skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My doubt is that Chinese businesses will be able to produce competitive products that break new ground with markets outside China.

In a political culture that largely will prevent outsiders from participating in business or non-tech academia inside the country (who will want to live/teach inside China, micromanaged by Big Brother's social score — other than the Chinese?), I think China's heavyhanded political leadership of the future will form an insurmountable obstacle against the country's ability to compete in any/all of tomorrow's critical revolutionary exponential multiplier business spaces — the ones that silicon valley startups excel at, that require dynamic multicultural madhouse environs, and that engender future Googles or Apples. Without the freedom and chaos needed for this space to thrive, China will forever relegate its rising business geniuses to pursue mere optimizations of The Next Big Thing, that will be invented where new ideas are free to run amok.

In the not so distant future, China's cut-rate factories distributors and e-tailers will be automated, like everyone else's, and her political stranglehold on the genesis of new ideas will lead to her uncompetitive downfall. That is, if a billion unemployed don't do it first.
My experience has been that confirmation bias is very strong with EO's. What else is in the solution you're using? Its very easy to convince oneself that the EO is the active ingredient when there's so much misinformation on the 'net.

One of my hobbies is herbalism & over a long period of time I've begun to recognize all of the purported benefits of EO's come from other ingredients in whatever is being produced.

That doesn't mean that various herbs don't have active properties however. I've moved on to recognize how useful infused oils can be. (Note: these are of course easy to make yourself, not as easy to produce en mass & keep fresh for regular sale, and don't cost much depending on the oil.)
Juce (GPL unless you pay for a license)
FLTK
Nanogui (simplistic GUI for openGL)
> father of two who seemed rather ordinary

Besides the fact that this language makes trans people not "ordinary", lots of people transition later in life. There are more role models and resources now than ever before, and lots of people take time to feel secure in their identity. My point is there's nothing unusual about transitioning once you have kids, even though it can be harder.

Also, elevated estrogen wouldn't make you transition. If you think you're a man and you start growing breasts you aren't going to say "whoops, I'm a woman now I guess". Transitioning is a hell of a lot more work than just deciding one day, and typically people pre-tra sition have typical hormones for their assigned gender.
The thing to be concerned about is that in going for the full vertical integration play, they have folks worried about things like lock buttons and door handle production.

It’s pretty obvious that the magic of Tesla is the battery and the in-car “avionics” and telemetry. For every $1 worrying about lock buttons, a dollar is lost to batteries and other, material things.
This piece refers to a NEJM article from 2007, whereas the link above refers to unpublished work that seems to have solely a press release.

(I wish press offices would stop this practice. It's terribly corrosive.)
The rule is simple. You can't present content differently to the crawler than to a user coming to your site from google.

This is why expertsexchange always had the answer at the bottom of the page and why most paywalls are disabled if referred from google.
Where? I can’t seem to find it.
I’d recommend the event producer send a UUID that is then the primary key on the events table. The producer should also send the timestamp the event occurred.

I could be missing something, but that seems to solve both the duplicate event firing (an upsert command based on the UUID makes duplicate event writing a non-issue) and the timing issues.

Though I’m still incredibly skeptical of “real-time analytics.” The number of business cases that require actual real-time analysis are pretty limited. High frequency trading and...?
They seem to have gone to a lot of trouble to insert themselves between the site users visited intentionally to find what they were looking for (Google), and the site that actually provided what they were looking for.

They've essentially become a large MITM attack on Google Image results.

Edit: just tried a few arbitrary search strings on Google Images, it seems improved compared to the past few weeks/months, somewhat.

For some searches, Pinterest results didn't appear at all. For "esp8266 enclosure", only 1 out of 15 on the "front page" points to Pinterest, but the original image is still from Tindie, not Pinterest. The person who supposedly pinned that image describes themselves as "Creative Digital Marketing, Web designer, WebDev, crazy SEO".

Ok, maybe a real pin from a real person, maybe.

Then I decided to see what happens with a handful of more "NSFW" search terms. The number of Pinterest results varied but significantly increased overall.

For some terms, in the 3 rows of images visible without scrolling, there were 19 images, and 11 of them (57%) pointed to Pinterest. None of them were images originally posted on Pinterest, they all have a hover link to the original site.

However, even though Pinterest is providing a link to the original site on top of the image, clicking it doesn't always take you there.

A good bit of the time, Pinterest has chosen to redirect you to a "blocked site" page instead, and only after they have already displayed an image from a site that they deemed "inappropriate". And then shortly afterward a giant popup prompting the user to login or create an account filled the screen.

[1] (safe for work) https://i.imgur.com/XuOvwvi.jpg
Silica: Haskell optics with type errors useful enough to teach people
I can see how aesthetics can be reduced to biology, but I don't think ethics reduces so cleanly. The fields you mentioned are all about what "is" while ethics is about what "ought" to be, and there isn't a clear path from one to the other.

