skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seems to be mixing a lot of perspective to arrive at your conclusion. Let's try to unpack them one by one :

> This is patently untrue. My parents emigrated to the States in 1997 (from the post-Communist Romania) with two briefcases, two kids, and $2,000 -- hardly privileged.

Compared to whom ? the average american in 1997 or the average Romanian in 1997 ? I am pretty sure compared to the average romanian your parent wouldnt call them selves under-privileged.

As an immigrant myself, i am not sure what definition of risk you are using to call immigrating from Romania to the US a risk. If anything, the ability to emigrate to a richer nation is an opportunity that literally millions of people are still, 20 years latter, dreaming of. So much so that the US as a green card "lottery"...

> my college-educated parents had to work menial jobs like washing Target toilets, cleaning houses, and flooring and construction.

Again, unless you are omitting some stuff , i am not seeing any risk taking behavior here.

I feel i need to say this, as someone who also had the luck (and yes luck, because parental investments is sadly a very under appreciated form of privilege) to be on the receiving hand of extreme parental investments, you parent were hard-working and dedicated, but from your own description, and my experience with other immigrants not risk taking.

> I recently quit my cozy six-figure job in ad-tech to try and bring some of my ideas to fruition.

And this is where i think you are proving the authors point. You waited to be financially secure before taking those risk. Had you been richer while young, you would have probably done so earlier; And more importantly had you not have a "couchy"job (and i am guessing some savings ?) would you have made the same decision ?

> Everyone can take risks.

Yes, but that's not the point of the article. The author is simply pointing that the costs of risky behavior is are not the same for everybody. under-privilege people have much worst outcome when they fail. And thus, the difference in risk taking/risk aversion behavior that we are observing might be a reflection of people rationally evaluating business venture within their own situation and coming up with different outcome.

> Investing $10,000 and 6 months of your life in a startup is not ruin-inducing.

It's because you are in a situation where this sentence is true, that you tried. But this is not true for everybody (like let say a single parent with an enfant child)

> The purpose of life is not wallowing in self-pity, but rising above the adversity.

Telling people about the cost of risky behavior is not self-pity it's pragmatism

And as a closing though, you seem to think that you are reaping the reward of you parent taking risk, my read of the situation is that you reaping the reward of hard consistent work. And to some extent i find this to be a much more pragmatic way of living one's life.
If
the app is free software it can be audited. The problem with web-based
crypto is that you're downloading a new program every page refresh and
executing it immediately. If you're worried about a free software app
not encrypting things properly, I'd be worried about the tools you use
manually doing the right thing as well.

While I agree that doing it manually is the only reliable way if you're going to send it over an insecure channel, if the channel is secure then it's much easier for an end-user to just send it in the app.
I don't think that's true. I would certainly classified the tribes in the Amazon who get killed or pushed out of their homes by loggers and ranchers as displaced due to deforestation.
> His parents have the million dollar house today. Theirs isn't a story of privilege.

Yes but his (having parent with million dollar house) is ...
Those performance improvements make the code more complicated too. How fast does the yes command actually need to be?
Images are un-clickable, unfortunately.
Most of the unwanted mail I see (at least what makes it past the basic automated filters) is from legitimate companies who think I'd like to hear about product updates every two days rather than Viagra pills or whatever.
You're likely to have a tough time getting a job or going out with friends if you don't have a mobile phone these days, which would not be the case for a Roman. People don't exist in isolation, and if society is structured around the assumption that everyone has a phone, you could be worse off without one than in another society that isn't structured that way.
It's been over a year, the crowd is good
Far exceeds my expectation of the comprehensive list I was looking for!
That's why they have all those knife attacks and bombings and hundreds of young Tibetans self-immolating in protest. All that 'Chinese homogenity' and 'harmonious society.'
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Ask HN: Best novels about overpopulation?
Do you know (and really like and recommend) sci-fi and dystopic novels with overpopulation as main topic?
EchoStar 105/SES-11 Mission
But I don't mean "meditation" in general -- even if you look at one person's claims, you think you have it and then you voice a disagreement and, whoops, you haven't understood it, or else you wouldn't criticize it.
What's killing us?
Good for the rest of the world.
I'd love to :D
UCSF needs sysadmin/devops help
Prefer: established company to provide FTE support for linux systems in HIPAA environment on annual contract basis.
Will consider: permanent junior+ sysadmin with security, devops skills.

