skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s in the process of materialising, the conditions are already set. Firstly, China’s "rise" came from cheap labour and the destruction of the environment. Labour is not so cheap anymore, and the environment is all but destroyed. But that’s okay, China’s already rich, right? Problem is the people are still poor, and much of the money already left the country. China’s GDP (PPP) per capita is less than that of Iraq, but the media and hence the masses are too fixated on national GDP to even notice (as times get tougher, this will change). Now that manufacturing is on the way out, where’s the money going to come from? The people still haven’t woken up but the party certainly has. They know there’s a ticking time-bomb of social unrest. Time to bring back Confucian ideology to maintain social order, and find an appropriate scapegoat for all the problems; western values (which they never even clearly defined). Enter the State Administration of Film, Radio and Television (广电总局) to ensure that all media, including movies and TV series, push this agenda, and the Social Credit System (社会信用体系) to ensure that your level of success in life is determined by how closely you follow the party line. People will not even dare joke about the party, let alone criticize it; too easy to get caught and too much to lose. Power will go unchecked at unprecedented levels and be enforced by technology. I could write a lot more, but these are just some of the reasons I think China's future is grim. I have lived in China for a few years and I've been seeing these changes happen before my eyes.
A better question would if they would make the best drone/remote pilots.
Well yes, of course, you don't buy something for $30B that you expect to lose money in perpetuity. But in terms of where the business is right now, they want to see LinkedIn reduce costs while continuing to work toward profitability.
Does that mean SLI/Crossfire is not required when using Vulkan or DX12 (or Metal) and applications can saturate all cards if they want to? Isn't there a delay if you don't use Nvidia's bridge connector?
That's what I was thinking as I read this. It's still amazing that the brain could have that much neural plasticity, but I think if you simply removed 90% of someone else's brain you would see much different results (likely death).

That said, it makes you wonder what genes/proteins make the human brain develop/keep consciousness even with so little material to work with, while other animals don't develop it.
A clearer example of the sort of unreality that the author is trying to describe to you would be the Wenzhou train derailment in 2011. [1]

Faced with a crisis that was guaranteed to attract national attention, local officials reacted by attempting to quickly bury the derailed cars on the spot, to the sheer incredulity of absolutely everyone else in China.

This is not easily dismissed as a mere example of corruption, or cruelty, or societal failure; rather, it appeared more like a desperate innovation, an attempt to mitigate political damage that revealed serious disconnects between the worldview of the local administration and those of both the general populace and the national administration.

It was particularly curious and apt in that this was a national crisis about a great source of national pride, wherein perennial worries of Chinese governance were brought to the fore.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision
Either way it's done, providing glasses to people who can't pay for them is a charitable act, and humans are not very rational about charitable acts.

Given two choices:

1) Give $5 to a program that provides brand new custom prescribed eyeglasses to people who need them but cannot buy them

2) Give $10 to a program that provides shitty, old, out-of-date, recycled eyeglasses of questionable prescription to people who need them but cannot buy them

Many people will respond more supportively to #2 and see #1 as fundamentally unfair ("I worked hard to earn the money for my glasses, why should a needy person have something just as good as mine? They should count themselves lucky to have anything at all!"). Many people see it as a moral imperative that the poor should suffer.
definitely interesting topic. Reading their analysis though, led me to believe they didn't control for enough obvious variables.

Let me go through a scenario to give an example: how much was Nokia worth to Microsoft? Their idea that "due diligence" would uncover a value, and MS should signal the due diligence and the value with the pennies in the offer price doesn't reflect the truth of the situation that nobody knew or could know the value.

I'm not talking about a hindsight analysis after the Microsoft's mobile strategy failed; let's say it had succeeded and Microsoft was now equal to Android and iOS in a vicious 3 way competition: how much of that value would you attribute to the parts that came from Nokia? How much of the value would be due to MS's software? whose marketing muscle was it? Since it would now be a threeway competition, profits would be thinner, how much of that could be predicted with "due diligence"?

You don't know, because nobody knows; these types of intangibles are on the balance sheet as Goodwill because it's not possible to put a value on them except immediately post facto an acquisition. Due diligence is to uncover that what they are selling is what you think you buying, not the value you think you can extract from it in combination with your own assets, that's a secret you keep.
We will certainly be adding support for Gitlab. It is not open source right now. But it is something we are considering in the future.
I believe that the development of synthetic meats that are both cheaper and of a more homogeneously high quality will supplant butchered meat, and eventually enable us to outlaw it.

