skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canon and Nikon do too. In practice, the quality bump is nice, but we are still talking of a fairly low res/bit rate when it gets through Zoom so the end result is fairly underwhelming. As far as what the other people see on their wnd.
>>This is a simple thought experiment that I hope illuminates something important: in an economy where there is year over year growth, inequality grows by default as a function of exposure to the market.

This is not true. Investment rates of return are much higher when you have smaller amounts of capital to invest, ceteris paribus.
This is cool. what is your goal for showing this here?
It is a full scale replica.
I love how acceptable it is to brag about how eventually white people in the US will be outpopulated by non-white people who we assume will all vote Democrat. How would the reaction be if the mainstream media was bragging about white people outbirthing Mexicans in Mexico and soon taking over their politics?

Note: I'm not white btw so don't @ me, just making an observation
dosbox-staging is the active fork: https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging
Wow, OK, this is a pretty big change for most open source projects using Travis CI right now. I think most Mac and iOS apps are going to be hit by this, I think most major projects are using Travis at the moment.

Personally, I really like that Travis offers a variety of architectures; I’m currently running binutils on it: https://travis-ci.com/github/saagarjha/binutils-gdb. I suspect this might be a substantial portion of the CI it sees, and it’s been great that it’s been free so far. I am unsure if it will still stay up with these changes. But, I’m sure running these kinds of builds can’t be cheap at all.
Biochemical signal transduction networks, consisting of receptors and enzymes, are very similar to artificial neural networks, in terms of computational structure.
I don't think it's possible to generalize about all IP law. There's a reason different categories of IP, with varying protections and terms, exist. It's possible for some IP law to be useful and some other to be useless or actively harmful.
> Are people really going to stop writing books, composing music, painting pictures, etc, without copyright protection? Not a chance!

Yes, authors who make a living selling books would definitely stop writing books if they couldn’t get paid for it.

Hobbyist art will never die. But the definition of professional involves being paid.

Open source software is not a meaningful comparison to Harry Potter books or Marvel films.
Australian doctors accuse government of failing on climate change
> Are journals even going to publish most no-result studies? (I.e. a result of no significant correlation found.)

Yes they are. Not all journals of course, but some are very explicit that they will publish based on quality and not based on outcome, e.g. Plos One. And you always have preprint servers as a backup publishing option.

There are many reasons for publication bias. That you can't find a place to publish your findings is not one of them.
Like many people, they had a relationship that became bad and they divorced. He is reported to have had numerous extramarital affairs, also. This article is 24 years old https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/06/arts/dark-side-of-einstei... - all of this is well-known.

He supported Mileva and the children from that marriage throughout his life. Everybody has flaws.
I live in Australia, and I'm pretty certain I've never even seen a fountain pen. I would have definitely put them in the same "only used as movie props" bucket as quills were it not for your comment.
60fps on my iPhone X, impressive!
Awesome effect, did you make it?
Technically I played the Macintosh version, but Mavis Beacon[0] was one of the first games I'd played in elementary school. I've recently wanted to try and raise my typing speed to 100+ wpm -- my current speed is ~80 wpm on a good day -- and TypeRacer[1]'s font and color choices sometimes make the practice texts hard to read. I should give good old Mavis Beacon a try...

Ha! I'm immediately thrown off by the double-space-after-period default. Fortunately that can be changed.

[0] https://archive.org/details/msdos_Mavis_Beacon_Teaches_Typin...

[1] https://play.typeracer.com/
Is that... Guan Yu?

It is a little refreshing to see something other than the Utah Teapot for once.
Well if you leave out her name, then readers will never see her as an individual and will only think of her as a wife of an important man. People on HN and even the author too will go into denial about this and give you some bullshit about "recognizability" or "editorialization" but that is the real reason because they both hate women and are also too cowardly to admit it.
This politicization and purification drive has made tamil to some extent less usable. Far from preserving tamil, many in the current generation can not read, write or understand tamil.

It is lacking in modern technical literature and comics. Most kids in school memorize tirukural, without understanding a word. Pushing the burden on preserving old language on kids is actually driving them from the language itself.
Alzheimer's Risk Genes Nip at Hippocampus Throughout Life
I wonder if this could be part of binfmt_misc if Linux let you be the handler for shebangs in general?
I wouldn't personally call it racist or sexist (as I've seen the term used for both men and women and of different races). However the logic works like this:

Tyrone is a internet stereotype of a thuggish blackman. The stereotype of Tyrone is considered by some to be racist (probably quite rightly). Karen is a stereotypical entitled white woman. So if calling someone a Tyrone is racist, therefore calling a woman a Karen is also racist.