Keep our systems 99% up and safe, implement SSO, monitor backups, help devs with CI, establish common dev toolkit and environments, integrate with other systems, give us some hybrid cloud--all the fun stuff we don't have time for!
Oh, and help cure a disease.
They've also done a lot to enrich the whole community. The daily plant gifs and a monthly voting graphic overview post have been put together by folks in the community.
>no Ada missionaries have yet set foot on our shares

I'm not sure if 'shares' is a typo or not, but it fits great with my impression of why companies choose the languages they do sometimes: everyone else uses it (it's the local culture/custom), and nothing/no one has forced them to change (by lowering their profits/share value).
While nobility is bullshit, better nutrition as evidenced by height and tooth remains is true, only catching up in the 20th century, except for the rich of course. Sorry I don't have a source. (The benefits of civilization may have only accrued to a small proportion of the population for most of history. )
Than pure capitalism? That's caused enough human suffering that I'd give the PRC a 50/50 chance to be less brutal when all is said and done. Before anyone comes in and talks about all the pain and human suffering that capitalism allievated through progress, such as all the people lifted out of poverty, you have to give the PRC the same credit for what it's done for it's citizens
Have you ever tried typing whilst wearing a VR headset? It's very difficult to find the right spot to rest your hands, etc.

Other than that, I totally agree.

BigScreen really opened my eyes to how productive we will be in the future.
Headphones are a solvable problem. There are people who wear headphones to work, as opposed to while working. All day comfort is a bullet point because radio and media people look for it. I guarantee you can find a set of cans that agrees with you for more than 8 hours.

I wore a pair of Sony MDR-7506, the ubiquitous radio cans, for 8+ hours every day while operating and editing talk radio and didn’t even notice, despite the job calling for constantly necking them and then putting them back. And I have a large head. They’re ubiquitous in radio for a reason.
I'm curious to know the ratio of these crimes to population, as compared to Western countries. Harmonious != 100% peaceful.
Fear, it is never enough. It is laughable, how insecure those Chinese red nobles are about themselves, while in absolute terms, they might be already among the most powerful human beings on earth.
Can you please elaborate on the state of your bureaucracy. It'll make me feel better about American politics.
Most dating is location based with more demand on the female side guys so guys are more likely to have less filters and accept everyone.

But the true cause is changes to views around the issue and increased globalization.
The very premise of this article seems to be that accusation == fact.

Not every accusation is factual.

As it is written, it claims to target men worried about being accused. It should be titled "The Rock Test: A Hack for Men Who Don’t Want to Sexually Harass Someone" since it really targets (as written) men who would harrass.
My friends called it "Pictionary Telephone". We played it a lot, but not with Latin. :)
> Every single denial is logged

Not quite true. Some need to have debug turned on.
See my other comment.
I'm not sure what you're arguing, that it's the purview of the judicial or legislative branch?
> Have you considered that the people in this thread saying it doesn’t work aren’t just saying “it’s hard”?

Yes I have.

My attitude is probably influenced by personal experience in dealing with depressed people. So far every time I’ve been observing someone long term, and they said “it doesn’t work”, they rarely kept at it for more than a month at a time here and there.

It is possible that everyone in this thread is different and kept at it for a long time consistently and it didn’t help.

And I never said “only exercise”, I said Do Things. Hang out with people, work on projects, make art, enjoy friends, go to a bar, see a movie, travel. Whatever as long as you’re not sitting on the couch giving in to your depression.

> this advice is upsetting to me

People I love sitting on the couch rotting from depression is upsetting to me.
Before moving to Tokushima, Japan, I wanted to get the best possible information on available apartments. Specifically I wanted to get a map which would show rental / sales prices at different locations, like AirBnB. So I wrote a scraper that went through all the local apartment rental sites and imported the data to Google Earth.

After spending several nights on this app and happily browsing the data, my wife then went to a local rental agency and just got some place they recommended.

While a bit annoyed my effort was in vain, after years of living here and often browsing the local apartment listings, I've come to realize this was actually a really good choice!
I bought a replacement on ebay and swapped it out. Most of the two hours was spent un-sticking the battery from the case.

Macs have high enough volume per model that parts and tutorial videos are plentiful and cheap :D
Simply putting a comment above each function would make it bearable.
Jared Diamond's essay The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race makes this argument quite convincingly: http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html
This could be applied to something like memset, another deceiving simply function
There's a theory that the same person should not be both a Developer and an Operator for the same project - that crucial mental separation between Making something and Keeping It Online gets too blurred when one person wears both hats. I've witnessed this in my own personal and professional projects. I guess it is a counter-argument to the DevOps/Agile philosophy.
I've just been fiddling around with things that can be attached to the end of the controller plugin such as rfid stickers, with a reader of some sort near the setup.
No, they believe in using government money to invest/bribe overseas to build up a market for mid level Chinese goods. This is how they plan on moving up the goods ladder.
This is awesome, thank you.
seccomp and LSMs do different (and complementary) things.
Forgive me, but I can't think of a single build system where the compiler is run on a source file twice. All of the ones I've seen support either parsing the .d file generated by a compiler, or parse /showIncludes if using MSVC. If you have any examples of build systems doing this, I'd love to see them so I can avoid them.
It looks like a very garish pair of sneakers.