The science is happening as we speak.
Not following, what's the link between male rats, opening cages, and foraging for food?
The last time I used screen it didn't allow you to split windows vertically. This was 2-3 years ago. Is that still true?
Facebook really wants to display that kind of content because it triggers positivity on most people,getting you to comment and like said post,thus making your comment get likes and so on.. feeding you positive engagement in the process, so you don't stop using Facebook.
> [0] unless you interpret — and can JIT — the C code with the same underlying machinery as Truffle does

Pyston can easily JIT the C code because it uses LLVM for it's main JIT tier.
HOMELESS TEEN GRADUATES FROM HISD WITH HONORS
Looks very similar to these fonts, at least for the latin-1 part, but more complete and with more restrictive license:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
I take the view that morality is herd instinct in the individual, and that it is more productive to look at it as a sociological phenomenon instead of resurrecting platonic idealism. Whatever the herd deems good is Good, whatever the herd deems evil is Evil. There is no objective morality written on stone tablets that we can consult to determine that torture is Evil or that killing animals is wrong. That's why we have plentiful examples of cultures throughout human history, composed of intelligent, thoughtful people, who saw absolutely nothing wrong with torture.

This 'herd instinct', by evolutionary necessity, will tend towards in-group altruism in any social animal, but the details, the bylaws, and everything else will be driven by accidents of history and by fashion. It may be that one day that the great human herd of western civilization will collectively decide that eating meat is evil; I sure hope not, I prefer our current fashions (but then I would, having grown up with them.)
> And those examples in a country with over a billion people? You can find all those examples in Africa, Asia, South America, etc.

And North America. And Europe.

> Corrupt politicians? We have Presidents and PMs, senators and MPs openly retiring and joining the boards of companies they helped during their political career.

You can't really call it corruption because it's just the system working as designed.

Big business and Big government are intertwined and interdependent. State governments protect and isolate corporations from competition domestically and they use state power to protect 'national interests' internationally. In exchange for this politicians and high level bureaucrats get their cut.

This is something that the state is designed specifically to do. Economic exploitation is the purpose of having centralized government.

People used to be much more honest and aware of this sort of thing. During the era of president Wilson it was common to talk about how it was important for USA to eliminate 'wasteful competition' by consolidating businesses into national-sized entities that could more effectively represent USA interests internationally. It was felt that is USA was allowed to remain a hodge-podge of small to medium competing businesses that it would not be able to compete internationally with other nations.

Nowadays it's a common belief that centralized democratic government is needed to counter the negative effects of corporate avarice instead of realizing that state government is necessary for these 'large corporations' to exist in the first place.

Whether or not this is bad is a matter of perspective.
I'm having a hard time parsing this paper. The question I have is:

What percentage of family SES appears to be genetically correlated, intelligence or otherwise?
I usually use screen in a very vanilla way (i.e. logged into some rhel box I didn't build or configure) and in my experience you still cannot split vertically. x_x
Interesting, i've been there 3 or 4 times since 2001, and i spent 3 months there in 2008, and i don't think the quality of life was that bad; it's definitely poor. Adoption was a business and i thought they were going to stop it. Women were turning themselves into baby factories.
a severely distorted brain does not, in any way, "challenge theories of consciousness" (as if we have a clear enough theory to be challenged by this).

the cells and connections are there, and function "well enough"
The man was examined in 2007 and the plasticity thesis is from 2011.
There are self-hosted analytics solutions, and worst case, you can always reverse-proxy to Google Analytics. So the extension will say "MyExtension needs to comunicate with MyExtension.com" and nobody will know why.

(Unless you have a manual review process, of course.)
Europe’s many alliances, reimagined as a Metro system
Less than London's. The gap between sectors is not huge and there are caps in bonuses etc imposed by the Dutch government.
Life expenses (rent, public transport, going out etc) are less than London though.
There's always a catch, which I wish these articles specified.

Like that story about buying an entire town in a radio-silent zone somewhere in the USA. The land was cheap, but the catch was that maintaining it cost north of a million dollars or so.
That's actually FUD in itself. I have known several people pick up infections from SourceForge which lets face it is not exactly a dark corner of the internet.
FWIW, the first submission of Impress.js to HN 5 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3414012

I remember it being pretty amazing back then. Still pretty amazing to me now, though I stopped learning new things in CSS around the same time (somewhat thanks to Bootstrap).
Tips and Tricks for the PC Engines APU
Sorry, my fault, and I agree with you. I quickly submitted this just before bed as a reminder and found it on the front-page today. Also, I'm not linked with the creators in any way, just genuinely interested about the service itself.
The Persistence of Unsolicited Mail
> The American Medical Association (the AMA is the most powerful union in history) has pushed through laws to protect its members from competition, making it extraordinarily difficult to provide low cost healthcare

This is a common misconception. I've posted about this many times before, but in short, it's the AAMC, not the AMA, that used to medical school spots. They are no longer the bottleneck anymore, however; the issue is that we don't have enough residency slots, and the funding for those comes through Medicare[0].

