skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Overcoming country divide
As you may be aware, this past year been tough for a lot of people. The news has been filled with stories about sexual harassment, discrimination, and general hatred towards one another.

I wanted to a create a place where people could share their struggles without feeling like they were the only ones feeling that way.

Sometimes knowing that you're not alone can make all the difference.

Open When a platform for communities to come together and pass on advice for whatever they're going through. Often it can be a place to heal. To find comfort.

Going through a breakup? Dealing with discrimination? Frustrated by sexual harassment? Someone's done it before. Someone's doing it now.

Read about the experiences of people who have already gone through what you're going through now. Feel empowerment from other people's stories and experiences. Hear about how they survived the obstacles that you're going through now. And when you've made it through to the other side, share your own story for the next person.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/open-when
Is your city getting ready for autonomous vehicles?
So i just sold a model x 90D on the site and this guy who is a dealer paid me $500. Now i just listed another model x 90d for him. So i am thinking for a dealer i'll ask them to pay $500 it could be just this guy or i just got lucky ( one off) But the idea of raising it in $50 increments is interesting and I will start testing ASAP! Another online dealer wants to list their used tesla inventory now, they are a well funded start up based in NYC no lots. I gotta work out a monthly deal with them i don't even know how much they are paying to cars / autotrader but looking into it. ;-)
We had a video interview on Oct 19, and we haven't got any news afterwards (outside of the US, FYI). A little bit anxious to be honest.
Marked 2: http://marked2app.com/
Look at the "modernize" checks in clang-tidy.
> When, however, you asked "what more is there to understanding?", the answer is that in this case, there could be more than that which the experiment actually demonstrates, but it will take further experiments to determine whether that is so.

You could interpret my question very broadly, but it seems clear from context that I was asking why one would need to set the threshold for qualifying as "understanding" higher than the simple causal reasoning the experiment demonstrated. The most fundamental question is about the minimum unit of understanding and how to test for that, and everything above that bar would simply be more elaborate chains built from these simple units.

This seems to be what the OP I responded to was asking about, and he seemed to want to set that threshold too high IMO.
3+ years of Ember, 6 months of React
As pointed out by a Human Rights Watch member (https://twitter.com/NicDawes/status/922622481311166464), they ran the test in countries with recent and/or fragile democracies, where independent media needs every single help possible. All this mess is a fricking disaster.
Since I didn't know about <Enter>~. until a few days ago, I usually `killall ssh` or the specific PID.
When you work less it doesn't automatically mean someone has to work for you. Each time a more efficient method is discovered, you could - in theory - work less to accomplish just as much. The trouble is, I think, that capitalist business owners respond by tightening the screws. I guess the idea is "why should my employees work less ? I will have less money than my pal business owner." If he doesn't tighten the screws, he will lose competition to another company.
How I Created Better Google Analytics in 3 Hours
a.) I’m taking most news coming from ibm with a grain of salt, there was so much commotion around Watson and nothing came out of it

b.) quantum digital is boring, quantum analog, now that’s flavortown
"If there's a shortcoming to the law, it's that it doesn't include any new exceptions to the ban on creating or distributing (or as lawmakers ludicrously call it, "trafficking in") anti-circumvention devices. "

Sounds very similar to the approach Portugal has taken with drugs: de-criminalize the use but not the (large scale) distribution.
For an infinite loop, some people prefer it because the lack of a condition means it looks simpler than while(true), and therefore signals its meaning more effectively.

I'd be very surprised if there was any difference in terms of the generated code. Personally I use while(true).
So, what does this actually mean for quantum computing? I have hardly any understanding of the subject, so to me it seems odd that a breakthrough in simulation is very relevant. I also don't have a research background, so it may be that.
What's the alternative? Android, especially Samsung infested bloatware, is substantially worse. The touchwiz upgrade prompts are WAY more annoying than ios ones. Plus the constant Samsung login junk. And then there is the heavy google integration that requires a google account for almost everything.
Could CSS selectors, with a few minor extensions, be just as good at XPath for this kind of thing?

