skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This country was built by indentured servants before it was built by slaves.
Another alternative to Emacs with vim keybindings is Doom Emacs. It's superior to Spacemacs imo.
Not very easy. The best structure seems to be, to setup a parent company in Hong Kong. Then, setup a wholly owned subsidiary in China. Then, just send enough money every month to keep the China operations going. It is easy to get your money in and out of Hong Kong.
> communities across the country have complained that journalists who come into their towns and cities too often produce shallow or misrepresentative reporting. <p> Local journalists who know their hometowns could report the same stories more accurately and with more depth, they say.

"[C]ommunities have complained that journalists [...] produce shallow or misrepresentative reporting." That should sound familiar here. Communities which include science, and tech, and aerospace, and medicine, and economics, and military, and ... so many other communities.

Journalists embedded in those communities often get things right. Journalists which aren't, often don't.

The current issue of CJR https://www.cjr.org/tag/fall-2018 is subtitled "The stories left untold in America's newsrooms". It's focused on race, with some class and ethnicity, but one article describes the corps remaining oblivious overseas, even in a country (Korea) that still has foreign desks.

Even the best of mainstream journalism's coverage of science and engineering feels like overseas coverage after foreign desks have closed. Missing sanity check, ground truth, nuance, insight, the point, and the real story.

So if the https://shoeleather.us/ approach succeeds in disrupting newsroom coverage of small geographic communities, the potential impact seems much broader.
The hacks may have manipulated public opinion, but that's it. Why is that worth military attack? It's not.
As the spouse of someone who suffers from depression and suicidal thinking the outrage against “trigger warnings” really pisses me off.

Trigger warnings are just that. Warnings.

We watched A Star is Born, and having my spouse go back on almost a years worth of progress and treatment when a single “trigger warning” could have avoided that is beyond enraging.

And what’s most hypocritical is the people who are complaining about trigger warnings are people who are complaining that a little paragraph of text describing certain known triggers may be contained in the text or movie before. So people who suffer from a variety of potentially harmful diseases such as depression and PTSD are pussies because they need a trigger warning to help them avoid media that may be harmful to them, but you’re a strong reasonable and logical person to protest the inclusion of a minor warning that you are under no obligation to read and can easily skip.
> a coordinated

Being a single newspaper, it absolutely is coordinated. Ever newspaper is coordinated. It would be surprising if it wasn't. So this is largely irrelevant.

It would be relevant if there was coordination amongst multiple newspapers.

And even then, it might not matter: coordination doesn't imply the the news aren't true.

So, no. There isn't a coordinated media blitz, and even if there was, it wouldn't matter.
It looks like the movie Back to the Future part 2 got something right regarding faxes: https://youtu.be/UlEFqR4SaVA?t=60
Annotating 3D objects with 2D data
For sysadmin needs:

- htop (better top)
- nload (network traffic visualization)
- nano (I know, but works great for simple editing)
- curl (http everything tool)
- telnet/nc (check listening ports)
From a desktop/casual system builder/potential new macbook pro buyer question but will these surpass Intel's core i5/i7 offerings in single thread + power efficiency, given Intel is stuck on 14 nm for a while?

Thinking of upgrade my 2014 era stuff due to massive improvements in SSD, memory etc. but not sure its worth dropping so much money for coffee lake or just waiting for something better x86 (or ARM...)-wise.
> You can't un-fire the missiles.

True, but you can always offer at least the basic guarantee, and you can always document what you are guaranteeing to the caller.
And Bernie Sanders, being an independent, presumably has to supply his own candy.
Yo - I did the Airbnb project linked ^^^ which I believe was the first of this wave of deep learning-powered sketch->UI projects (though standing on the shoulders of decades of R&D projects)

Our take was that we really do design on paper or whiteboard first & foremost, which is why our project emphasized the webcam + sharpie thing rather than drawing in-browser etc.

Here's a related thing I wrote about the need for design tools to design the real thing, rather than facsimiles of the thing: https://jon.gold/2017/08/dragging-rectangles/ - so so so much process waste is because developers have to re-implement static pictures of designs.

In our case, we didn't get buy-in to keep developing the project, but I'm kinda jazzed that so many people are running with the idea
Err...sorry no. At least not for Stockfish (maybe for AlphaZero or LeelaZero).

