skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Maps are intentionally offset in China to comply with regulations because the global version doesn't have a license to operate in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Google_Maps_in_Chi...

Apple Maps in China uses Autonavi maps which are licensed by the Chinese government. Note that these maps are different than the maps seen in Apple Maps outside of Mainland China.

Google and Facebook weren't blocked using your Hong Kong sim because roaming sims tunnel data out of the country and connect to the internet there (like a vpn!).
> much slower than a gas stove

There ya go right there! Electric stoves are "slow" to heat up and "slow" to change temperatures. You're used to the gold standard :)
>I think most people who buy this product aren't interested in pressure cookers at all, instead they're specifically getting an Instant Pot. And while technically they may be the same, the customers don't necessarily perceive it that way.

I don't know how deliberate it was but de-emphasizing its pressure cookerness was a smart move. A lot of people still associate "pressure cooker" with "explosions" and, even if they know intellectually they're not really dangerous, they'll still move on to the next item.

As others have said, the price is also quite reasonable--in fact, a lot of stovetop pressure cookers cost more. $100-ish is around the point where a lot of people will take a flyer on something and won't be too put out if it starts gathering dust after a few months.
I (accidentally!) had the misfortune of torturing the cat in the apartment directly above mine, many moons ago.

I had built myself a simple modem for packet radio (ham radio; very slow modem for use on shortwave bands), and wanted to test it. However, I was at home, and at the time I used either the HF station I had installed at my office in the university or the one at the radio club down the hill.

Heck, I'd only try some local comms, anyway. I got an old transmitter out of a cabinet and strung up a dipole antenna under the ceiling in the living room. I tied one end to the curtain rack either end of the room, called the radio club, agreed on a frequency, and off I went.

When I keyed the transmitter, I could hear a commotion starting upstairs. It died down, and I didn't think more of it. After a while, new commotion.

Next day, I met the occupant of the apartment above at the mailboxes; she said her cat had acted up last night - running around the living room like it had the devil on its back.

Turned out it had a metal collar, and loved to snooze on the floor right under the window, as the radiator on the wall below the window made it real warm and cozy there.

When I keyed the transmitter, I basically had a very high RF voltage at the end of the antenna - and the cat, whose collar was a mere few centimeters away, got enough of a current induced in it for the cat to go ballistic. Poor thing.
Yes, this. Of all the times I watched the price of bitcoin for the past 5 months closely, more closely than I watched my cursor in VSCode suck my laptop battery away. At first I noted a trend, where at 6 AM PST I would be able to make a buy and get out by 10 AM. I kept telling myself that its the new yorkers that got OUT because they were worried about the Pacific coasters waking up. Then the time shifted the next day, and I lost my "daily" shirt (the max I would promise to lose that day).

Over time I noticed these periods of a week or so where the price would then become a bear market. And it was so easy to blame it on Dimon or some other Wal street junkie that said Bitcoin was doomed.

Then these stopped lining up. Then some ICOs got pumped. Ether tanked while Bitcoin blew up. I started to think how unglued it all became from anything that Coindesk was saying. Coindesk always ended their prediction with "But if it ends up less than X then Y will happen" Basically making it so that hey, there's a chance this will happen instead and this is the secret clue. But nothing was lining up, it started to feel like the perfect storm where you know extremely experienced investors could lure the masses into pushing tones of coin after a large drop. Even with 1000 people rushing in after a 15% drop in the price that day, the week before the 15% drop meant the price was going to rocket. Not this week, this time, the price is going to drop another 10% the next day.

Finally 3 days later, an amount of time that didn't coincide with ANY news and the price finally rose. By now most of those 1000 people had already cut their loses, but it was too late, whoever was jacking the price around already took their gains. And who cares about those 1000 people - the price is rocketing again.

So I left when BTC was around 4.5k. I should have listened that you have to be in the long game. But even so, I absolutely agree with this article - the price is being controlled by some group - some secret group of well placed investors that have a set of companies that run bots across all exchanges. They will continue to do this forever because unlike a stock, a government can never control a crypto currency. It would require all governments to coordinate and make the same set of rules. It can all be subverted if one exchange can live outside of those rules.
Creating a branch doesn't check it out by default. To do both at once, it's either "checkout -b" or "branch -c", I forget which because it's "b c" in Magit.
> Oh shit, I did something terribly wrong, please tell me git has a magic time machine!?!

Shouldn't it be easy for Git to remove objects created after a given time, and then remove all objects that refer to those objects iteratively?
I guess this could be fun depending on how much you liked your neighbors.

