skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The economy was doing well before he got into office and he passed large spending bills while also passing massive tax cuts (I never thought Republicans would be the ones doing a fiscal stimulus after some of the rhetoric during the recession) so it'll take a huge amount probably to take it really off kilter. Also it's a pretty safe assumption that all media ("mainstream" and otherwise) is over hyping things
I'm a Chinese engineer working outside US and China. A few points that I think is relevant:

The culture in universities are generally more relaxed with processes being more open as compared to high schools. This is more pronounced in China with college entrance exams being the most stressful and rigorous process that decides your future. So when students join colleges (China or US), they would no longer feel restricted by the rigorous curriculum and exams in high school. Like a spring that has been pressed for very long time, they would "bounce back" and neglect their school work, sometimes going too far into cheating.

While this issue in generally applicable anywhere, China's college entrance exam makes it worse for Chinese students entering college. On top of that, overseas colleges are farther from their families and friends so they feel even less restrictions and easily steer into wrong paths.

The other point to consider is that part of the overseas Chinese student body consists of rich kids whom their parents sent to overseas in search of better education. They might not have the same aptitude as others who studied hard and passed exams to go overseas hence resort more to cheating.
Yes, so the title is saying they too will be harmed by "putting them first".
that doesn't mean there's no bias in reporting cheating.

and the second quote is anecdotal. it might be easier to spot the cheater who doesn't write english well if their papers are obviously better written than the student speaks.

it would simply be more difficult to catch cheaters who speak and write english fluently.

it's possible that chinese students cheat more in school, even a significant amount more, even their style of cheating may be drastically different, but I still find it somewhat strange that that gets so much focus in a system that is like what cycling used to be:

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/02/cheating_i...
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How do you reconcile this with idea that copyright and IP laws are too strong?
Yeah let's just continue to surrender freedoms to an increasingly violent police state because someone might steal a car.
70s conservatives: "If you don't like your job, get an education"

80s conservatives: "If you don't like your job, quit and get another one"

90s conservatives: "If you don't like your job, start your own business"

Neo conservatives: "If you don't like your job, I need to see compelling evidence that you are being harmed"
agreed. this is simply unacceptable... even LEO should have probable cause to pull you over and make your life inconvenient or at worst hell.
Do we need to understand anything about how a multicellular organism works, if we have 1. a working model of biology on the intracellular level, and 2. a working model of stereochemistry outside the cell, and use these to just "play out" cell division from an initial gamete within a simulated womb?

(I know that's A Lot of computing power, but maybe an algorithm like HashLife could make this possible by, say, 2100?)
It means that you can install it in your own server, be it physical, colocated, rented or anything else. So you're the one paying for the infrastructure but you're also in control of your data.
And whenever you upgrade the car's OS, everything you are used to totally changes.

Congratulations, your iCar's new OS is successfully installed! Your blinker is now where the washer fluid bar used to be and we reversed your shifter so Park is now Reverse and 1st gear is now 4th. You're welcome!
In Chicago you see people collecting this data all the time on Michigan Avenue, Rush Street, State Street, and Oak Street.

But it's Chicago, so they do it the old-fashioned way: A guy sitting in a lawn chair on the sidewalk with a clicker in each hand.

Seriously. Watch for it next time you're on a main shopping drag in that town.
I was naturally curious about outliers so went to the most vivid book which is "Pygmy". I haven't read this book, but style of it is listed as incorrect grammar "English" written in a detached scientific tone. I wonder how much this threw off the algorithm to cause it to have such a high score (over 100% and nearly 25% higher than second most vivid).
At $180 CAD, these are too expensive to preorder for my friend without much in the way of reviews.

Does anyone know where I can look for unbiased reviews for this 12-16 months down the line?
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2 or 3? Or all of the problems that come with choosing between the two (no, it is still not an easy choice).

Mypy coverage, even in the stdlib, is awful. When it comes to thirdparty, mostly nonexistent. Mypy feels so young - I love the team, love their work, but I still run into cases where inference fails when it shouldn't, where error messages are extremely unhelpful, etc.

Slow.

Plenty of 'wat' like mistakes:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3270680/how-does-python-...

Exceptions everywhere, for control flow even - iterators are implemented with exceptions.

Absolutely AOT unoptimizable. Pypy's cool, never got it working for my use case. In theory a JIT could help.

Speaking of calling out to C... you think you're writing in a memory safe language, but actually, you're writing in a memory safe language that's probably been hollowed out and replaced with a fast C implementation. But it's actually worse

https://hackernoon.com/python-sandbox-escape-via-a-memory-co...

Exploiting C code loaded by Python is like exploiting C code from the 1990s.

No parallelism. Multiprocessing? Good luck with that - pay the cost of pickling, pay the cost of an additional interpreter, pay the cost of debugging hell.