Not saying I agree with any of it. But that is my understanding of how the logic works.
Is GitLab CI/CD substantially better than GitHub Actions, do you know?
Will your imagined Union require all employees with the same title to be paid identically, restrict promotions to people based on years of tenure, and require layoffs to fire the newest hires first regardless of skill? Because that is a large part of what unions do in factories, trades, and teachers. Unions remove the ability of talented individuals to rise faster, while also disallowing and restricting management’s ability to select who they want to promote and retain.
It is a lot better when you have an account and are logged in. It matches my interests quite well. Though it is quite scary to see the amount of crap there is when you open youtube without being logged in.
You're right. I forgot about that. I guess it feels like a big decision to leave for some and so they need to write about it and explore their feelings.
They seem to be lamenting that they now notice skin color (due to all the racial essentialism of the last N years) where they used to not notice.
When It Comes to Octopuses, Taste Is for Suckers
It's not a standard in the sense of an ISO-style organization approval, but RTF has been thorougly documented by Microsoft for a very long time. [0]

[0] https://interoperability.blob.core.windows.net/files/Archive...
What You are asking for could be scraped possibly, but really other than Shopify's internal records I doubt such a source currently exists.

The info You are asking for is quite valuable to Shopify as I suspect it would also be to their competitors.
Yep, all of that is in the series too.

History has largely forgotten her, these days she would have gotten far more credit for her contributions to their scientific work.
I think this sort of response to the interview misses the forest for the trees.

This is the best article on elections I have ever read. When I first read it I felt for the first time I understood how the game is scored. These two quotes stand out and are what matter:

> Persuadable voters trust the parties on different issues. And there’s a pretty basic pattern — both here and in other countries — in which voters view center-left parties as empathetic. Center-left parties care about the environment, lowering poverty, improving race relations. And then, you know, center-right parties are seen as more “serious,” or more like the stern dad figure or something. They do better on getting the economy going or lowering unemployment or taxes or crime or immigration.

> So I think Democrats need to talk about the issues they are with us on, and try really hard not to talk about the issues where we disagree. Which, in practice, means not talking about immigration.

That's the game for both sides: Talk about issues non-partisan voters trust and/or agree with your side on, and avoid the opposite.

Simple in theory. Impossibly hard in practice.
That has not been my experience with unions, but I have never worked in the US, so it might be different there.

In most countries where I've worked (Europe and Asia), unions have been nothing but beneficial.
> these can be completely de-Googled

Is there actually an easy way to do this? There are so many places in the Android sources where uses of google servers, services, etc. are baked-in. Even one of the "de-Googled" Chromium forks has to do some hacky stuff to ensure requests to google servers generated by internal request don't pass through. I mean, it's not technically impossible, but I suspect you mean something much narrower than just "never connects to a google server unless you explicitly request it to".
Can you provide a citation for this? I appreciate that it is a bit unfair to ask for one here, but I fundamentally disagree with your point and would like to learn more about why you believe it to be true. While I concede that at the extreme high end, there are limited ways to invest without distorting the market yourself, it’s just not the case that returns are higher with less money. If anything, returns are lower, because Fred in this example must pick more conservative investments with his single unit of investable utility - he has only the one to lose! By contrast, Bob is free to make riskier bets with higher payoffs, as his asset portfolio starts with ten units of utility.
Radio edit? https://youtu.be/OXB-k0oJ48E Yep, it’s a modern classic. :)

Here’s a “pop up” version of the music video with more details about the song: https://youtu.be/i_QOeWflG9g
I don't count web dev as programming. HN is full of JS people that think a text editor and a browser with fuck all data, load, or volume issues is 'programming'. Fucking casuals.
Collision detection is deceptively difficult. It's also a problem in engineering simulations. For example, deep drawing where the material bends and slides over the surface of the tooling can go wrong at a sharp corner which might be missed by the contact detection. Even without those, it can get affected by artificial irregularities due to the discretization of the surface. There are workarounds like adding some elasticity to allow a bit of give or extending the detection region a little beyond the edge of the geometry to ensure corners are fully covered, but they're pretty ugly hacks that introduce their own errors. Analysists sometimes have to manually tweak the fudging parameters by trial and error. It's an awful situation.
I’m a contractor working in Poland right now. I work through a vendor that finds contracts for me at different companies. I recently found out that all the major vendors in Poland have non-compete agreements with each other, meaning they're not allowed to poach each other’s engineers. It actually goes beyond that, I recommended a friend of mine who was looking to switch from his current vendor and got refused an interview with my vendor because of the no compete thing. I think this practice artificially drives down the price of an engineer’s salary and generally is not good for the market. I think HR divisions do something similar as well.
Zoom in and frame rate drops to under 20fps
Emerging markets’ experiments with QE have not turned out too badly
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XRP (ripple) Chart Analysis 11-2-2020
>it’s often the case that everyone on board dies.

