skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more interesting that this is appearing on something as mainstream/everyday as Reuters.

And honestly they're not wrong about there needing to be fundamental rights against neural editing, free will suppression, and similar in regards to neural implants. Essentially public opinion puts tech down as being far outside of socially acceptable norms when it comes to surveillance and manipulation (and they'll end up in hot water as it becomes more public what's being recorded and how it's used).
Nothing technically wrong with Java and JS of course, but this terrible PR piece which desperately tries to pitch Java as an integral part of the web, going even as far as naming an innocent scripting language for web browsers JAVAscript truly demonstrates that the mid-to-end-90's were the dark age of computing (at least the corporate side).
Today I'm open sourcing the code that I've made $500K off of
I’m doing a CS degree now, mostly lower level classes now. I find that teaching well does make a difference. Interestingly, when my professors use slides provided to them by the textbook company, I generally find it much harder to be engaged by watching their lecture. Compare to professors who make custom material and truly have some skill in presenting it.

Professors who choose to use the full suite of textbook, plus textbook provided slides, plus electronic auto graded homework might save themselves some time, but definitely are less effective educators, in my limited experiences.
So, US solutions :-(
Just to add another anecdote: I'm also a CS professor at a well-known state university. We are free to choose whatever books we want for classes. To the best of my knowledge, these choices are not even reviewed. We are also free to use no textbook and just hand out lecture notes or whatever.
Your are conflating what is practical with what is true in logic and argumentation. It is practical to accept our doctor's diagnosis because we trust that the medical system produces competent doctors and because of constraints on our time. If you claimed that a diagnosis must be true because it came from a doctor then you would appealing to authority.
Except in this case, the government forced the small businesses to close with the threat of life ending fines and direct enforcement action while not providing any compensation.
answer: licensing. nightmare. fuel.
As a counterpoint and to reiterate the parent comment's point, masks are a stark visual reminder that you need to practice other measures like social distancing and going out less. I'd be willing to bet that masks increase likelihood of practicing safe pandemic measures due to a "top of mind" effect rather than decrease them due to a false sense of safety.
I'm not in love with the 1080p probably crappy screen. Not with their cpu choice. 8 cores 8 threads is such a gimped offering these days. I found just grab an AMD ThinkPad and have the same crappy screen with a superior keyboard and a range of CPU offerings.
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So: total reliance on someone giving something away for free that could break or be taken away at any time and you have no privacy- that’s ok, even if they’re not going to hire you later?
> there were guest lectures by Microsoft employees

Given that MS employs some seriously world-leading computer science academics, isn't this a great thing? I wish I got lectures from people like this!
I just checked and IMAX tickets here are $21.31 per person. Even $50 is a bargain if you want the luxury of a few handfuls of popcorn. Watch with another couple and it’s downright cheap. Obviously doesn’t apply everywhere, but for cities it is perfectly priced IMO.
8 months later, Microsoft would release VBScript.
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It's pretty common on old pulp sci-fi, like Edgar Rice Burroughs. (The Skylark books have a surprisingly large amount of nudity, as well.) The characters in Princess of Mars are basically naked, except for leather harnesses to carry weapons. It's plausible that ERB was drawing on pre-existing notions about Native Americans, though the commercial appeal of sexy nude aliens is perhaps clear.
I’ve been using it as a daily driver for 2-ish years professionally. I have crashed it but those were super rare.

You still need Xwayland installed for some stuff though. Most tools have adequate wayland replacements.
7 to 8 Kwh is already more than half the production of an average standalone house. Which means that the rest of the house has to somehow do without half it's production.

Also, outside of cost, batteries and solar panels have a huge environment cost during production and are still terribly difficult to recycle.

Windmill blades are often buried underground for example.
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4k is overkill at this size. 1440p is better for battery size and you would scale 4k up to 1440p effective anyway.
So am I right in thinking that this is a major step towards quantum computing?
This looks like the kind of thing that could be scaled and productionised relatively easily compared to other approaches?
I am thinking about using implicit models to do implicit information aggregation.

Say you pre-train a network to predict (r, g, b) = net(x, y). Then you fine-tune it to do something else, let's say, predict if a pixel is object or stuff.

Do you think the implicit model could encode in net_backbone(x, y) information about its context, like a CNN? I mean, does it just learn punctually or does it collect context information?
I don't like this argument b/c what I have seen is that anti-mask people are generally covid deniers and take risks regardless.

