skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's one rational counter to what China is pursuing.

Basically, the US/CA + EU + AU/NZ + JP/SK (among others).

There is no other way to restrain China's ambition to force its illiberal vision of the world on everyone else. They won't rule the Internet and tech world unless that world fully breaks down into very strict isolationism (everyone for their self). China has to depend on a divide and conquer approach, because they'll never be bigger than the world or the developed world. So long as a large enough bunch of nations stick together, even broadly, it'll be enough to impose that China follow a minimum set of guidelines.

This China is no more intimidating than the USSR was at the height of its power. The same alliances will work once again. Even the worse-than-bullheaded Trump Admin has seen the light (which is why they're rapidly attempting to settle trade disputes re NAFTA & EU).

The liberal world is not going to capitulate all of its values to appease China. That guarantees a perpetual conflict of values, which will inherently divide the world into these two large groups. China also can't out-compete and out-innovate the combined developed world, no matter what they do.

In short, China will never rule the Internet. They will only rule their Internet, as they have for a long time. They'll have to play by other terms to be part of the larger, more liberal global Internet; that more liberal Internet isn't going to change to suit China (and hasn't).
>>It's the standard techie failure to understand average users

You mean like Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber, Youtube, Instagram, Snapchat, Shazam, Grubhub, Bell labs, Intel, Xerox Parc, Pixar, Amazon etc, just to name a few (and of course Twitter)? Techies have been doing just fine in the anticipation department.
I'm honestly surprised that no one has tried to use disparate impact standards to equate political viewpoint discrimination with discrimination on the basis of protected classes.

But conservatives have no right to a platform that globalist tech companies have to respect.
>Uber is profitable in established markets however it is costly to incentivize the initial driver pool in a new area to drive around hoping for customers where customers do not expect there to be uber drivers.

Is there actually some GAAP-compatible (hopefully audited) document outlining this, or is it purely self-declared?
Stairs are counted by their risers.
What will happen to Earth's rotation if we start lifting objects on the side where the Sun shines, and dropping them on the other side?
Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
I remember the great joy it was rewrtot some MATLAB and Bash scripts for neuroimaging to Python, and how fast it let us iterate. Thanks to that rewriting we ended up having a proper pipeline that we were able to parallelize.

Since then Python is my go-to language, but that didn't stopped me from exploring other languages like Julia, for large numerical analysis or Go.

I see that Pythonification he talks about around me, and it's true that is becoming ubiquitous and the defacto langugae on sciences, specially on life sciences.
https://github.com/reasonml/reason-react/issues/199#issuecom...

It's one of the big reasons our company isn't even considering ReactReason at present. Lack of support for version 16 APIs is killer when you already have stuff depending on them.
That's just a municipal ordinance and not a Constitutional result. It's not much of a result.

I live in Austin and support the Drafthouse's lighthearted attempt to offer women an opportunity to enjoy themselves by themselves.
Can you point to any reference that mentions the profitablity in established markets? All the articles I see say that unit economics remain unprofitable in all cases.
One thing I've noticed about the cuisine from cultures that have a high number of vegetarians in them, is how they don't try to imitate meat, but they don't taste/feel like a plate of vegetables either. They manage to achieve tasty meals that are in a category of their own.
The joists go on top of the studs, not between them.
'standard' ceiling height is 2.4m.
This happened in Brazil:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VThEm-UhFIs

I suspect that the reason you don't hear about a "gun-wielding vigilante saving the day in the US" has more to do with the media sources you consume. Here is a scholarly article detailing how common defensive gun use is in the United States:

https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewconten...

Estimates range from 100,000 to 2.5 million. Even at the very very low end of those estimates, there are at least 100,000 instances of a "gun-wielding vigilante saving the day in the US" every year that you never hear about.

I also suspect it's hard to understand how a gun would have helped you when you don't know how to use a gun, which I suspect is the case given your position on guns from this thread.

It's entirely possible for the average citizen to acquire the same firearm training as a police officer or soldier and therefore be capable of providing the same level of protection.
I don't eat meat (for ethical reasons) but I personally don't think meat as such is unhealthy. I know plenty of meat eaters who are very healthy. I think most people just eat way, way, way too much meat. Same for sugar. Some is fine but if everything you eat and drink is sugared up like crazy it starts to become a problem.

So far the Impossible Burger is very expensive and even if it were cheaper it's still not good enough make most people move over from beef. It's a cute novelty item and should be treated as such. On the other hand if lab grown meat ever becomes viable that would be a real game changer in my view.

I am starting to sound like a zealot which I really am not usually...
It says right on the wiki page:
Advertising the sale or rental of a dwelling indicating preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, disability or national origin.

