skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We used to have all our utilities work offline for decades and they work like they are supposed to. Issues were fixed during R&D by analysing every situation that might break the product.

Now, every company wants to collect data or they say the product will not function properly. All of them now needs to access internet for convenience. In a decade, our own belongings will say, I will not work unless you update me.
Can you point to anything in particular? I can't find any examples of them doing this recently. I saw something from 2008 but since then they have likely realized they would open themselves up to anticompetitive claims if they continued.
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Or, you know, simply use soap and water in a small bucket, which is much less likely to be inhaled and will smell much better. Sometimes just water will work. You can also steam clean with plain water. These will clean most things, including windows if you use a squeegee. Simply wiping with water will make things appear clean, and magic erasers (soap free) can be used for stubborn stains.

Tubs and showers aren't generally a problem if you rinse and squeegee after you are done. Curtains are a pain, but doors are similar. Plain dishsoap takes off soap scum.
Related startup: http://www.pacmed.ai/en/
Love atlas obscura.
Wouldn't it be easier to simply not use harsh chemicals most places?
This was one of the early areas of AI research, which seems to have gone nowhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin
With state surveillance, I'd agree. I don't think things are so clear cut for private sector actors. Private CCTV is tolerated because it's a) typically not a networked system, b) rarely mined for analytics and c) often conflated with council run systems anyway.
Agile Is Dead (2015) [pdf]
I do. Server bills for something like this are incredibly low -- I might throw in a 'donate' button or charge a small amount for premium features in the future but in the meantime I'm happy just to have people using it.
This article is absolutely rubbish. It is using "processed" as a pejorative, without any explanation as to why processed is bad or why this fake meat movement is so bad. It seems to pander mostly to hard-core vegetarians/vegans for them to feel superior.

Processed foods can be very bad because too much salt and sugar and the removal of fibers, but afaik Quorn and similar fake meats don't suffer from that problem.
My assumption is smurf auto hellbaning.
My perception before and after reading this article is that the Chinese scientific establishment's strength has been making advances that rely on resource investment (e.g. China's dominance of various "biggest supercomputer"-type records), but that the restrictive political climate hinders their ability to attract good scientists.
Genuinely hope you guys find an alternative that works, but authoritarianism is not much of an alternative. There's part of me that worries that China is going to end up exploiting those countries.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2014/05/chin...
I believe he was referencing material capital as opposed to liquid capital (ie money). It would be fair to say the US not too long ago had a big headstart on existing technology/machines.

In any case, I think China's cohesion can easily be seen just by looking at the differences in papers being published in china vs the west.

For instance, you won't find many if any papers in china on the effects of diversity within society and the workplace. Unlike here, they don't seem to be urgently researching in this area.
lol, yes.

They became successful after getting more individualist.
Thanks for this article.

Make me wonder... What happen to projects that apache incubator retire like this one?
Bros like women. So any activity where there is 90%+ women is clearly part of the bro culture.

It makes perfect sense!
Oh I just got a linked to this. Thanks. Can u share a screenshot so I can look into this. It's SSL only site with a Jekyll render, and I host it on app engine.. so should be alright. Thank you
So? With studies like this, we can have less of this sort of death or at least minimize it and do things better, just like we have in the past.
Why is the guy with an iPhone X a more desirable customer than a guy with an iPhone 4S?
When Calling an Uber Can Pay Off for Cities and States
I just have this[0], which is a list of the substitutions. You can either make it a sty file, or just stuff it in the preamble, or template.

Some of these are suboptimal. But you can just change them, and make your own.

[0]: http://lpaste.net/362623
I’m not in love with everything about systemd but I’ve noticed that about 90% of the attacks sound to an experienced sysadmin more like the person making the claim has never encountered/ understood the need for that particular feature. Many people will talking lovingly about SysV init without any mention of the many things people did to hack around limitations or the downtime suffered because they didn’t.

(Yeah, it’s not perfect but the rough parts can be improved and I’m looking forward to standardization meaning we never talk about daemonization, automatic restarts, or logging again)
In my experience it is a uniquely Anglo-Saxon phenomenon. Doesn't happen over here at all. The news tries to maintain a modicum of seriousness, even if the last few years it has also gone down the internet outrage and tumblr politics route.
It's not just the notifications. I don't like how they require a number for SMS fallback when TOTP is set up.

SMS for 2FA is insecure and I specifically do not want to use it, I only want TOTP. And yet, every single code I generate on my authenticator also gets sent to my SMS number.

