skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was a well written article which accurately covered what's going on. But after reading it, I felt admiration for the bravery of the journalist and immediate concern for her safety. She is of Chinese ethnicity and will be deemed to be a traitor to China as far as the Party is concerned - a very serious offence. There is absolutely no doubt she will be targeted in one way or another, and if she has family in China the Party will use them to get to her. This is not an exaggeration, and shows how bad the situation really is.
I took a quick look at them and this is just first impressions, so bear with me?

They still look kinda low level to me. Yes, they provide a lot of high-level constructs and data types like python -- But what they fail to do (IMO) is a consistent abstraction.

For example, all of these languages have a concept of pointers. All of them have a distinction between different integers (int32, int64 etc..)

I had similar feelings when I used dart or even java. They're high level, but not quite!

I don't mean to thrash on these languages in any way. I think they have some real value for programmers.

It's just that I've never seen a language just throw everything out of your way and provide you with this extremely high level and easy to reason interface.

Nim actually looked pretty good, but then I realized it was just the significant whitesapce xD

Maybe I'm too biased because Python was my first (proper) language.
> Magic Leap is almost entirely built on the visions of grown men wanting to immerse themselves in fantasy worlds. Its chief focus is entertainment, games, diversions—cinematic reality, sure; pushing the frontiers of computing? Not as much.

I’ll repeat my half-baked idea: the future of VR and AR is digital workplaces for better teleconferencing. Make it truly seamless to talk to colleagues while working remote. Disrupt office work as we know it and fix the externalities of commuting and being tied to a physical workplace. Why escape into fantasy worlds when you can make living in the real world more bearable?
Is an epidural assumed in all this discussion? The mothers I know who didn’t have the epidural didn’t have these nightmare symptoms, while those who did or had a C section were worse off.

(I’m assuming competent medical staff and follow up, but I realize that’s a difficult one in the US and elsewhere)
I don't know if you can concretely say that mathematics is invented. Where does it come from? You observe reality, but what if reality is math?

You can't say it exists outside of the realm of possibility that some people have a base observation that rests more on math than it does anything else.

Your transition into pragmaticism is appropriate for your argument, but I don't know if it's appropriate for mathematics that concerns computation. The universe in the argument I am constructing would be the universe of math, not the physical universe. In that regard, I think pragmaticism can still be held as a primary value that can be realistically met.
> There's an growing body of evidence that suggests early microbial exposure is required for proper immune development

Yes. But that's not linked to "seeding" which doesn't have any conclusive evidence to back that up(yet) compared to colostrum/breastfeeding[1] I'm aware of one study that has tried seeding. It's hypothesised, but needs much more research before being counted/discounted

> Women have been giving birth since creation with minimal enough problems for humans to survive and succeed as a species

Yes, but up until decent, clean deliveries with the option of c-section, and anti-biotics child birth killed 5% of mothers[2]. Bear in mind that without birthcontrol (pills or condom) most women would have about 6 pregnancies in their life time. [3] my bad maths makes that a ~1/4 chance of dying in childbirth/complications arising from.

The study that link obecity and asthma to c-section is small[4] however it is worth widening and expanding to more than scotland. Brazil would be a good target as 50+% of births are c-section.

[1]https://www.nhs.uk/news/pregnancy-and-child/breast-milk-rais... The only link I could find that wasn't selling something (either hippy nonsense or a drug)

[2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1633559/

[3]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3865739/

[4]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5055095/

TL;DR: 5% of child births were fatal to the mum, modern medicine has made that drop to <0.1%. There is some evidence that you might be fatter if you were born by optional c-section. However this is a limited study in one country.
> I send a polite email to the admins of these sites warning them about the injected file. I NEVER received a thank you from any of these people.

Out of curiosity, do you receive answers at all?

If not, there could be a technical reason rather than the decline of human decency: your including the link to the phishing page gets the message filtered away by automated security software.
"Yep," he’d say on mute, with a customer’s sad voice droning on in both our ears. "Once you get the new ticket open, it’s tab three times to get to the description field, and if you need to get into Internet Explorer it’s control-escape, I, enter, then alt-tab back. I’m the fastest tech on the floor here because I never take my hands off the keyboard. If you’re smart, you’ll be like me."