An ecosystem split in two, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise - a few hundred top packages moving over after many, many years, is a sad state for a language that was known for having an absurdly large ecosystem.

I could really just go on and on and on, but at some point it just feels mean.

Huge respect for the project and the team but Python has made mistakes (as all languages do). They were understandable mistakes, but they were mistakes. It's fine for some things, but there's plenty wrong with it, just like there's a ton wrong with javascript. But javascript gets probably 1000x the flack.
Sharks are fish. I personally have eaten more than 50 fish already this year.

And congratulations. You have entirely trolled me. Not even Australians are that goofy about fish.
How solid is it?

You can easily keep license plate data much longer by simply stating, "we are using it as evidence". For what? "An on-going investigation."

Done. Now you have it for much longer than 60 days.
I have to recommend "Aramis, or the Love of Technology" by Bruno Latour. It's an account of the development of a failed personal mass transit system that's both brilliant and very beautiful.
I kind of figure almost the opposite - those commercial entities have both the resources (hopefully) for subject matter experts and auditing (also hopefully) and a strong financial interest in not having a disclosed breach (and almost all significant breaches are likely to be disclosed/discovered at some point). On the other side a small development team of individuals seem (to me) less likely to have the resources and more ability to simply walk away in case of a breach.
I never appreciated Van Gogh very much until I saw his large mesmerizing paintings in person at the museum in Amsterdam.
yep. one of the interesting things about Carpenter v. United States was that Chief Justice Roberts (a Bush appointee) joined the more liberal members of the court to form a 5-4 majority.

perhaps even more interesting, Trump appointee Gorsuch seemed to be saying that even more general data privacy could exist under the fourth amendment: ... it seems to me entirely possible a person's cell-site data could qualify as his papers or effects under existing law.

this offers a far better explanation than i can give: http://reason.com/blog/2018/06/22/scotus-rejects-warrantless...
Also, cells with long telomeres eventually senesce, just like the "one-time job" cells with short telomeres, even though the long-telomere cells would be better off apoptosing instead (as long as there's a source of more cells.)
>...for racists to pin their one off experience with Chinese people onto the entire race of people, the definition of racism.

Not quite. This is stereotyping.
I'm all for doing things "by hand", but this solution introduces a single point of failure. If the colo company has networking issues you'll lose all your traffic.

And of course doing HA / load-balancing across data-centers is hard. Ideally you'd use haproxy to route traffic to two distinct backends - but if the proxy is down your traffic gets lost. Simpler solutions are possible, but to do it properly would require your own IP ranges/BGP etc.

(Some people use static sites and use DNS for failover, but I think we all agree that's a terrible solution.)
If you really want to explore why running a JVM in a Docker container makes a lot of sense, try running a modded Minecraft server with and without a container for a few weeks.

Another commenter in the thread mentioned that "Docker eliminates wishful thinking." Getting that first modded Minecraft server operational will drive that home.
If you’re afraid of tigers because tigers tend to bite, is that speciesism? If it is, then is speciesism bad or just rational?
You're doing the same thing with Vice articles, and my goodness who are you calling your acquaintances if they are so easily swayed by imagery on a youtube video?
What’s up with the mysterious inc bp in prologues of 16-bit code? (2011)
How does it compare to KeePassXC and 1Password?
In some cities, the police departments have programs to allow the cops to tap directly in to people's internet cameras at their homes, or to immediately turn over recordings to the police that their home cameras have made. People willingly join the program.

Here's one called Vegas SafeCam: https://www.lvmpd.com/en-us/Pages/VegasSafeCam.aspx

"You’ve purchased a home surveillance system and have registered your system with the LVMPD. Several weeks later, a Patrol officer comes to your door and informs you of a recent burglary in your neighborhood. The Patrol Officer has used the database for this program in their patrol car, and has gone to your residence for follow-up. The Patrol officer asks you if it would be possible for you to review your video for a suspicious person or vehicle between the listed times of the event."

The Las Vegas one isn't real-time, but I believe Chicago's might be. Then again, about 10 years ago, CPD was bragging about having 3,000 cameras around the city. It must be 300,000 by now.

Max Headroom wasn't campy sci-fi. It was a warning.
your story reminded me of an experience i had in college taking an Organic Chem exam. The exam took place in an auditorium and I had a hall mate who i studied with sit to my left, and then some jocks (turned out to from another section) sat to my right. The exam was multiple choice and you filled out your answers on a scan sheet. So leery of the jocks, i circled my answers on the test paper, if answer was A, i would circle B, and so on. When i was done i went to the front and filled out the scan sheet. The prof queried as to what i was doing, so i told him and he asked me to also turn in my test paper just in case i messed up. So when the grades got posted, my friend stopped by to ask me if I wanted him to get my grade. I said i would see it later and proceeded to tell him what i did. He did not look to good, and i started to wonder what was up. When i checked my grade later, i saw his....worst grade on the Final. Next year he did not return to school.........he was pre-Med.
So if the normally extremely anti-racism posters of HN have concerns about Chinese people, we should automatically assume it’s racism.
In a related vein, now that there's qbits to play with on the cloud, there also rudimentary games available that use actual quantum computing!
https://medium.com/@decodoku/introducing-the-worlds-first-ga...