You might not be inclined to explore philosophy, but David Hume pretty much took the field to its logical conclusion, so it's worth studying him. His philosophy was pure and rooted in first principles. Most of philosophy after Hume is tainted by the assumption of premises not derived from first principles.
There is no safe amount of lead.
Assume, for the sake of the argument, that we'll eventually have computers powerful enough to simulate brains to the accuracy we think necessary for it to function.

There are several ways this experiment could go:

First, we could fail to produce a mind, because there's some secret sauce to it we're not aware of (eg a God-given soul).

Second, we could produce a zombie, indistinguishable from a conscious individual while actually not being conscious (though note that we'd have to treat it as if it were conscious, for reasons that should be obvious).

Third, we could produce a conscious mind.

I'm in the camp that thinks option three is plausible.

Let's assume I'm right. Now, instead of a supercomputer, give every one of the billions of humans on the planet an instruction manual, a pocket calculator and a phone to communicate results, and have them do the exact same calculations the supercomputer would do. Despite the latency, if option three were true, we should expect that this would still produce a conscious mind, albeit a rather slowly-thinking one.
I’d like to know how many are illegal aliens? Probably the majority.
Oh stop it, you. Don't let this vague emotional argument turn into something supported by facts!

/s
If I prefer green grass, and I've built a community with fellow green grassers, a sudden influx of those who prefer red grass will make my life worse. My preference is not malicious, and may possibly be genetic - why is it less valid than the opinion of someone colorblind?
Had the same experiences in western corporations. I think people like the idea that this is all a Japanese phenomenon.

The majority of “engineers” I’ve worked with (including the best) don’t have computer science degrees.
I was in a similar situation in college. What helped me was to do /every/ problem in the homework and check them -- many math books will provide answers to even or odd numbered questions. It sounds like a drag (and it was), but I also finally passed with a very good grade!

Also after you've done the homework, make sure you consult with your teacher about things that troubled you. Having battled your way through so many examples, you will be able to appreciate their explanation better than if you never tried them.

Good luck!
I don't want to do that each time, plus pininterset.in or .br will takes it's place.
I have to agree with you that the title to me is baffling. I remember reading in Wizard magazine when he passed the ebullient and effusive out pouring of praise from everyone in the comic book community and at the time, I just couldn't see the often times (hyperbolic to me, at the time) statements like "he was the bones of every comic book artist after him".

Now that I'm older, I totally see it. He was a game changer, and was incredibly prolific.

But I never got into New Gods, and it's tough for me to not think that DC has a great chance of screwing it up like so many of their movie releases. I hope that general unfamiliarity with the source material will help them try some new choices, but they seem to have been on a middling pursuit of emulating the MCU.
Ask HN: Using freelancer platforms for free work?
I was recently in a situation that felt awkward and I was wondering if this is common.

Someone posted a job for a fairly complex job. I sent a proposal and this person proceeded to send diagrams and explain the problem, ask questions about what I would propose, etc.

He never gave the job to me but also never rejected me. He kept chatting and I, eager to show my knowledge and get the job, answered a few technical questions.

This seems like an unethical way to get free work. You post a job, get 10-15 freelancers to provide insights to your problem and then you solve it yourself (or at the very least hire 1 freelancer and profit from the ideas of the other 14 ones).

Thoughts?
I should have given a disclaimer: if you're not a practitioner in the area or not completely interested in the details, "Have Blue and the F-117A" can be in dry in parts.

I have not read "Area 51 Black Jets"; title clearly intended for pop appeal, but hopefully it's substantial content.

I believe I read "Inside the stealth bomber" about 15 years ago and thought it was decent. Bill Sweetman is one of the better aerospace writers out there, if a bit quick to extrapolate from some data points (makes sense given he's a journalist whose trade is to discuss things about which little info is publicly available).

The recommendation for Skunk Works by Rich (I think ghostwritten by Leo Janos who also ghost wrote for Yeager) is also seconded.

There also a few choice publications of decent length on the web:

"Winning the ATF" by Sherm Mullin, PM for the YF-22: https://www.afa.org/20140207afaorg/publications/michellinsti... -> "Winning the ATF"

"B-2: Spirit of Innovation" by Rebecca Grant: http://www.northropgrumman.com/Capabilities/B2SpiritBomber/S...

Great NASA e-book series: https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/aeronautics_ebooks_archi...

The only potential thing to watch out about the NASA books is that NASA sometimes has a tendency to play up their own contributions to programs that were very joint (e.g., AF/NASA/DARPA and Industry). Small fault to find given that NASA is awesome enough to put these high-quality publications together, employ some really great historians and photographers, and make the pubs freely available. In particular, the F-16XL story ("Elegance in Flight") is one that I'd never seen told with such completeness anywhere else. The X-29, Active Aeroelastic Wing, and Low-Boom Supersonic books are also recommended.
This is part of why potential employers in California aren’t permitted to ask you your current salary.

