skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting examples, as I see many of those as regressions in UI. The use of contextual controls means that you're never quite sure what action is going to result. For example, Mass Effect 2 had quite a lot bound to 'E' as "interact", which could be anything from calling an elevator, talking to someone, crouching behind a wall, or picking up an item. Try to talk to someone near a wall, and you might hide behind it instead. Similarly for the tabbed menus, they hide information several clicks deep, rather than showing you what you want right away.
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> should the Beatles not be able to defend their name being used to sell it?

Wouldn't trademark law apply there? And not copyright law?
While I didn't go through a hundred pens, I too settled on the Jetstream. Although I find the pen is not the classiest designed, the writing of it is just sooooooooo nice, and I suppose ergonomic enough to make up for it's looks. Also among my test set of maybe a handful of pens, I found the ink to be the best of what I tested (least smudge, quick dry, water proof, etc)
> And I think the real synthesis of these views is that Obama-to-Trump voters are motivated by racism.

Hmm.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/opinion/biden-latino-vote...

> We began by asking eligible voters how “convincing” they found a dog-whistle message lifted from Republican talking points... Almost three out of five white respondents judged the message convincing. More surprising, exactly the same percentage of African-Americans agreed, as did an even higher percentage of Latinos. These numbers do not translate directly into support for the Republican Party; too many other factors are at play. Nevertheless, the results tell us something important: a majority across the groups we surveyed did not repudiate Trump-style rhetoric as obviously racist and divisive, but instead agreed with it.

Shor makes basically the same error as the authors of the New York Times piece above: assuming that opposing immigration and supporting law-and-order are inherently “racist” views.

Progressives need to ask themselves: is opposition to abolishing ICE (to use one of Schor’s examples) actually “racist?” Because if they just run with the assumption that it’s racist, they’ll force themselves into taking an incredibly unpopular position. As Shor himself points out, the people running the campaigns are ideologically progressive. Even if polling shows that abolishing ICE is incredibly unpopular, so long as they accept the premise that it’s the anti-racist thing to do, they will support it (or the far left will make them support it). This was basically the story of the 2019 Democratic primaries, where nearly every candidate embraced incredibly unpopular issues out of fear of being “called out.”

And “demographic destiny” won’t eventually vindicate progressives’ all-consuming view of racism. As the New York Times article above explains, a message focused around racial identity and the idea of pervasive “white supremacy” (like Elizabeth Warren ran in the 2019 Democratic Primary) actually polls poorly among Latinos (who are now the largest non-white group in the electorate). Meanwhile, Trump’s polling is up 100% among Black people and 60% among Hispanic people under 45 compared to 2016: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-losing-ground-.... If Republicans can convert that into votes, states like Texas and Georgia will stay solidly red. Shor is ultimately right. Democrats need to get back white voters in a country that will be 50%+ white for the foreseeable future. Because in the long run non-white voters aren’t as much of a lock as they assume. But they really need to introspect about why they would ever have thought otherwise to begin with.
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Why is this downvoted? Just seems like a different point of view and burning overly controversial ?
Think the wiser options for OSS are Github Actions & Gitlab CI going forward. I have heard good things about Azure pipelines too.

After travis-ci got bought and layed off a lot of key staff I did think the day would come where they will no longer will be the defacto choice for open source and I think this news confirms that day being today :-)
ML will become a library. It has about as much to do with programming as a compiler. You don't need to know what it does, you just need to know how to make it do things. The problem with ML currently is that nobody really knows how to do things and that you have a million parameters that need tuning and most algorithms need continuous improvement and fine tuning to the use case. There is nothing "mainstream" about ML at this point, except that everyone wants to use it.

In maybe a decade, it might be found in standard libraries of programming languages and on top of things like `Math.abs`, we will have `ML.textToSpeech("Hello world")`, or `ML.isCat(image)`, etc. However, the problem I see with that is that no matter how far we wind the clock forward, we will only be able to put the most simplistic use cases into a library. `ML.isCat()` could be one of those, since most humans will be able to image categorization, it stands to reason that you could put this into a library. However, most industry application involved highly customized ML algorithms that are optimized for a very specific use-case. So there will always be a need for a research team in big companies at least. Maybe smaller companies will try to build their stuff by chaining libraries together.
AI is learning existing patterns from input/outputs.
Programming is setting up patterns to turn your inputs into desired outputs. Most often it's just plumbing data around with some transformations.

What you're talking about is using AI as programming tools. It's still programming, but using pre-trained models as part of the plumbing.
That is the choice of those organizations.
I'd like to suggest a radical Idea that any and every software you "install" on a machine is malware.