It's incredibly annoying. Anyone from Facebook who worked on/with this care to comment?
I wonder if the title is intentional. The "great leap forward" was a failed economic and social policy where the communists decided to fast forward development by skipping directly to industrialization. It didn't quite work and tens of millions of people died of famine as a result.

What the article actually says, is that China is investing a lot in basic science. What is true is that while the quality of research per researcher in China is not that high, the sheer investment and focus coupled with quantity has led to a lot of scientific progress.

My father is part of that thousand research program to lure specialists back to China. Having seen how he works in China compared to Australia, what the real advantage China has for researchers is that they give virtual free reign and all the resources needed (read: $$$, labs and all the grad students you want) to conduct research.

For those who've never worked in academia, even though there is more academic freedom outside of China, there are whole loads of red tape (mostly well-intentioned) that slow things down. For example, at Princeton, any social science experiment involving people requires a panel to approve the ethics. A similar experiment in a Chinese university does not have the same requirements. Even if they did on paper, it would not be as rigorous.

The same goes for expenditures. I remember my father complaining years ago about how for an Australian research project, spending research money on a special type of computer required additional approval even though the money for research was already granted. That's not the case in China.

The net effect is that shockingly enough, the Chinese have managed to create almost a startup-like sandbox environment for researchers. In fields, particularly biotech, where there are ethical, and other red-tape considerations, the Chinese have an edge in producing results faster.

Of course, this just means to get one cloned monkey, hundreds of independent teams mostly likely inhumanely murdered many multiples of monkeys to get to this result.

What is important is to realize that for the Chinese, this sort of Stanlinist "only the results matter" approach is perfectly acceptable, if not encouraged. Most people would balk at the ethical and human cost, I know I do, but there is no doubt that it provides an advantage to Chinese scientists over those in the developed world. Multiply in the sheer number of Chinese scientists and you have results. Progress at any cost.
So, I dove into this a bit (as a professor in a related discipline but who doesn't study weight) and had some heated conversations with researchers in this and related areas. My impression is that those studies are controversial because they "define away" diet effects.

They often engage in a bit of semantic game-playing about the meaning of the term "diet."

The problem is a lot of the "diets don't work" conclusions are based on very strict assumptions about "diet" meaning "telling people to just lower their calorie intake" or "telling people not to eat certain foods." They don't necessarily mean giving strategies for lifestyle changes, or ways to avoid increased calorie intake, or replacements.

As a concrete example, one researcher I spoke to is a very publicly prominent advocate that "diets don't work," and gave a talk I attended. She was discussing studies of weight loss and was explaining how studies that instructed participants to do things like use smaller plates (to change perspective on how much food is being consumed) or strategies for coping with parties, etc. were not "diet" studies because they did more than just tell participants to diet out of sheer willpower.

So, in effect, diets, if they are defined as just telling people to lower intake, and nothing else, don't work. However, if you support them, and give them alternative behaviors or foods, or strategies for lowering intake, they do work.

What also became clear to me, and which people on this forum are maybe pointing out, is that there's also a lot of gamesmanship in these papers about individual trends and what counts as a control group. There are in fact people who do reliably lose weight on diets (you can see it in their individual-level-data graphs), but their trends are often explained away by switching controls ad hoc.

I was left very frustrated by these studies, because it wasn't clear to me why these researchers wouldn't be promoting the strategies, etc. more, or advocating more for understanding why people who lose weight on diets do lose that weight, to gain strategies. I got the impression they were trying to be sensationalistic or something, to gain attention, by trying to sound counter-intuitive.

As a side note, I've worked in bariatric clinics, and I can say from my experiences there they have their own brand of burying side effects and defining outcomes in such a way as to achieve success (for example, by only selecting "appropriate" individuals for surgery).
Just read your profile, sounds really interesting!
Can you talk about it? I would love to hear more!
> pressure for long periods of time

The key factor to me is that the pressure has to be periodic, or cyclical, so everyone knows there will be a point where it eases off a bit. Rhythms like this are built into pretty much all aspects of biological systems, and human constructs which better reflect them are, I think, more likely to be successful.

Someone mentioned a professional sports team vs. 'family' analogy elsewhere here, and while I'm not much of a sports guy the analogy seems like a good one. Pro teams have plenty of down time built into their yearly patterns.
Sorry about that! Just squashed a bug related to this -- could you please send an email to hello@findkismet.com if it happens again or you see anything else strange happening?
I thought that it's much easier to get in serious trouble for speaking politically unacceptable things in China? I suppose everybody just knows it and stays shut, while in the US the notion of free speech periodically leads people to an unpleasant discovery that going against the grain of the established narrative is very much unwelcome.
For avoiding wifi tracking I suggest Smarter Wifi Manager [0]. It's great for automatically keeping wifi off when not at home/work.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.kismetwire...
A network engineer would just sigh and get to working with the partner or 3rd party to confirm this isn't a network related issue.
To be clear, I’m not calling Clojure 1-indexed: I provided “nth” and “first” as examples of contrasting 0- and 1-based conventions; in this case within the same language.
> anti-China comments in any such article is driven by fear (possibly at a subconscious level) that the Chinese model actually works.