I had something like this happen once that was interesting. We had recently got a Simple Human automatic soap dispenser and had it sitting in the kitchen by the sink. I was bored and started playing with a small RC helicopter and kept hearing a weird noise but didn't know where it was coming from.

For whatever reason, every time I would throttle up on the controller it would trigger the the dispenser to dispense soap as if someone had stuck their hand under the sensor. I ended up finding a large puddle of soap in the sink and then it clicked as to what the noise was.
Turns out lucking into a fortune doesn't magically make you an expert in everything, who knew?
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It's still on master because `git branch` just creates and doesn't do checkout.

(Which is why I've almost exclusively switched to `git checkout -b <newbranch>` for creating. How often do I want to create but not switch to the branch?)
I’ve been very happy doing my bitcoin trading through ETFs and equities in Charles Schwab.

Not sure if the upside is as strong but it’s definitely skyrocketed multiples times in the past few weeks without any of the “hassle” of bitcoin trading.
System tuning is largely dependent on workload and use case. You can't just give a generic advice like this.
I think a laptop with a server-grade ARM processor would be a lot of fun.
> "If all of your business logic is in the stored procedures, what are you actually testing?"

Depends on what you want to test. Can either write unit tests for the stored procedures or unit tests for the code that makes use of those stored procedures.
As I have occasionally worked with geodetic coordinate conversions in the past, that GCJ-02 datum sounds like an incredibly bad idea.

The worst accidental mistake I have ever made with respect to geodetic coordinates, relating to accumulating floating-point round-off errors, absolutely pales in comparison to the sheer idiocy of introducing errors into your geodetic datum on purpose.

Look, people, satellite photography exists now. That objective reality maps really well onto a coordinate systems based on a smooth ellipsoid. If you intentionally make your domestically-produced map products harder to use for people in your own country, they will buy better maps from other countries. If your goal is to make your 50 most important military assets harder to find, and in the process make it harder to find a billion civilian assets, you're going to lose more money just paying all those delivery drivers to get lost for 20 minutes than it would cost to rebuild those 50 military assets 10 times over.
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Agreed, I will probably end up doing the same.

I swear I can taste thai curry in the last batch of yogurt I made.
Plus the fact that to a person with cash difficulties going to their 401k to get money wouldn’t be easy. Even if you can find someone to help you they’re going to mail you a cheque some time in the future. Hence the success of pay day loan operations that are more than happy to help you out with that immediate $500 emergency.
> I'd rather have the server reboot than have some random process crash and leave the system in a potentially broken state.

Set the OOM killer to trigger a reboot? Crawling to a swapping halt is the worst of both worlds, it's like a full system crash but the server never comes back.
ORM isn't a query builder and that's not related to learn or not SQL.
Microsoft has SQL Server Data Tools which can be integrated into your favorite SCM (we use VSTS but we'll switch to Git soon), can have automated deploys (which we don't) and in general can be a part of a modern development lifecycle.
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That reminded me of an iOS quirk that thankfully has since been resolved.

A few years ago I used "Find my iPhone" to chase down my phone in the house, buried under some pile or another. Unfortunately I had earlier been using AirPlay to play music through remote speakers, so of course the emergency tone played through the speakers, not the device.
"which provides a RMB 100,000 discount on the purchase price of the ES8" => about $15k, or just over 6 years of ownership.

It looks like the original cnbc article is even more wrong about this, describing it as a charging plan when it's just a lease on the battery.
What is personality except a set of cognitive biases? The narratives we use to inform our perceptions, influence the priority of memories/associations, and inspire future decisions are as much our own making as they aren't. If there is friction between views of personality because one group prefers to look at innateness and another looks at influences - and intelligence doesn't seem to determine which group you're in - what other indicator of personality differences do you really need? For me it plugs into that external/internal locus of control stuff, messy as some of the research/conceptions of it are.

I'm of the opinion that most views we think we hold 'philosophically' are, well, personality tendencies expressed formally.

It all gets a lot easier to conceive if one doesn't assume there is such a thing as a unified self, just a bunch of modules our self-describing narrative inhabits depending on what the environment asks for at the time. Specifically 'training your pre-frontal cortex' seems easier to me than 'becoming a more organised person'. Sorry if that seems a little rambly/obscure.
This was my thought after seeing the Pulp Fiction example. The Uma image is iconic, and a lot of work has been done to get it littered around big box stores and plastered on dorm room walls. Using a different image ignores the strength of that brand.
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Seems to be the perfect place for a government to step in.
Tit for tat tends to work really well.