Tech has changed so you can do the targeting. You are violating the spirit of the law. The point is if you make sure blacks, Mexicans, or women can't see your ad you are trying to exclude them.
It's more like an Internet that meatspace governments can't mess with. Like Tor .onion sites, I2P and other decentralized overlay networks. But ubiquitous.

Here are some of the fundamental documents:

"The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto" (1992) by Timothy C. May <https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html>

"The Cyphernomicon" (1994) by Timothy C. May <https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt>

"Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities" (1994) by Timothy C. May <https://nakamotoinstitute.org/virtual-communities/>

"A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" (1996) by John Perry Barlow <https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence>

Cypherpunks (2012) by Julian Assange et al. <http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/cypherpunks/>
Buy a 2015 macbook pro, its the last one without any issues, superior keyboard, legacy ports as well. Smaller more compact touchpad as well

The only downside is it is only thunderbolt 2, and they recently went away with external GPU support for new macOS updates.

I paid $1500 for mine in practically brand new mint condition on amazon, buying a new a 2018 version was $2500 roughly for something that also had 512 GB SSD.

I find the macbookpro has way better ergonomic features than windows laptops. Also, programming environment is just so much nicer IMO on mac.
Why not do this in the ocean? Lifting and raising blocks from the sea floor provides far more potential energy, since the ocean is deeper, than any crane is tall.
Okay, these are valid points. I personally tend to choose against switching to LaTeX. But I assume we agree that you shouldn't start with LaTeX right away if not absolutely necessary.
Upvote sir for extremely good points.

Researching it some more led me to an article from October 2017: "Waymo says its cars can handle nighttime driving and light rain, but its cars will be geofenced" [0]. That should handle a decent amount of it but I definitely agree that the whole "what to do mid taxi service if conditions become terrible or where to park the fleet" will still be a thorny problems for some time.

That being said, unless you think self driving cars will never be able to handle 99% of situations, those problems will just cause the self driving car revolution to happen more gradually as they slowly adopt more and more unique situations (which seems to be their current strategy starting with phoenix). During that gradual progression, I just see them slowly eating away at ubers/lyfts market as more markets become locally profitable when they can adapt to the local conditions/economics (and it is not like some other companies self driving tech will be instantly be able to handle more complex situations in a local market that the leader of the market cannot handle)

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/10/5-things-we-learned-fro...
More code-review-as-feedback:

It's also probably wise to "return" the "context.done" callbacks in the try/catch so it doesn't double-callback, or otherwise get rid of that last TODO "context.done" call.
> No. It's simply that statistically, we can't believe we are the first, nor that we are unique. It would be (statistically) extremely odd if we were, and there is a bias against anthropo-centric theories.

Fermi's paradox does not ask about civilisations like ours. It asks about interstellar travelling or at least interstellar communicating species. We have not achieved this level yet so we are not the 'first' as you say. You might claim that our radio signals should be able to be detected, but they are so weak and have been travelling for such a short period of time that they may as well not exist to an outside observer. There may be millions of our type of civilisation out there presently and throughout history but they would all be undetectable to us and hence our civilisation doesn't play into the paradox.
This is also one of the great things about working in Silicon Valley.
Youtube has a good recommendation engine (mostly based on last 10 videos you viewed), so it is enjoyable to browse Youtube videos.
The security level varies frequently. It's known that meek still works in China, which is probably a major reason why both Google and Amazon have shut down domain fronting.
Yeah this is a case of someone on daytime television shows talking about dieting. There are plenty of fake doctors making claims in this realm. The scary part is the acceptance of fake science into the general public and especially it being perpetuated heavily by a large part of our political system.
It's technically possible, but they don't seem to have a tonne of parts available, especially for the new models (2016 onwards). Also, pretty much every component is soldered to the logic board (memory, ssd) with a few small exceptions, and the computers can be more difficult to open.
The comments the user typed into the Problem Report screen are not constructive.

I think that comments field would be better used for entering any possibly relevant information the user might be able to provide. For example: what was the computer, or the user, doing before the point of the panic. I'm not saying the user has a strict duty to enter information... just that it's a good idea to add some valuable information if you can. The information doesn't need to be perfect or complete. Apple aggregates information from different users' reports and every bit (well most of it) helps.

Apple is engaged in a huge ongoing long project to make their stuff better and better for their users. It's not ever going to be easy, given the ever increasing complexity in the world. We can help, or we can cheer them on, or we can hate on them or whine when they fail. I vote for helping when we can.
Evidence of Google and YouTube shadow-banning conservative content
Reminded me of this recent article in Atlas Obscura that talks about the unique ecosystem found in a metro station deep under Stockholm.