Lol sure it works....until you're one of the citizen being tortured by the government. I can't believe how greedy these scientists are. As if Einstein should have worked for the Nazis.

"China 'holding at least 120,000 Uighurs in re-education camps'"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/25/at-least-12000...

"In China, the Brutality of ‘House Arrest’"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/opinion/in-china-the-brut...

"Liu Xiaobo, Chinese Dissident Who Won Nobel While Jailed, Dies at 61"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/world/asia/liu-xiaobo-dea...

"Report: China still harvesting organs from prisoners at a massive scale"
https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/asia/china-organ-harvesting/i...
I don't think it's the political climate. China isn't a particularly immigrant-friendly country, so the scientists they're going to attract are mostly going to be Chinese expats in the West... most of which aren't nearly as troubled by the CCP as typical Westerners are. In my experience, the bigger issues keeping Chinese expats away are QoL issues--air pollution, standard of living, etc.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA

“remember, base 8 is just like base 10, really, if you’re missing two fingers. Now, anyone who gets this right can stay after class and help clean the erasers...”
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Discussion about the 6.0 release from 18 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16273046 (156 comments)
China’s historical attempts at strong forms of collectivism universally resulted in poverty, starvation, and an absence of societal progress. Read about the history of Chinese capitalist SEZs and how they propped up and formed the model for the modern Chinese economy.
> Where does the author live that they think the “prevailing food paradigm” is vegan?

It's easy to think so. Try this very comment thread. Try talking about meat eating at your next big-city cocktail party. Yes, vegetarian/vegan evangelists are probably just a lot louder than everybody else, but that doesn't mean it isn't working for them.
Photons travelling through fiber are still traveling at 300,000 km/s. It's just that they bounce of walls making their path longer and much more importantly than that, the medium is denser. Speed of light through glass is ~2e5 km/s, but photons are still travelling at 3e5 km/s. It's just that they hit atoms, energy gets absorbed and re emitted and so on. But photons always move at 3e5 km/s. The speed of light, that is the speed of a photon, is a constant.
kiallmacinnes already mentioned that rate limits have no effect on renewals, but more importantly: There's a fairly simple process to bump rate-limits if your use-case requires it[1].

[1]: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSetFLqcyPrnnrom2Kw8...
Take a look at this (Finnish language) Facebook group. It's for "chips/crisps and beer vegans". I really like this approach of "owning it" as a response to the kind of muddled attacks in the article.
I don't remember the details, but on a previous article on wooden skyscapers, it was explained how the engineering of the wood, which is also required for the necessary structural strength, made it very dense and practically incombustible. Fire proofing is an inherent quality, not something that's applied and thus could be done poorly.

IIRC.
What makes macrophages the "most primitive part of the immune system"? How about antimicrobial peptides, which are simpler and evolved earlier?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_peptides
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Because it was only chinese that died and we westerners don't empathize with chinese as much?

I know that's a bit offensive, but as you said you would see a headline about the holocaust on poverty, or the genocide of african rape or the shoa of fake shekels?

But what about the holodomor on corruption? Does that sound like it could get past a non-ukrainian editor?
Doesn't ARM already have some crypto acceleration instructions on their chips? Aren't algorithms like AES done on smart cards? I've never heard of power requirements for cryptography being a real problem on modern processors. This seems like a solution in search of a problem.
Maybe, but in my case it would not be a valid assumption.
The idea that vegetarians/vegans need to be "counting amino acids" is a myth - any reasonable diet containing grains and legumes will give sufficient protein. For example rice and beans, chickpeas and bread, lentils and pasta. They don't even need to be consumed at the same time, the body doesn't care as long as grains and legumes are consumed at some point. Even better if you throw in some vegetables and nuts, you've got a balanced healthy diet without needing to count anything.
I think you misread the comment you're replying to.
Show HN: Chomper – An Internet Blocker for Linux
There used to be a way to turn in off before High Sierra, now the only thing you can do is delete the local snapshots. [0]

[0] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/solution-reclaim-storag...
The guardian to the right? I mean, can they even admit that current immigration policies in the UK are problematic? Last time I tried reading a piece they couldn't seem to get over that hurdle, and that's turning out to be a pretty centrist view point in europe currently.
> Internationally recognised leader in timber engineering, Equilibrium Consulting, provided expertise on structural matters.
>the analogy seems like a good one

It is but it's probably also extreme in the context of how most companies are/should be managed.