The west is in a vastly better position to exploit a trade war with China than China is. Thus, China is more likely to back down when pushed.

Remember, a little give and take keeps players honest. Without that their is not reason for China not to try and bend the rules as much as possible.
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> I cook a vegetable stew that lasts 4 or 5 meals, then cook my next vegetable stew for the next 4 or 5 meals, and so on.

I hope you change it up more often than that. Do you get sick of stew all day every day?
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China is on OSM. There is only a measley 383MB of map data though, about the same level of detail as Sweden.

http://download.geofabrik.de/asia/china.html
Maybe something like the TPP without all the corporatist nonsense included.
Everyone is going to compare it to Make, but it's not like Make syntax is ideal or consistent; I can see this being especially useful when using it in part of a pipeline, where maybe the YAML is generated elsewhere.
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So the "fake news" is the "interview" part, but he did make the comments in public?
It may not be intended to be a beginner's tutorial, but it is. Someone who needs to be told about `git commit --amend` and `git diff --staged` also needs to be warned about rewriting history that has been shared with others.
I half expected this to be another IoT thing. The car broadcasting some form of wireless signal when it switches gears for some app integration, and the alarm picking that up.
> Is there a good argument against this?

I think one of the main issues is having a company that has spent millions, sometimes billions of dollars building out their infrastructure. Then you have the government come in, build out a competing infrastructure with tax payers money.

As a business, you're now having to compete with an entity that has unlimited budget resources, can build out wherever they want, grant contracts and favorable leasing options to whichever businesses they want to and quite easily put you out of business.

When you have to compete with a government entity as a business, you will always be at a disadvantage. In essence, governments don't foster competition, they basically do away with it, pick the winners they want to and then monopolize it and push other companies out.
All of the bitcoin craze comes down to this:

Do you know what's behind a fiat currency? A country

What is behind bitcoin? Thin air.

Yes, it is working really good for some people, but the logic behind it is flawed.
probably would, indirectly.
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Agreed. To be fair, though, this is neither new nor limited to Silicon Valley. The most severe case of this attitude that I've encountered during my career was in Ann Arbor thirty years ago. Exploitation of young workers, both high- and low-skill, goes back much further than that. At least I didn't live in a literal company town, or work in a literal sweat shop.
I would take a different lesson: use internally generated ids, not user generated usernames when communicating between services in your backend.
In three years of using git I believe there is a single bad command that I could not undo: `git checkout -- somefile`
The second worst thing I did is losing a commit in a `git rebase -i` but I was able to find it back with `git reflog`.
Which makes me think that git is really well designed.
Don't understand. Friend brought theirs over yesterday, we made tamales and then they cooked them in the pot. Took only 20 minutes! But hey, steaming them in a double boiler takes 40 minutes so that was a savings I guess. If you include the time to pack the tub carefully and program it, maybe it was slower.

And it didn't really 'steam' the tamales. They came out pretty gummy and a little dry. So no fan here.

I'll stick to actually cooking my food thanks.
Who said anything about recovering. First we'll have to determine if upstream is supposed to be used in a rebase workflow or a merge workflow.
I'm a paying user of FastMail and love it for the same reasons you think they're not not worth paying for :-)

Simple, minimal, FAST interface. I want it to just show my email and get out of the way. It is great at it. No fancy animations, no heavy UI actions, very FAST to use. I can happily use it even over a cellular connection without bloat.

Encryption like Protonmail - I wish Protonmail was the E2E encryption tool with convenience, but to me, it is NOT!

- I need to trust their promise not to deliver malicious web encryption code. What good is encryption if I need to trust them blindly?

- As a collateral for this not so great encryption, they can't index my emails - meaning I can't search my emails based on keywords. This regression makes it useless to me.

I pay for FastMail to host my personal email, and if they ever sell my data without my consent, I will look into legal action against them. It'd be a joke to think such a logic with Google.
Using Stranger Than Fiction as an example in this paper rubs me the wrong way, maybe because it also accounts for about a third of the conclusion.

I like that movie, but it doesn't really add anything to the paper and even if it does I feel like this is the equivalent of saying "In Harry Potter a boy finds out he's special and goes on a magical adventure. Can we all find out we are special?"

It's more rhetoric than academic.
I’ve used Maps.me (which uses OSM) with great success in China.
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That explains it with this drug but wouldn't explain why the US just as EpiPen as our one adrenaline injector (in practice) with a single manufacturer while there are a half dozen competing manufacturers.

