skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The blog post completely misses the near total influence of the Chinese government. Yes, China is a different ecosystem and that has second order effects. But it's still important to get the direction of causality right.

In nearly every country around the world, Android phones are dependent on and dominated by the Google ecosystem. They aren't in China. Why? Because Google services are banned. So is Facebook. So are some of Apple's services. Even back when Google was cooperating with the PRC and trying hard for the local market, executives rightly or wrongly claimed that whenever their marketshare passed 30% regulators turned nasty.

Many, many foreign companies have poured resources into China and the few that have succeeded have generally done so on the strength of a global brand—such as Coke, LV or Apple. That doesn't mean that Apple's challenges in China are simply due to market forces though. China's decision to ban all K-pop, K-dramas and other Korean media over their recent missile defense system shows that much.

Simply put, WeChat violated multiple rules on Apple's App Store on its way up that have enabled it to act like the platform it does today. In any other country Apple would have simply refused to push non-compliant updates, but in China Apple faced the risk of being barred from the market entirely. Years later, WeChat is now so dominant that Apple would have to capitulate for market reasons alone.

>"WeChat is that, but it is also for reading news, for hailing taxis, for paying for lunch (try and pay with cash for lunch, and you’ll look like a luddite)"

That's just not true. Most lunches in China are not bought via WeChat. Even inside the 2nd ring road in Beijing, cash is very common.
Ask HN: Ansible cloudformation for all clouds
is there a project for ansible that function akin like AWS cloudformaion but for ALL (or lots) of clouds out there?

I know about terraform and looking for something equivalent but more ansible native
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So you're a company with 10 engineers ... and you're building self driving technology from scratch? I thought it requires large teams and billion dollar investments.
1. They do make jokes about that.

2. It's not as funny as you suggest: The Poor voting for Trump is, depending on your own perspective, either pointless or tragic. I mean, what could be funnier than decades of crippling inequality?

3. "Colbert thinks he illuminates while he is really only promoting a different set of class values". That's rather vague, I think it's reasonable to say that we all do that whenever we talk about anything political.
As OP, I would like to adopt dpwm's restatement:

> They are like [the] Trump voters willing to throw their lot in with whomever tells them "it will be okay", regardless of how unscrupulous and incompetent those promise-makers are.
Funny that BART got to SJ via the East Bay first, but I hope they make the most of it. This does complete a missing (edit: rail) link around the Bay -- though sadly across three different transit systems.

Some time ago I wrote that the geography of the Bay is unfortunate for transit in many ways [1] but notably because there's no express way to get from one side to the other; instead you have to travel along the Ring touching all stops between.

One of the later plans of the HSR along the Caltrain corridor wants to operate it as a hybrid system (which sounds like a big deal, but really just means operating express and slow trains on the same corridor), which would greatly improve mobility between Downtown SF and SJ, as well as regions adjacent to those with zoned trains. Similarly, the Dumbarton Rail Corridor (between Fremont and Palo Alto) would provide a radial transbay option.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12283335
Mud doesn't have to be contaminated to smell bad, it just kinda does naturally.
I note you failed to answer the question.

There are multiple reasons to be against miss-migration, most of them pragmatic.
...contemporary photovoltaic panels require all sorts of strange metals to make...

This is not quite right. A few kinds of contemporary PV require exotic elements such as indium, gallium, and tellurium. But the market is dominated by crystalline silicon cell technology (about 93% market share in 2015): https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p...
Maybe I don't understand what that means in this context. Why is making crude jokes more useful/effective/beneficial than reporting on issues and having mature discussions about those issues?
Like the article says: its for a certain niche of people who just get stuff done. I have owned iPhones(6+, SE), Blackberry (9700, Z3, now DTEK60), several Android devices. None of them hold a candle to the 9700 for getting work done. For play its hopeless, but for email, spreadsheets, reviewing docs, it was brilliant because of one single hardware device - the optical mouse 'pad'. I dont understand why other devices cant do something like this (other than patent protection). Life is some much easier when one can navigate quickly without smudging the work, obscuring the work. There is a reason there is a whole bunch of folks out there that like the IBM/Lenovo trackpoint nub (I hate it but others love it). These devices allow a certain style of working that can be productive beyond belief.

But history shows us the spoils dont go to the 'best' as far as consumer devices go. They go to the flashiest, most convenient, lowest resistance (lowest common denominator), that gets enough of everything right to be easy for masses.

iPhones get it right for everything just works and 3 year olds can figure it out. Android is a whole lot better but appeals to the engineer in people - 3 year olds less so. Blackberry is for getting work done or those who communicate in written form far more than anything else. I hope the KeyONE (i like the name because its not boring like 6, 7 or childish like Galaxy, Moto) is a success. Plan to get one near end of the year because i need to break the habit of wishing for progress by buying a new phone phone every 6 months!