I guess a lot of the reason I find xpath frustrating is my usage frequency corresponds exactly to the time needed to forget the syntax and have to relearn/refresh it in my head.

If CSS selectors needed only a few enhancements to compete with XPath, it might be worth enhancing a selector library to enable quick ramp up speed for more web people.
To me, C++ felt stuck for a pretty long time during the 2000's. Maybe that was due to being stuck in Microsoft-land.

These days, C++ on Windows is great.
Two Security Projects Added by the Cloud Native Computing to Their Open Source
Apple sued over Animoji trademark, allegedly tried to buy IP rights
Quick, what goes in the blank?

The free access which many young people have to *BLANK* has poisoned the mind and
corrupted the morals of many a promising youth; and prevented others from improving
their minds in useful knowledge. Parents take care to feed their children with
wholesome diet; and yet how unconcerned about the provision for the mind, whether
they are furnished with salutary food, or with trash, chaff, or poison?

Trick question, it's not "screens". It's "romances, novels, and plays" - quote taken from "Memoirs of the Bloomsgrove Family", Reverend Enos Hitchcock, 1790.

I'm all for carefully considering which tools you use every day, but spare me the moralizing - it was gauche in 1790 and it hasn't improved with age.
To be fair, who of us reads every manpage for every command that they use? (And I mean reading, not just skimming.)

I mean, it's a good practice to read manpages every now and then, just to learn new stuff (in the same way that there are always new vim commands to learn). But we encounter so many comands with so many options that knowing all of the options is just implausible.
The Battle That Created Germany
Nah, that doesn't work for academic papers. You usually access them anonymously anyway through your institution (which has a subscription). So even if they watermark (and I don't think they do), they can only watermark the institution.
"on maybe the most popular mobile OS on earth"

You can't be the most popular if your competitor's market share is ~85%.

https://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/os
Sublime Text is, to me, much more modern and useful than vim.
In the Chrome console you can right click elements in the sources tab and select Copy > Copy XPath.

For example, your comment:

//*[@id="15541111"]/td/table/tbody/tr/td[3]/div[2]
The issue is that this only really works with small towns that are extremely densely populated. This falls short for much of the US whose towns are extremely spread out and sparsely populated.
It does if the new units surpass demand, even in the short term. If there are 5k available units but there is demand for 15k over the next 90 days, of course building 1500 won't affect prices much, if at all. You need to build until there is some vacancy, then landlords are forced to lower rent to prevent their units from being vacant, unless they have the means to hold out for someone who really wants that particular location.
'Stranger Things' addict? Here’s how Netflix sucked you in
LXML itself is, the problem is that its HTML parser (libxml's really) is an ad-hoc "HTML4" parser which means the tree it builds routinely diverges from a proper HTML5 tree as you'd find in e.g. your browser's developer tools and the way it fixes (or whether it fixes it at all) markup is completely ad-hoc and hard to predict.
what differentiates a real estate investor from a speculator?
I've been working with 'Watson' products for a while now and 'nothing came out of it' is an overstatement. They have some interesting products that have useful applications in business, however their marketing just doesn't align with their portfolio. They use so many buzz-words to get C-level hyped, but they never manage to live up to the promises. If you manage expectations there are some really interesting opportunities though, but never groundbreaking.
NEOM: New Saudi Mega City Will Have a $500B Price Tag
I was just a kid, but as far as I remember the transition to LCD brought worse colour not better. To be clear, i'm not talking about early professional colourists LCD displays that were £5000 or whatever. Surely everyone is familiar with those horrible TN panels in laptops... desktop LCDs used the same tech once.
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15536481
Are there any "solid" vendors?
A large portion of the cost of high performance hearing aids today is not not the hearing aids themselves, its the overheads of the local office which are amortized over very few local customers. Generally, the cost of a high performance device is around $300-500 to an audiologist. This is why online companies, like https://www.embracehearing.com (full disclosure, this is my father's company), are able to sell high end hearing aids for about 1/3 of the price of retail.
Interesting.

