skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bad design because of the low contrast text. There used to be a superior version at https://bestmotherfucking.website/ , but it isn't loading correctly for me on Firefox.
Every definition of Europe I am familiar with defines the area as east of the Urals. What bits of Europe are on the other side? Were you perhaps thinking of the area south of the Carpathian chain?
Both being considered evil by a significant portion are a direct result of their own past actions. Saying "it is unfair to be judged morally for your actions while in power" is fundamentally about as much of an excuse as "I didn't shoot the guy I paid people to do it and they were just following orders so really nobody is at fault here!"

ICE's conduct isn't following the laws unless there were changes that called for putting tearing children away from families to place in steel cages in the custody of known child molesters and psychotropically drugging children without specialized medical licensing. Even if you accept their job the way they beyond the pale. They are literally acting in ways that would get a work critically panned as having such cartoonishly evil strawmen villains a few years ago. Don't fall for the hypernormalization efforts.
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Birth rates decline because of female education. This is such an established fact that your pet theory sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory "the moon landings were faked".
They actually are the world police. Sovereignty, nations, and conflict between them are part of human nature.
Yes I've wondered the same. 1970s solid-state electronics full of gold, metals lying around everywhere, rare earth metals in old cellphones, recylcable glass and plastics... Wanna co-found a startup that buys old landfills?
I'm curious about how you ended up inspecting the layout.
I wonder what they auctioned for. Does anyone know?
"Don't be evil"

if you marketed yourself in such a way, you shouldn't be surprised if the general public applies different standards to you.
It's the same on Linux. GNU grep supports Unicode just fine, assuming, of course, your system's locale settings are configured correctly. :-)
I've been noticing ground level external emergency shutoff switches for roof based solar around my city, so i imagine its something thats been making its way into fire/electrical/building codes recently.

They're unsecured as far as i have noticed, so i imagine the troublemakers will be pulling them sooner or later.
From a business standpoint, I think it's only stupid for Google not to revisit such a huge market, then I wonder if they really have other choices that make business sense?
Except that I've heard the "bad times ahead" mantra so many times over the years that I simply don't believe it anymore.

We were supposed to have collapsed by now. Meh.

The entire opinion piece is fearmongering bs. Self-driving cars were even thrown in as some kind nefarious bugaboo. China taking over Taiwan, etc. All bullcrap.
Seeing how launching "a limited Chinese lite version" went for many many many Western companies in China, I can tell following:

Communists are totally ok with these limited versions, they are more than eager to "lure in" foreign dotcoms. Their logic is: "let them grow business in China, when the time comes, their business in China becomes so big, that it can be held hostage, we can demand them anything"

Look at AirBnB:

They were swearing on the graves of their fathers that you ID verification data is gone the moment it is verified, .... yet you will be super surprised to see that if you book a place in China, ALL YOUR ID DATA will be automatically filed into the form that hotels have to send to Chinese ministry of interior.
The point was that there was no uproar, no real investigations, into America's interference in other countries.
> The iPad GUI is so trivially easy to immediately learn to use

It really isn't. I've only handled an iOS device a couple of times and I still have no idea how to switch back to my previous app.
See my response to sibling comment. Emojis are a very poor language and very culture dependent far more than words in a natural language like English or whatever.
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If government can’t produce collective action, then market forces will never overcome the prisoners dilemma on its own.
Not always! https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Right, I forgot about that. But there’s still room to ask why women don’t want children.
So now instead of the expense of one cake, you have the expense of two cakes, and you have a cake-shaped hunk of styrofoam in a one-bedroom apartment in NYC of all places.

Maddeningly absurd.
I agree to a point, but I have come across some remarkably opaque GUIs - in cars, for example.

You can have the best of both worlds if there is a well-designed API behind the GUI that also supports CLI tools. This also helps with test automation.
Yes, it's just something I think it could be useful. At least some variation on that. I wanted to check what people think about it. What do you think?
How does the utf8proc[1] library that Julia uses compare to these?

[1] http://juliastrings.github.io/utf8proc/doc/
What prevents a seller from giving a cash discount line item for cash transactions?
Yeah, was thinking the same.
Dumb inheritors threw out "old books and photos" because all they could understand was the $$$ in the accounts.
In the article it says $8000 but that was before he confirmed they were Jefferson's
You make it look like google would starve without China. Like they have to go there and participate. Shifting the blame for your lack of ethics onto some government is ridiculous in this context. My god...where is your shame?
> is there a pre-set list of "card types" with pre-set merchant fees provided by Visa/MC/etc. that issuers must choose from (whether Rewards Traditional vs. Signature, or something else) and that merchants can expect, or do issuers get to come up with their own distinct "card types" that result in different fees for the merchant?