With that said, the medical professionals telling people to wear masks always say in addition to distancing and hygiene.
they're still hosted by Google rather than self-hosted.
I wish Matz had been there with Rubyscript. JS wasn’t as powerful back then; it took over a decade for it to evolve enough where people would really use it for much other than client-side validation and neat UI tricks. In comparison, Ruby was a great language to use, and it would’ve grown more quickly.
> What if it were to fail?

isn't that the price you pay for using any online sharing thingy? you gain easy sharing+access (because it's "on someone else's computer"), but lose control. if it makes information easily accessible (contrast with xeroxing paper docs), i think it's a decent trade-off.

it'd be nice if we weren't reliant on one service provider, but idk any good alternatives.

> those students aren’t prepping to work for Google.

i don't get this part. would you criticize the widespread usage of MS Office as "those people aren't prepping to work for Microsoft"?
You might be right, but the next question is fashion. Will the same fonts be used still in 5 years, or (more likely) the new hotness will arrive? Should the browsers update the list each year? Then some fonts that were available will suddenly be not? Not so great.

Web standards and browser features are generally built for the long term and backward compatibility. I mean, it's not impossible to find a solution, but it's definitely not "let's download some fonts and bundle with the browser, done" kind of problem.
That's because money is king in the US, but in many other countries universities are affordable for everybody. And I am indeed very happy that my taxes go to universities after I myself benefited from it.
They should just open their own vocational school (or open up their own internal training center if they have one), you could say that they risk losing the students to other companies but if they focus on their own need and technology, inertia will go a long way keeping the student.

For the student that just want the training for a good paying job (no shame in that, there is still the internet and the various edx-like program to supplement teaching) a highly-focused, low cost and fast degree could be a perfect solution.

Another advantage for the company, we all know that while CS are good to teach strong theoretical background, all the tooling is usually learned on the go. Take microsoft for example, imagine how efficient it would be to have a student learn in a completely integrated environnement and perfectly use microsoft tools (mastering visual studio is an art in itself) at the end of the training.
> Hi, I’m Matty Mo. I started my career building advertising technology solutions for platforms like Facebook and YouTube. I’ve worked at award winning creative agencies, started tech companies, and served as CMO for several big brands. In 2014 I decided I wanted to build an art career, cultivate a community of artists, and change the way brands and artists collaborate. And here we are.

So lame. You can't have it both ways, man.
That's why the message must be clear: even if it protects a single wearer just 20%, it can provably have huge benefit to everybody, but only if everybody does it (1) while all that doesn't mean that other measures could be avoided (2), especially if R raises in spite of one single measure.

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25301380

2) The Swiss cheese model of how defences, barriers, and safeguards may be penetrated by an accident trajectory (see the figure):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1117770/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-swiss-cheese-model-can-...
I read it. My point stands - assuming the land the Dothraki roamed is anything like somewhere on Earth is a leap. To suggest there are latitudes or that they are even on a spherical planet is a leap. They have what appears to be great seafaring cultures yet they always have to take what would appear to be the long way if they were in a spherical planet. Would their dragons fly in our physics? They cast steel in fires that couldn’t possibly be hot enough in our physics. There are innumerable examples to suggest their realm is quite unlike ours.

There’s simply no reason to assume Dothraki climate resembles ours.
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HackerNews is weird :/
Exactly, the whole argument is dumb. Until it's proved that masks don't reduce transmission, they should be mandatory (and freely distributed by governments). The burden on the wearer is so small, and the potential upside so large, I don't really see why there's any debate at all.

The fact that places in the world (like Adelaide and Melbourne) even considered lockdown before requiring masks was incredibly lazy and/or negligent.
Is it not possible that this is a time-related effect rather than a mask-related one? As the pandemic has gone on over the last 6+ months, people have grown tired of the measures, especially given the low mortality rates in most places. For your point to be true, you'd have to compare mask wearing and not mask wearing practices at basically the same point in time rather than weeks or months apart.
Yes, but except for the (and here I mean resolution, not gloss), apple laptops are a mediocre choice in general.

I mean, that OS experience, man. It's like people are living in an abusive relationship that hasn't improved since 1998.
Depends on how you split it up: if you're synchronizing 100 differences at a time it's on the order of 100,000 differences per second per core which is plenty fast for many applications.