Sounds like my kinda guy!
Don’t be so sure. I can’t find good research comparing the two, but it seems generally held that CS recovery times are longer. I see NICE quoted as saying no risk difference between the two methods but longer recovery times for CS (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check-with-poll...).
Yeah, you'll have to have a way to record yourself and encode/decode/transmit in real time though.... Maybe in twenty years...
I thought the issue would have something to do with the warranty. Like apple might have a policy that says we cover manufacturing problems within some time period, but we don't cover water damage. In that case a correct determination of whether something is water damage or not is critical.
I would have tried recoll that can work with tesseract in the background. https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/

Abbyy is in my opinion by far the most powerfull OCR software. Linux command line OCR is available but unfortunately too pricey for the normal private user:
https://www.ocr4linux.com/en:pricing:start
The cell phone analogy is appropriate. This is first generation tech. Within 30 years it will be amazing and unobtrusive. Think eyeglasses or contact lenses with photo realistic rendering. I think it will be as important as the radio and TV was in shaping society both commercially and privately.
You capture a quantum black hole, slap a charge on it, and wiggle that: The Hole Man https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hole_Man
In my experience having done this a few times, I find that while I'm working I can't come up with new ideas because I'm too mentally exhausted or just don't have time.

Usually I take a week or two letting myself experience calm and boredom, and then reading what others are doing inspires some ideas.

Usually I then write myself mini proposals like you'd do for your boss or a grant, clarifying what I think I know, what I think might work and why it works be interesting, how the problem I'm considering is done best now, and how I'd go about developing that problem into a project.

It takes maybe a day or three per proposal, but saves months of chasing bad ideas like a new electronic device that solve a technical problem in a cool new way (but does it worse than the current solution.

It just takes a different amount of time and introspection and recovery for each person. There are so many ways to live a good life, and many are better than what we thought we wanted in high school or college. Don't be afraid to explore things that seem silly, no one is watching and it's the only way to learn.

But boredom while alone is critical. Perhaps the most important part to redeveloping curiosity and processing what we think we want is silence.
In the west the common way to suppress dissidents is more civil like legal extortion ) Aaron Schwartz in US). Rarely there's murder except few cases like Germany's removal of Mölleman in 2000s. Developing world is still learning at their own pace like Saudi's butchering of WP journalist during consular services or China's..
Are you talking about the US? Many countries with state/cheap healthcare also have high rates (Europe).

In the UK, I’d say there’s a bias towards “the natural way” (not offered epidural, counselling for elective CS, NCT antenatal courses tend to focus on natural methods etc). Eg https://www.rcm.org.uk/news-views-and-analysis/analysis/mate...
Don't they have a queen?
Usually if you mess up something there your implementation just doesn't work.
Authoritarianism leads to violation of human rights. Besides that, the onus of justification should be on the side in favor of government control. You should need a good reason to restrict someone from performing an action they desire to.

Not to mention that when the people have no power and are not free to criticize their government, you can easily get some dystopia full of rampant government corruption and nepotism.

Governments should not be "disappearing" their own citizens. There should be a transparent, fair, evenly-applied process. Hard to hold governments accountable when they exert too much control.

At this point I feel like I'm about to be reprimanded for using HN as an "ideological battleground" or something.
no.

There are a whole host of reasons for having a c-section. The risk of having a massive tear (ie vag to arse(4c tear), or literally tearing a new arsehole) is 1 in 4. This has long term life altering consequences.

An "elective" c-section is not the same as "booking in". The less "identity politics" that are wrapped up in this, the better.
What with the green user names?
I have been following this along with a couple of related stories. I am trying not to go into rant mode, but there is a disturbing trend of late that folks should note.

States have always hidden, tortured, and killed their citizens. Good states do it very, very rarely, in secret, and as an extraordinary exception to normal rule. Bad states do it whenever they like and in response to any discomfort at all. I think it was Saddam (or Stalin?) that said something like "You have a man. You have a problem. No more man. No more problem."

When the U.S. started droning its own citizens a decade ago, we libertarians said that this was a very bad, no good, horrible idea. You can't treat your own citizens this way.

Looking back, that statement was too idealistic. What happened next was a discussion about ticking bombs, people planning to use WMD, and so on. Nothing much happened. The droning continued.

Next the Russians decided to use nerve gas in London (!) to kill somebody they didn't like. This past week, the Saudis decided to lure somebody into their Turkish embassy where it looks like he was tortured, killed, and chopped up into little pieces. Now we have the president of Interpol vanishing. One hopes the Chinese are at least polite enough about it not to be so braggadocious.

What we're learning from this sorry series of events is that if a leading nation does it systematically and publicly, the rest will too. There are no special "The U.S. gets to do it but nobody else can" cards to hand out.

It is quite disturbing. I expect the trend to continue.
I'm in the UK and many years ago I was working for a US company over here.

(This happened in 2000 so my memory isn't 100% on it)

One of my managers asked me to call him at home (either in the US or Canada) and when I dialled, I was hit with a message along the lines of "I do not accept unsolicited calls" before I got through to him.

Now, this is the hazy bit, I am sure it asked me to press a key to continue.

Assuming I'm not talking nonsense here, how hard would it be to have a service like that where the message asks you to type in a number it reads out in order to continue: It would wipe out the current generation of robocalls immediately.