0 means that the position is exactly equal (material + positional)

The engine always has an idea of what's going on through simple material calculation + positional heuristics (although it maybe be flawed)
Roughly $1M.
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Sort of on topic...Does anyone know of a good interactive resource for learning some of the tools that are included by default on UNIX systems? RTFM is useful, of course.
I don't know why you have Francis Crick on that list. Franklin being on the same list as the others is also pretty weird.
Agreed.

This is a discussion about returning a product because "it just isn't quite for you."
Inside the British Army's secret information warfare machine
The best way to help an addicted friend
Almost all tournaments are mixed. I have never played a men's only tournament in my life and I have played fair bit of them in my chess career life.
I want to see a massive diet study that's pure math analysis: start with calories going in and calculate all the different ways the energy leaves the body or gets stored in each case.
Careful. Don’t optimize for longevity at the expense of not living your life. There’s a balance of course, but we often forget that it’s not about the years in your life but the life in your years.

> Early to rise early to bed makes a man healthy wealthy and dead.
> James Thurber
My top 4:

40.2% ls
22.8% cd
15.6% python
3.6% nano

Since no one's mentioned it yet: I don't necessarily think nano is great, but it's always there and it opens immediately. Almost all small, quick edits I make (where opening VSCode/Emacs/whatever doesn't make sense) are done in nano. Pretty useful.
Steam locomotive sl is ESSENTIAL to any command line work. If you don't use it you are a fool.
Their FAQ speaks to this: https://www.boringcompany.com/faq/

Although I'm not sure if they've actually accomplished anything new yet other than push forward the concept of smaller diameter tunnels.
I find that...

alias glol="git log --oneline"

...comes in handy as well, and it's fun to type.
The Computer Hack That Saved Apollo 14 (2017) [video]
Considering academia is vastly one-sided politically, influences the minds of entire graduating generations, and there has been fallout in major companies and even laws passed, the issues around "social justice" are in fact real and much bigger than you may think.
I haven't read the book, but based on your description it sounds like she might also like The Food Lab by Kenji Lopez-Alt.

Food Lab gets much deeper into the chemistry and the why / how than the TV series. I was kinda hoping for some more direct cooking guidance rather than having my appetite whet by the show, but it was still fun to watch.
This would be really great for work-at-home people, freelancers, and digital nomads! I work online for a startup and this is exactly the kind of thing I can think we could all use. Another niche that could benefit from this would be online teaching. Most of the teachers of online English teaching companies work from home. For work at home parents (and there are plenty), the mute whining/screaming child feature is a godsend. Fingers crossed, waiting for Windows support...
Facebook's behavior kind of goes beyond mere data collection tho. They have hired paid shills/astroturf orgs like Microsoft and Oracle did to go after rivals or plant fake stories.

And then there's the Onavo VPN fiasco, wherein Facebook was using VPN snooping for competitive intelligence, so they could buy up any threats early, at least according to leaks.

There's some questionable stuff you could say Google has done (Disclosure: I work for Google), like fund think tanks on free speech that end up coming to the conclusion that 'Search Algorithms = Free Speech' and that you can't regulate algorithms (although some of those orgs, like the ACLU and EFF likely held those positions prior, and the EFF is not beyond publishing critical pieces on Google), but I think funding researchers who end up writing favorable opinions is a different category than funding people to plant fake stories and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

Like, the Koch Brothers funding a college researcher that studies global warming, and it publishing a skeptical review of existing papers, is more defensible than the Koch's funding a bunch of online trolls that post non-credible rumors or conspiracy stories on regulators who want to crack down on carbon.

The former is at least philosophically defensible if the criticisms of the academic literature actually expose real flaws. The latter is just immoral.
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Fascinating! Castle of Good Hope is another example that I don't see listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_of_Good_Hope#/media/Fil.... Thought of it as soon as I heard the title but never knew it was a trend or such a practical design.
isNilOrEmpty is great, though I prefer my variation nilEmpty that turns empty things into nils. Slightly more flexible/chainable. The reality is that there are a lot of cases where the empty state could be nil or an empty collection/string/whatever. I try not to add to them, preferring to use the empty collection over nil, however handling both is generally a lot easier and safer than trying to prove that the data from some other system can't be dumb.
For those of us who think that 'get used to it' is not an acceptable answer for Facebook, Gmail or anything else, a little heat on any one of them is a good way to bring the problem to more public light.
EB Garamond is wonderful. Just as a FYI for anyone interested (because it's not mentioned on the EB Garamond site): Google commissioned Octavio Pardo to create bold versions of the fonts, and they're available at https://github.com/octaviopardo/EBGaramond12 (fonts/{otf,ttf}).
No, unfortunately, the products I’ve made have probably not made the world a much better place. For example, I made, about 1 million selfie-sticks, for the GoPro camera. Sold in Best Buy, Target, Walmart, and frys electronics. Anytime you see one of irritating sticks with a camera on it. You can think of me.