And if the FDA recognized that Europeans aren't particularly dying off from poor quality medicine and maybe we should allow import of EMA accepted drugs then maybe economies of scale would be less of a problem.
Ah, I figured I was missing something.
yes sure, I'm just asking the question while I'm preparing for announcing, so I'll have some plans in my mind. Otherwise, it is not ready to yet to be announced.
At a guess because then that other manufacturer would undercut the first manufacturers cash cows. In other words: it could easily be a cartel of sorts with some regulatory capture thrown in to ensure the cake stays divided between entrenched parties.

Situations like these should count as evidence that something isn't quite as it should be.
Was this ever not the case? Look into the history of e.g. how marijuana prohibition came about. I think we are just more aware of it today.

History is more of a battle between the haves and the haves than between the haves and the have-nots.
Lots of people made a ton of money transferring Western manufacturing and technology to China.

Most educated Western adults were raised in an environment of well-intended anti-racism propaganda, so are unable to think clearly about any topic that involves race in any way.
All of these endless debates seem to boil down to two different groups who work in two different problem domains talking past each other.

I've personally never seen an ORM lead to success in the long run. But I also work in a space where queries frequently end up involving something that ORMs typically don't handle well: merge statements and pivot statements, window functions, management of the lock escalation policy to fine-tune performance, temp tables... The list is endless.

What I have not ever worked on is a relatively basic CRUD datastore. Which I realize is what most people are using databases for. So at this point, I'm putting my money on ORMs being a hole in one for that application. Because, otherwise, I just can't reconcile a statement like, "99% of the time, an ORM is fantastic" with the reality I'm living in. In my career, 100% of the time, when an ORM was present, it was invariably the single biggest piece of technical debt.
Generating the private key is the easy part; Just 77 rolls with a ten-sided die and re-try if it exceeds the prime. Or 256 coin flips, if you prefer binary.

It is computing the public key that is so hard.
The link is already posted elsewhere in this thread but PG wrote about this a long time ago.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Nope. A lot revolves around them, but there are plenty of ultra-rich ideologues pushing their agenda this way. You can find some good investigative research on this in "Dark Money" by Jane Mayer, which details a lot of the history behind dark money influencing politics, and the ideals these guys are trying to advance.

The Mercers are another influential family she's written about [0]

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-...
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Has anyone found a place where detailed arguments for bitcoin (pros and cons) are laid out? Forums seem to be meme-based (e.g. "HODL") and/or superficial.
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So many people are afraid of gas ranges. It's ridiculous. My wife is literally terrified she'll burn the house down.

Yet we use a giant gas-powered pressure cooker in the basement to take warm showers and somehow that's okay.

We used our gas range even when the power was out, to toast tortillas (that's a bit tricky though, but worked well), and even in a pinch during a multi-day blizzard as an emergency heat source (though it didn't run all night, and was relatively safely monitored, you know, the "don't try this at home, kids").
In microseconds even, if you speak of the most traded stocks (AAPL). Good analysis by the way.
Can you seriously not add a "Change Battery" LED next to it?
You can write more efficient C(++) if you know assembly, even if you don't write anything in assembly.

You can write more efficient python if you know C(++) and the various tradeoffs between data structures, even if you don't write any C++ and don't do any data structure by hand in the current project.

...

You can use an ORM more efficiently if you know SQL. Same thing isn't it?

That assumes the ORM doesn't completely get in the way, of course.
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Isn't that the purpose of diplomats?

"The main functions of diplomats are: representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state; initiation and facilitation of strategic agreements; treaties and conventions; promotion of information; trade and commerce; technology" [1]

Why are we permitting lobbyists to usurp this role?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomat
Apparently the default behavior is for people who just like to know it's there ;)
If anyone has specific knowledge of specifics of self-driving cars I'm working on an article and would love to bounce some questions off of you. My email and GPG key are in my profile.
Seems awesome, definitely will be there !
No mapping, no access to our markets for anything mapping related. Fair's fair!
reddit.com/r/bitcoindiscussion is pretty civil with plenty of well informed people.
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We don't need to make this general comment on every specific Bitcoin thread. A pyramid scheme requires a central actor to run the scheme, Bitcoin has none. This article is specifically about the author's opinion of what "price" and "market cap" mean in the context of Bitcoin.
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The very existence of such guides tells us a lot about how easy to use Git is :)