skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the points of Xi's new dictatorship, is precisely that China can't keep the growth engines going any longer as is. They had to take on $40 trillion in debt over the last eight years to keep faking growth. Every year they 'grow' their GDP by $600 or $700 billion, they have to take on $3 to $4 trillion in new debt to do it. Their total debt to GDP ratio is now nearly the worst of any country, and it's expected to get worse by another ~75% in just the next five years.

I think Xi knows the economic party is over and that there are going to be extremely bad social consequences to that coming up. The dictatorship is meant to possess the power necessary to put down those consequences in any way they deem necessary.
I already saw this episode on Black Mirror [0]. Is this a rerun?

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5497778/
Sounds like a really paranoid CEO.
Sometimes comments should be kept to ourselves, for another day.
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Better to resubmit, as older submissions are less likely to get noticed and upvoted.
Sounds like they engineered a fantastic business model.

Am I wrong? Is there downside for the typical consumer in all of this?
That does sound outrageous, then again from the perspective of the cryptocoin world the first purchase with bitcoin was two Papa Johns Pizzas for 10,000 bitcoin which is around $80,000,000 today.

When I launched bitcoin wasn’t worth what it is today...that said what would you pay for your own community cryptocoin anyway?
The original announcement all included ways that these restrictions are lifted. Most of them are automatically lifted in 180 days or 1 year.
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Here are two fun gifs of clever solutions AI came up with:

https://twitter.com/jeffclune/status/974718199722795008

https://twitter.com/jeffclune/status/973605950266331138

Here are some press articles which provide a shorter summary of some fun anecdotes.

popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a19445627/the-hilarious-and-terrifying-ways-algorithms-have-outsmarted-their-creators/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/8-8-hilarious-ways-ai-h... (paywalled unfortunately)
Does it provide a function to merge the comments from tens of people’s individually annotated email attachments? If not, not really comparable.
Dang, even my old hoopty from the 80s would do a reasonable job of keeping speed, and that was in a GM crapbox. There's no chance a modern MB doesn't do so as well.
I just started meditating last week, after realizing I'm starting to feel miserable. Did you feel better after first sessions or did it take some time before you saw some changes?
On automating the switch to HTTPS for our clients – Presslabs
They take up all the spots on the street...
No different from how Twitter, Facebook, and Google operate. People outside of the party are systematically humiliated and ground to dust.
Depending on where you are trying to find them, a Red Edge or NIR sensor can also help. I have done this for a project way back so let me know if you like to have a conversation about it.
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Kirk was the captain of a ship, not of society. A ship captain is generally the dictator of their vessel.

There are certainly valid criticisms of the quasi-utopian vision of society in Star Trek, but that one ship was not meant as a model or microcosm of how the whole of their society was run. Just one aspect.
Dimon Says He'll Fight for Same Tax Breaks Amazon Gets for HQ2
In the future, try vouching for a dead comment (click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'vouch' at the top). If a dead comment gets enough vouches, it is restored, and then you can reply to it the normal way.

Since simoooo's comment was vouched for by other users, I've moved your reply to be a child of that one.
On the square grid, you can move in 8 directions, moving diagnoally is pretty important to max your vision in the early game.
Already happened with Wells Fargo, who fired and blacklisted employees that refused to create extra (illegal) accounts for their customers. Those employees couldn't get a job in finance again.
Yeah, he certainly could've been more pragmatic because I'm sure ultimately he wants to see the problem solved, not figure out who to blame.
Agreed. I'm not saying don't ask questions. I said "not in a way that inspires rage." Just make sure you do your due diligence first. That's important.
Good then. Most of the restrictions mentioned in the article are automatically removed in 1 year.
The terminology is at least a couple decades older than GitHub has even existed, and was even mentioned somewhere by Linus in the creation of Git.

Fork used to have a very negative connotation, and that was related to the difficulty required to pull one off. When you forked a project, you had to set up your own hosting, web space, issue tracker, version control system (and you probably couldn't clone and start off the upstream's VCS), and so forth. The technical barrier made it so that you only forked a project when you have severe disagreements with upstream; some of the most famous in history include EGCS from GCC, and XEmacs from Emacs.

With DVCSes, including Git, much of that technical difficulty is automatically removed. Every clone can potentially be a fork (as in, a new independent project), and this was one of Linus's intentions. If forking is easy, it keeps upstream on their toes. After being adopted by DVCS hosting sites like GitHub, it turned around to being a positive term even.
>Over a decade ago the US recognized the huge mistake of mass incarceration, as such the US prison population has peaked and has begun to decline, with both sides of the political aisle now openly discussing how to correct that broken system.