Now, it would be great, if I could help stop genocide. It would be great, if I could change China. But, that’s out of my span of control. And no matter how much you preach at me, it is also, outside your own span of control.
In India that single cookbook would be 'Modern Cookery' by Thankam E Philip.
I am always impressed by the usefulness of the git command line. If you wanted to write a GUI for it you usually would have a library to link to but the GUIs (e.g SourceTree) I have seen use the command line and still get good performance.

Another one is ffmpeg. A ton of tools are built on it.

For photographers exiftool is great.
What a useful tool! It's an answer to a problem I've had for years, which I've had no idea how to formulate in order to solve. Thank you for making and posting this.
Lightning Network Development for Modern Applications
I wonder how much time needs to elapse between failure and a new startup?
It's not that they didn't know how to configure it correctly; some of it was purposefully (and rightfully) disabled to see real difference between stockfish and AZ.

Remember that if stockfish uses tablebases and opening books it's really "cheating" by using human knowledge.

Although I am surprised that they reduced the hashtable so much and also used stockfish 8 when stockfish 9 was available. It was not RAM but just the hashtable size also their "test" has been replicated by plenty of people.

We have our own "replica" of the NN playing chess in lichess.
They aren't ignoring facts, they just already accepted them dozens of articles ago. Questioning coverage frequency has nothing to do with the facts and definitely is not a sign of ignoring them.
I need my tax guy to be an expert on tax law way more than I need them to be on the cutting edge of computer communications and security.

If he wants to stick to his old-school fax machine and keeps me on the right side of the tax agencies, I can accommodate his preferences on tech.
How does complaining about Chinese IP theft square with HN complaints about IP protections in TPP? Because pretty much the whole point of the IP protecrions in TPP was to avoid the situation we see in China.
But you can make that ~500k/yr at a half dozen (at least!) other companies without compromising yourself and selling out. I think FB has a reputation as paying at or above the market max. It's not like the other FANGs or unicorns are slouches in the comp department.
This is all fluff.

There are a few simple rules I followed for successful weight loss (15 lbs in the last 5 months.

1) Burn more calories than you consume.
2) Losing more than a pound per week means you'll gain it back again.
3) If you like the taste of the food item then it's unhealthy.
>- A Democratic Party that failed its middle and lower class

Republicans blocked almost all efforts to get anything done.
Blame would lie equally with them. Their specific motive was to shut Obama down and render his presidency mute. As such he expanded the executive which Trump has taken advantage of.

>- A media industry obsessed with growth and sensationalism

Ad dollars and there was a repeal of the fairness doctrine. That lead to Fox News not being news but entertainment and pushing the right wing agenda.

>- A cultural obsession with money and so called "success"

It's reported this way but is it actually true? Most Americans make less than 50k so I maybe money is a concern.

>- A deep-rooted racial problem

Probably true. It's been codified into law, not explicitly per se anymore but effectively so.

>- A population trained to not be skeptical, and be responsive to advertisement

Americans do learn what propaganda is in school but a vocal irrational minority tends to saturate social media. But there are political agendas driven by state legislatures to write the curriculum as well as a lot of revisionist history in school textbooks.

>- A shared obsession to "be the greatest country on earth"

Only because it drives headlines.

- A two-party political system with sports-like irrational rivalry

This is about guns, abortion and taxes mostly. Most of the time it is about the economy.

- A democracy where the popular vote of the majority doesn't seem to matter

Well this is a founding of the country problem.. basically the rich people at the time didn't want a true democracy and instead opted for a republic. And politicians exploit these properties to shift the balance of power in their favor. The mechanism to power here is the vote and they suppress voters they don't want etc...