Thank you.
Sounds like typical language of an obituary, maybe it was lifted from one.
Wtf happened to hangouts? How many video products does google have?
Is it really emulating though or just doing some kind of lightweight conversion that can run natively on x86? Because a cycle accurate SNES emulator still lags for me on certain games even on a Ryzen 7.
Probably stress level, and the approach that follows, follows from that.
Right here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/ci_cd_for_external_repos/githu...
Arabic. I can read/write Arabic texts from 1400+ years ago. As could anyone who studied Arabic at school... Now that I think of it, that’s pretty damn amazing! I can’t say the same for French or English.
I like Gitlab and I tried them for a year before moving off of their CI couple of years back. Main reason was their CI was slow and had some reliability problems at the time. Hopefully they have resolved those by now as I would like to see more adoption of their service for sure. Will give them another shot soon :-)
It’s interesting that nobody really talks this way about anything other than wealth, even though there are many things other than wealth that people desire — and it’s just because wealth is easy to confiscate and transfer.

I’d like to be better looking, but don’t demand that George Clooney pay into a special tax fund to give me a makeover. I’d like to have sex with more women, but don’t demand that playboys invite me to a threesome for every three women they sleep with. I’d like to be taller, but don’t demand that Shaq carry me at his eye level for 10 minutes a day.
Maybe unregulated is the wrong word, but there’s a lot of holes.

Such as, Big tech seems able to do whatever it likes, facilitate foreign interference in democracies, anti-competitive behaviour is unmitigated. Then there’s the lack of pricing in carbon emissions for anything and the constant quest for endless growth on a planet with finite resources ?

Corporate welfare / socialism to keep things afloat.

So many problems and contradictions right now, is “mess” a better word?
> are creating more wealth than they did 50 years ago

But they are - this is due to the huge productivity gains brought about by the application of computers.

For a small example, in the 1960's and 70s, my dad was writing a book, using a typewriter. Every set of revisions meant typing the book over again (to get a clean manuscript). My mom helped out, spending hours and hours banging out a new manuscript. I still feel bad for her doing that boring, numbing work, but that's how things were in those days.

In the 90s, my dad used a text editor to make revisions and just pushed a button to print out a clean manuscript.

Not only that, his computer was cheaper than his old typewriter was. Despite it being cheaper, the computer company got rich off of this. It also took my dad far, far less time to create a new book. It didn't sell well, but the computer company hardly stole their wealth from my dad.

P.S. The typewriter was also a big productivity gain over what went before - laboriously drawing each letter by hand. Companies made a lot of money selling typewriters, and that was wealth they created.
That's the most flimsy argumentation...

Anyone could say so is yours.

Like I said to the author, step back and view it from someone else's eyes. But if you don't want to try, your loss.
Is there a newspaper free of political opinions? I want to what's going on in the world in terms of politics, sports, science and society.

It is a bit tiring to be reminded again and again why certain politician is a nazi or a certain politician wants to turn whole country communist.
Rendering photo-realistic glass in the browser
I was told by my endocrinologist not to take more than 5000UI of D. Above 5000 is toxic.
"Turns out our training set was comprised entirely of backdrops from Google HQ. Sorry everyone else!"
We thought about it, but decided not to implement that for V1. Might be something we do in the future. If you'd like to see that, you could create an issue for it! :)
It’s also higher variance. When a plane goes down, it’s often the case that everyone on board dies. Traffic collisions can sometimes lead to multi-vehicle pileups but they’re unlikely to cause hundreds of deaths all at once like a plane crash.
The Canadian wildfire forecasting model can be downloaded at http://www.firegrowthmodel.ca/prometheus/software_e.php for those curious. I've always found these predictions lacking due to limitations in weather forecasting.
> The lighter the color, the closer to 100% of the 2016 voting numbers has already been achieved.

That doesn't seem quite right. But in any case, how are numbers represented that already exceed 2016's?
Or they come from wealth. It does not require a massive inheritance to get ahead here - it requires enough to be exposed to the market, which most Americans don’t get.

The 10% above is to make this example clear and easy, not a specific asset class.

We can discuss to what extent people receive opportunities to gain significant personal income, but I strongly disagree that personal conduct and talent are the primary factor. The number one rule of the world is “people respond to incentives” - there are massive structural deltas in incentive landscape and opportunity exposure as a function of background. You can have amazing parents who do right by you, and grow up poor and stay poor for want of exposure to opportunities and the market.

Because year-over-year growth is runaway, time in the market is of extreme importance too. In a very real sense - every second you don’t have more assets in the market than the next person, they are pulling away from you in literally exponential manner.