It doesn't go in to much detail tough...
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kungstradgarden-metro-st...
We are talking about San Francisco here.
Meat substitutes seem symptomatic of overpopulation (i.e. animal agriculture wasn't much of a problem in the past millennia). With potential food and water shortages or regulatory pressures in the future, perhaps the outcome will be meat substitutes feeding the masses while only the wealthy will be able to afford real meat.
Man, I wish I could be so optimistic to think they just didn't know any better.
Good luck to all. But for those who want to join Rocket Ship companies any unicorns here?
He presumably killed himself after being exposed as a fraud. It's weird to me because malpractice is such a heavy thing in the US, but I don't think it extends into falsified research. Can a nation sue a researcher in another country because they funded studies based on their falsified data?
Water resistance?
“Even $35,000 is a lot to spend on a vehicle that was assembled inside of a circus tent in Fremont.”

For what it’s worth I believe only specific known configurations are being built on that tent (the AWD model?) so you can avoid it if you want. Most of the cars are being built on the normal assembly line.

Your other points seem very fair... Tesla seems like a very closed ecosystem compared to any other manufacturer.
Getting a job in academia is not entirely random :) Just like for any competitive job, it's important to objectively assess chances of success and reconsider them along the way.

There are many things to consider. How bright you are, what is your research topic and will it be popular in a few years, who is your PhD advisor, are you willing to work abroad and so on...

But I agree that there is uncertainty for most people and graduate students should have an exit plan, e.g. keep their research or teaching work relevant to the job market.
The compressed air would be located in deep inside abandoned mines. The volume and thus energy storage potential of such places is vast.

The idea has been around for decades, but no one has been able to really do it yet.
Wat.

Koreans don't put fan death on some kind of nationalistic pedestal of overdramatic belief systems that make you Korean. If we wanted nationalistic symbols, we already have plenty---starting with Dokdo (a.k.a. Takeshima, but don't utter that word in front of a Korean), the "East Sea" (more commonly known as "Sea of Japan"), and... but I digress.

Koreans believed fan death because their mothers did, and then their mothers did, and also the 9 pm news used to say "Yet another person found dead next to a fan" every summer, because in a hot, humid country of 50 million people someone is going to be found dead in a hot day next to a running fan.

How could it be a "national identity", when the very concept that some people might not consider sleeping-next-to-a-fan as deadly was beyond people's imagination. (Remember, it was time before the internet.) Now, thanks to the internet and everything, (I hope) most Koreans know that "Fan Death" is a silly urban folklore. We even scored our own Wikipedia entry. Nice.
Clevo's hardware is not that great though. I've known several people get System76 Clevo systems and they've all been disappointed. I'm hopeful for System76's new systems, that they will up the quality significantly and make them compare-able to Thinkpads.
It's long past time for the tech world to start realizing that their anecdotal evidence is not valid. Every single tiny glitch some person with a Twitter experiences doesn't warrant a fucking XYZgate level media blitz.

@Apple @timcook my phone's battery discharged a little fast today. WHY ARE YOU HIDING FROM THE TRUTH ON THIS??? #draingate

In a later reply, guy cited a Apple discussion thread as his empirical proof. Do you know what, yes, even a thirty page, forum thread is compared to Apple's daily sales? A rounding error.
Transmission costs and greater wear and tear from saltwater, off the top of my head.
Added - thanks.
How much of the responsibility falls on the Landlord, given they created the targeted ad segments?

It's not like the Facebook Ad Manager has a guided wizard for the real estate industry to target prospective tenants.
But privately filtering who this ad will show to -- is NOT the same as publicly "advertising ... indicating preference".

> You are violating the spirit of the law.

No.

The spirit of the law is to prohibit public racial propaganda. The spirit of the law is NOT about hunting down private biases.
Yeah my laptop of choice is 15" MB Pro mid-2015. Picked up 2 of them over the last couple of years from Apple's refurbished store and I think with OS X it really is still one of the best laptops out there. A little tip - you can use https://refurb-tracker.com/ to get alerts when they get in stock.

TBH it's the MB Pro + OS X combo that works so well. MB Pro + Windows is definitely sub-par... lot of other great laptops for that. I've never tried Linux on a MB Pro.
I don't eat meat myself and I tell people who try to become vegetarian to not go the imitation meat route but instead learn to appreciate vegetables for themselves. Indian cooking is excellent for that.
Discussed in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7729006 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7030097

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6756430
> I was not able to find any signs of a formal and legally binding policy

Every single centralized service (Hacker News included) reserves the right to ban anyone for any reason. Twitter may have a policy, but in practice it's no different than anyone else's Code of Conduct. It's certainly not legally binding.

Regular users don't care about whether someone could theoretically become abusive in the future - maybe they should care, but they don't. They just look at the track record and decide if they trust that person right now.

And right now, Mastadon instances are better at moderation than Twitter. You're worried about an instance admin theoretically not protecting you in the future; Twitter already, today, doesn't protect you.
English is not my first language, so I always assumed blood and bleeding refer to any red liquid. I mean, we talk about blood oranges [0] and bleeding trees [1] and no one assumes there is any real blood involved.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_orange

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corymbia_opaca
Erratic use of const v. var is a giveaway.