Like popups and tracking blockers, it would obviously start an arms race but it would at least be a start.
It isn't improbable that the author and her immediate family is in the US, and that the Party will have limited reach on the author.
Sounds like she needs to use some of that left over money to get the fuck out of China with everyone she loves and is able to. I'm sure she can find work elsewhere but I'm also aware picking up everyone you know and love is not that simple.

China doesn't seem like the type of country that would just allow you to skate off like that without punishing whoever they can who remains in China. I mean, if they are willing to go this far why wouldn't they? Fucking crazy.
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It appears that it bring the US into line with EU law, only ten year too late.
The difference is that the iPhone was revolutionary.

Yeah, no copy/paste and no app store on V 1.0 but it was a game changer from the beginning.
"Being Indian, I agree with statement about AirIndia. I would never fly in AirIndia even if the ticket price is too low, laughably they usually cost way above than any other competitors."

Since I have flown with Air India, would you mind being more specific? Are the statistics? My flights were okay. Okay, zero status miles credited at Star Alliance and a bit stingy with alcohol on board. But food and service was good, plane looked well maintained.

Please tell me more.
If one day Facebook becomes bankrupt, what could prevent them from reselling all their/our data to the highest bidder?
It's scary as shit. It seems to be sending a message of, "Your government not only can't protect you, they won't.", when journalists, politicians, key figures in ongoing trials, and famous people are being rounded up and/or offed. Lots of respect for anyone still willing to speak out but I fear for them and wish them all the best and hope they are able to get their truths out.
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Reading that article felt like being stuck in a long queue. I mean, kudos for capturing the experience so viscerally I suppose, but about a third of the way through I reached a point where continuing became absolutely intolerable. :/
Also practical things like live conversation speech to text for deaf people. Pretty sure it will be cheaper than what gets spent on hearing aids.
I once read a story in the Art of War, but also maybe had some words by his grandson not just Sun Tzu, I was maybe 12 so it is foggy, but the story was discussing different kingdoms, one had a wealthy government with small fields and government soldiers on all the corners, the other country had a poorer government with large fields and few soldiers, the question was which country will last the longest. Anyway the story said the second country because the farmers would be willing to fight to defend it, where in the first country there would be less motivation.
Who wants to wager that the pilots did an aviation version of the five stages of grief, with some help from passenger / flight attendant reports?

FO: Tower said we hit something, may have damage.
Capt: Just close, we'll be okay.
FA: We heard a thump, and so did the passengers.
CA: Just a noise, we'll be okay.
Dispatch on ACARS: You hit the localizer and wall past the far end, you morons. Descend, lower your cabin diff pressure, and GTF to Mumbai.
CA: How do we explain this?
FO: Ask the passengers for newspapes, we must find new jobs..
She also won't be able to take any money with her, if her assets haven't already been completely siezed. Capital outflow is strongly controlled in China.
>Weird framing as a “rap crew.”

Studio time is expensive. Puffy, 50cent, Jay-Z all used drug profits to kickstart their music careers.
Re the point about the 100x idea - there seems to be no such thing - only common ideas and 100 or 1000 decisions to grow the business 1.1x to 10x. Each of those decisions demand a cost, effort or sacrifice of some form or another - and the difference between a startup and a regular business is that these decisions are made differently.

Ideas are all the same. Social network, payments, search, e-commerce, software, hardware - none of these ideas intrinsic value. Even the iPhone wasn’t a breakthrough - I had full touchscreen phones running modded Linux before that.

Think of every growth curve as a series of choices - YC chooses and teaches founders to make one category of choices, solo / lifestyle founders make a different, often incompatible set of choices. Ideas don’t come into play. Even YC, which invests more than this program, doesn’t care about ideas that much.
"Within 30 years... it will be as important as the radio and TV was in shaping society both commercially and privately"

Care to make your prediction interesting? I'd be willing to take the opposite side of that bet.
This sounds very unfamiliar based on my experience with the US job market, but does match with some experience of the European one.. Which country are you in? Maybe that would make for better advice.
Naming and shaming of sufficient magnitude would put pressure to select for more strict customer service representatives. If they could get fired for doing that, they would think twice.
I’m just wondering if this will increase efficiency therefore reducing environmental impact, or whether it will drive demand therefore cancelling any reduction in resource consumption. Air travel is one of the worst offenders in terms of environmental impact (next to shipping... what the hell is wrong with people wanting unripe kiwis or wine shipped from the antipodes when we could - or rather should - regain touch with our surroundings and consume whatever local products the season has to offer!?)
"Make it truly seamless to talk to colleagues while working remote."

Some of us work remotely in order to avoid constant disruption (especially software development). As such the queueing of IM conversations from colleagues is a good thing in this scenario.