My starting salary in 1994 was (converting to USD), $18,000 by 2001 I was earning $84,000 (my last salary in the UK)

Starting salary doesn’t have to be a limitation, it is an uphill climb, but it’s not on your “permanent record”
I’m a total Twitter n00b.

But are we really supposed to retweet more than we like? I was treating retweets as a stronger version of ‘like’, in a sense. Assuming too much retweeting will clog my followers’ feeds, and make them more likely to mute or unfollow me.

So yeah, I like far more than I retweet. I also have well less than 1000 followers, being a n00b.

I DO have a link in my profile, but don’t actively request people visit. But figure they eventually might (I do much tweeting within the aspiring author community, mentioning my WIP, or Work In Progress, so figure potentially-interested parties could click. But no, not actively marketing, yet...)
There is nothing in it about approval, only adoption.
It's a site which allows stolen images to be shown. Showing the context (their origin) would prove that they are stolen, so they don't show it.

It really poisons the results of searches.
>As such they do deserve sympathy.

No, they don't. White people aren't victims, they never deserved the privilege they enjoyed in the US, so the loss of that privilege isn't a tragedy. They are just now beginning to experience what for the rest of the country has always been normal.
Can you recommend a way to get started with effective herbalism? Books, resources, etc. I've been fascinated by it for a while but am at a loss on where to begin, or how to separate effective recipes from age old placebos.
I'd be happy with that if we also got rid of Facebook and Reddit.
Three boys and a lab test of cancer cells. And they don't expect long term effects from the oils.

The article title is a bit sensationalist, but a thorough investigation is arguably worthwhile
Search for "water source" on the page.
Tribalism is a part of human nature and you engage in it, too.

It's not pretty in any circumstance.
To add to other comment, the main goals of high assurance systems are twofold:

1. Design systems that either never fail in field or fail safe. Many also want recovery mechanisms that always work.

2. Part many miss: convince other people from buyers to regulators they did No 1.

One reason both Ada and formal specifications are so verbose is that lots of detail that's implicit in lots of languages are explicit in them so they can be reviewed. People overlooking detail due to verbosity is a common problem. People in this industry are disciplined enough to look at stuff in detail, though. So, the tradeoff of languages in this field is to optimize for software being read by people who want no stone unturned.

Now, what I cant tell you is how much verbosity is due to it being embedded in Haskell or just its own design. Verbosity doesnt surprise me, though.
Unions perhaps?
> You can't actually view anything on any page without logging in

I believe you can, actually, in some cases. It's just most of the time they try to lock you out with a login screen.
There’s also

import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()

which drops you into ipython debugger shell which is largely superior to the default pdb, e.g. due to code completion (I’m not sure that’s what you meant).

There’s also a %pdb magic which works in notebooks somewhat well.
Yes: let's just go back and re-teach everyone. That is surely an easier solution to implement than banning Twitter bots.
I search for a lot of DIY stuff and frequently the image search results are on pinterest. Often the underlying link is shown as pinterest and not the original link (presumably because someone saved it from pinterest instead?) and I can't figure out the fucking original site.

Pinterest in search results is awful garbage, it seems.
ScienceDirect articles shouldn't be indexed unless they have a readable abstract. I realise that isn't quite where you're going though ;)
I also struggled with the level of mathematics my first year. I got a tutor - the school paid up to a certain number of hours and that set me straight (that, and doing homework before office hours and showing up to every available office hour).
> ultra-conservative Islamic people are given a free pass by progressives and feminists.

This is not how the world works; if you are in a group with differing opinions it's a bad strategy to think that everyone who do not share your ideas are colluding against you. Over here ultra-conservative religous people are much more likely to agree on topics, than some strange mismatch of other ideologies.

I also find it strange to state that Hasidic communities receive no criticism, I know nothing about how they live in NYC but based on world events I doubt they live a frictionless life.
> Mass immigration is the State's way of electing a new populace.

Mass immigration is the population's way of integrating a new population. Consider that it's the population which elects the state, at least in our case.
And if you check the address, you can often see thousands of dollars scammed.

Not as lucrative as it seemed to be the first time I noticed them a month ago where a Coinbase tweet had a spam response with an address that made 80k USD in <1 hour, but it's still clearly lucrative.

This is going to force Twitter to finally do something about all the bots since they'll have to deploy countermeasures that generalize across pretty much all bots.

It's clear that Twitter has held a Laissez-faire or blind-eye philosophy towards bots, but it's hard to keep procrastinating once you can trivially verify that your platform is a lucrative tool for scammers.