It's purely a novelty, of course. But a cool one.
It's rare to see someone state so plainly that they just don't care about human life.

It makes it clear that I have no common ground for this kind of discussion with that person.
I appreciate the current insight. Hearing about current pitfalls and how you navigate them could boost your followup posts.

One "adversarial" author to the curated list approach might be David Foster Wallace. Partly because of his large vocabulary, which would only partially cluster with the list.

More-so because of a trickier pitfall I see with trying to quantify vividness: abstract metaphor can be vivid without using any 'vivid' words. Referring to a baby having a "little lipless hyphen of a mouth" would likely score poorly on vividness.
alternatively:

// Would run console.error with the Error object
(alert(x) ?: console.error);
The difference is doctors basically "keep moving up".

Unless you screw up massively, once you get in it only gets better.

For engineers, you get "used up and thrown away".

The default pathway for software engineers is not that great for a large portion of people.
That implies the thing they're stealing isn't valuable enough keep from being be stolen.
especially since alot of fast food spots are not owned by the fast food company, they are owned by the franchisee who in all senses of the word, except for meeting xyz standards of the brand, operates an independent business entity.

next thing they will do is say that employees of one franchise of a conglomerate brand cannot leave and go work for another franchise of the same conglomerate brand (which happens to own 5 different brands, including ChickenLicious, BuildaBurger, SteakMachine, FreshCrunchy, and SugarCoffee)
Franchise agreements typically include non compete regions between franchises, ie you can’t just pick up and move to a different region that may be within the territory of a different franchise. Having similar terms restricting the hiring of workers at another franchise does not seem outlandish.
Fascinating how none of the Hacker News comments on a similar story some months back (employee defecting to another company with driverless-technology trade secrets) talked about Anthony Levandowski's nationality or race.
What kind of world do you live in where you think the employee needs to provide evidence that they are being harmed before they are allowed to seek a new job?

Companies can enter into contracts with employees to prevent them from going to other employers but unless they offer some sort of consideration you are walking down the path towards indentured servitude and slavery
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I think the strange thing that’s happened with video games is that it used to be that you felt good because you were having fun. In this new era of micro transactions the games aren’t even fun anymore. There is only frustration, and then you pay to alivieate that frustration. You sometimes find yourself sitting there say, “why am I even doing this?”

I genuinely miss gaming. When I try to get back into mainstream titles these days I evtually hit some roadblock mechanic designed to extract dollars and I’m just like, “This shit again?” and bail on the game.

Some developers do it right. Most don’t. There are so many games or experiences that I just don’t think will ever exist again. I don’t know that there will ever be another Ultima Online or EverQuest, or another tactical shooter like Rainbow Six or America’s Army that isn’t pay to win. Or that we’ll ever see another decent RTS ever. It sucks.
If you think from the way you've been brought up that what they're doing is disrespecting other's property, but they see it as respecting - is there a right/wrong?

Life is messy.

As I said in the original comment, other countries have felt the same way, but their views changed as they began to value intellectual property more. Is that right or wrong? The truth is fluid.
I don't understand what makes people disdain freedom so much that they'll deem this sort of state overreach as reasonable.

Holding Tobacco producers liable is paternalist & wrong, this is almost totalitarian.
a question arose in a couple places about the difficulty of onboarding. I worked at a fast food restaurant for 4.5 years (roughly 3K hours) during high school and college.

When I started, I was asked directly not to switch to another store without letting them know. It wasn’t a threat, just a courtesy. I believe the given reason had something to do with anti-poaching.

Just a guess, but I could see a group of 6 people at one store saying “let’s go over to the other store” together. Losing one person isn’t a big deal, losing 6 people from a shift is an expensive pain. I doubt it happens often, but it doesn’t feel like a stretch to me.

As far as onboarding goes, my job performance continued to improve for at least 2 years. They were getting one hell of a bargain at $8.80 back in 2007. When I started, it was mostly washing dishes. A few years in, our team could push 130 cars and $1,400 through our drive thru in an hour.
Data transfer for some telescopes is still "analogue". It can be higher bandwidth to literally FedEx banks of hard drives than it is to transfer over the internet.
Cat was also out of the bag with child labor. It was out of the bag with DDT.

