skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It obviously depends upon the context. But for many industrial processes and designs, the design and documentation alone is only the bare minimum needed to replicate it. The rest is in people's heads and hands, and needs to be passed on by training over weeks or months.

Here's a trivial example: in a physical chemistry lab I was working in, I was training a new worker how to do a particular analysis. The ISO 9001 documentation said to pipette 1000µl of the sample and 1000µl of a standard into a 2ml GC sample container, using an electronic pipetter. I got repeated accuracy to within 5 decimal places; the trainee got about 1 d.p accuracy, using the same equipment and samples. Because skill and technique matter, take time to learn and master, and those aren't in the instructions.

This applies to any process. Having the instructions aren't enough. No matter how many designs you rip off, you still need the right people with the right equipment and the right skills and techniques to fabricate it correctly, or duplicate the process exactly, etc. Industrial espionage can only take you so far. The effort required to rip off the designs and documentation might be more than the effort required to do your own design and establish your own processes. Particularly when you're otherwise inheriting other peoples design choices and you need to completely reverse engineer their thinking. In a way, it's similar to how writing software from scratch can be quicker than making a change to a huge legacy codebase. You're free of the design constraints, and you don't need waste weeks ploughing through someone else's mess to find our what those constraints are.

Another problem is the starting materials. Have a read up on the effort required to manufacture FOGBANK, a material used in nuclear warheads. The materials and process were completely documented, but the people who made it were long retired. It took over half a decade of effort to rediscover and replicate the process, not only to learn the techniques but also to discover that the process relied on an impurity in one of the materials which wasn't documented.
Sure, but if you want pretty headings, links, bold text etc - there's now 'show-markdown'
What I hear you say is that you can count to finite numbers in finite time, and infinite numbers in infinite time. That doesn't help me in understanding infinity.
Absolutely not. I don't know what it looks like from outside, but India is quite poor, where at max One plus succeeded.
My bank asked me to set a PIN when I opened the account and I can change it whenever I want through their app/site or through almost any ATM
Even if that's true, Australia covers 7 million sqkm. Eyeballing from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Australia, I'd say at least 0.5 million sqkm seem super habitable. That's more than enough to support 25 million. For comparison France isn't super crowded, it's about the same size and has 65 million people...
"Teracompany?" "Mega" is the SQUARE ROOT of the size of the biggies.
For reference, Australia's GDP went from $1.57t in 2013, to $1.38 in 2017.

Nearly all nations tanked similarly, but only when priced in US dollars. It was caused by a record USD bull run. The USD gained a lot of ground vs the AUD in just two years.

Germany went from $3.88t to $3.36t one year later.

France went from $2.85t to $2.43t one year later.

Canada went from $1.84t to $1.55t in two years.

Japan went from $6.2t in 2012, to $4.4t in 2015. I assure you, their economy didn't actually contract by 29% in three years. That's solely due to the dollar / yen exchange. They didn't shutter a third of their stores or factories. A year later their USD GDP value jumped by ~11%, solely due to the exchange rate, their economic production did not expand by 11%.

The US dollar dropping by a considerable amount during the Bush years, was similarly responsible for artificially inflating the GDP of Australia (and all nations) in USD terms.
Did you miss this part "Yet the majority of Australia’s 3 million square miles is uninhabitable desert, and even many of the greener parts along the coast struggle to secure adequate supplies of fresh water and face periodic drought and wildfires."
You'd be surprised at some of the things that generate massive edit wars on Wikipedia though:

https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/wikipedia-...
How can NASA return to the Moon? By making everything reusable, chief says
Japan plans sovereign wealth fund to finance US infrastructure
You can try gitlab and gitlab-runner
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/
I only needed to cross the river once and I'm horrified that there is only a rusty boat and I will complain about that

I will refuse to cross the lake until necessary at which point I will evaluate if the safety of my life is worth more than the rusty boat, to which the answer is yes, so I build a new boat.
Physics in Clojure
Indeed I've only got 2 pins across all cards. My reasoning is if I'm half asleep and put the wrong pin in once I can just use the other. If I had more than one I might mess up 3 times and my card is swallowed by the machine and I have to get a new one sent out

This is mainly a recent change, as with contactless I rarely have to use the PIN
The Mind Wanders
You need to provide evidence for your claims, specially more if you’re going to trow around numbers. For example why 95%? Why not 5%? Or why not 80%?

Please understand that unsubstantiated comments are not constructive for a fruitful discussion. Take a look at the HN guidelines for more information.
Black is excellent ideed, and solves the problem of having code compatible with PEP8 once and for all.

flake8 is a linter that doesn't need much config, and you can config it to give you only "serious" errors and not stylistic issues.