Bold move, Cotton.
I use NextCloud (fork of OwnCloud) to manage my contacts[1]. It has a CardDAV interface. Synchronises contacts with my phone, and live lookup for my email client too. Very nice having a single-source-of-truth contact list.

[1] In fact, that's all I use it for. Don't use any of NextCloud's other functionality.
Sorry, not the case at all. If you start poking around on a server that the DoD forgets to lock down, you're going to jail. You're not authorized to use it just because you can access it.
Most mentally healthy people can't force themselves to meet their exercise goals. Many mentally healthy people fail to meet their nutrition goals too.
Reproducible builds effectively solve this problem, by making it possible to actually verify that you got the same binary (from the same source) as everyone else. Not to mention that if you're on Linux, distributions build Firefox themselves and so attacks against users need to be far larger in scale for 1/n attacks.
Is it fatalism, or a call to change the system that exists? People are not saying "no one other than the rich should try". People are saying "our system should be restructured such that the avenues to success are more evenly distributed".
Hey Amar,

Thanks for checking out our project! What alerts do you have set up in Google News Alerts?

Re: providing contact info— that's definitely one logical next step. We left it out of this hack week project. Journalists already get hundreds of pitches a day, so we're trying to experiment with something new and different in addition to the usual pitch cycles. We're thinking of letting journalists know that you're following them and reading their articles, and make it so they can follow your company as well to receive updates from you, or ask you for quotes/opinions on topics that you're an expert on. This already happens to an extent, but we can make all this much more efficient by only routing their relevant articles to you, and only showing your relevant quotes/updates.
Wasn't it Mao's tongue in cheek assessment of the American democracy experiment that it's "too early to tell"? The same can certainly be said of Chinese current state. They're a remarkable success on a scale unlike anything else in the world's history but lets wait a little longer...
> If I didn't already have an account

So do I, but now I have a reason to finally finish that nextcloud VM I've been meaning to set up for ages :-)
I guess a stretch goal would be to make a "shouldi" command that can consume more y's per second than yes can produce. Of course at that point the shell itself would probably become the bottleneck.
Xi is a strongish leader, almost as strong as Jiang zemin. Compared to Hu Jintao, he is much stronger, but this is mostly a return to normalcy.
He's doing a bang up job so far then!
This is cool, a few ideas:

1) Would like to understand why certain journalists were recommended to me. I like the idea of showing example articles, but the ones provided weren't relevant to me.

2) As a startup, I'm mostly interested in a journalist's influence and reach (ie. how many people are going to see this?). Topic relevance is also important, but at the end of the day I'd rather be written up by TC rather than by a local news org. Does the ML take influence/reach as an input?

3) It'd be useful to select my ideal outlets, e.g. national outlets, industry-specific, geo-specific, and then get results based on those preferences.
"How critical is good information about the world?"

Of course it is critical but the access to good information is not entirely dependent on whether there is censorship:

For long form reporting a lot is dependent on budget resources. When newspapers here lose revenue they inevitably cut back on investigative reporting and resort to more editorialization. In China newspapers may have fared slightly better on the revenue side so far (https://www.statista.com/statistics/498028/newspaper-publish...) but the future is uncertain.

Outbound tourism has been steadily growing, reaching 126 million trips in 2016. https://www.travelchinaguide.com/tourism/2016statistics/outb...

There is a large Chinese diaspora connected through social networking.

There are also websites such as Zhihu that is a real force in dispersal of knowledge but is barely discussed here on HN due to the language barrier. Weibo (which is like Twitter), where a celebrity could generate millions of comments, gets more attention from the general public and the government. But if you are after good information Zhihu often provides surprisingly in-depth answers.
Please stop this.

I have a genetic disorder. It was not properly diagnosed until I was nearly 36 years old. So, I spent the first 36 years of my life hearing that I was just lazy and not trying hard enough.

You being unable to fix someone else by brilliantly suggesting what worked for you is not definitive evidence that they simply aren't trying hard enough. That underlying attitude is monstrously arrogant and insulting to other people.

The world does not revolve around you. You being upset because someone else is "sitting on the couch rotting" does not give you the right to harangue people until they prove your pet theory correct that they just need to try harder.
As usual, we can depend on the Chinese government to ruin the (opportune for them) situations which they and businesses in China have worked so hard to create.
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Of course, we want to be using the largest packets that the underlying network allows.

My comment is about using larger packets specifically while relying on fragmentation to deliver them. Fragmentation re-introduces the overhead since fragments carry IP headers.

If a protocol already segments data into datagrams and reassembles them into a stream, it derives no advantage from IP fragmentation.

IP fragmentation basically provides the possibility of operating in the face of misconfiguration (hopefully temporarily), with reduced performance (better than no performance at all).