The economic and environmental rationales are compelling.

After reading this, I'm wondering if the prohibition of private vehicles will be unavoidable in the future for large, densely populated areas with growing populations.
This is one of those things like discovering ^r that’s going to change my life.
I use 3M ClearE-A-R (UF01021), they're transparent and cost about 3€ for a reusable, washable pair on Amazon Germany. It does change the sound but I think that's inevitable (EDIT: for this price range, at least)
Why should abstract things like a futures contract be investable, while "real" things like houses shouldnt?

I guess the government should recommend bitcoin investing to everyone since its not real and nobody is affected?
Digital diploma FAQ, http://web.mit.edu/registrar/records/certs/digital_faqs.html
An alternative phrasing could be:

> In Scandinavia, hearing aids (with a lifetime supply batteries) are supplied without additional cost as part of the national health care program.
I wrote a Clojure library that facilitates writing this sort of scripts in a relatively robust way:

https://github.com/nathell/skyscraper
Time Travelers of World War I
How can you say that for a city like Tokyo?

Yes, the US has a problem with sprawling cities and suburbs, driving is part of the culture but it's a myth that it only works for small cities, one that I've seen repeated here and on reddit far too many times.
It was unclear to me what the impossibility is that is referred to by the article, but it appears to be the exponential nature of the required storage for the simulation:

> Simulating anything more than 49 qubits on a classical computer was thought impossible because of the limited memory classical computers have compared to their quantum counterparts. Because of the difference between classical and quantum computing, each time you add a qubit to a simulation it increases the necessary memory exponentially in the classical simulation.

If true, then the jump from a simulation of 49 to 56 was clearly not impossible in the first place.

Following some links, the term "impossibility" is first introduced by the New Scientist, but it's not backed up by anything substantial, as far as I can tell.
Crossref doesn't do anything at all in relation to SciHub or watermarking PDFs. We don't host content. (I'm happy to talk about what we do do, but it's off-topic)

Sorry if my disclaimer wasn't clear. I was just pointing out affiliation as standard on HN.
You can if you mean "most popular" in terms of customer satisfaction - http://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...
I’d advise removing the first paragraph. It’ll trigger some readers into rolling their eyes and leaving
Places like Singapore are an isolated incidents. They have nowhere else to grow (unless they want to reclaim land from the ocean sort of what seoulites did with Songdo).
A recent Twitter discussion/checklist on attracting a community as a maintainer:

https://twitter.com/sehurlburt/status/921921604140937216
I am just getting into web scraping and have also been using Selenium with either Firefox or PhantomJS. Is there a better way to handle the javascript heavy sites? I found one library called dryscraping but haven't had the time to look too deep into it.
I can see how wires can sometimes be problematic and I don't disagree with you. You can easily avoid most issues by having the cable under some of your clothes though.

My point is I don't think people can have an extreme opinion on the issue and still be objective, like I have seen so much online lately. Sometimes wires are better, sometimes wireless is better.
I am not advocating that one should man up, quite the opposite. Ignoring health issues is a recipe for disaster, and no amount of short term gains in respect should be worth it.

The best I can advocate for is shared sympathy. Not only for the physical and mental pains, but also for the massive amount of economical trouble it brings. Studies on income difference between groups with different health status is massive and dwarfs anything which gender studies generally find. That should bring people together in common cause rather than splitting us up based on gender, race, religions or other extrinsic attribute.
Well, it was posted to /r/PuertoRico, so the abbreviation is pretty unambiguous within that context. It should have been expanded when posting this to HN, though.
When I had a choice, I used Fedora + XFCE for a long time, then Xubuntu. I've been on Windows 10 since it came out, and it's been incredibly liberating not to constantly have to think about my OS and Google my way through its quirks and bugs.

It also takes about 20 seconds to disable all animations in Windows, which makes it feel as snappy as XFCE (even on my 5-year-old machine).