I gave a talk on these subjects last year at the Paris Open Source Summit: https://speakerdeck.com/sfermigier/python-quality-engineerin... (NB: Black didn't exist yet at the time).
Because the US has good tech?
Did Germany really has grown only 1% if we consider migration and the refugee crisis?

WRT to the article Australia seems to be paradoxically "big" and small at the same time (it's the biggest country after Brazil), with the big desert areas making its habitable area much smaller than one could suppose (Japan has a similar problem, even though it's bigger than Germany)
I might want a million dollars but have no idea how to earn it nor enough power to force everyone to give me their money.

Now give me my million dollars!

Let’s be real. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
It can be simply achieved via income tax change. There’s already a tax rebate depending on the degree of ‘remoteness’. But it’s a political hot potato because the majority of the population lives in three cities.
> I've never seen this type of thing in London.

This type of thing is everywhere.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/catcalls-whi...

"Nearly half of young women in London were sexually harassed in public last year, with many forced to endure unwanted male attention on buses and trains, a new study shows."
Tim Cook's Email to Employees About Apple's $1 Trillion Milestone
> Massive wealth, concentrated in a few hands, does not really make the rest of us poorer.

Yes it does.

>But I would imagine the very wealthy would have a big interest in effectively researching longevity, revolutionizing healthcare, faster travel, maybe even building a 'comfortable' space station in a Lagrangian point

Your view of what the very wealthy have an interest in is naive.
The world would be in a much better place if global organizations (WTO, EU, NATO..) simply enforced their own charters.
Tesla’s earnings call yesterday was a piece of performance art
Facebook et al. make money by harvesting your data and using it so other people can try to sell you stuff.

Apple makes money by holding your data hostage to convince you to buy expensive hardware.

That said, Apple's business model doesn't require them to violate your privacy -- to derive value, they only need to hold the data you give them, not really do anything with it. Facebook's and Google's business model is only possible with a complete disregard for your privacy rights.
They do exactly what you describe. Moving to Adelaide, for example, gets you 5 points. I believe it can be even more for country towns if you possess much-needed skills eg. are a doctor.
I think it is excusable in this case, because there is a lot of leading space between the lines and most paragraphs are short.

Have you tried reading a few pages? It grotesque really distracting in this particular case or is it just your general experience?
I said those because, a US citizen stole IP from GE, but sent it back to Chinese companies.

Hence, I clearly mentioned why I don't trust Chinese companies, whereas the misinterpretation here is automatically the assumption that I have a problem with Chinese as a race, which isn't true.
And it is slower, really noticeably slower in terms of startup time than the old calc.exe in windows 7 and before. Not to mention it covers 50% of the screen for no reason.
Building a Scalable Full-Stack CMS with Quasar and Hadron (Node.js)
For the ascii art thing, I tend to use tig, but alias is great, if for no other reason, to remove the passive-aggressive git thing of not doing the obvious non-destructive thing when you mistype a command and it suggest the correct spelling.
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The Taiwanese tech sector is another target: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2018/04/19/2003...

The article also mentions the previous Nanya case that made national headlines in Taiwan. These incidents don't make it on Hacker News or US media, though.
I've always thought the opposite. If your GDP increases by 1% but so does your population, then you've effectively gained nothing in GDP per capita.
I cringe when i hear western european leaders talk about how their countries must accept immigration from third world countries to "save the economy" or "stabilize the social service systems". Even if these immigrants end up to be net tax payers after all the costs of feeding, housing, integrating these people... well, guess what, eventually they get old too and this circle starts over.
> and would require modulation up to RF

Can you elaborate? Seems to me it's working without any additional analogue circuitry ...
But R... is a language for statistics. It's not a language for anything else.
RStudio is pretty good now, I have never had issues with it. But you could, you know, use your extensive programming skills to use something else?

It's not that packages are useful. It's frankly that they are necessary.
R is a complete statistical package that allows you do to your job or do research.
It's the only statistical package that does this for free.

Given that there are no alternatives, it's hard to even see your point here. You wanna switch languages because you don't like R? Great, but now you can not do your job. What's the point?

In research, where R is used, you have to run a lot of models per project in a short amount of time. You could theoretically go back to the paper. Often, understanding the model on paper is quite different from understanding the implementation. So after some study, you dig up the code (in R), and programm the model into another language (where I think Python will be the only option bc. of NumPy).
And then you have spent a couple of days doing basically nothing. Now you have wasted everyone's time, and you probably have bugs or don't implement a minor details correctly so that your results differ from R, so that you are giving wrong results or at least invite issues with replication...