Having a bit of an off-year because you're having some trouble getting on the same page as the new quarterback or whatever. Well, nice to know you, but we're trading you. "It's just business." Hope things work out.

Mind you, some occupations are pretty much like that. Sales jobs in particular are pretty ruthlessly results-oriented. Miss your numbers a couple of times even though it's because of some external factor you may not have control over and you're probably looking at the door.
When it acts as a very occasional mental salve in the face of undue stress?
EURUSD: Biased to the Upside but with Caution
VMware Fusion supports High Sierra as guest including APFS. I was under the impression that Parallels does the same. Not sure about Virtual Box though.
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I could never go without Notational Velocity. It's worth more than the whole OS.
Government spending is not manna from heaven. It comes from broader society. The US, as a society, has a much greater starting resource base as compared to China. We're just squandering these resources.
> magical quality

Taste, cravings, satiety etc. are based on evolved heuristics. Heavily processed food can fool those heuristics (and is engineered to do just that), while whole foods can't.

The "magic" therefore is that it's a lot safer to eat whole foods.
Containers solve this nicely; developers are free to use their language's package manager to build container images which the user can manage via a single interface. Of course, this means you often have more duplicate code on your disk and the update model changes, but that's alright for me.
I'm sad that JSONSelect (https://github.com/lloyd/JSONSelect) never caught on. It uses CSS selectors to query JSON, which has the nice side effect that learning to use it improves your CSS as well!
Like others mentioned, it's marketing fluff. The use of future tense and "in the near future" already makes it clear.

And they have (drum roll) an equivalent of the FICO score! It uses "advanced machine learning algorithms"!

There's really nothing related to privacy or societal implications, it's an advertorial. I don't understand why it went past the radar of MIT Technology Review.

A bigger question from me, is China really that advanced? I hold a neutral position on this, but am now seeing a consistent pattern of articles hyping Chinese cookie-cutter tech (or stuff which is bigger) sounding like Cold War era Soviet propaganda. If they really had some kind of grandiose tech achievements, why bother with this?
Not to mention the conditions that Chickens are often raised in.
I don't have an answer for you, but I 100% support your journey. I've made the move from full time gigs to 20~ hours a week upper bound of consulting / freelancing and I couldn't ever see myself going back. Good luck!
As a math teacher (Algebra II), I think this would be great. The problem is that most of my students won't go home and watch the videos. Either because they can't (lack of internet access, have to work to help support family, etc.) or are just lazy and won't. I've had to quit giving homework, even to the upper level classes, because nobody would do it. They'd just come in the next day and make excuses and have nothing done. This includes when they're homework was just to watch videos explaining problems they missed on a standardized test they took. Most just refused to watch the videos at home. It'd be great if they would watch the lectures and then be able to practice in the hour I see them daily, asking questions to clarify and such. But I can guarantee you it won't happen without a huge shift in the culture of education.
Bad reporting?

It does a pretty good job explaining what was analyzed in the study. It talks about negative results (i.e. no effect in men, no COPD), and at the end of the article it discusses the limitations.

It is a Eureka report--It's a press release that I think is usually written by the researchers themselves or the University.

Is the science valid? Maybe, maybe not. But I do not perceive this as bad reporting
Chomper is an internet blocker for helping prevent procrastination/mindless web surfing. It's in the same vein as Cold Turkey (https://getcoldturkey.com/) or SelfControl (https://selfcontrolapp.com/).

However, neither of these programs support Linux, and the only similar program hasn't been developed in over 7 years (http://svn.jklmnop.net/projects/SelfControl.html). So, I wrote Chomper. Any feedback is appreciated, but what's most useful is if you try installing it and tell me if you like it!
I have no way to check the relative number of papers about diversity published in China, but they do at least collect statistics. E.g. here is data compiled by the Ministry of Education, which is tabulated for categories such as gender, minority status or age: http://en.moe.gov.cn/Resources/Statistics/edu_stat_2016/2016...
Schnitzler syndrome, whilst rare, is well known to dermatologists and is in the differential diagnosis of chronic urticaria (hives). Not to take away from the resident that made the diagnosis but if the patient had been seen by a dermatologist I would be surprised if this would have been missed.
The author addresses the ten year gap in an interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross: https://www.npr.org/2018/02/14/585719252/long-haul-trucker-w...

Relevant section is towards the end, about 80% of the way through.