skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comparison to Soviet Union is problematic but definitely more relevant than US investment scenarios that you highlighted.

The US scenario you highlighted would be more comparable to Chinese investment in the last 25 years, no?

The clear difference between Soviet Union and China is that China has a growing and robust economy, with a firm grip on the situation whereas the Soviet Union was aching away on so many lies.

Chinese fabricated financials can be papered over with any kind of magic the state wants to apply to it - so long as the economy continues to move forward the numbers will say anything they want them to say.

The articles comparison may be overblown but it's not without reason.

I believe that the China boom has mostly been had, and we're going to see lower growth from here on in; that said, it'll be consistent and positive and they aren't going to disappear as a superpower.
That is... A horrible reading of that passage. It completely cherry picked and pulled it out of context.

From the Today's English Version,

Paul's Letter to the Ephesians: Chapter 1, verses 1-11

From Paul, who by God's will is an apostle of Christ Jesus--
To God's people in Ephesus, who are faithfulin their life in union with Christ Jesus.

2-) May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.

3-) Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! For in our union with Christ he has blessed us by giving us every spiritual blessing in the heavenly world.

4-) Even before the world was made, God had chosen us to be his through our union with Christ, so that we would be holy and without fault before him, because of his love.

5-) God had already decided that through Jesus Christ he would make us his children--this was his pleasure and purpose.

6-) Let us praise God for his glorious grace, for the free gift he gave us in his dear Son!

7-) For by the blood of Christ we are set free, that is, our sins are forgiven. How great is the grace of God,

8-) which he gave to us in such large measure! In all his wisdom and insight

9-) God did what he had purposed, and made known to us the secret plan he had already decided to complete by means of Christ.

10-) This plan,which God will complete when the time is right, is to bring all creation together, everything in heaven and on earth, with Christ as head.

11-) All things are done according to God's plan and decision; and God chose us to be his own people in Union with Christ because of his own purpose based on what he had decided from the very beginning.

Nothing in there screams "poverty is an affliction God amounts on the sinner."

You might get a hint of it around verse 14, but that verse is contingent on the Spirit granting complete freedom to the faithful.

The entire section is a call to praise God.

I don't know who this betterofchuck is, but he seems to have a penchant for cherrypicking verse to fit his argument. His interpretation is outright sickening, and bordering on the blasphemous.

Also, America DOES tend to see destitution as a self-inflicted condition, but the main way in which disgust is usually elicited is by the perception of those destitute who refuse to find a way to better themselves. A central American value is to FIGHT for one's own liberty, not to grovel at the feet of others to have it delivered. This disgust can be elicited just as easily by the wealthy as well.

Show me someone who makes an honest effort at lifting themselves up, and I'll show you someone living up to the American ideal.

It isn't pretty, but in my life, THAT is how America has worked.
Vanguard is practically synonymous with index investing. They have everything to gain from letting retail investors continue to believe the stock market is a free ride. Why would they cash that in for a one time profit gain?
See also the double meaning of “career”.
> It says a lot, IMHO, that the U.S. didn't pursue a global empire at that point.

I mean, there's a lot of practical reasons for post colonialism that don't have to do with any altruism on the part of the United States.
This is why Hospitals should be run as public services instead of private companies.
Dell's prove just as good as the carbons aside from keyboard. The dell keyboard is miniscule.

The x1 has what feels like a full sized keyboard in a lightweight package, lightweight like a macbook air but with a nice mechanical keyboard. The dell feels like a netbook that found some big boy pants. It's keyboard is atrocious/typing feels cramped.
This is one way to make a profit off the patient. I wonder if it would have happened if she had no insurance. Highly unlikely as the hospital wouldn't be able to milk the patient for money.

I have no idea how to find it, but your comment reminds me of some horrifying article about the addiction treatment industry leeching all the money they could from patients with good insurance without really getting them better, not sincerely trying to do so.
I know this intersection. It's at the corner of State and Division, in the heart of the Rush Street neighborhood.

The likely reason there are many tickets there is that there are many bars there, and great crowds of people who have had a bit too much to drink. There are also great crowds of cops there every weekend.

Without looking at the data, I'd expect that many of the tickets are getting written in the middle of the night, when people are too inebriated, or too distracted, to read signs carefully.
>In the 1950s, the Soviet economy grew faster than that of any other major country barring Japan.