Not to mention, the top N responses to every high profile tweet are now these scammers and it makes their platform look absolutely uncontrolled.
People dislike gentrification in part because it displaces established communities. People don't gain or lose the right to sympathy because they are a majority or minority group. They are human beings regardless.
The alternative solution (don't let people that stupid vote) is too impalpable for society right now.

Even if just 10% of people are that dumb, 10% is more than enough to swing an election.
OpenSource – Behind the Scenes
Ask HN: How do you track your personal goals?
I wonder if you just have a todolist or if you have other ways to break your goals down into actions that you can execute on on a daily basis, to break through the noise of every day life...
www.erowid.org has a lot of information about psychoactive plants if that's a part of herbalism that could interest you
It's not a Maps feature but an iOS system feature called Frequent Locations.

If you don't like this behavior you should turn off Frequent Locations specifically under Settings> Privacy> Location Services> System Services> Frequent Locations

PS It may be now called Significant Locations in the latest iOS versions...
I don't think that's a very accurate view of the field. If modern analytical philosophy values anything, it's logic (especially the formal variety), and I can think of at least a few dominant views in the last few decades that were felled by someone pointing out a bug in the underlying logic.

I don't think the philosophical questions are functions of our present limitations either. Imagine knowing everything about all people, and complete God-like power. Do you maximize utility? Do you equalize utility? Do you maximin? Do you ignore utility entirely, and move on some other criteria? You might have all the "is", but the "ought" is still an important question (and, importantly, not a relative one! Despite not being empirical) [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
I find it extremely concerning that people, especially on this platform, don't care about what the law says and choose to just hand wave it as "it doesn't apply to us / they don't enforce it like that".

The letter of the law is even more important than the spirit of it because it allows governments, corporations and other entities to simply say "this is what the law says" and because you are small you don't have the money/power to challenge this rendition if the spirit of the law disagrees with them. Not to mention that laws are _laws_, they are not meant to be really interpreted (it is a byproduct of having to do so to have a functioning society).

It's an extremely slippery slope to not care what the law says. If we don't we'll have some dystopian laws that allow for anything quite soon.
Web Components – the right way
There are a lot of researches being done and products being created in areas where you don't need to rely on those centralized entities.

Decentralized technologies have very shitty UI, and no one would ever adopt them at its current state, but with a combination of the recent hype around them plus the societal change that will frustrate people enough to jump ship regardless of the relatively shittier user experience, it is very possible to change.

And once that starts happening, more talent will flow into this area and innovation will accelerate. This was never possible until now because the society was relatively stable and nobody needed these solutions. Not so anymore.
Are you talking about the on site engineers supervising the project build (kinda menial work), or the up front design engineers working with the architects?

For the former yeah I can kinda see where your coming from, but for the latter there is huge scope to affect how the project turns out financially in a way that a carpenter or supervising engineer just doesn't have.
> what value are they providing the user?

Curation. Pinterest is brilliant for some users and some uses.
> Try being conservative (or even moderate) in NYC

Like Donald Trump? Hell, NYC elected a conservative as mayor (Rudy Giuliani).
Adrián Lamo, Hacker Who Reported Chelsea Manning to the F.B.I., Dies at 37
Huh? An Accord or Camry is the benchmark for quality. Fancy cars are usually less reliable.

Teslas are like a Prius circa 2006. Mostly about projecting your eco-consciousness and hipness except it’s a luxury car.

GM and now Honda already beat them to an affordable midsize car, it just looks like a Chevy and is missing the hype. Nissan beat them to an economy EV.
Is It Possible for a Dictatorship to Be a Top World Power?
Talking about your own “team” honorably (-san) is not humble. To be fair Japanese people have trouble with it all the time too; There are tons of results for on Google for phrase + polite or phrase + business
same here. Last year punctuation didn't work for a few weeks.
Philosophy teaches you that? How?

Most working philosophers do not hold this view. (https://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl)
Just search for "Embedded Software Engineer"?

https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=embedded+software+engineer&l=
There's a reason why California has the CC/CSU/UC system split up. Each system and tackle different missions within public education.

The CC system works for adults with many weekend/night offerings and a huge emphasis on usable skills and trades. The CSU system is the budget/value offering to young adults with a good blend of trades/liberal arts with a focus on practical applications. Both of these systems are excellent for high volume upward mobility when they're functioning.

Then there's the UC system which serves as the halo product that's supposed to draw in or retain the best and brightest. This mostly serves to keep the middle class from leaving California, or when that fails, draw in upper-middle class from elsewhere.

Are California's "elite public institutions" doing less for upward mobility than the CC/CSU system? Probably, but that's not it's main mission. It's trying to preserve the existing middle class, which is arguably just as important as raising the lower class.
I think Reddit is different. Reddit often has valuable commentary that can be more relevant then the linked content.

However I agree that Pintrest shouldn't be removed specifically. Sites that don't display any useful content to the user should be removed.
Just use Zappa.