We have the capability to reverse societal trends when we as a collective find them to be antithetical to our morals. This is no different.
"the US leadership has made it quite clear that US is only in for themselves" as opposed to EU always looking out for US :)?
I use the tape deck in my car more than the CD player, and almost as much as I use the radio.

Granted, that's mostly because I have one of those tape-to-3.5mm adapters, but even the actual tapes I pop in every once in awhile are more convenient than CDs, not to mention more space-efficient.
Even if private actors were not involved, there wouldn’t be any way to verify that the information was destroyed by a governmental department. I suppose that is a possible area where a public blockchain that broadcasts the storage and deletion of data could be useful but now everybody has stopped reading this comment so they can talk about how blockchain tech is useless. Regardless, the indefinite/temporary storage of tracking data needs to be addressed at some point.
>What if bird populations crashed and a pestilence set upon crops worldwide, and caused mass starvation & millions dead- kind of exactly like what happened during the Great Leap Forward?

Do you have any evidence at all that such a thing is likely to happen? What level of certainty that such an outcome won't happen are you aiming for? Others have noted that scientists have considered the effects of eradicating disease causing mosquitoes, and concluded that eradicating them won't to the best of our knowledge cause ecological problems. I showed evidence that around half a million people are dying every year from mosquito borne diseases. When 500,000 people are dying a year, you need more than just a vague feeling of unease not to support eradicating disease causing mosquitoes.
Has come up a fair bit before.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bitwarden&sort=byPopularity&pr...
Nah, the spec has never defined it; it never even mandated insertion order. (I remember a bunch of discussions about this given we, in Carakan, decided to match V8.) https://tc39.github.io/ecma262/#sec-enumerate-object-propert... is the current definition of object enumeration.
Thank you for linking to the Erich Fromm interview! I have never heard of him before, but I find myself agreeing with most of his statements in this interview. What strikes me, and are relevant to this discussion, are his thoughts on alienation in the workplace and how production and consumption have become ends upon themselves, not means to increase the dignity of humankind.
Can you keep the database on a local disk, Dropbox etc?
"Surface" has been out for 7 years - they spent a billion or two advertising them, they opened up tons of stores to sell direct all over the world not to mention almost every best buy has a microsoft store right next to their apple kiosk. i'm calling bs. You can walk into any coffee shop and see them these days, people are talking about them on twitter and every tech site has had coverage of the many form factors and revisions provided. schools have them, girl scouts have them, moms have them, dads have them and kids have them. Maybe you haven't been paying attention but i have the feeling you're just being selectively dense.
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I wonder how Tesla will setup their "security" in their Tesla Factory in China. Considering how a worker recently misconfigured their factory software in a malicious manner... They better have some good failsafes ready!
mixpanel is neat but gets very expensive very quickly.
I, too, share this view.

Consider Fei-Fei Li's opening paragraph:

> Tech companies from Silicon Valley to Beijing are betting everything on it, venture capitalists are pouring billions into research and development, and start-ups are being created on what seems like a daily basis.
Tobacco sellers failed to educate the public of the dangers of smoking, and in some instances advertised it as healthy. To a point that society considered it beyond ignorance and into disingenuous. Are you saying that designers != studios?
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You're essentially asking Apple to adjust how they deal in China, potentially losing a market and manufacturing center, because in your opinion, China should acknowledge Taiwan's sovereignty. Not everyone agrees with that.

> Today you give them an inch, tomorrow they'll ask for a foot. It is exactly this kind of kautouing the West has given China in the past 20 years that led to its progressive erosion of universal values and leverage to safeguard those values across the world. When it comes to principles, espcially core values of a company, you

This is just absurd. It is not Apple's responsibility to represent the West nor do they actually represent the west. And I do not want them to represent the west.
Yes, couldn't agree more. The O in SOLID should be adhered to in this case. Open for extension, closed for modification
I’m now surprised this isn’t a plot point in Arrested Development
You should be looking to get around 8 hours of sleep a day to feel normal and awake. If you want to be a morning person there are a few rules of thumb that I follow. You should have an alarm for the same time every day of the week. Sleeping in on weekends is a good way to mess up your sleep cycle. No caffeine after 2pm. No computer/tv time after 10pm. Try to remove as much blue light/LED as possible (I'll unplug a few things). Lower the amount of alcohol you drink at night.

For those who want to start the transition, one thing I found helpful was using Flux for Mac. There's less blue light and there are reminders that you should be going to bed soon.
What if one is closer to your residence? What if it is closer to your kid's school? What if you have an abusive or terrible boss at one?

And nobody mentioned a tragedy but you.
It's certainly not 1 to 1, but it's hardly farfetched to believe that someone born in China and presumably still a citizen of it (and thus not of the US) is more likely to abscond to China with the proprietary IP of an American company than a random American citizen born in America who's lived there their entire life.