The latter. There are presets for smaller institutions. But these fees and labels are negotiated and renegotiated between big banks and payment networks.

If JPMorgan wants to call their cards with a prime last two numbers KOOPA and pay Visa 1¢ extra for all KOOPA swipes, that would be valid. Nobody does this. Because marketing terms--at least initially--tend to correlate to the perks the issuer is giving cardholders, and thus tend to correlate with the issuer's costs. But that's all.
Well, a bit off-topic but all this naming chaos has gone way too far. Kafka/Faust and so on and so on. I found it really disturbing the way we treat and abuse such meaningful heritage.
A massive difference in the amount of censorship, for one.

Arguably (very arguably), US and EU censorship is somewhat justified by the attempt to protect individuals, but Chinese censorship is pretty blatantly about protecting existing power structures (in the name of "stability").
The difference is about the same as purchasing a firearm for self-defense vs. purchasing a firearm as part of a plan to invade someone else's house.
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Agree they are not the world police but for EU/US citizens they are our government and should reflect our views and morals.
Do we believe in censorship?
Do we believe in borderline cheap labor?

I don't have the answers but there are hard questions there, not just for our governments but for us as voters.
Doesn't fit on my full HD screen either
How about this for accuracy: "It is definitely worse to have a startup phase with the motto 'don't be evil' and then later heavily demote it once they've got everyone's data"
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I just described what most first world countries do; do you think it is Orwellian? What's your alternative?
>I think any level of collaboration with their government on restricting access to free information for the Chinese people should ABSOLUTELY BE CHALLENGED

I don't think that's the parent point, it's more that if you do consider that doing business with the Chinese state is unethical then it makes more sense to push for regulation rather than expect big multinational companies to Do The Right Thing. Right now it seems that we're in a race to the bottom and the Chinese government is making the rules.
> They have no rights and should not have any to pressure any country to push their own idea of how things should work in another country

To believe that China does not attempt to influence other countries is naive. China puts a great deal of pressure on other nations with regard to things like recognition of Taiwan or inviting the Dalai Lama to speak. These have occasionally been in the news over the last few years, e.g. China’s retaliatory measures against Norway for Liu Xiabo winning the Nobel Peace Prize, but in fact they go back decades – when Michelangelo Antonioni was showing his documentary film Chung Kuo around in the early 1970s, in European countries where a screening was organized the local Chinese embassy would raise scandal.
Vim is not primarily a CLI program, it's an interactive editor with a GUI. That this GUI is sometimes laid out in a row/column addressable terminal is besides the point.

CLI means that you operate the interface via a command line. I guess this is true for Vim if you use the Ex mode exclusively, in which case there is no context sensitive 'q'
The paywall offers a "Premium EU Ad-Free Subscription" with the following perk:

> No on-site advertising or third-party ad tracking

But trying to buy it paints a whole different story:

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Greedy assholes. Here's a PasteBin without any of the tracking bullshit: https://pastebin.com/raw/JqsxZfUB
Money doesn't stink.
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It's not really a "client", note. There is no server involved. It's just a standalone utility that reads/writes a database stored in a file in JSON. The database format is undocumented.
Unless you both have different billing and shipping addreses, your accounts are already "connected" in their system.
Oh my sweet summer techy. An algorithm alone does not make a usable or successful product.
Happened in South Africa. Opposition parties were all united against apparently errant president Jacob Zuma of the ruling ANC.

His fall removed the common enemy, and the discourse devolved to identity/race/class politics as the country polarises around the "land issue."[0] Non-white South Africans previously united around the common desire to liberate themselves from apartheid. With that enemy removed, society finds itself fracturing as the cracks in a democratic rainbow nation are strained.

Obama gave a great speech where he touched on what it means to be a democrat (among other things) at the Nelson Mandela Centenary Lecture.[1] His analysis of the current state of affairs was sufficiently general that it applied both in the South African and Global contexts. Definitely a sober note in the political narrative after the ousting of the former pres.

[0] https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/breaking-anc-will-su...

[1] https://youtu.be/6cWYiJKCWdI?t=2h14m56s
Hmm, I could have sworn the URL linked to a shorter article when I read it. Or maybe I just missed that part. Thanks!
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The worst part of these tariffs is the uncertainty. We deal in around 5 shipments a month from Asia ( not China) and had all our shipments held up at customs for more than a week. And then customs charged us 100% of merchandise fees as storage fees plus additional customs and duties.