If you're working on thousands of differences at a time, then IBLT's communications efficiency may be a acceptable, and it is considerably faster.

[You can always decrease the amount you feed into reconciliation at once by using hashing to subdivide your inputs, at a small loss to efficiency due to imbalancing.]
I'd rather take leetcode than have to quit my current job and have a two weeks long interview after which I might well be unemployed.
I think here computation does not mean general programmability, rather just a single narrow problem. A classical computer running a predefined program would be hard to calculate on pen and paper, so there is silicon supremacy. Here finding the probability distribution of the outputs is hard classically, hence quantum supremacy.
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I don't know what the axle weight is but each car weighs 32.6 metric tons and travel in trains of 4-cars, the top speed is 88kmh (48kmh average).

https://planning.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/HART-presenta...

https://www.honolulutransit.org/inform/rail-facts#gsc.tab=0

*edit - decimal
https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...
Not sure how genuine this email is, but its all we have
Databases are actually protected under some copyright laws in some countries.
Hmm, I just did a search for web fonts with data URIs

In this article: https://www.zachleat.com/web/web-font-data-uris/ mr. Leatherman advises against (because of the bulkiness of web fonts blocking rendering for too long) but he has not taken into account rolling your own custom mini-font with just the glyphs you need.

So I think your idle musing may indeed have merit!

Perhaps those more knowledgeable and preferably with benchmarked evidence could care to comment?
I use web scraping on my employer's Oracle EBS instance because coordinating with the battle-axe personalities that run ERP's is such a pain in the ass I would rather have a root-canal. With Web Scraping, I don't even have to talk to them.
That environment doesn't sound well managed or conducive to low-defect work to be honest.
Not to get too heated or anything, but the framing of "People can read the thread for themselves and decide." concerns me. Saying "I think A", then responding to people who say "I think ~A" with "hey hey hey, let's let people decide themselves" is pretty stifling. I don't believe that was your intent, but that's one way it reads.

I appreciate that you've explained your reasoning for your position, though.
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Which became dominant for a while, but cgi scripts on the server-side were also hot.

Enter Perl and PhP server-side.

Then there was JSP, ASP, and ColdFusion, all server-side.

Rails! Also server-side.

Then back to JS.
Comic sans has a lot of space between letters which tens to make it more readable. It’s one of the reasons it’s so popular with schools and kids.
Counterpoint: in the US I mostly see people who don't wear masks not keeping their distance and still wanting to shake hands because they simply aren't afraid of Covid at all. The mask-wearing people I see here are more likely to practice distancing and reduced contact.
You can change the GRUB loader resolution in config, my dear penguin.

Also, KDE is better in all regards. Ditch gnome.
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That's a really sad side effect of cache partitioning.

By the way, does anyone know if browsers are at least merging/deduplicating cached resources locally again (e.g. by storing cached objects by content hash)?

The same could theoretically apply to computationally intensive tasks like WASM pre-compilation (although care should be taken to record the compilation time and delay loading appropriately for cached loads from different domains, or that would be the next cache leak).
For me it was some ubuntu site that used such a crooked font my eyes hurt when I saw it.
> Why don’t we

Because we don't need to and we have much more interesting problems to take up our time.
Both can be dick moves.
I have no idea why anyone thinks this is new, it's been done forever, because it's effective. The article tries to make it seem like only altruistic donations existed in the past, but that's very wrong.

Back when I was in college 20 years ago, Microsoft had a program to do this.

Part of it was doing things like :

1. Hiring students as liaisons to represent and advocate for MS stuff at the school.

2. Giving away free copies of software away to CS departments and students in exchange.

3. Try to help get these things on the curriculum/etc (often in conjunction with #2)

4. Find opportunities for MS to donate computer labs and other meaningful things in exchange for people being taught visual studio/etc.

