode and a service from one zone wants to consume a service from another zone, does that mean that the outbound request will automatically be routed to the correct address of the service (potentially in a different zone) while still honoring any custom "TrafficRoute" policies that the mesh administrators may have created in the meanwhile?
> Hiding the image in this way because it has been fully described is thus perfectly reasonable.

I disagree as a screen reader user. To be clear, I completely support your assertions around describing complex imagery, e.g. the alt text is a completely inappropriate place to describe a graph, chart, etc. But a figcaption with no accompanying figure content is semantically wrong. If you have a figure with a textual description or semantic representation of the data displayed in an image, e.g. a table behind a disclosure button, then fine: the figure body is meaningful, as is the caption. But if I'm testing a site and find cases of figures where the only screen-reader-accessible element is the figcaption, that is an antipattern that I will insist be addressed.
Videx lower case chip to the rescue:

http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/documentat...

Another amazing bit of kit by Videx was a replacement keyboard controller called the Enhancer II:

https://archive.org/details/Videx_Enhancer_II_Installation_a...

The Enhancer II included the lower case chip.

Videx also made an 80 column peripheral card for the Apple II. The company is still around:

https://videx.com/
As early as 1994, as recently updated as of 04/2020! Great link thank you!
Some of the Apple clones, such as the Franklin ACE models and others, offered lowercase.

Do a quick search for "apple II shift key mod" and you'll find vintage PDF instructions for adding it yourself..

https://archive.org/stream/II_II-Shift-Key_Modification/II_I...
Do that and soon you're going to have to introduce namespaces, and you're back to something that looks like urls.

People use these longer import identifiers because they avoid polluting the global namespace, which be reserved for very important packages (in the case of go the std lib).
The idea to sprinkle in different videos is just for the algorithm that the bias is not more justified: You like X, i feed you only X, i learn that you absolutely love X.
Did Facebook invent a time machine to go back to 15 years ago?
I found that bumping up the saturation and "warmth" got a more accurate color to what I was seeing. Other colors sucked but it was good enough to communicate to others what I was seeing.
You can get a real good quality 4k60 for $400, or one with shitty color for much less. The LG 27gn950 is 4k144 + full DCI-P3 for $800, but unfortunately has been sold out everywhere since it was released a week or two ago.
The designer David Rudnick has a term he uses for this aesthetic of modern sci-fi: "future without art"[0]. The hazy, dark, washed out palettes being used the portray the concept of "dystopian future" are truly underwhelming and I think he term makes sense -- why must ALL modern sci-fi movies just be mixtures of shiny plastic and grime? It makes me appreciate Luc Besson so much more.

0. https://twitter.com/David_Rudnick/status/1249834809138053121
Enabling TLS in the Dev Loop: Self-Signed Certs, Nip, and Edgestack.me
Is 'affluenza' an affirmative defense?
Stop Watching YouTube
I'm not the author of the previous comments but I use Linux, not interested in gaming, and I have a dedicated GPU (2080ti). Mostly for working with Blender and Houdini, where the integrated one would work as well as using the CPU, at least for the workloads I'm dealing with, so having a dedicated GPU for both simulations and rendering helps a lot to speed up the workflows.
Unless your AC is designed specifically with your PC in mind, and is adequately sized for your house (not a guarantee), a hot, noisy PC or laptop still makes its local area uncomfortable.
The wind turbines standing up to the world’s worst storms
businesses get shut down all the time for violating health code regulations.
Also having your name officially recorded for this cause in a database can have negative impacts on the rest of your life, as this Canadian woman found:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadian-woman-refuse...
+1 for Specmonstah; been very useful for us at Reify Health.
Kudos for the devs making the site accessible to no-JS and no-image browsers. Site looks great.

Society makes demands of us and then classifies it as "dis-order" when we have issues with the demands.

Here is to more peace and comfort in the life of anyone reading this comment.
I feel RDNA 2, at the very best would prove to be something in between of what Zen+ and Zen 2 was against Intel, so while it may not outperform Nvidia on highest end, it ends up providing an overall better value, leading to people buying over Nvidia.

It is worth noting that unlike, Intel, Nvidia isn't sitting ducks when it comes to GPU innovation so that's a harder hill to climb for AMD. And fortunately AMD now has their cash cow running with Ryzen, EPYC and Consoles so they can allocate more R&D budget for GPU.
A new probiotic gel made of “good” bacteria helps treat yeast infections
I had a few people from Australia calling me here in the US yesterday (which was the 10th in Australia) for exactly this. It's nice. Had a good chat and caught up on things over there and here.
The primary role of leaders is communication, so I'm a bit confused by this idea that the leader is whoever "does" the most. You're not leading much of anything if you have time to do the work yourself I believe.
I have two bells _exactly_ like that one. One of them has a distinctive tone (and a sizeable dent) because it used to sit on a colleague's desk and people "rang him up" as they came up to him until one day he just lost it and threw it across the room (almost into the garbage bin - it hit on edge and dented).

Good thing we're working remote, because I would not be able to be near one of those things during an intensive terminal session.
Mapping extreme microbes in the Amazon’s Boiling River
If videos are okay i would recommend the course on edx.org taught by Gregor Kiczales "How to code: Simple Data" and the successor about complex data. They are based on the book "How to design Programs" also from MIT IIRC.
Could you cite a source? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6295210/ is one study of outcomes of Chicago police dispatches for mental health incidents.