Until the US has a share equal to its percentage of the global population of incarcerated people (instead of 4-5 times that), and has abolished the death penalty, the shame that are private prisons, and improved the third-world conditions of its prisons, it has nowhere near "recognized its mistake as a culture".

It just has a few fewer prisoners than a decade ago, because of several factors -- including the legalization of marijuana. It's still as Old Testament and punishing to its inmates, and especially to the black population, as ever otherwise.

Btw, regarding China, let's cut it some slack.

For historical reasons not all countries develop at the same speed or are at the same stage. 40 years ago the US still had aggregation. 80 years ago it still lynched blacks.

And China 50 years ago had mass political executions and a full on political slash civil war -- compared to that, sentencing 10 people on a stadium with a crowd present (not executing them with a crowd) is BS.

(Especially since the US also has non-judicial citizens and even relatives of victims attend executions, to enjoy their revenge on the person dying...).
You're getting downvoted because driving and street racing are totally incomparable.

Street racing is a distinct, illegal, reckless behavior with no possible upside (for society) whatsoever. Even worse, many of the victims are not involved in the driving - those victims were slaughtered randomly. Their lives were risked with no possible benefit for anyone.

The fatalities for street racing should be zero, because it shouldn't be happening. It's really fucking annoying that I put my life at risk every time I drive on the 10 (or anywhere else) and there are other drivers who are deliberately increasing that risk.

Reckless driving with fatalities is murder. That should be your comparison.
> I'll pay the taxes--I just don't want to have to calculate the taxes.

You, me and most everyone else reasonable. In some countries, taxes are as simple as the tax agency sending you a bill or a check. But, America's love of excess capitalism means our tax code is needlessly complicated and pretty much insists on as many third party businesses to be involved as possible - every company you work for, plus anyone holding your securities, plus Intuit or some other tax preparer, and so forth.

The most sensible requirement, since we're not going to get sensible tax reform ever, would be just making legal exchanges operating in the US have to send out a 1099 variant (maybe 1099-MISC could cover it? Or they could create a new one) so people aren't left scratching their heads all the time. But we'll see if that ever happens...
If secrets are published, there is no way to ‘unpublish’ them. Consider them burned.

But they mean: images can be removed, but you should not be able to publish 2 different images with the same tag. Then you never know which version of those two you got.
There are more legitimate outlets. SCCA Autocross / Solo II events are a fun way to race in a controlled environment. Most courses are one car at a time, in parking lots set up to keep people under 40mph and are more about skill than speed.

People who really get hardcore into Autocross sometimes move on to road courses, buying roll cages and paying fees (or if you're lucky, finding a sponsor) to race against others on a closed track.

At some SCCA events you'll see all the legit autocrosses lined up and all the kids with their fast/furious wanna be shit rides around the outside. Once when we were going over the rules, one such car pulled in and the organizer said, "Looks like there's another one for the cardboard wing class." and we all laughed.

So at least some of these racers know about these events and just don't participate, but really these kids should be encourage to join more legit events, take on Solo II or drag racing or rally cross, and yea .. it will take some more money and time, but you'll get involved with a group of people who aren't idiots and who are responsible about their motorsports. If you do something stupid and wreck, at least you only hurt yourself and not some kid on the street.
I feel like at that point, it'd be morally correct to lie to get into the jury...
If I show someone peanut butter and bread, but I neglect to mention that they can be combined into a peanut butter sandwich, I still don't think I've done anything polarizing. I would not consider that "showing exactly one side of the peanut butter sandwich debate".
Nice! I worked a little bit on something similar for Azure in PowerShell. PowerShell has a really cool feature where you basically implement the filesystem navigation API for your app in C# or similar - how to show a path, get its children etc., and then all the PowerShell built-ins just work when you point it there.
Not to imply that the American system is good, but at least here the things that can get you into that status are discrete, well-defined actions. With the "social credit system" things are much more fluid and subjective, so there's going to be a much greater culture of fear surrounding it. Granted, we have the same problems with our own credit system, but at least ours only applies to and is affected by finances. There's a boundary to keep both the fear and the effects from leaking into all corners of life.
In other words, fascism, that is, the belief that a society needs very strict moral guides and leadership to thrive.
Great article. My favorite part was learning a new word: grognard!

Makes me sad that I only got into the series at Civ5, which I enjoyed every bit of except for the ultra creepy 3D models of the leaders.... totally unnecessary in this kind of game. Also it's ridiculous to see Gandhi pop up and declare war on you. It was a good example of a typically superfluous feature tacked on to an otherwise decent piece of software.
So I suppose it's possible that a professor with controversial opinions ended up on a no-fly list for some reason completely unrelated to his politics. Occam's razor, though...

There are other abuses that we have concrete evidence of. E.g., refusing the cooperate with the FBI.
(https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/laws...).