That said, this isn't really a driver of costs anyway, because providers themselves are responsible for only 10-15% of spending.

> Basically, all entrepreneurs who don’t join the union are shut off the health care industry. This is why you pay so much money in insurance & for simple doctors visits. Do you think if a fresh entrepreneur opened a hospital you would pay $8,000 per day for a room?

No, the reason that you pay so much is because of the convoluted way that Medicare reimbursements work (even if you're not on Medicare). In short, Medicare doesn't cover its own costs, so private insurers and uninsured patients are overcharged in order to cover the difference[1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8122377

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10479398
> When the citizens realize the infallible groupthink propaganda touted by the ruling class is in fact being touted by people inflicted with the human condition, they also experience a change in world view.

As someone who has grown up in and is Chinese, I very much disagree with this sentiment, especially in modern day. There has always been a discordant and uncomfortable relationship with authority in Chinese culture- we are polite to put on airs to our authorities but we also secretly hate them in some respects. We understand they are human, like us, but for the sake of society rule airs are put on to keep them. It has always been understood that authority and corruption are tightly bound, perhaps even more understood than in America.

The young see all the holes the government has and both desires to being justice and also acutely feel the burdens of society's structure on them, but to upend society has an almost horrific cultural connotation, a cultural catastophe referred to only as "that critical time" or "those difficult times". In this triangulation we have also the need for simple food, water, love, shelter, peace. The modern world and the ancient world are so intertwined in China, that going of the cities is like a form of time travel. The difference between my mother's home village and the city less than 1 hour away by train is the entire industrial revolution.

Much of modern China is also influences from "the critical time" on the modern history. China still has not recovered, culturally, emotionally. It might never will, not in any real way. People have been producing this kind of literature since that time. The most accurate thing in the article is when the article notes that China might "always" have been like this.

Yes, China has always been like this in its own way. China has had these methods of storytelling for a long, long time. Now the new generation of writers is applying this methods to modern problems and modern society in its complex, cage-like structure that everyone is aware of in their bones.

I disagree with the assessment that this is "crazy" or "coming to grips with a fundamental truth is no longer true". It is a rational consequence of applying ancient storytelling methods to a complex triangulation of the new generation's situation, where we are all aware that the government is a corrupt and easily-swayed monster, but social upheaval is horrifically dangerous monster in its own right. It is a problem with no certain solution, so we write.
China is just like Britain during industrialization, just multiple times larger scale and everything is happening faster. People often wonder why people move to cities to work in horrible conditions. They prefer city dystopia and constant calories to hunger.

Real dystopia is happening in the Sahel Belt in Africa and Indian countryside and slums. Unhindered population growth just increases people who face food insecurity in these places.
> Why? We seem to have plenty of moral compunctions about lots of other biological realities.

Do we, in practice? Can you go into more detail?

> Most people agree that they do not want to suffer. That's what makes it evil. It's not a difficult concept.

Did we ask the animals too? Maybe the pig consensus is different.

If most people agree they do not want to pay taxes, do taxes become evil?

There is no objective reason to consider 'most people agree on x' as some kind of objective moral imperative. There is no moral quality to caring what people want. I don't think this is a very sound basis for an objective morality.

EDIT: What I'm trying to get at is basically this. You're saying that eating meat (at least meat that necessitates the killing of animals) is morally wrong. You're saying this because you want to persuade me and the rest of your audience that eating meat is morally wrong. But you are not a moral authority; I consult my conscience, which feels entirely guilt-free about the subject, and my appetite, which feels a positive obligation to eat meat. You're simply trying to exploit a "hack" in my social animal brain, which is that if you tell me that something is wrong, you are telling me that other members of the human herd will judge me unfavorably and perhaps ostracize me or otherwise punish me.

Some people, but not very many, will be swayed by your attempted brain-exploit. But I, again, observe that my conscious feels guilt-free, which is a very strong sign that the people I am surrounded by do not, in fact, disapprove of my eating meat, and also that the vast majority of people I know actually eat meat. So somewhere in my hindbrain, I realize that you are (from my perspective) lying to me, and it will make me instinctively resentful of you, because you have marked yourself as a member of The Other.