A huge amount of it is society, and there’s a lot of light between “let’s try to make society better by preventing the gravity-like accumulation of capital entirely into a modern feudalist state” and “communist slavery”.
You are mistaken. Goods and services are created, and then control over them is allocated via property law.
Her name is Mileva Marić Einstein. Is there any reason to not put her name into the title?
The Parthenon is a marvel of architectural tweaks to make it look visually straight and perfect in an imperfect setting with ancient tooling. It kind of defeats the point to remake it with modern tools on flat ground.
The key question is whether it's 2D or 3D. If it's 2D (which I understand regular screen-plus-mirror things to be), then it's not much different from a screen, except that it takes up much more valuable floor space and is going to be a lot more expensive, while also horribly breaking immersion if you're nearby.

If the frame/box really add much immersion, then some solution that can sit flat on a wall while still appearing to be a cabin (recessed into the wall) would likely be a lot more successful, as it can "create" instead of eating real estate.
Every one of the nearly quarter million Americans who have died from Covid had an interesting vibrant life, and then a tragic story of getting sick, struggling, and not making it.

His personal story doesn't change the fact that Cain chose to publicly spread ignorance for political gain. When you proudly set a poor example and suffer the consequences, don't be surprised that you're posthumously held up as an example of cause and effect.
> surprised

Not really. The surviving members may be too lazy, incompetent or drug addicted to put on a good show.

But I can't see a Stevie Nicks or Amy Winehouse imitator doing that well :-) Their magic is pretty safe.
> Effects in OCaml are impure:

I didn't think that OCaml had a way of distinguishing functions with side effects... the link you sent seems to describe a prospective extension/system, not a built-in of the language.
Is there any way to layer both capabilities? That would seem to be ideal.
At least for background blur the latency there is enough to make it almost unusable: easily over 100ms. This is with latest stable Chrome on a relatively recent Ryzen/Nvidia system. Maybe background replacement will do better once it rolls down to regular Google Meet (too lazy to log into my Google <del>Apps</del> <del>Suite</del> Workspace) :-) However, everything else about Google Meet is great and I wish I could make all my Zoom friends switch.
If you've never tried it before, I highly recommend writing your own static site generator from scratch. It's fun, and you can get a long ways with a few lines of code. Here's one I did this week: https://github.com/boringproxy/boringproxy.io/blob/master/ss...
I haven't used typeorm for any real world projet yet. Although when I tried using the mongo driver, literally nothing worked. I also ran into problems from the generated migrations where I would get errors when trying to run them.

Even with these encountered problems, I'm still willing to give it a try for my upcoming project. I'll probably write an article on this if things go bad.

For sure, this is less mature then the others out there, but I think it has a bright future as it has a nice syntax and cool features.
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Meet is business oriented and offers features that Hangouts does not, e.g. dialing in via phone. It also requires a G Suite account (or did before COVID, IIRC).
TLDR: “I found rather interesting findings.”
I am glad that this is a thing but saying it is rivalling Amazon is hyperbole.
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Think of it like open source software, and the answer will be clear.

I.e. anyone can take the open source software I create and do whatever the hell they want with it. (I use the Boost license, which is the most permissive.) I encourage you to, too, if you want to profit from my work :-)

I don't think there's anything special about musicians that makes them different from open source developers.
This is similar to the philosophy behind Clojure's "spec" system: https://clojure.org/about/spec

It's mainly concerned with runtime-checking, but the idea is to establish a standard that can be leveraged in multiple ways, from tests to (I believe) some degree of static analysis
Hangouts is EOL :-(

We're being herded into the new more useless products.
Printed holograms, sure of course. But projected holography akin to Star Wars is pure science fiction.
Hooks have unlocked a power in React and front end development we haven't seen before, that is going to lead to bigger things. I don't know if hooks are going to be the end state, but the ability to create reusable functionality encapsulated in a hook has solved a lot of problems we previously had of the awkwardness of sharing behavior across components.
fun with ambiguity: the title reads as if this company is literally using the 3 million to put the holograms in every home. i was unaware that holograms were commodity hardware. at 7.5 billion people, assume 4 people per household, that is 1.8 billion hologram devices. this puts the unit price at about a third of a penny. i’ll take 3.
This is inline with my reasoning. Certain circles say that the affluent are causation for capital markets operating efficiently. More specifically, that the purchasing power of the affluent are the source or "spring" from which economic activity is generated. It's just not true.

Economic activity is generated by the act of expenditure. The act is a threshold behavior relative to the an economic agent's ratio of liquid assets to fixed costs. "Hey, the rich spend a lot of the cash and pump the economy!". "Hey, conversely, the debt to income ratio of Bob will always disincentivize him against market participation!".

Back to your point. The financial system favors the wealthy because it's capitalism. Capital is power and power is influence. That influence has systemically skewed political and financial institutions to favor those with aggregations of wealth. This is also true in free enterprise markets where consolidation is a natural result of the economic cycle and economies of scale.