The outcomes are in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6295210/#S6titl.... Officers mostly transported people to hospitals (44% of calls) or resolved the call on the scene with no next step (35%). Arrests occurred but were rare:

> The call resolution data further revealed that transports to hospitals were more frequent than arrests (44.9% versus 5.8% respectively)

Officers reported far more cases of arrest-worthy behavior/actions that they chose not to act on. The authors concluded:

> Our analysis of a sample of mental health call resolutions in the Chicago Police Department reveal that police are disinclined to use legal action, and considerably more inclined to transport individuals for hospital psychiatric assessments. Moreover, police routinely resort to on-scene call resolutions involving an array of informal tactics.
Facebook isn't returning to its roots. This is just another re-branded social media site meant to capture the attention of another generation of college students for advertising purposes.
I wouldn't consider generating descriptions a "solved problem". There has been progress with AI, but part of the issue is that image classifiers are trained to describe the objects in the image, but not necessarily the feeling or meaning of the image.

If you have Instagram, scroll through the alt text on the images some time. You'll see descriptions like "May contain: Person standing outside". That may be an accurate description of the picture, but it may be a poor substitute for what a sighted person sees -- someone showing off their new sweater, or posing in front of an interesting wall, or an aesthetic splash of colours. Of course, maybe someone who is fully blind doesn't care too much about a splash of colours, but the point is that describing an image is more than just about identifying the individual objects visible in the image. Because when we see a picture of an adorable puppy, we get more out of that image than just "dog sitting on floor". As of now, human-generated alt text is still the best solution in most cases, even if we are definitely making progress with AI. It's hard enough for humans to describe the aesthetics of an image, let alone a machine.
I remember the early days, when you could only join with a university account, and the only people you could interact with were others in the same network.

Privacy controls were 'public' by default, but then the only people seeing stuff were fellow students anyway. It was fantastic.

I deleted my Facebook account a few years ago for various reasons, but they had a really great product back then. Somehow I doubt this will capture the charm of v1.
I'm wondering a few things:

1. Can we do a direct stock listing?

2. How much equity needs to be offered?

3. Is there a minimum valuation that needs to be met to be listed?

4. What are the fees to be listed?
because masks work and social distancing works.
Is this an April Fools joke?
Here is a link to the product video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG8VpN6Z_YA

I sent a patch to iTerm2 for support: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/pull/428
Bishop of Oxford asks about using AI to fight Covid-19 in the House of Lords
Wish we better enabled others to dabble in building modest world sims.

It's hard when there's a whole tech level grind that also has to tick along in the background, fueling the sense of growth & achievement & pushing players ahead. But collecting resources, establishing population centers, weighing civil & diplomatic & religious opinions against one another... seems like a really interesting proposition that we make not just sandboxes but sandbox makers.
I don't know why but interest of computer community shifted from uppercase letters to lowercase letters over the course of time.
Isn't the lighthouse system relatively open? I recall the analog receiver circuitry is relatively simple, and Valve cooperated with an IC manufacturer to get rid of the analog stuff (or, more precisely: move it into an IC). The IC was intended to be not be exclusively for Valve alone.

Of course that doesn't help with the base stations, and might still violate [Valves' or other's] patents if used in an actual product.
I stood on a hill and I saw the Old approaching, but it came as the New.
It hobbled up on new crutches which no one had ever seen before
and stank of new smells of decay which no one had ever smelt before.

Bertolt Brecht, Parade of the Old New. (1939)
saying this just leads to my posts being censored. I am not scared about this because this is just internet lala land. But the fact is: If I tried to do anything about this in real life I would get into trouble.
Product Management – Getting Started in a Safe-Ish World
the WEIRD sample strikes again! I hope we at least have a round of reproducibility crises in management research within a decade, because evidently it's not reached them yet.

> The researchers conducted a series of in-lab experiments with 86 four-person teams, and also traced the communications and experiences of 134 teams doing a semester-long project in a university class
Time and Meaning
Jokes aside that this is how FB started, I wonder if this is a reaction to recent claims that FB has a general political slant, and that this might be a way to isolate and segregate people associated with colleges.
On a similar note...
https://hackaday.com/2020/09/08/size-does-matter-when-it-com...
Not in macOS Terminal specifically but one of my colleagues in a previous job used similar themes to differentiate between different servers. Database servers would be one theme, dev web servers another, and prod web servers a 3rd theme. It was a system that worked well for him but not something I've felt compelled to emulate.
You're right. It seems like a weird way to build to me, but I can confess to that being a bias. Plenty of people do opt to build to platforms, & adopt narrower tech. Go everyone, whatever you use.
> Or potentially aria-role="presentation"

There is no such attribute as "aria-role", only the single word "role".

> aria-hidden="true" will make the element completely invisible to the screen reader software, whereas setting role will tell the screen reader "hey there is something here but it's job is purely aesthetic", and then the screen reader can determine what it wants to do with it.

This is accurate, but you should also ask yourself about design intent if you have the knowledge to do so (or can consult with someone who does). If you have decided that something should be hidden from a screen reader user, and have verified that your intentions are correct, aria-hidden is the way to go. Many accessibility bugs are caused by people using something like role="presentation" because they wanted to leave it up to the browser and/or screen reader to make a decision. The problem is, those software decisions are often wrong and inconsistent, leading to support requests and hard-to-track-down bugs.

Note: the above applies across the board, not just to images. The correct way to mark an image as decorative is via alt="" on the img, and you should be careful applying aria-hidden to anything as it can be extremely destructive. No ARIA is better than bad ARIA.