So your 'moral' argument is, objectively, amoral; and for your purposes, actually counterproductive, useful only when a person is surrounded overwhelmingly by vegans and vegetarians, who will be able to enforce a shared social norm. You could, instead, if you want to try an intellectual tack, try to show how my personal interests are served by becoming a vegetarian, but you will have to discover some interests and values that strongly outweigh my predilection for eating meat.

Or what you could do is abandon your moral arguments, temporarily, until a day when you're worried about punishing the wayward vegans rather than converting the meat-eaters. You want to make vegans cool, the social elite. You want to get into the media and fill as many TV shows and movies and podcasts and YouTube personalities with cool vegans. You want to make people want to be like you. While you're at it, make animals more important, anthropomorphize them as much as possible, try to generate as much empathy for animals as possible - to some degree, this is already being done. And then in a few decades, if you keep it up, most people will be vegetarians and you can then start talking about how killing animals for food is evil, and you can probably even pass a law to that effect. That'd be a way to get some moral feeling behind it.
the suckless people are doing this wih the coreutils, titled sbase. they adhere to POSIX and nothing else, really

http://core.suckless.org/sbase
curl|bash is no less secure than any script you download and run as a regular user. When you add a third party apt repository and install a deb package do you always verify that the postinst script doesn't do anything malicious?

The only mistake I see in this case is doing this over plain HTTP. Let's Encrypt is free and there is no excuse for not enforcing HTTPS for this.
I'd be interested in reading a follow up study in terms of how the Frenchman has reacted to the discovery that 90% of his brain is missing.

If Cleereman's suggestion that

>“Consciousness is the brain’s non-conceptual theory about itself, gained through experience—that is learning, interacting with itself, the world, and with other people”.

Then the patient's discovery may affect his cognitive awareness, an interesting example of Schrodinger's cat.
Thanks for the feedback. I've added your comments to our other thoughts on permissions.
I made a print screen for you. Look at it for 30 seconds:
http://imgur.com/Auo417n

The problem is that it's too empty. I have no reason to click the "sing up" link.

You should add some explanation, many screenshots.

Perhaps a free easy activity that someone can try without signing up.
>> pointer hopping

Betting on this (and the optimizer being really simple-minded -- at least given how people can make it produce obviously inefficent code in SO examples)
Ask HN: Any professional value in learning Chinese?
I'm at a point in my career where all the easy stuff is behind me. I've flirted with learning ML, OS dev, and crypto. I haven't decided to take the plunge with any of those subjects because I know attaining expert-level ability is a multi-year commitment.

I'm wondering if that time may be better spent learning a second language like Chinese? Anyone have any thoughts on this?
For me and you (presuming you're a software dev too) this is correct. However a friend of mine just built a Hackintosh and his justification was pretty simple - he had thousands of dollars worth of audio engineering software + libraries only usable on OS X. When it came to replacing his current Macbook Pro with a desktop Mac, and the iMac and Mac Pro are so out of date and expensive it's laughable.
Try dotPeek: https://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/
The real problem is a post IPO Facebook and its obligation to make money. Intimacy isn't profitable and there is no money in sharing personal photos. Publisher content has money but FB risks becoming a feed of useless updates and viral fluff. Within this space, text is a poor revenue generator but video has the highest CPM so we are seeing a major shift to video. FB's $50mn payouts to BuzzFeed and the like shows their commitment to viral junk. The watermelon live video gimmick isn't long term sustainable. FB is losing the plot it seems. There was a time when people used to post pics of things they ate and do FB checkins everywhere they went. It got people on board but other than on-boarding it proved to be just a fad.

I imagine the long term strategy will be to selectively optimize feeds based on user prefs. Not everyone values intimacy and some people prefer BuzzFeed cruft on a daily basis.

Unfortunately intimacy is hard to measure while sharing and content generation makes for easy KPIs for exec to focus on. Focusing on these will treat the symptoms but not the cause. In fact if sharing and recirculation is a KPI then FB will increasingly gravitate toward Twitter.

However this is all backwards. Monetizing the users is a piss poor business model. It fucks up the UX and alienates the users. FB should move to other avenues. Personalized search or ecommerce or premium SMB accounts should be the bigger focus.

Aside, their move into messaging reminds me of Microsoft's play when they leveraged Hotmail users into MSN and virtually overnight, uprooted ICQ/AOL.
I had all sort of 'philosophical' reactions as I watched the video. One was 'wait and see' if this proves to be widely accepted. Another was 'even if this proves to be unrealistic' his concerns appear to be heartfelt and his commitment to pursuing them diligently seems to be strong, so dismissing them out of hand 'in ignorance of respected opinion elsewhere' would probably be hasty. Don't we need to offer a little extra patience with our fallible but often conscientious independent amateur researchers? Aren't these just our peers?