I'd like to read more about what was happening then, was it largely military investment?
The police chased the victim instead of the perpetrator believing the hospital despite the hospital's obvious lies. Yes, it's amazing they did finally stop but giving them credit for chasing a sick girl to another state is preposterous.
one of my graduate advisors, William E Balch, was around in the Woese lab at the time. He was doing much of the methanogen 16S RNA work at the time, the data that spurred the idea to break from prokarya (till RNA analysis all they had was phenotypic observation). The methanogens need to be cultured in a reductive environment, and you do that by maintaining a 1% hydrogen in nitrogen atmosphere; and there was, apparently, once a grad student who accidentally lit the whole thing on fire and somehow survived the explosion.
I see you are neglecting to mention the support contract that came with it, including its very likely absurd SLAs on response times.
I did although I also made games on the side too back when I was doing business software. I’m now about to exit the games industry after 7 years. Unless you’re into something super specific like graphics you may not see a huge contrast as a general coder. I originally got into programming because of my love of games and I wanted to work in games which is why I felt I had to do at least try to get into games at some point and I’m glad I did. I will still makes games in the future but it’s time for a change.
> Some people see this as an unacceptable assault on the idea of a meritocracy, while others see it as a reasonable price to pay to push society away from sexism and racism by expanding the bubbles.

Incredibly well put. I wish more conversations around affirmative action were framed with this in mind. Trying to argue around this is disingenuous from both sides.

I think the worst part about arguing the angle of meritocracy is that there is always chance and bias from subtle unknowable sources in any attempt at meritocracy. These policies don't perturb the quality of your ideal that much, you're just more aware of the defect.
Someday you'll work for a government and have to provide a support contract, and that first one will be woefully, absurdly underpriced. Your second one will answer the question you just asked here - why does interacting with the government cost so much money?
But a plate identifies a vehicle _and_ its owner—not just a vehicle.
I have an apple laptop and an android based phone (from One Plus).

One has a broken keyboard that I'm desperately trying to hold together with tape and one hasn't. Hint: the not broken device was a third of the price of a new iPhone X, while the broken one is more than 3 times as expensive. I want you to be right so bad..

Just sticking to phones: I switched from iPhone to android years ago and honestly things are more stable over here (the legacy iOS I used back than VS any android version I tried).
I would say that happens normally, but recent reports say Nvidia has a large glut of older silicon. I'm sure they want to clear that inventory.
A much smaller military!
Ask HN: What are you reading?
What book, article, paper, etc. are you reading right now?

I just finished Ben Rhodes' book The World As It Is, about his eight years in the Obama administration as the U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications. I have always found the scale of a U.S. president's duties pretty awe-inspiring so I found the book fascinating. If you share that interest, I would also recommend Days of Fire about the Bush administration.

I've also recently finished up Into the Black, the true story of Space Shuttle Columbia's first mission, and the coming together of the shuttle program as a whole. It was filled with interesting details, though I did feel like it jumped around a bit.
Libcsptr – Smart pointers for the C programming language
That's interesting. I've often had to pay small to medium-sized amounts - always reasonable, I might add - for the price of producing said information.
I was told by an unreliable source that it was W E Balch who pushed Woese to think about them being their own domain - although certainly aprochyphal, that doesn't surprise me given Bill's personality.
If anything, this is an angle at manipulating the Fed into keeping rates low

> If the facts change — with, say, the Federal Reserve delaying anticipated interest-rate hikes in response to a weaker economy — the recession forecast will change, too, Mr. Davis said.
I think the main point was that the Chinese investment seems to at times fly in the face of where trade really is / is going.

The us interstate system was where there was trade already and not many alternate routes / better systems.

China's strategic concers are obvious and make sense...and yet if push came to shove and they were cut off from the sea, are they really trading via rail with Europe or others in that scenario anyway? / is incurring the costs of whole backup systems making sense?

Personally I don't have a clue how any of this plays out, just speaking to what the article is indicating.
What are you on about??
But "strategy guides" are in the former category, aren't they?

And for reference all my background tabs in chrome are using plenty of memory but <1% CPU total. It helps that the browser has aggressive throttling for background tabs.

Edit: it's even more aggressive than I thought https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/chrom...
> The last I knew, in the U.S. the fax still carried some legal recognition/privileges that email did not.

Much of this is the direct consequence of fax being carried over the POTS copper telephone network, where there is some belief (not necessarily accurate in today's world) that the link between sender and receiver over a POTS line is free of "men in the middle". Therefore fax is viewed as 'secure' due to this belief.
If we're talking climate change, you'd need to go back tens of thousands / millions of years to see if recent fires are out of the norm, with recent being defined as 10,000 years or so.
When is...dear educated technologists...the last time you even slightly considered working for city government? Alas, our best and brightest aren't serving the people. They toil at advertising.
I'm pretty sure I saw Bezos and Mattis, on two separate news feeds, simultaneously make a secret Freemason hand signal.
That’s pretty sweet. I’m tempted to build some kind of Android UI wrapper for it.
I know, right! Seeing that typo ruined my week.
Yeah, the one based on the mobile version.
It's a shame they can't/won't criminally prosecute this man.
Why would such a massively important backbone of US defense want to rely on only a single provider? It should be using all 3 of the major players (or others) and even some on premise stuff. This seems like a nightmare waiting to happen, and crony capitalism at its finest. The fact that Amazon says in the article that using fail overs to other providers is some hassle...is just amazing.
U+203D is interrobang.
He probably receives a hearing aid from the VA because he was in the military, irregardless of how he lost his hearing.
The FDA OK’d an app as a form of birth control
This! I had 15 minutes remaining one day in battery life, installed tlp & was good for another 45. Massive improvement.