For what I do now (Office, email, programming using IDE hooked into Docker containers), it really doesn't hinder me to be on a non-*nix OS.
Aside from the common dislike for AMP centralising everything on Google's servers, I also dislike AMP links for the same reason I dislike mobile links to sites when I'm using a desktop PC.

The AMP versions usually lose formatting and links, and are designed to be read on a small mobile screen. I'd rather have the full version when I have a big screen available.
There was a very interesting little side note in John Regehr's recent CppCon talk[1] on undefined behavior: Apparently, C11 added language that forbids compilers from eliding side-effect free infinite loops if they're of the form `while (<constant expression>)` but not other loop forms. C++ has not yet adopted this language, but it might in the future.

A strange choice by the committee I'd be interested in reading more about.

[1] https://youtu.be/v1COuU2vU_w?t=2327
There are plenty of instances of big-name publishers sending nastygrams to whole institutions and/or cutting them off for perceived abuse.
PHP 7+ hasn't added that much in terms of new APIs — (e.g. libsodium in 7.2, and it's typical function(target, arguments) stuff). It added strict typing and a very significant bunch of ergonomic/performance changes.

I'd say half the reason to call it a quick evolution is how fast it's being adopted compared with the glacial progress from 5.2 to 5.6, or Python 2 to 3.

Also a third half of the freshness has been adoption of packaging and coding standards.
By caching, I just mean storing of data locally so you don't have to request it again under a certain timeframe. I use my own caching scripts written in Python, if you use a 3rd party library then data deletion does not matter too much either if you configure it properly and backup the data - html/json data compresses really well using lzma2 in 7-zip.
is it possible to downgrade to 10.3 ? I thought you can't do that anymore once you upgrade. I upgraded my old iPad to 10 and the experience is horrible. I wanted to downgrade back to iOS 9 but I can't find a way to do it.
Thanks a lot, and pinning it to help to seed :) `ipfs pin add /ipfs/QmNwcSE8BYQmHSS99dtg2VdAez4uswVkvCssj4Rgce4rLp`
The work is about simulating wide-but-shallow quantum circuits (e.g. 49 qubits with 27 layers of operations, or 56 qubits x 23 layers [edit: HN title much better now]). The article entirely fails to mention the depth restriction. (The paper is very upfront about it: [1].)

Personally, I happen to agree with Scott Aaronson's take [2]:

> The goal, with sampling-based quantum supremacy, was always to target the “sweet spot,” which we estimated at around 50 qubits, where classical simulation is still possible, but it’s clearly orders of magnitude more expensive than doing the experiment itself. If you like, the goal is to get as far as you can up the mountain of exponentiality, conditioned on people still being able to see you from the base. Why? Because you can. Because it’s there. Because it challenges those who think quantum computing will never scale: explain this, punks! But there’s no point unless you can verify the result.

Although doing that and pushing into a regime that no one can simulate until a couple years later sure wouldn't hurt.

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05867

2: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3512
Cloud Storage Price Comparison: S3 vs. Azure vs. DigitalOcean vs. B2 vs. OVH
I've been getting the camera black screen at least since ios9 on 5s and 6s.
The costs of running a vehicle are mostly sunk costs. The capital, license & insurance costs of the car are higher than the marginal costs of gasoline & maintenance. This moves the decision point for vehicle usage to when you buy the car, so loading the costs there too may have some benefit.
Stripe Atlas guides to running an internet business
Ok what did you do with it.
I see a lot of people do this on Facebook. They post a personal story, and their closest friends and family will post dozens of messages of support and sympathy.

What's going to make people want to use your app, where they have no friends or family? Why is it a native app at all, when it could be a website?
Not the OP but I guess his main argument was the part about densely populated vs sparsely populated towns/cities.
Sorry but I am going to complain again about modules. I mean I'm inches from making a petition so that compiler vendors can agree on something and move on. This would make the language much more attractive for new users, reduce compile time, etc.