(Of course I'm not saying that since TCP chops the data into pieces and has a sliding window that can scale, there is no downside to making the pieces small just for the heck of it, like 50 bytes of payload!)
You mean party secretary. The premier is Li Keqiang, who is pretty powerless, at least compared to Wen Jiabao.
ffsend: Firefox Send standalone client with minimal memory requirements
What did it do to bring its citizens out of poverty?
If
you are running on Linux, then Firefox is built by your distribution.
So attacks like that are much harder to accomplish, because the
distribution of software like Firefox is (for lack of a better word)
distributed. I'm not going to get into all of the techniques that distributions use to make these things safer, the crux of the point is that you should always use distribution packages because we generally have much better release engineering than upstream (as we've been doing it for longer).
I disagree, this is not a zero-sum game.
I also know immigrants who came to the US with little more than a suitcase and became millionaires. Non-wealthy people start businesses and succeed at them all the time.
Until someone uses a gravity well projector to write "BURMA SHAVE".
The masses completed a pokemon game. So a plant should be no problem. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_Plays_Pokémon
Agreed. Not to mention hitting the gym for an hour every night closes a lot of access to self-medication.
Focused has to mean really focused ... REITs need to make 75% of their income from rents and 95% of their income from rents, dividends and gains from securities sales. Income from other sources is referred to as 'bad income' and is carefully watched.
There's the obvious state interference angle. But I wonder how that will interact with their intense protectionism and huge domestic market.

Yes, the companies may not innovate as much and may lose their edge, but the Party can (and will have incentives to) just deliver a 1B+ user market by fiat.

I wouldn't be optimistic about this model, but the companies may not feel as much of a disadvantage as business wisdom would dictate.
Human capital doesn't automatically indicate economic prowess; you have to remember there's around 700M in China that still lives in rural areas with under $1 a day, and they can't get the jobs in urban cities because those jobs are going away due to moving to cheaper SE asia countries, robots, and lack of skillsets.
This + Twitch Plays Pokemon was what I had in mind when I made this :)
What difference does it make to the common people, or to political activists, that power is spread out among the leaders of dozen CCP committees, versus a single man?

The police will continue to repress, the press committees will continue to censor...
I'd guess that it will make those companies into somewhat more corrupt, in-efficient and state-run than they currently are, but that the change will be incremental. So I expect these companies to still take the world by storm.
Will the search pick up your terms when they occur in Groups that you’ve not joined yet? Any chance you can share the code on Github?
Bill by larger time blocks (days, weeks?). Done with your work for the day in a couple hours? Take a walk in the forest, do some fishing, work on your car, meditate or whatever.
But there is only so much tech talent on Earth. I hope all the talent comes here.
Your information is old; China is the most indebted country in the world, and its growth in debt is scaring alot of economists.
You can communicate using s cheap feature phone and a small plan. You don’t need a new iPhone to get a job.
AFAIK, Incognito modes do generally store cookies up to the point where you close your browser window.
Funny, I just learned about this command a couple of days ago as a simple way to max out your CPU. I was trying to drain the battery on my Macbook Pro and running 4 of these at the same time did the trick nicely. Redirected to /dev/null and run in the background: "yes > /dev/null &"
Welp, He's straight up lying. Source code would not be their actual virus definitions which are binary patterns, so screw these guys.
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I love how he belittles exercise as a cure. Talk about closed mindedness and stupidity. Just because it didn't work for him doesn't mean it should be dismissed. It's the only thing that worked for me and many others. I'm really not even sure wtf this ridiculous article is saying. Anyway, what I'm saying is that belittling something that has been proven to help many people is stupid and even dangerous. Fuck medicine, Fuck therapy, and Fuck this idiot.
And the naive "readable" version is half the speed of python. Makes you wonder how typical that would be in real code?
Incredible story, thanks!
> site

the year is 1992, the couple are posting to Usenet. What is this site thing you mentioned?

Get off my lawn
Due to variation in demand for classes, which students don't all take at the same time, there's an imperfect prediction of supply.

Additionally, the competition is usually for desireable time slots, rather than to get into a class at all.
Well then what do you say to the athletes in this thread who tried this for several years and felt no better? Have you been debunked? Does everyone have to spend 2 years of their life’s on your advice before they’re allowed to say “This doesn’t work for me”?

I can’t imagine you think that’s reasonable... I think it would be more helpful if people stopped throwing this sort of advice around like it’s useful to people

I’ve argued things like what you’re arguing before but really I was just afraid to think otherwise, could you be feeling the same way? I don’t think that’s a sustainable strategy though so here I am, arguing the other way. It was harder to think that way than this - less natural
The shell can't be a bottleneck. If you run `yes | shouldi`, all the shell does is setup the pipe, give one of its ends as stdin to shouldi, and the other end as stdout to yes.