Look, I don't like using R either. For my research, I use prefer to use Matlab as I anyway do have to program most of the things myself.

But when it comes to running quick stats analysis, I sure as hell fire up R, just like everyone else. I'd be a total idiot if I go and write up every standard and non-standard method in my language of choice. Also, I'd be fired.

No, R is not for you, since you care about 64bit numbers and typecasting elegance and like to write everything yourself.

But R is really popular with many other people, people who can fire it up, for free, do some rather advanced stats analyses without spending weeks of prep, and get their results out fast and in a reliable, replicatable manner.
I looked at the paper, and wouldn't really call cividis an iteration of viridis. It's more of a conversion of viridis to "CVD colorspace" (can you say that?), with a few tweaks applied.
What data of mine is Apple holding hostage? As far as I can remember, I’ve only ever brought Apple hardware because I like it so much.
They are prepared to give up Taiwan more than their iPhones anyway. Not that China has a very good shot at it.
> Romania is within the EU and there is free movement of people. Meaning, they can relocate here for work.

This is something that people seems to get confused about quite a lot. The legal ability to move somewhere isn't the only thing that prevents people from moving somewhere, there can be far stronger ties to a place that prevent someone leaving.

For instance, I live in the UK and I want to live in Spain or Italy (I want better weather and I like Mediterranean food). I can't really do that because my kids are in school and I don't want to disrupt their education, and my parents and parents in law live relatively close by and within the next few years will need more care, and my wife isn't as keen on the idea as I am.

Also, the residents of Flint, Michigan. The water there is polluted and it is negatively affecting their health. Even though they are legally free to leave at any point and go anywhere else in the US they don't.

When you take education, wealth, family ties and even the ability to learn a language into account there are a lot of people for whom staying put is pretty much the only option, and at that point they have to make the best of the situation around them.
I think the question is what do they have to gain from not stealing? They’re trying to modernize and catch up, so at some point they will catch up and they won’t be able to steal anymore. At some point it would be unfair if China steals foreign tech and then sells it back, but it’s not at that point yet. Currently they steal tech to catch up, and provide cheap manual labor in return.
I had a very good experience using PyInstaller for a few of my Python programs, it made "binaries" out of them really easily.
Our GDP "growth" is largely because property price inflation is somehow considered economic growth.

As an Australian, my conclusion is that Australia has failed to diversify its economy. Money comes in through mining, agriculture, property sales and to a lesser extent tertiary education. The rest is a services economy, and I think the joke about Australia being a country where we all serve each other lattes captures the idea in as few words possible.

I've just left the US, and instead of going home I went to Europe to start my company. Denmark is amazingly progressive with how it spends its public purse setting up an environment for innovation. Australia on the other hand seems to have abandoned any idea of establishing a sovereign wealth fund (mining tax) and instead blown millions courting US dollars which hasn't succeeded in turning Australia into a foreign branch of SV.

For a longer read, this is obviously one person's analysis, but I fail to find a flaw in his conclusions. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/australias-economy-house-card...
Rhino3D integrated Blender’s open-source Cycles renderer.

https://github.com/mcneel/RhinoCycles
> Technology is not power. It enables power. If you engineer the technology to enable only a specific kind of power, then you the engineer and the technology you made can be called evil.

That's a clear contradiction. One one hand you acknowledge the choice of the technologist to be a power of evil, on the other you surmise that, as long as they are willfully ignorant to how the tech is used, they are merely a conduit of political power. It sounds like denial of an uncomfortable truth.
Property rights != intellecutal property rights.

If we lived in caves and stole pointy sticks, it would be a wholly different crime than say me seeing you start a fire in your cave and mimicking it in my cave without paying royalties.

Intellecutal property is an advanced construct enforced wholly within the governing laws of a country, or specifically negotiated international trade agreements. Intellectual property rights are not a natural or inherent right of people.
Rumor has it China stop importing plastic after this documentary came out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooRVhRt1p54
For me it's no so much a "Microsoft is inferior because linux did this first" as it is "Why the hell are they only just copying this now?"
Pylint is a bit hard to configure, use Prospector

Prospector does a better job and it prevents you from wasting time with what essentially are stylistic choices and BS like a hard 80 chars limit per line (remember, A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds)

And yes, yes, automated stilling tools are better

Intelisense is needed but even the standard vim autocompletion plugin does an ok job
But why so exact (84%)? It does not add any meaning for us humans, but enables fingerprinting/tracking. I'd argue four levels should be enough: >75% >50% >25% and <25%.
I'm not GP, but let me try to explain.