But not always, interestingly enough. The lede mentions the Tenerife disaster, which had 61 survivors out of 644, and Avianca Flight 52, which had 85 survivors out of 158. Most accidents occur during takeoff and landing, when altitude and relative velocity are low.

Disasters caused by pure incompetence, like when the pilot of Air France 447 flew a fully functional plane into the Atlantic, are rare. So rare that the United States hasn't had a fatal crash of an airliner since 2009.
That's interesting the thing that he claims doesn't work "searching for #wwg1wga" works just fine for me.
Sounds like she had more technical knowledge so she could verify his equations and ensure his papers had good structure and were legible by the academic community.

But she says herself that their work will make him famous. So clearly she believed his ideas were the foundation.
> However, everything else about Google Meet is great and I wish I could make all my Zoom friends switch.

is it _better_ than zoom tho? I my experience, I don't see much of an improvement worth switching.
It's always the same complaints (invasion of privacy, I'm obsessed so it takes too much of my time, I get too many insulting DM's, or I don't like making them rich by providing content for free), never anything serious like Twitter is mining bitcoin in the background or Facebook makes it easy for ransome ware criminals to target you.
I live in Poland and in general I would say this is true. I've also noticed that salaries are rising at a very fast rate here for engineers since foreign companies have began setting up shop.
I don't exactly see how a union would fix that. Instead, a better solution might be stronger enforcement of anti collusion laws
'Inspiring Employees'-An Interview with Inder, Product Lead-RChilli
> People who like KDE 3 being able to use KDE 3 with fixes and stuff.

Fair enough.

>This doesn't really fragment the desktop since any desktop application that works under X11 will work on it. Of course if said application makes assumptions about what is underneath then it might face trouble if said assumptions are not met, but that is really a problem with the application (and in practice usually workaround-able).

I meant fragmentation of unnecessary DE/Distro's which keeps reinventing the wheel instead of working with another project doing the same thing but very well.

In the case of Trinity DE, I agree there was a need initially when the KDE moved on leaving a huge number of users dry, but this should've been a temporary project. Or maybe evolve like the MATE project has (which still could've been avoided if they collaborated with XFCE instead of creating the MATE spinoff). This doesn't seems to be the case here. But yeah, I haven't test driven this RC of Trinity DE yet and my last test drive or Trinity DE was an year old, maybe things are better. Still not sure if this benefits Linux as a whole but I guess that is not my call.
> Wouldn’t it be better to standardize format and baseline argument spec

Better, yes. Easy, no. Impossible is a sort timeframe, probably (given how many systems are out there not confirming to this as yet undecided standard).

Maybe that will actually happen long-term, with this being essentially a polyfil.
I've long ago settled on Foobar2000. Still have Winamp 2.0 has a spot in my heart.
For the WSJ you can bypass the paywall by appending ?mod=djemalertNEWS to the URL:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/doctors-begin-to-crack-covids-m...
The whole conceit of fancy type systems is that it's generally useful to move as many things as possible from the realm of "humans must verify" to "computers can automatically verify on behalf of humans". Relying on data representations which are richer or more constrained than newtypes, and treating with suspicion promises the computer can't automatically verify, isn't "treating your users like children," it's acknowledging that you and your users are, eventually and probably frequently, going to forget important assumptions and make mistakes.
I'm telling you, empirically if you do this, the virus goes away.

The proof is in the pudding: we are seeing this strategy work.

Those grocery store shoppers might be susceptible, but it turns out that not enough of them get infected for this strategy to fail if it is stuck to for long enough.

I'm posting this from Victoria, where we've had zero new COVID cases for three days now. I'm telling you, it works.
Aside: Imagine you’re driving down the road and you need to make a right turn. Well, for some reason the steering wheel is stowed away and disappeared! You need to hover your hand around the center console in a specific area to be able to expose it. Out comes the steering wheel and now you can make a right turn.

Google UX/UI team: Please fucking make the mute/unmute button visible at all times.
TL;DR: Travis CI is no longer free for open source projects. Instead you get a free trial good for 1k build minutes, and can email them to beg for more when those run out.
Try using meet, teams and zoom on high latency and/or low bandwidth connections.
It depends how you define racism! According to "Defining Racism" by Beverly Daniel Tatum, it isn't. But in other interpretations of the word, it would be. I don't think it's far fetched to assume it might rightfully feel like a racist slur to the grand-parent.

Whether racism or not, it's probably an -ism of some sort. Despite disagreeing with the GP, at least their painting of "Karen" as an -ism gave me pause and made me consider that usage again. In truth, it's probably not a great and useful practice in discourse. e.g; do you believe calling someone a Karen will increase your chances of reconciling with them or coming to a favorable outcome with that person?
Do you consider an app like Microsoft Teams not a "real" program then?
How Not to Trigger a Disaster with Rm -r Command
Lol petition to stop naming anything because eventually all labels become bad. /s
HIV/AIDS probably fits the bill or comes close. It doesn't seem as drastic as covid, because of the means of transmission. However, it was newly discovered in many living people's lifetime, and it did spread throughout the entire world relatively quickly.