For the curious why did i give up on Apple and go back to Blackberry. because iOS would not allow me to set size of system fonts. App vendors decided that everything should be in unreadable 8pt so for a long sighted person that made most apps unusable as my eyes got worse over last year (Im 50+) from programming and aging.

End of rant.
I think of ADD as Amphetamine Deficit Disorder. In a practical sense, "ADD" is the disorder that afflicts people who function better when given amphetamines. Personally, I feel that anyone who wants to take amphetamines should be allowed to.

I think that inability to concentrate is a common pathway for essentially all diseases that afflict man. Anything a disease does to draw your attention to itself is affecting concentration, because you are not able to concentrate on whatever you want to concentrate on. In some cases, this is insidious and you are not aware of the disease as such; it affects your concentration and you don't understand why. In some cases, you might only know that you can't concentrate. Amphetamines will tend to help, because they allow you to concentrate harder on what you want to concentrate on, regardless of the actual etiology of whatever is distracting you.
My apologies, I would like to adopt dpwm's restatement:

> They are like [the] Trump voters willing to throw their lot in with whomever tells them "it will be okay", regardless of how unscrupulous and incompetent those promise-makers are.
Writing a full reply since I don't agree with much of the advice given.

I've worked around/in data science teams at a large BigCo and I think that you're far overestimating the bar here. There aren't enough people to who can write data pipeline code (SQL/Shell/etc.), much less implement and intelligently explain statistical/ML models. Also, the average decision maker here does not understand the difference between 'created model in Pandas' and 'created model with Amazon's ML API'.

The modal background of data scientists in industry is closer to 'Econ BA + knows Python' than 'Artificial Intelligence PhD'. Moreover, the former will still enjoy a remunerative career if (s)he's sufficiently savvy about identifying problems and showing off how they can be solved with technology.

There may be a point in time when companies can't get a return by throwing math-savvy programmers at a problem, but that will be long after you and I have passed from the scene.
I wrote a Chrome extension that similarly saves copies of pages you bookmark: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/backmark-back-up-t...
Doesn't matter who he is. This is broadcast television.
But since the 2 people are creating much more material value, this explanation would mean that a much bigger % of it was going to profits instead of wages.

I think the decline of unions and globalization are more credible explanations.
Why should he be decent?
Yeah, F# feels like Don Syme looked at ocaml and haskell and applied a bit of yagni and tossed in some other useful conventions (I'm sure many others were involved as well).

It drives me crazy that Microsoft doesn't push it harder from an investment perspective. They don't even write books about it :)
I take Vyvanse, so not directly the same. In fact I'm not sure if it and Adderal have the exact same effects on BP since they work differently.

I'm definitely considered obese at 6'4" and 280lbs, but there's been literally no movement of my BP up or down since I've been on it. To agree with your point though:

1. Every physical I've ever had has had my vitals in good ranges (minus the weight)

2. I get strenuous physical excercise at least 4x/wk so I'm a spry tub of love

I was worried about any possible issues with BP/HR during lifting sessions if I took it before workouts in the morning so I avoided it for a while until my doc reassured it should be fine. As with anything if I felt off, just back down the activity and don't do it tomorrow. I'd say if anything it allows me to run longer on the treadmill or elliptical because I don't get so god damn bored and ready to do something else.
The measure to fund it passed, to the money's there. It's just gonna take 10-15 years to build it.
Why Data Storage Is the Next Frontier in AI Expansion
I've had very similar experiences. I took a Scala course on Coursera back in 2014 and at the end I realized I couldn't really write a Scala program because the course had provided all SBT files for everything...and because they enabled all sorts of functionality related to autograding, they were impenetrably complex in addition to the necessary complexity of a build tool (which requires a willingness to read a technical manual that assumes I high level of experience and sophistication).

A lot of the difficulty is that it is relatively easy for a two pizza team to have enough experience and knowledge to collectively figure out how to get all the moving parts moving more or less in the right direction at more or less the right time. For an individual, it's always going to take years to achieve the equivalent knowledge of a team after six months.
> I don't think OpenAL simulates some of the more complex phenomena having to do with how sound interacts with your body and ears?

It does. This blog post [0] seems to be a nice reference. What you want is called "head-related transfer function". (There are tons of papers on HRTF)

One can even turn it on for any game that use openal, even old ones. You can go download The Dark Mod now and play it with HRTF [1].