If you don't want that carbon though, I'll buy it off ya if it's a gen5.
Google still tracks you through the web if you turn off Location History
If that were the case, wouldn't the municipality be required to provide a defense attorney? Or is that only for felonies?
If the site layouts and design weren't clue enough on how old this is, the high res photo links are 640x480 pixels!
Australian here (we speak English and have kangaroos, not in the towns to be clear but they do outnumber the people). Australian personal tax returns are getting easier and easier with the move to electronic filing combined with pre-filling of income from employers and financial institutions. Log onto MyGov, check the pre-filled information which is about 90% of what you need then figure out the remaining special cases such as charitable donations, work related expenses and you are done. Accountants and tax filing firms are nervous and a bit worried but not showing that publicly or apparently lobbying.
On the other hand doesn't match much with reality, and "regulatory capture" is well documented and it seems that is exactly what has happened here. The big 3, AWS, GSC and Azure should all three be used, at the very least as fail overs.
Leading Crypto-Research Firm Is Cracking Down on Supported Cryptocurrencies
Got a notice today stating that research firm institutions use for crypto is delisting a bunch of coins! Here is part of it

"Our decision to delist many supported cryptocurrencies is a result of a rapidly growing interest from institutions to participate in the cryptocurrency markets. This decision allows both institutional and retail investors to feel confident investing in a selective amount of cryptocurrencies. The amendments are to ensure the safety of investors..."
Go 1.11 Rc1 released
Yes, I have implemented a few content-based recommendation engines (referring to Chudi's taxonomy). The biggest existential threat is dealing with colleagues that want to question your work for not using f^xyz method that they have heard about. Having a straightforward evaluation framework in place to evaluate your results will go a long way towards ensuring the adoption and longevity of what you create.

I grow my own analysis code but use search APIs for storage and access (Lucene or Algolia)
I need a reality check sometimes. As a Russian, I naturally look at abusing cops or lying to phone company clerks as a good thing, but it's obviously my national deformation.

However, he is honest to his readers, which is the best honesty we could ask for from a book.
Nope, you're stuck in your little garden by yourself for now.

You can install google `messages` for android based sms now, and KDE connect lets you do the same without google involved, well, assuming you use android :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdecon...
And probably designed in the early 80s

I thought Sunplus was a bit newer than that (90s), but a quick search reveals that your guess was pretty close:

https://www.sunplus.com/about/milestones.asp

Founded in 1990.
> The big differences to me are that faxes don't need an "account" to send/receive files, the machines are simpler and cheaper, they have far fewer intermediary technical and user issues, and their network is way more reliable. If you depend on sending and receiving documents, faxes are light-years more reliable and less complicated than, say, e-mail.

You most definitely need an "account" with your telephony provider in order to receive anything.
How Your Daily Routine Can Become a Portal to High Performance
I generally agree with the idea that most white men are not intentionally conspiring to exclude women and people of color.

But I see women as having a special issue that a black man generally lacks: It's inherently challenging to network as a woman because a lot of business socializing that is clearly and obviously networking when two hetero men do it together gets really, really confusing when a man and a woman do the same thing. It easily looks and feels like dating instead of networking.

As a woman, I find that most businessmen either avoid me so as to avoid any appearance of impropriety or if they do talk with me, they are hoping for an actual date. I have found that it is really, really hard to get past this issue.

I feel I am making progress, but it has taken a lot of years. I mostly do not see other people talking about this issue. This makes me feel that part of the problem is that women as individuals get to reinvent the wheel. We don't have good info out there for how to clearly signal "this is a business relationship". Instead, we have a #metoo movement laying out how often men sexually harass or assault women while giving neither side tools for making sure this goes well.
CAD+Models:+Now+Available+on+Octopart
First, those render times sound hugely inflated to me.

Second, this is apple and oranges. Just look at 'ray tracing' is simple and naive. Pixar uses their own renderer, PRman, which has been developed over multiple decades. There is a big difference in renders for film, including micropolygons, texture filtering, more textures, higher res textures, way fewer lighting cheats, much more customization, motion blur, depth of field, sub surface scattering, multi-layered glossy surfaces that are neither fully specular or diffuse, better area lighting models, etc.
What does "the inevitable loss of ambitions fulfillment" mean?
They made a heaven for emulated Tamagotchi! This makes me happy.

http://tamahive.spritesserver.nl/
Thanks for the tip, I'll make some inquiries in that direction.
>"India had the world's largest GDP under the Mughals and had continued positive growth."