Please!
They are popular amongst people that don’t know of other options. Meal replacements have been around since forever. Every grocery store out there carries Slimfast, for example. Abbott and Labrada Labs, amongst many others, also make them.

IMO Soylent tastes gross, too. Kind of like soggy cereal.
RING OF FIRE: Indonesia hit by huge 6.7 earthquake- just MILES from Bali volcano
Love the irony on that!
Which makes me wonder how much valuable content and research in locked away on technologically ancient servers in Cambridge and Oxford.
c++(19)98 was the first c++ standard. There was a minor update in 2003 to fix the most obvious defects. The next standard was c++11. If it felt stuck in the 2000s, it's because it was stuck in the 2000s. And it wasn't just Windows/Microsoft - To this day, gcc 4 (-std=c++0x if you want some c++11 features) is the standard compiler for many Linux sites.
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That's an example of what I meant by "cultural dialect": I learned C in the context of the Unix sources so for(;;) was the canonical way to make an infinite loop. People who came from other "cultures" (e.g. Pascal, like many Mac programmers) used loop constructs common to them.

And it's not like I don't use 'while' -- in a bash script it looks normal to me -- it's just I would never even think to use one in C or C++. And when I read it it looks weird to me.
Actually... I hate the implication that learning can be helped by videos... I see VERY little written content... Especially for engineering and physics...
Ask HN: What's your best career advice for fresh employees?
Those who have 10+ years of experience, besides hard work and showing up on time, What's your secret to succeed in the corporate world?
How do you guys manage masking the IP address when you want to scrape using your python script?
> After Google left us Nexus 6P (and 5X) users out to rot, I won't be buying into their next hobby

Are there any phones that are actually supporting by Google or any Android maker that actually are suppported for several years? Seems like they all get abandoned after a year.
Well said.

In my experience, model interpretation is an undervalued skill. In most environments you need models that are both accurate and interpretable.
Not many. Aside from the US, where I was born, Canada, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Jamaica.

Of those, Mexico is my favorite. I spent almost no time in Canada so I can't say much about it, except Vancouver was nice.

Belize was ok, but I've no desire to return. It felt too tense there. Guatemalans were very friendly and I really enjoyed my short time there, but the border patrol there were just assholes for no reason. Jamaica is beautiful, but I felt like nothing but a target for hustlers there and made no "friends" there.

Growing up in the US we get the idea that Mexico is full of poor people who are all banditos but I could live there and be happy.
That is something you have to enable, if you need to respect some bandwidth restriction.

> The codec optionally permits a "hybrid" coding scheme for applications where average and/or peak compressed data rates must be capped at a constrained level. This involves the dynamic application of a form of "near lossless" coding – but only for those short sections of audio where completely lossless coding cannot respect the bandwidth constraints. Even for those short periods while the "near lossless" coding is active, high-definition audio quality is maintained, retaining audio frequencies up to 20 kHz and a dynamic range of at least 120 dB.
America has a monopoly problem
Well, they explained it a couple of paragraphs later.

The previous record, a 45-bit quantum simulation, took 500 Terabytes of memory. I assume there's some sort of terrible exponential increase that would have made 49-bit simulations require four orders of magnitude more, or something impractical. But this one did 56 bits with just 4.5 terabytes of memory.

All seems pretty clear.
I don't know if it's the same as the Bose "Hearphones", but my Sennheiser PXC550 have what Sennheiser call a TalkThrough mode. It pauses the music (if it's playing) and uses the microphones to let through sounds on the wavelengths of speech. If you combine it with noise cancelling, it definitely makes it easier to hear people in noisy environments. Looks weird to talk with over-ear headphones on, though. To be honest it feels a bit creepy to hear what people say while it looks to them like you're listening to music and can't hear them.
Are you sure success in the corporate world is what you want?
Without arguing for or against repatriation taxes, I don't think it is true that "The US government hasn't supported that income."
Less well played: Ctrl+w

Granted this does happen a lot on all other sites when typing but being in a terminal much instantly triggered it.