The others that I remember being scary in media reports contemporaneous with the Winamp-ish era were Ebola (discovered in the '70s, an outbreak in '95), and SARS (2003), but thankfully those never spread worldwide.
Here's a tip: take a picture of your real, actual background from the POV of your webcam, and set that as your meeting background.

Advantages: it looks natural, it covers whatever is going on behind you (in case you are not alone and people walks by, or if your living room is messy), and it blends better than fake backgrounds (because it's the same image behind it). I have a picture of my office that I use both at home and at my real office, and most people can't tell. And since I took the picture with my phone which has better resolution, my video feed looks better for cheap.
I don't believe publication of non results or negative results would be helpful at least not published in the traditional sense. Apart from the work for writing this up it is already hard enough to follow the amount of publications coming out in most fields at the moment. Non result publications would just not be read and would make finding the right literature so much more difficult.

What is really needed is publication of the data. The big problem with that is that there are no good systems for data publication that don't require significant extra work. Ideally the data would be made available directly from some electronic labbook system, with the relevant metadata attached to it. At the moment all systems are miles away from that (even if we don't consider how bad record keeping is in many research labs).

If funding agencies would really want to do something about open data they would significantly invest into a good data system and make data entry mandatory and in particular not just at the end, but during the study (private, but then made available at the selection of the PI or after some time)
I mean... I thought so in 2016, but four years later, I simply do not believe this. There is no evidence to support this. He has constantly condemned white supremacy. He obviously is a nationalist, but for America, being a multi-racial nation, saying one is a nationalist does not mean you are a racist.

Trump has delivered insane results for minority groups, and has done things even supposed 'progressive' candidates wouldn't do. All this has convinced me that the man is clearly not a racist, despite constant claims otherwise.

Also, I suppose I am somewhat immune to the racism claims against trump. My parents are immigrants, as is my entire family. My parents were the first ones on the Trump bandwagon in 2016, followed by the rest of my family. I thought they had gone off their rocker and thought the man was nuts, despite being a Republican leaning voter. I voted against him in 2016. I thought he was clearly a racist and would hurt immigrants, like my uncle. However, Trump became president, and my uncle's case suddenly went faster. All this talk about how he was delaying immigration simply didn't pan out for anyone in my family. My uncle became a citizen a few years ago, and now the entire family is voting Trump. My sister-in-law (who is Hispanic) is also voting Trump, along with a bunch of her family. They didn't 4 years ago.

Funnily, enough, most of my friends growing up (who are mostly non-white) are either Trump voters or are okay with Trump (like they do not believe people who vote for him are racist). I do have friends who believe that all Trump voters are nuts, and they are mostly the white friends I made in my super-elite college. I do have non-white friends from college who are also against Trump, but given how few non-whites there are in elite colleges to begin with, that's the minority for me.. Even more amazingly, despite my own immigrant family and my sister-in-law's supporting Trump, the only family I have that is rabidly anti-Trump are my white relatives (who are more highly educated than anyone in my non-white family, I suppose).

The fact is Hacker News and most of these elite media outlets cater to an audience of mostly white, educated, coastal liberals. Their experiences do not match the reality of every day Americans, including black and brown and immigrant ones. I would not be surprised to see massive black and brown turnout for Trump. Perhaps not majorities, but enough to give the democrats real cause for concern.
From what I read (there's a lot) it seemed balanced and reasonable.

I did notice the well-worn calls for more entrepreneurship, along with calls to reform housing policy in places like Silicon Valley to unleash more growth.

I think these two goals might be inimical. Technology companies seem to be growing into ever-larger conglomerates, gobbling up competitors from the old and new economies.

What is the point of being an entrepreneur, of opening your own shoe store, if Zappos can beat you at that? The paper mentions how information technology has increased productivity among more educated workers moreso than it has done among middle-tier workers.

Huge swathes of the traditional economy have been taken over by tech companies offering services at or below cost. No small-time entrepreneur can compete with that.
I think GP’s point is that Bill Gates is not rich because he invented word processing, or because word processing would never have become popular without his help. A big part of Microsoft’s success is network effects, where they are able to maintain market share because compatibility with their software is highly valued (because of their large existing market share).

As technologies develop there often seems to be a window of opportunity where some players are too early (the technology isn’t ready yet) and some are too late (where big companies have become relatively entrenched). Companies with the right timing may be able to capture most of the value but I don’t think that means they are totally responsible for the productivity gains.