Note: am not an expert

What openal doesn't do, while this google thing does, is reverb (reflection of waves, echo). One way to do reverb is.. well simply raytrace it. Just send out a bunch of rays from the source, probably do some filtering of the results, and apply to the audio. Another way is to take a real room that you are "porting" to digital, ping somewhere in it (play the impulse response of an ideal 20kHz low pass filter, aka the sync function), then measure somewhere else. Then repeat in a.. grid or something. What you get is a bunch of filters (num_points if there is a single static "listener", or num_points^2 if there are more and or moving; as it is source->destination dependent). This can also be done by shooting rays in an arbitrary digital space, but i wanted people to imagine a room and waves going around in it. AFAIK this is how the valve bought software works.

Another thing is diffraction[2]... that idk if either gugl or volvo do. Calculate it with voxel grids then add to refraction ? Any renderers do proper Rayleigh scattering ?

[0]http://www.bitoutsidethebox.com/shabda/hrtf-info/
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVqFbu4gsqs
[2]http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Sound/diffrac.htm...
I would suggest that the study reinforces that bilingual & polyglots naturalise other ways of thinking, or contexts for thinking, and that is for the brain, what habitualised exercise is for the body.
With data science, do you mean data science as in learning the tools, the software behind data science? That's like learning any technologies or tools.

Along this line, you would just be a "tech", not a "scientist" That's not to say you won't be real well compensated.

Data Science as in you are someone able to make sense of the myriads of conflicting data, derive pattern, synthesize bits and bytes into action plans, there is no degree in that :)

As an example on this line of thought, people may win the Nobel prize in Economics even though they may have no idea on how to use Excel :)
Maybe "in a second" or "in a minute", which is almost never a second, or minute, respectively.

Or "shortly". Heard that one a lot. We'll be departing shortly. Which could be 2 minutes or 15 minutes, or something in between.
For me the word "ahorita" has always meant "right now" not hours, minutes, right now..in a few seconds or so.
I wouldn't be so sure - the "Hillary email" announcement by Comey had an immediate impact on polling. If anything this might be more dangerous as there is little to no chance to rebut it.
I was offered a job where a selling point was its continuing education at an in-house "university". The starting salary was lower than comparable jobs.

I'm not sure if they were ahead of their time or if it was a bad deal disguised as a good one. Maybe the in-house training was only on proprietary, non-portable information.

The author is right, the military is unmatched in its opportunities for education and managed career progression. It has its downsides, of course.
If you aren't prepared to talk policy or policy making, or governance, you are not prepared to lead any group of people, let alone a start-up, where there are no landmarks, so initial trajectory errors in policy are all the more difficult to detect and correct.
I suspect that this person has never encountered someone who actually has ADHD, with meds and without. I was lucky enough to be diagnosed early on. Right around Kindergarten I was taking Dexadrine which helped until Adderall came along.

For me there's a huge difference between the two. Without the meds, my concentration drifts. If I'm at home, I may be aware of an issue that needs attention, but lack the energy and focus to carry it out. I'll start watching a video, get distracted, and drift off there, then over there, and so forth.

Out in public it manifests as an occasional intense craving for sugar, though it's possible that's just me. At the peak it can be intense uncontrollable energy (the H part), as well as frequent "why did I come in here" or "I forgot to do this". It comes in getting distracted from a task and forgetting to ever come back to it.

With the meds, it's much different. I have a sharp focus. I can throw on a whole music cd and let the tracks all play out without feeling the need to jump around or to switch to a different album. Just me and the code that I need to do, or solving any other problem tasks.

In public I'm able to control myself better. I don't have to think of doing something before doing it as much, resulting in a better flow.

This isn't a matter of a diet either. I don't snack on fatty foods, and I don't have soda to drink at home. My current doctor has me take an EKG every year to make sure that it's not playing poorly with my heart.

There's a huge difference between "I get distracted from time to time" and having a constant difficulty getting tasks accomplished and lacking the motivation to complete small tasks from start to finish (getting interrupted and forgetting to go back at all).

I suspect this person has never encountered someone with actual adult ADHD. Consider also that in the past, many of these people would have just been called crazy and left at that.
Good for you! Your attitude is inspiring.
Wait, you choose what to put in the dict. I like being able to map from, say, db objects to internal representations. Why wouldn't you want that?!
Anecdotal but where I go to school (a top university) people often will drink then take adderall since it focuses you while you're drunk so you don't seem as drunk but can still have fun.

I highly doubt however that it's more popular then molly and I know it isn't as popular as weed, which is still the recreational drug of choice. This might be skewed as coming from a good university hard drugs aren't as popular as some other schools, but I think it's enough to debunk a baseless claim.
I doubt it. Many users flag these threads because classic flamewars don't belong on HN. They're tedious and violate the mandate of the site. That's a different consideration than agreeing or disagreeing with the politics of a post.
> You stated I got it wrong but my original post was factual and specifically referenced the wikipedia article that references the exact order.

Let's refresh your memory.