The quality of the code that I write grows exponentially the less people ping me on Skype. While in the office code development was tertiary to various meetings, presentations, the occasional interview, even birthdays.
Consider cabin pressure differential versus the outside ambient air.
Originally I found the Magic Leap extremely exciting, because
in contrast to phones or tablets, whose touchscreens limit what sort of applications are feasible, AR could allow for arbitrary interfaces.
These interfaces could be present alongside the real world, making them both more convenient and maybe less of an attention-vortex.

This is (among other things) what Magic Leap pitched, and comparing the actual product to their press releases is to note a vast discrepancy.
Still, hope springs eternal, so while I wasn't impressed, I know how hard AR is and I wasn't inclined to judge too harshly-- maybe it will get better as technology improves.

After having read the article, I find myself rooting for them to fail.
This is a company that has taken (and arguably squandered) billions of dollars to release a slightly cheaper HoloLens.
Instead of feeling abashed, they continue blithely on, even having the temerity to invite developers to their platform because the rest of the world (and in particular, other platforms) has so much "baggage" and "negativity".

As the article notes, this is a company that is propped up by oligarchs, settles sex discrimination lawsuits, and is pursuing military contracts with repressive regimes.
Although to be fair, improving soldiers' lethality is the only use case they've articulated that justifies the price.
Now that the missed expectations and general shadiness are starting to catch up with them, they're moving to attract developers.
Somehow, despite all the money, they haven't been able to pay for an idea to justify the hype-- what else could you call it but a con?
I had a girlfriend who when faced with the choice of Chain-Coffee v Small-Shop-Coffee she’d at first choose the Chain-Coffee but as days passed she’d choose the SmallShop-Coffee more and more.

When I asked her why she chose the one with clearly no particular expertise in coffee making(they were also right next to one another) she’d tell me that she wanted to support the independent small player and not the big corporate chain.

I always wondered how efficient those theories, like the learning theory are, with complex intelligent beings like us. Sometimes we can even ignore all conventional models and just do smt because of philosophical belief. Which in turn developed by other unknown factors..

(When she was alone at University or Downtown she’d mostly hang out to the local big Chain-Coffee, but when faced with an easy choice of two different types of coffee shop one right next to each other she’d after some time make mostly the “philosophical” choice)
The second paper of the series does review and compare several aspects in comparison to natural birth:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
I have a problem with your comment attempting to use a stereotype of a communist country to "Asian". First, what part of Asia, its literally 60% of the earth, its fucking huge. I mean, are you talking about Bangladesh or Indonesia? In the UK, Asians are dark-skinned folks, not the East/South Asian that American/Canadians are referring to.

The other issue here is misusing a neo-confucian value as a basis of China's corrupt system.

Again, attempting to conflate a single country's generalizations to a an erroneous and inappropriate label accepted by North American society.

You should've just used Oriental country.
How's that pricing work? Google Vision is $.60 per 1000 pages (after 5m pages, $1.50 before that), how can it be $.25?

Even $.25 seems expensive...
And let's keep in mind how successful NASA safety policies actually were.

Perfect safety is a pipe dream.
The link to the full lecture here: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1985/communicat...
The original Iphone wanted to eat cartographers lunch money. It wanted to be a layer between you and the world.

The Leap wants tot eat IKEAs and the whole decoration industrys money.
It wants to be a layer between you and the world.

It might also be a attempt to stop the world move into this direction.
If you creat a billion dollar ship wreck, it takes a whole manager generation to fade and loose that mental reef from theire mind-maps.

The vision of Vernor Vinge in Rainbows End is still valid in my opinion.
> We achieved a 50% ratio not by lowering our standards or by discriminating against men

To use a oversimplified model, assume everyone can be perfectly linearly ranked.

The gender ratio is skewed towards men at the top purely due to pipeline reasons (because college grads are nowhere close to 50/50).

Set a threshold to call your "standards" (say top 10 if you have budget for hiring 10 people).

If the top 10 are 7 men and 3 women, then you must give up on 2 of the men to fill it with 2 women from below the top 10.

Do you call this "not lowering standards"?

(I have no problem with lowering the bar to achieve better gender ratios because of long term social/game theoretical reasons. I just pedantically don't like lying to ourselves about not lowering the bar)
I don't know there will be a trial for evading tax. Basically tax office will send you a notice and if you disagree, you pay and then go to court to sue the tax office.
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What would an epidural have to do with tearing and episiotomies?
According to her online bio, she moved to the US when she was 8. That means her immediate family are probably in the US, but she'd have extended family in China.
10/10 I don't want to put on my rift to do work. Ever.
"your food in 60 seconds or its free" disaster.

Now I'm curious, what was the disaster?