Do you have a citation for this? For the entire 300 years of the Mughal Empire? How accurate would that information even have been in say the early part of 16th century?
Maybe, but removing Y also means removing the instructions which do indirect addressing through it, which removes all the decoding logic for them. So it could very well save a bunch of die space.

Of course one could go look at the layout of the (NMOS) 6502, which has been fully reverse engineered at this point, to prove or disprove this.
> It is likely a fairly minor player in the uptick in major wildfires over the past few decades. That is more due to mismanagement of forests, and a "zero tolerance" policy towards fires allowing a huge build up of fuel loads.

Don't want to sound combative, I'm actually very interested. Do do you have any proof of that?
Aren't we near the end of a 7-10 year cycle regardless?
Your child is calling your bluff, hopefully with another bluff.

Threatening to kill yourself should have serious consequences. Because it's either a very serious threat, or it's perniciously bad behavior that needs to be corrected immediately.

If you take your kids phone away and they threaten to kill themselves, take them to a mental health professional.
>> You should only do politics once you have done something in your life.

Ah, so basically the majority of our elected officials should be disqualified.
I'm sure their lawyer put the kibosh on that. How could they square their claim that she was not capable of making decisions with honoring a release also signed by her?
On that note, watching videos from the Russian "Stop a Douchebag" movement can be cathartic, though even their mild form of vandalism is illegal.

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/16564/would-stop-a-d...
My 12 year-old son is a supporter of denying the franchise to the elderly. He may just be trolling.

Overall I think older people have collectively (yes, there are exceptions) shown a shocking lack of concern for the conditions of the young (education and otherwise). Collectively the grey vote has been overwhelmingly about preserving and expanding the role of government in helping out the elderly and everyone else can go to hell (while spouting endless mythology about how much they put into the system, etc). I doubt there's any way to educate (indoctrinate?) young people to vote for the big intergenerational wealth transfers that old people have collectively achieved.
The meat is grass fed and pastured (stricter than free range), so it's of higher quality than whole foods. The vegetables are significantly cheaper.
>inevitable loss of ambition’s fulfillment

You are missing a key apostrophe there, "'", which grammatically means that ambition belongs to fulfillment.

The author is saying that as he ages, the fulfillment he once felt by being ambitious (e.g. writing books, starting a company, learning new things) goes away.

Does that make sense?

I think it's important to keep in mind that this isn't a "factual" piece as much as it is his reflection on aging. It might be true to him but not true to others.
Can someone explain why this comment was flagged to death (I vouched for it)? These are all mainstream publications. It's not exactly a controversial claim that the sperm counts and testosterone levels of US men are in decline. In fact, it's backed up by years and years of epidemiological data. I'm not convinced by the parent's assertion that these trends have "feminized" men, but low testosterone levels are associated with sundry negative health outcomes (heart disease, depression, etc), with significant evidence for causality.

The comment author's original (GP) comment had some extraneous political references, but nothing flag-worthy. I'm fairly liberal, and yet I'm disappointed by how many fellow liberal react irrationally to Jordan Peterson's name. Disagreement is fine, but this urge to aggressively shut down any discussion of issues like gender relationships, or the role of men and women in society, is not a healthy thing for our society. Yes, neo-Nazis don't merit a platform, but counter to what he may have read from your Twitter pals, Peterson is far from being a neo-Nazi (and has routinely railed against Nazis both old and new).

I can have a rational discussion with my strongly feminist wife about these issues, even when we disagree. Yet people are shutting down for a comment for providing well-sourced data on the decline of testosterone levels and sperm counts. Frustrating.
I'm not a serious programmer per se, but I did a lot of Tech work for a homeless shelter years ago. They eventually got a serious Tech guy to take over from me. I'm currently the webmaster for a small local non profit.

I recommend you just get involved in whatever charity interests you and, after establishing connections, let them know you have X, y and z expertise to bring to the table.

Some super model began showing up at some program and was doing really menial tasks, like serving food in a soup kitchen. She wasn't there long before big wigs jumped on asking her to be the face of their PR campaign.

If you are humble, willing to support their cause and you have unusual assets they don't often see, most charities will jump on that just as soon as they understand what you have to offer.
I dunno what to say, man. It's a real problem that I've run into.
Ok it’s face it seems the fires are made worse by climate change, but probably caused by poor infrastructure maintenance.
By the very nature of vanguard, except for its tiny, tiny managed funds, vanguard doesn't ever do shit with this knowledge. Just continues following the index.