The main problem is that there is no alterative to US for retail. EU is mired with VAT/GST and bureaucracy
The solution to the problem you described is financial literacy, not decentralized MLMs.

Nothing stopping people parking their savings (if any) in mutual funds, Bitcoin HODLing is not the only choice for protection against inflation.

I would argue that it's not even protection, b/c nothing guaranties that artificially-limited supply model will work in the long term.
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I believe that it's a combination of a satisfying sound (to the user), a complete disregard for the comfort of those within earshot of the user, and a lot of marketing to justify luxury pricing for what is now a commodity item. The target demographic for these skews younger from what I've seen.
The price of a fancy wedding cake is the absurd part.

Even better would be ditching this fake cake thing altogether, but if you’re going for the traditional playbook, this is pragmatic.
This is great. The command line arguments are a bit obtuse at times. It would be stellar if there was an --interactive mode or a --shell mode, at the minimum.
The quote he's spoofing is from Reagan, and there is a not small group of Americans who think the original quote was unduly harmful to politics and by extension social and cultural mores in the US.
Are there any proper mechanical keyboards for Mac? I've looked around and haven't found anything that fits what I'm looking for.

I know Das makes a Mac keyboard, but the command key is too far to the left. When you look at an Apple keyboard, the command key aligns to be directly below 'x', making it easy to reach with your thumb. I think the lower height on Apple keyboards helps as well.

The closest thing I've found are a couple keyboards on Massdrop that do have the Alt/Command key further to the right but they are sold out by the time I find them.
When I read that line I though it read for a second "Don't be evil ;-)"
Very simplified:

1) Make sure that the growth medium is as close you can get to being sterile

2) Make sure that only spores from the desired mushroom is "planted" in the medium

If done properly, the desired mushroom will outcompete the others, deploy its own defence mechanisms to keep others out.
I agree in principle but in practice stacks end up "organically" being chosen as defaults regardless due to the benefits of having an active ecosystem. Tools that are technically better but not actively supported end up being sidelined by popular tools everyone knows plays nice with their chosen framework.
> Neither US or EU are the world police

If an American pays a Chinese businessman in China a bribe, that's an FCPA [1] violation. If the U.S. government wanted to prevent American technology companies from helping China's dictator build a modern dystopia, it would have precedent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act
That isn't a counterargument. Regardless of whether or not you think someone's writing is good, to your taste, or nuanced, there's still considerable (and, I think, reasonably rare) skill involved in making something that the general public wants to pluck off of the paperback shelves (or e-reader equivalent). It might be tawdry, silly, and factually inaccurate, but those qualities are orthogonal to whether or not you can write a story that people want to buy.
I'll probably not hookup fridges or anything large like that. My laptop would be fine, it uses a switching power supply to 19V (though it charges of 12 to 24V just fine).

Most of what I want to power basically uses a power supply to go to DC already including router and wifi, so it's not a problem, I just need to either find the right DCDC converter or solder one myself (I'm confident I can solder something together that should be able to hold 4 or 5 amps, above might need thicker copper plating on the PCB).
Let the mold plan the routes
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/the-brai...
It depends on the contract.

Tbh, I would prefer if things government related were set in stone. No ambiguity, send the money, be done.

The private sector can work with customers and are reliant on customers for business. This makes it so compromise and being reasonable is incentivized by additional profit.
You mean like "do no evil"?

I have absolutely no faith at all that any large company can really stick to some moral compass. Eventually money corrupts all. Any individual morality and sense of responsibility gets diluted to the point where it disappears completely.

I mean, let's take your reasoning to its logical conclusion: I think most would agree that not paying taxes isn't very ethical, does it mean that we shouldn't have any laws and regulations and controlling bodies surrounding these topics because it's a line "a tech company shouldn't cross"?

If you don't put a cop on the line and there's money on the other side I can assure you that it will be crossed. Raising outrage at the company is not an effective way to enforce the law (although it can work at times).
The original article at Quanta Magazine has been discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17575585
Please don't get me wrong. Is this for people who works on non-desktop OSes? I mean what's the point of a command line task manager on a desktop? RAM usage?
Discussion about octonions from 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17575585 (186 comments)
You’re an immoral and evil person. Anyone who makes excuses for the powerful restricting the rights of people with limited power is a horrible human being. You should be absolutely ashamed of yourself.
This site is lame... you decline their tracking and they send you to a plain text version of the front page, not the article. Fuck them.
> I wonder if Chinese people will be able to search for Winnie the Pooh

For context, Xi Jinping's feelings get hurt when people point out that he physically resembles Winnie the Pooh [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/18/15993136/winnie-the-pooh-...
I was curious too, seems they filed for chapter 11 and are hoping that debt gets canceled as well?