The key is to treat people as responsible adult professionals with the best intentions. This way communication will happen organically and proactively. For organic proactive communication async channels are ideal. When you bump into a problem you need help with you message someone you think can help. They will eventually see your message and find the time to reply (seeing and replying won't always happen at the same time). This type of communication is extremely efficient and sustainable. Sync communication also has its benefits and they're trivial to set up using async comms if/when the need arises. This does not mean that recurring synchronous communications aka. standups are bad per se but their value is highly context dependent and oftentimes they are not the best solution.

On the other hand if you treat people as irresponsible children that needs constant supervision then, in my humble opinion, nothing will save you on the long run and implementing mandatory protocols like a daily standup are just surface treatments.
It sounds, though, as if this stranger approached politely and respectfully and didn’t press the issue when you indicated lack of interest. A man who did the same would probably not be harassing.

This law is clearly not targeting any potential romantic interaction between strangers on the street. “You’re attractive” can be harassment in a workplace setting (where power dynamics and standards of professionalism are different) without being harassment in a different setting.

This law is targeting catcalling and men who will follow a woman down the street. These behaviors are power plays and are intimidating in a way that a polite and respectful approach is not.

You may never have been the target of such behaviors, but if she travels frequently on foot, your wife almost certainly has been, and can likely tell you just how awful it is to be the target of them - ranging from disempowering to mortifying to terrifying.
You could maybe make an argument that something like iMessage is a platform lock-in.
Legal AI and the Industrialisation of Cognition (2017)
You're not supposed to share it, so it really is your personal PIN identification number!!!
Exactly. I'm not blaming them, I'm blaming the West for being so complacent.
I think you're right then in terms of it not being technically a recession.

> Nearly all nations tanked similarly

Is this true though?
Does Working in an Open-Plan Office Affect Your Health?
Not at all. There are people who are controversial because their opinions are difficult or challenging, and there are people who are controversial because their opinions are provably wrong or their actions are demonstrably hostile.

Neutrality between fact and proven falsehood isn't neutrality but pandering. Noting when discussing Mr. Galloway that his conduct has repeatedly fallen far from truth and decency is a reasonable and well-referenced baseline. We wouldn't require an admin on a page discussing the physical structure of the earth to recuse themselves because they had expressed a public opinion that it wasn't flat and carried on the back of a turtle, would we?
If there's someone exceptional, there are often numerous stipends.
Japan for example has been the poster child for the premise that you desperately need immigration and need to avoid population contraction.

The better solution is to allow your population to contract and seek to boost the per capita output over time through augmentation with higher automation - robotics, AI, et al. The overall net economy size may stagnate or contract... so what, that's not the most important thing. The most important thing is the quality of life of each person.

Less pressure on the environment, less pressure on housing, higher standard of living per capita.

The primary argument I see in the developed world for needing endless overall population expansion, is that a lot of entitlement programs are shaky ponzi schemes that require ever larger numbers of new workers to pay for the last generation's benefits or the entire thing collapses in a shattered social contract. Sweden for example is dealing with that debate:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-26/now-even-...
> well, guess what, eventually they get old too and this circle starts over.

Our economies are built on the assumption of endless growth. Those immigrants better have children above the replacement rate.
You are right, it is smaller than it seems, but there is plenty of room to expand. We are quite spread out currently.

Not that I am keen on ridiculous population growth, but just interesting to think about.
If Australia doesn't have resources for immigration, then what country does?
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Am I the only one that gets annoyed by the use of 'PIN Number' which is 'Personal Identification Number Number'? It annoys the !@#%$ out of me!
Interesting then, as when I was in Paris it seemed catcalling happened even when I was accompanying my girlfriend, whereas I never had the same happen elsewhere. Perhaps the behaviour when a male partner is present is different.
The 1% of the population you are talking about needs 20 years before adding to the economy. The results will be visible once they will enter the market.
There is a unique problem though.

If you have a shitty action movie, it'll still have action. Some fantasy movie will still have some fantasy and story telling, no matter how shitty. Even the shittiest B-movies manage to tell a story and have some action, which is fine for the genre, you get some of it.

But with horror the problem is that if you fuck it up, you don't get horror, you get torture porn or reflex training (jump scare). If you don't nail the horror, it seizes to be horror.
Sorry to tell you that there is a big difference between regular immigrants and refugees. A regular Immigrant to Europe usually is a net win from day one because they have been educated for free in their country of origin, while the upfront cost of raising someone in your own country with your own taxes is quite high (Kindergarten, school, university...).
Maybe you took my mention of the word 'bureaucracy' without reading the implied sarcasm, my point still stands though, the Chinese were the first to have their IP stolen. Although I am sure that, as of now, there is a little bit of give and take, not that I am proficient enough in vue.js to really know.