(How far they would go depended on where in the top-N programs it was, etc)

This is the genesis of a number of the Microsoft-named computer labs in US universities.
Thanks, looks nice!
Frankly the ANT catalog had some amazing stuff, but I think all the really cool tools are developed bespoke at small boutique company.
No it means you can either optimize for fewest components or fewest nand-gate. The text could be clearer.
Wow, 25 years. Feels like yesterday, but several technological revolutions happened in these years.
Sorry from her rebuttal it seemed like there were other ways than just more and better labelled data. Is this correct ?
Well you just save me a ton of time. Thank you
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Dang, that is trippy
My favorite thing about these is how they come full circle - programmers find convoluted ways to outsmart the compiler in some primitive operation, but then CPU manufacturers add dedicated instructions for those operations, and eventually the compilers outsmart the programmer by deleting their smartass method and emitting a single instruction instead

https://godbolt.org/z/nPdrcz
They increase bacterial infections you sheep.
Georgia Tech took this course added the missing assignments 4 & 5. You can find it here: https://tc.gts3.org/cs3210/2020/spring/lab.html
Yep Asian fonts in particular are _huge_. It's a complex topic.
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Splashy provides works of art from award-winning sources with the option of choosing the category that best suits your aesthetic. The app also does all the work for you - it changes your background automatically, depending on the interval you choose (it even has a “surprise me” option). On other thing, too - it works on all platforms so you don’t have to worry about it being one-platform specific.

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Instead of doing random bytes, you can also just use a 64 or 128 bit permutation ("block cipher") on standard primary keys, which doesn't rip and tear your indices.
I think subtitles and captions are the same foe YouTube-DL. However, some videos only have auto-generated captions, and YouTube-DL doesn't download these... by default. There is an option to force the download of both generated and even translated captions.
Does anyone know if OpenCL or HIP work properly or with 4700U and Pop OS or Ubuntu?
I often write in a mixture of Scots and English, and spellcheckers are nae guid for that use case. The problem is solved, however, on iOS and Android thanks to SwiftKey[1].

[1] https://dsl.ac.uk/our-publications/scots-predictive-keyboard...
NCC who dig it are Swedish, but this may be done by a Norwegian subsidiary
The author writes 3+ part series on everything. He wrote an 8 part series on the realism of the Battle of Helms Deep. It's just who he is.
It's actually a really sad primary effect of privacy abuses by large tech companies, let's place the blame where it needs to lie.
> `/ip=([\d.]*)\n/`

1. This is going to break if your clients are using IPv6.

2. IP addresses are generally considered PII under GDPR[0], but IANAL and I don't know what that means as far as compliance.

[0](https://www.groundlabs.com/blog/what-is-pii-for-gdpr/)
> Yes, Martin claimed the Dothraki were based on his understanding of certain historic cultures and sure maybe his understanding is uninformed

Yes and this is the premise of the article. What angers you so much about examining this subject?
People tend to run away from physical, backbreaking work.

It's hard to do this kind of job when you're 50 or 60 and with physical work the risk of death or injury is also higher.

Plus it's harder to move up the financial and social ladder.
> your brain doesn't make up what's behind a building

The brain imagines something based on prior experience. Otherwise you'd be unable to navigate complex environments.
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Remarkbox does this with the default profile avatar, just-in-time dynamically rendered and inlined SVGs.

I've considered storing each default SVG into the user table and then inlining in the HTML but decided to wait on that optimization since inlining dynamic SVGs itself was such a significant speed boost, especially on threads with hundreds of comments.

Without inlining, each profile image or SVG would be a separate request parallel HTTP request and often at least a couple requests would be slow.

https://www.remarkbox.com
Exactly. I liken it to multiple layers of security. Almost no single layer is 100%, so you stack. In covids case, masks, distancing, and hygiene are the layers. None are 100% on their own (unless you live alone and have zero interaction), but taken together on a population level they can work to lower R0 below 1.

Side note, I recently read a good book that addressed why people have such a hard time with percentages. People tend to take numbers like 20% and think 0 and 80% and think certainty.
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Plus there is a great deal to learn out there that is not instructional and can't be captured by a single book. Reading good fiction, biographies etc opens your horizons, builds human understanding and empathy. It is more subtle than the "10 habits of successful people" style books but more valuable in my opinion.
If you have a source model to render, just do that, indeed.

This is for doing the opposite - i.e. you input actual pictures, and it tries to understand the shape of things based on how they look different between pictures. Now you can create more pictures, from new angles.

(Oversimplified, but that's the idea)
Head First did it for me, visuals and the format of that book helped with such abstract and dry concepts.

I have found over recent years not having to dip into those concepts much, there are a lot of these patterns built into libraries and frameworks these days.
I would humbly submit that you aren't using very good books. I read all my text books during my CS degree, and there was plenty of negative teaching in there. A well written book or tutorial covers common pitfalls and equips you to recognize bad as well as good.

I do think there is a ton of value in getting feedback from a professor or colleague, but you can get pretty far with a book.