Hell, up until 2005, the TSA used CREDIT SCORES as a component in deciding who should be on no-fly lists...
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The first sentence in the article states the restrictions are "for up to a year".

Where does your "always restricted" come from? Not to be rude, but did you read the article or just the headline?
It's a product decision to not make this configurable to make the service supportable. It's not a technical issue.
From Abraham Lincoln in 1842, speaking about his preferred approach:

It is an old and a true maxim, that a "drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall." So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause really be a just one. On the contrary, assume to dictate to his judgment, or to command his action, or to mark him as one to be shunned and despised, and he will retreat within himself, close all the avenues to his head and his heart; and though your cause be naked truth itself, transformed to the heaviest lance, harder than steel, and sharper than steel can be made, and though you throw it with more than Herculean force and precision, you shall be no more be able to pierce him, than to penetrate the hard shell of a tortoise with a rye straw.

http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/tempera...
I'd argue that most programmers are assholes for reasons far beyond software being terrible, and are unhappy for those other reasons, which is a much bigger conversation. The only reason I bring it up is that developers using software as an excuse to be assholes will only make the problem worse and is a cop-out for dealing with the actual issues.
Not sure what your point is here.

Almost every single company I've ever seen for 20+ years has open sourced their developer SDK examples. It literally makes no sense what so ever to do anything else.

This has nothing to do with what the OP was talking about which is open sourcing the core app.
We been migrating from Elastic Search and we are delighted at the performance and how everything works. In ES often the nodes go down and need constant maintenance. If anyone want to try and need help, feel free to contact me bruno at potelo (.com.br).
They did use our permissioned skipchain available on: https://github.com/dedis/cothority and ran some nodes on a server.

Instead of burning 200kWh for one transaction, a voting consensus system is enough.

BTW, there is also an e voting system in that repo, using neff shuffles.
Resisting the Chinese Communist Party is not a mistake IT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MISSION ON THE PLANET TODAY. Even the pope has given up his right to name bishops to the CCP. The pope is no longer Catholic and has become Communist just a few decades after JP2 gave us such hope. Now communist propaganda has Americans disarming themselves and praising the CCP as the best government in the world. Humanity is doomed and when AI takes over there will be nothing left of humanity worth saving.
Can't win a free ETH if you use a simple database.
What does this have to do with public projects? This is entirely about private repos.
Excuse me if it comes off as snarky, but my main point is only to say that development is about three parts frustration and one part progress (and I'm being generous with the progress). You can't skip the frustration; it is what you are paid to do. Newcomers should be made aware of this, not to deter them, but to be transparent about what the job actually entails.
The solution is to turn parking spots into loading zones.
Sorry, wasn't clear in what I imagined.

Every single street parking meter I have ever seen has working hours (including holidays) and constant price to pay. There's no price increase in certain hours of the day or that sort of thing.

The price adjustment would be changing that constant price per quarter of the year.

So you don't get there early in the day or hog a spot. Every one pays the same regardless of what time they want the spot during the working hours
http://HandlR.sapico.me , personal mode when logged in
I used to love games like Oregon Trail and Spaceward Ho as a kid, and I remember dreaming about what games could be as a result. Then Civ came along and it was a revelation. My dreams were nothing, and I fell headfirst in love with Civ. It was the first game I could point to and say, “Do you see that? Can you see where this medium can go from here? The value and pleasure in it?”

It was just so deep, and so far beyond anything else I’d ever seen. I think I can honestly say that it was the first game that was at least as good as a great book.
To whit, the few retail equity US and Canadian trading platforms I've used (Schwab's, Interactive Brokers, Scottrade before they became TD Ameritrade, Questrade) also do not provide an explicit feature that purports to calculate capital gains

You should probably call the IRS tipline and say "I think [Schwab] isn't filing their 1099-Bs, you know the thing which reports cost bases and short-term/long-term capital gains for retail investors, and accordingly they're on the hook for billions of dollars of penalties, but to keep the math easy just write me a check for a billion dollars rather than what the law actually says you owe me for this hot tip."

Or, in the alternative, you could look again.
I'm really trying to make things better however for most of the ideas the reaction I get is "make a proper business case and we will look into it". Sometimes I'm even wondering if I should give up with trying to change things. I just want to do some proper engineering work for a change
Part II of this essay is also great: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/03/14/memoirs-of-an...
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What a pretentious piece of writing, I can't stand this kind of goody two-shoes attitude.

It's ok to be human and get upset every now and then. Heck, you might even take it out on someone. Apologise and move on, you don't have to become a buddhist and take the three breath vow - it's useless and unhealthy.
Easy. Find one example of someone who stole something three times, then later murdered someone. Scare people with this fact. Make up a theory about how larceny is a gateway to violence.