But, I wholeheartedly disagree with posing personal wealth inequality as a core driver of economic inequality in the US. I honestly see this as a symptom of vast market consolidation occurring since the 1950's. Bigger business structures eliminate structural redundancies in a market which can reduce costs for the consumer. But, the side effect is income hierarchies are stratified and flattened at a market level creating economic caste systems. And, being a vibrant and faithful patron of the free market system becomes a lot harder for normal guys like Bob.
Rockefeller had a tax rate more than twice what today’s tax rate on the super wealthy is.
Agree wholeheartedly, I recently came across a piece of graph paper in an old box with the systems and price histories for trading. The Righteous Fire add-on storyline was probably the best.

I wrote my own AUTOEXEC.BAT/CONFIG.SYS menu to select the right config and sometimes run a different .BAT file again. Still have a version of it and pulled it up for nostalgia: Colonization, Warcraft, Doom2 (single and network modes) and SC 2000 were other options I had setup.
Looking at the current state of things though, they would probably end up writing a bunch of native code anyway because they'll be missing out on a lot of native functionality that their app currently uses, but isn't really fully accessible through best-effort flutter plugins.
The users are paired based on metrics like location/network speed etc. Also users in same ISP are paired

And it is a swarm based network which by default will never overload a single peer and shares the bandwidth across all the peers in general
The creation of Google, for example, has added immeasurably to the wealth of the world. Ditto spreadsheets, operating systems. Thanks to Amazon, I waste a tiny fraction of the time my parents historically did shopping, since I don’t have to run to the store basically ever. I’m taking a free university course from one of the top people in the field in between bottle feedings, thanks to YouTube.

The economy is not a fixed pie, at all.
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> Yes, that is journalism.

No that's the active measures of a spy agency.
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The projector can transmit images any time of the day or night

Is there some limitation of image recording and transmission technology that I'm not aware of that this needs to be called out?
Do try a rollerball with ink. I also like fountain pens but this one is more convenient.
I face the same crunch in the local market, so maybe I have to resort to the same. It would be great if the refills were in supply as well, and not just pens. I don’t see refills available for all Uni-ball pens available on Amazon.

>>simple humidor? Or solvent-idor?

Does it imply we make our own ink? Did not follow. Kindly elucidate.
Talking objectively these days is a very political act.
Yes that’s one of Shor’s weak er arguments.

Shor is a self-described progressive who wants to help elect Democrats.

He’s mostly useful as a critic of the left from the centre.
His “facts don’t care about your feelings” rebuttals of leftist fantasies are incredibly useful to both the centre and the left.

(This also got him fired on the first day of Floyd protests when he posted research showing that the riots will backfire in the long run, politically!)
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Besides being a really good insight into women in science in early 1900s I wonder whether inadvertently her upbringing and the society around her stole a female icon in science for the generations that followed.
presumably it would be a marginal wealth tax that only took effect at some certain socially agreed upon threshold, past which you are determined to have “made it” (and this works with wealth in a way it does not for income, since your debts will be outweighed significantly by your assets while this could potentially not be true for someone with a high salary).
If that were true, nobody would use pens. I write differently with pens and everything is fine.
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I’m surprised seasoned investors haven’t pattern matched this yet.
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Goods and services are created, i.e. wealth is created.
Trump is obviously racist and divisive.
Humans follow orders which are given by humans on the basis of data which is analyzed by machines and interpreted by humans.

If the machine says "dude is terrorist based on XYZ" and the human cannot realistically verify all of that is factually correct (perhaps the subject's phone was lost as the subject walked by a mosque?), then it is much easier for the human to say "Data says this dude is terrorist" than it is to say "Data says this dude is terrorist, but the data is probably wrong and we shouldn't..."

The existence of the data itself is a threat against every subject the data includes, at a minimum.
How long will this be good for?
Has the pace of library turn-over slowed over in JS land?

Last time I checked, express was still a thing for web services.
The drying out is a function of the volatiles in the ink evaporating. In the ideal case it creates a "crust" on the end of the pen nib which then seals the ink cartridge, but in practice air still gets in.

When you first open these pins they have a small ball stuck on the end of them to prevent the pen from drying out on the shelf. If you could create a case that maintained an atmosphere that prevented evaporation of the volatiles it would keep the pen from drying out.

A 'humidor' keeps cigars from drying out by using a moisture adsorber to keep humidity levels relatively constant in the box. So same principle but applied to pens.
I'm okay with the change as long as they remember to send me a notification if/when I run out of credits.
Screw instagram and Facebook trying to engineer me
Anyway I can hide the likes and comments I see on posts? Would like to not care who is famous and who is not. What people say and what people dont say on social media. Has anyone looked into creating some kind of software for this?