I'm not sure I grasp the reason that every command entered is stored to localStorage and repeated in the console, and that xss.js file is looking a little suspicious.
The majority of the world’s economy is at or near the seaside. I find this approach more practical, similarly low tech (which is a good thing, simple and reliable) but uses hydrostatic pressure instead of gravity. http://theliquidgrid.com/2016/12/27/marine-energy-storage/

Sea floor is underutilized, but you can do a lot of things on a piece of land.

Below certain small depth the sea is always calm, atmosphere is not, I anticipate catastrophic consequences with these tall cranes when hurricanes, tornados or lightnings.
Is it not feasible to have a couple thousand of these blocks?
I make heavy use of the "visual select, [adjust selection], then do verb" pattern in vim, for the exact reasons that this blog posts describes.

It sounds like I should try Kakoune...
I have a 15" 2018 MBP, with 32g of RAM. And, while I don't care for the touchbar or the feels-like-I'm-typing-on-a-hollow-piece-of-wood keyboard, I also haven't had any kernel panics or crackly speakers or any other problems. Which is not to say I won't, but I haven't yet.
Bought a pixelbook to replace my 2015 macbook. It's been a great experience. Crostini is great (as is having Android apps). You can now find the low-end model for $750 everywhere these days.

A little slower, but I have fast desktop machines for when I run into those kinds of tasks.
I'll take a stab. You have a rental house where you want to rent out to senior citizens (for whatever reason). You put your ad in the local AARP magazine. If a young couple stumble upon the ad in the magazine, they can read the ad and apply for your rental.

However, what FB is doing is...that young couple reads the magazine and can't see the ad, but a senior citizen can.

IANAL...and for what it's worth there's a similar lawsuit for age discrimination for job hiring. Post ads only for certain age target.
Fair enough. Still don't think we stand on the same ground of what are the acceptable ways of speaking out one's opinion.
Ok. Fair enough. My point was simply that: we might be curious, but most of us aren't lonely or looking for any higher purpose or meaning (well, many may be, but if we were - we wouldn't look to aliens to satifice them)
I'm pretty sure Urbanization will make animals (that are closer to humans like dogs and cats) incredibly smarter. Dogs got closer to humans thousands of years ago. Their role was to protect. In the process, they became less intelligent than their ancestors: The wolf.

But things are changing. Human are now picking dogs to be a companion, not for protection. They are letting their dogs inside the house. They are playing with them. Human also select smarter dogs like German Shepherd because they are easy to train.

The trend is new. I mean we are only a few hundred years into urbanization and genetics is a slow process. But selection is real and humans are very selective. This will keep the most intelligent race/dogs and breed even smarter dogs.

I know for a fact that my german is more skillful than my parents'. That's because living in an apartment requires extra skills. As human select animals that are more adapted, we'll have dogs who are savvy about doors, bells, cars, refrigerator, toilets, etc...
I also doubt that it is a majority of their business, but I think it would be interesting to find out just how much of their revenue is represented by discriminatory advertising across many domains (housing, hiring, for example), political advertising that may be dubious or illegal, and outright solicitation for scams. And then to think about how their revenue would fall and their costs increase if they are obligated to make a sincere effort to eliminate these items from their portfolio.
That's true, but when you are talking about meat, it's usually safe to assume 'bleed' means to 'bleed blood'.
In the case of Facebook, you either put this in your profile, or the kinds of pages and events that you like and interact with will give this away.

Not saying that it's not creepy, just that with the way we use the internet these days, it's not an epic feat for an advertiser to figure this out given the amount of data we put out there.
"On a hot July morning, I traveled to Biasca, Switzerland, about two hours north of Milan, Italy"

Ok, sorry for the off topic, but this annoys me to no end.

Two hours by plane is about 1400 miles, by car about 120 miles, by bicycle about 25 miles, by foot maybe 6 miles, so why not give distance by miles or km? Even if we are talking by car, then how do you know there are no traffic jams on the way, or bad weather?

</please ignore rant>
I don't think the majority of people care, most people don't follow twitter, they might have a user but they don't use it that much. In many non anglo parts of the world most of the conversation is in whatsapp groups which is part of facebook and telegram
It's interesting to see a counter-example to the otherwise ever-present HN credo of "Ideas are cheap, execution is everything".

On one hand you have execution that can get you an advantage of a difficult-to-reproduce technology stack for solving a problem, but on the other hand, information that other players might not have discovered (yet) also can get you an advantage in the market. Although I find the latter to be less rigid and prone to disruption.

If I'm understanding you correctly, you have found a niche that is not at all in the tech sector, but through technology gets augmented into a proven market-fit? Can I ask you what your process was in finding that niche? You can leave out the specifics of course.