This is, exactly, how the immigration debate is being held in DC. One undocumented shot and killed a citizen by accident, and now we're supposed to kick all immigrants out. Visceral emotion is a great tool to optimize society for corner cases.
Slightly off topic, but these huge rounds at Robinhood, Airtable and Doordash a few days back underscores how the Valley is still the place to be. There have been a number of posts in HN over the last few years about how another region is about to overtake SV, but the facts still don't align.
Those are neither mass-produced, nor tiny - they produce 50-500MW of power.
> It's exceedingly rare for any upper-middle class woman to commit a crime.

You're confusing "commit" and "get caught and receive significant consequences".
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A study has shown that the mind tends to wander more when listening to audiobooks compared to reading. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.0089...
Personally, I only listen to audiobooks while cleaning or driving, and so retain much lesser than when I read, which is when I am completely engrossed in the material.
Thanks, mobile links are important when the xkcd alt text matters.
Here are videos of two GDC 2017 talks about Civilization that I enjoyed:

Classic Game Postmortem: Sid Meier's Civilization (with Civilization creators Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ-auWfJTts

Absolutely No Pressure: Continuing a Successful Game Series with Civilization VI (with Civilization VI lead designer Ed Beach):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUl_3DydD7U
Lamo was an asshole who ruined many lives and accomplished little else.
Keep in mind Microsoft had to some extent nerfed the non-Windows version of Excel, Word, & Powerpoint.

The hope was to keep people on Windows, but as people started to shift away from Windows, it makes it much easier for them to jump from the sub-par version of MS Office to other products.
I thought they stopped selling order flow, but was wrong. For those interested, here is their Q4 2017 606 Filing w/ the SEC:

https://d2ue93q3u507c2.cloudfront.net/assets/robinhood/legal...
So you think what, the courts should be secret?
I have had plenty of dialogs like this with people who have no ability to look up something or, I often suspect, are too lazy. If this happens a more than a few times and it's clear they have no grasp of fundamentals ("I got this error "someVariable is not defined". What's it mean?") I send them a link with a tutorial or a book and tell them to read it.
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as an Angeleno myself, i have to say the statistic seem par for a city of more than five million.

street racing is an easy demon to hunt in Los Angeles as its a rule that only a few people break but that has a high profile due to its nature. Its flashy and comes with its own set of blockbuster movies and spinoffs. Cops would enjoy a bit of high speed sports car chase I suspect...not so much cranking out tickets for low speed fender benders though perhaps.

Target something like distracted driving and you'll find far fewer of us are willing to tolerate the kind of crackdown required to reduce the number of injuries and fatalities related to it. We love to text and drive, talk on our cellphones, and even read our e-books while stuck in traffic. Then again who knows. Many of us would appreciate seeing the CHP print up a few fresh ones for the classic and clueless luxury sedan drivers mashing away at their iphones and ignoring the green light.
I don't follow. What does contractor and delivery vehicles taking up all the spaces have to do with "car culture"?
It's also sensationalist clickbait and why we can't have nice things in modern media.

For some perspective: someone drowns in Orange County (pool, bathtub, etc...) every 9 days. That's 689 people over the same period. Is bathing out of control? This article is fear-mongering nonsense. Or at the very least, the title is.

https://www.ocregister.com/2015/04/13/whiting-someone-drowns...
The interesting thing, is that it's a return to the execution parades that used to be very common in decades past:

[2013] "China executes 4 foreigners, televises death march" ... "China has mostly abandoned the once-common practice of parading condemned criminals before crowds in stadiums and through city streets on the way to execution grounds on the edge of cities."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-executes-4-foreigners-tel...
> Also it's ridiculous to see Gandhi pop up and declare war on you.

Yeah, but it's a staple of the series now. If anything, I think an installment without a warmongering Gandhi would be disappointing!

https://kotaku.com/why-gandhi-is-such-an-asshole-in-civiliza...
I'm sure they expect it to end up in landfill.
The author is completely missing the point of his own feelings: his unconscious mind is telling him to stop wasting time answering questions and do something more useful.

But of course, the conscious mind knows better, one must behave nicely, be zen, suppress their feelings, etc. And 10 years later you're visiting a psychologist to deal with your burn out.
This is awesome, interactive CLIs are great for simple use cases. I hope they continue to have support for non-interactive scenarios so that automation can continue to work (apologies if I missed that in the article).
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Yeah. I think you're right. My cousin drives everywhere in NYC and I think it's INSANE. I can't think of many reasons non-commercial vehicles need to be parked on the street. If you live in Manhatten you probably don't need a car to get to your job or have enough money to justify renting a parking space.
I didn't mean to imply they were shot in the stadium. That's my mistake if it was taken that way.