> The owner of Lavabit offered to do some coding so they could target the meta data of a single person but it was rejected so he ultimately shut his service down.

No, he didn't offer to do it. He was ordered to do it and refused. Only after refusal did the FBI ask him to hand over his private key, not because it was "unreasonable" as you erroneously claimed but because after he realized he would be held in contempt for not doing the work, he was delaying access to the data by negotiating terms of work too slowly, causing the government to forever lose the ability to collect metadata that would have been generated in the meantime. https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/lava...

> Translation cannot be twisted to meaning "develop a new feature that creates another way to enter a system". It just can't.

You're moving the goalposts. First, it was 'the government can't make you work," for which I gave you the discovery example as a counterexample that happens all the time. Then it was "the government can't make you write software​," and I showed you that it just so happens you can be effectively forced to write software as part of discovery. Now it's "you can't be forced to write software to create another way to enter a system." Discovery doesn't serve as a counterexample to that claim because I never intended it to be a counterexample to that claim but to that first claim. As I've repeatedly stated, the Lavabit case is a counterexample to this third claim.

> I do not see the value in continuing to repeat the same information, over and over.

Nor do I. I'm hoping you actually have some new information that your argument can stand on instead of repeating the same things I debunked in my very first post.
Trains to SF on the Fremont line are already crowded as hell before you even get to Oakland.

If you live there and are trying to get to the city, good luck finding a seat, plan to stand for as long as 30 minutes in a crowded cart.

I hope they thought this through and are adding more trains so that it doesn't make it even more unbearable.
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Remember Asimov's city-planet Trantor. It relied in part on geothermal energy (core taps) with huge radiator arrays at the poles.
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Only in America could a line of thought possibly arise to consider emoji in legal opinion.

I dont doubt the validity of the research and given how the global population is infected with the 'look at me' virus of glass jabbing, and using childish icons instead of saying/writing what they think/feel, one does have to think about how emoji will infect and undermine certain types of documents.

Should congress vote using emojis?
Will UN decide on severity on response to world events based on emoji divergence stats from its members posts?

Disclaimer: when im lazy i use emoji too. Can be much quicker to find than the words when Im not wearing my glass. Apart from that i find them silly. Mostly.
> Also they have to be able to support simulating the head transfer function via speaker ..

Do you mean head related transfer function ? As in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-related_transfer_function ? HRTF would be practically impossible to do with speakers in a room.
The idea is pretty clear, I think. Apple's problem is WeChat. It's more important than the phone OS, which is different to most other countries. The effect of WeChat combined with China's sheer size is a problem for the iPhone business.
Nature has given us a whole CDC vault for free. Seems like a golden moment for science akin to corpse in the Alps.
Bill Thurston's last contribution to MathOverflow before 2012 death (2011)
Er, what is the hacker ethic? :)
Sophisticated, yet vulgar, political satire goes back at least as far as the ancient Greek theater.

(1) https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/ancient-greeces-legac...
Balance can be technically defined as homeostasis. In the biosphere, a well known concept is the Gaia Theory. More here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostasis
Yes, but does a U-6 level of 8.6% constitute "full employment"? According to the technical definition they're unrelated. Less formally, 8.6% unemployed, underemployed, or discouraged seems quite a bit short of full anything. Pointing out flaws in the original definition or terminology in no way implies that the GP hadn't read the article, and the suggestion to prefer labor force participation is a good one.
I, too, found it incredibly confuse from the very beginning... And I know a bit of Haskell already!
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The irony there...
When software OCRs a PDF, it does it by adding an invisible text layer aligned with the original text, while leaving the original text visible. This makes the PDF searchable, without having to worry about changing the font, introducing OCR errors where people can see them, or disturbing the background. What we see here is very unambiguously the result of a PDF-editing program, not a scan+OCR.
Penetrating analysis.
Donald Trump is extremely unpopular https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/, with a congress passing unpopular legislation (e.g. the AHCA). So I think there is some statistical justification for the shear amount of "partisan jokes".
NB: I do not think positively, in any way, of this administration: I'm probably (Maybe even provably) biased.

I agree, some of the humour is pretty lazy and I think the well will dry up soon; then we'll be left with stuff like Jon Stewart used to make, John Oliver is now (Large policy based segments, with jokes) and presumably Colbert. I'm surprised that the US doesn't really have a show akin to spitting image (UK): It seems like a ripe time for a relativly personality free satire show (Unless I'm just blind and I've missed something).
Thumbs up for namedtuple. It is a good middle ground.
What is the point of having political circle-jerk material like this on hacker news?

Everyone just congratulates each other on how pro-globalisation/immigration they are. Dissidents are shouted down and name called. No one changes their mind. No one is really interested in discussing. Their minds are made up.
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