https://money.cnn.com/2015/07/22/news/companies/caesars-bank...
what battery are you using? is it possible to use standard x200/x201 batteries (including extended capacity ones) ?
The explanation is quite good but is there even more detail on what the assembly instructions are doing on a line by line basis? I’ve only written MIPS assembly and that was a long time ago.
Nice, hopefully this will make my trip to China less annoying.
Are you joking? All you need to do is search for why is diversity good for business to get the further explanation that you're saying someone should just give to you. I can not believe that you are choosing not to look up the data and instead propagate your feeling- because that's what it is- that diversity is vanity. roll eyes
Almost 2 decades ago I wrote a perl script to automatically optimize open space floor plan using genetic algorithm.

The idea was to have a function, for each office worker in the office that would grade the place they are sitting in (distance to toilet, printer, lighting, space around desk, etc.) and have algorithm evolve open space plans to have best overall satisfaction and also make sure that there are no places that have very low score.

Now, this algorithm could only take existing floor plan, it could only place furniture on existing floor with existing walls but it was still nice excercise.
> impact on climate change

do cows produce significantly more methane than non-domesticated grazing animals, or are there simply many more cows than there were buffalo?
Hypothesis: the rise of the right to be forgotten in Europe served as a stepping stone. Free speech absolutists within the company could not be defeated in one step, but could be defeated in two steps.

I am not saying that right to be forgotten is halfway through from free-speech absolutism to full-blown state control of information, but come on. If you ever jumped from a high place, you know that every foot of height makes a lot of difference.
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Why is it a problem that those people are buying more land? If anything, a single owner that doesn't need the land for economic purposes can protect it much better than a bunch of individual people. My point is that people assume automatically that this is bad and must be stopped. Maybe it is good?
White on black? Seriously? Thanks to Firefox for reading mode.
The US and EU have (relatively) free markets where Chinese companies can compete. But not the other way. They can simply stop trading with China unless China opens their market as well.
This company bought lists of personal data, and made marketing telephone calls to the people on this list, and made no checks with the Telephone Preference Service (the UK version of a Do Not Call list). They also didn't have clear opt in permission from anyone on the list to make marketing calls.

They made 75,000 calls.

Each one of these calls broke UK law. They broke PECR. The old DPA allows the regulator to impose a fine. The maximum fine available was £500,000.

Even in these circumstances (no opt in permission; lists bought without permission; no checking of TPS lists; continued calls even after being asked to stop) the company didn't receive the maximum available fine.

I post this here to try to reassure people about GDPR. You'd have to be Satan himself and do terrible things to data to come anywhere near the maximum fine.
Near-exhaustive search of what? You're handwaving away that there isn't a stateless formal graph to search - rather a stochastic, everchanging environment. Again: how do you near-exhaustively search that?

(In other words, yes, it might be eventually possible to have self-driving vehicles, but pretending that the search space is bounded, or even near-exhaustively searchable a la chess - that's just pure technobabble)
I highly recommend you watch her thesis on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBTUVg91bao

You don’t have to be a math wiz to appreciate the octonion model and it’s implications for fundamental particle physics.

It really is a beautiful insight of profound proportions.
It is law bro - just it's only law for federal contractors or subcontractors with more than 50 people and at a certain revenue level that haven't met the 4/5ths rule. #doyourresearch is becoming a common theme in this thread...
So if it's not illegal, in your book, a company should just do it?

Let's say Saudi Arabia approaches Facebook and wants access to profile and location data to help round up all the gay people in the country to be executed. Maybe they even offer to pay a lot of money, so it'll be profitable.

That's fine with you? Those local laws, amirite?
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I believe free speech is sacrosanct and if you start chipping away from it even just a little, bad things follow. There can be no free society without free speech.

The way to do away with hate is to shine upon it with the light of open discussion, not hiding it by labeling it “hate speech” and hoping it goes away. Hate hidden grows bolder.
1. The size of emoji makes them difficult to grok, probably more so when you have to context switch between language comprehension and determining the emotion of the face. Also factor in how they look different on different platforms.

2. What about emoji's that aren't faces, or that have taken on a different meaning (see, eggplant or that infernal clapping emoji that's taken over twitter)
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Im a huge fan of learning about space, but sending human bodies seems impractical outside the novelty.

Everything is unfathomably far away.

There are lots of obstacles, near light speed travel is a necessity and we are nowhere near this ability, or that ability with a human undergoing the acceleration to light speed.

EDIT: So I suppose I'm suggesting putting our resources toward those beneficial causes on earth is better use.
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