- A tradition of long-standing political dynasties disconnected from the people's needs

This is not really true. I think the bigger issue is that a lot of money is needed to fund a campaign and most people don't donate and as such politicians have to court big business or big monied interests. McCain wanted campaign finance reform as well as a repeal of super pac funding. At a minimum we need full transparency so people can make an informed choice.
I just got back from a trip to several EU countries and can confirm that a lot of US publishers do not appear to have been ready for GDPR. Several newspaper websites simply blocked any access from an EU domain. (Of course VPNs let you get around this.) It was also interesting to see how GDPR slightly penalizes users of privacy features by placing must-click banners or entry pages in front of every access attempt. Since websites cannot memorize your preferences if you routinely remove cookies, you get a suboptimal user experience.
- Take the time to maintain your relationships with existing friends and family

- Meet with co-workers or customers whenever possible to motivate

- As youeseh mentions, hobbies that are done in groups (For me its sufing & biking)
Yeah, that's the problem. Tenant stops paying, illegally sublets the place, then disappears, and by the time you finally got their stuff out you've lost a year of rent and had to pay their utilities.

It's not that common, but it's a possible outcome, and a contract won't help even a little bit.
Feynman is kinda the counter argument though — I think his IQ was 120ish. Obviously very smart, but his unique insights seem to have come more from a broad base of knowledge and an intensely curious personality vs raw brain power. I don’t think you need to be a genius to make an impact in a lot of fields.
Agreed. Sometimes I could use a simple website and compared to Winforms or VB it's really hard these days.

I think if someone finds the right sweet spot between extensibility and ease-of-use for web apps they could make a killing. Something similar to what VB did for the desktop.
Part of the problem is that ad code requires a messy environment, so that ad blockers and click generators have a hard time. Google, by policy, does not permit you to put their ads in a iframe, where they belong. You can't even put Google Hostile Code Loader ("tag manager") in an iframe sandbox.

I believe the proper term for this is "Well there's your problem.". That sort of antisocial behavior is what caused the issue in the first place and rather than solve this by being civil enough to the user that they don't try to block everything they double down on the untrustworthiness and act /even more/ malicious.
> [tradition] tends to be a collection of things whose primary commendation is that they didn't immediately cause a society to fail.

Not at all. Traditions become traditions over long periods of time. Thus, they tend to be collections of things that haven't caused a societal failure in the last several hundred years, which is a much better record than not causing immediate failure.
Being old for our generation will be awesome. I'll just play Starcraft all day with other geezers.
Totally agree. You have to be able to model the relationships between controls. WPF is actually quite good about that.
> as long as you haven't significantly damaged the item yourself

As an aside, my limited experience with buying "new" books from Amazon is that they are always significantly damaged on arrival.
You don't need to be overly cynical to question this. He did write a New York Times editorial about the three billion dollars he has donated to one university.
I clicked around in the Amazon previews and Modern Cookery reads a lot like "New Pro Chef", the Culinary Institute textbook.
It's going to be unpopular.

I'd say it's the arrogance of American leads to the situation.

>> The Yinhe incident (Chinese: 银河号事件) was a false claim made in 1993 by the United States government that the China-based regular container ship Yinhe (银河; "Milky Way") was carrying chemical weapon materials to Iran. The US Navy forced the Yinhe to stop in the international waters of the Indian Ocean for a month. The final inspection report signed by the U.S., concluded that there was no chemical weapon materials at all. However, the U.S. government refused to apologize "because the United States had acted in good faith on intelligence", even though the Chinese were proven innocent.

What's not mentioned in the wikipedia page, is that US cut off the GPS of Yinhe container ship to force the search. It has been a wake up call for Chinese government.
Nano simply and efficiently gets the job done in 70% of cases.

Nano
Vim
Xdg
youtube-dl
wttr
git
curl
top
watch
It's hard to donate $1.8billion anonymously, especially to your alma mater (I imagine there are only so many Hopkins alumni capable of that kind of donation and they're all on speed dial on the school's chief fundraiser's phone)
From the article:
"In a new document, the city of San Jose says that Google could pay upwards of $100 million to buy roughly 21 acres of land for its proposed mega-campus, without any subsidies."
I'm stretching? So all printers, scanners, wifi cards, webcams, wireless headphones, fancy keyboards, etc. just work out of the box in your experience with Linux? I was literally installing a third party driver that had to be manually made while I was tapping my last measage to you.

For the I guess third or fourth time I use Linux regularly. I'm not telling you Linux is hard because I want it to be hard. God knows I wish it wasn't so hard. I'm simply stating my observations as a user of multiple distros over several years.

In Linux you always end up in the command line. The Linux community is hostile to newbies. CLI programs are inconsistent, constantly changing, and often obtuse which means if you want to use Linux you will need to learn it.

Ubuntu did a great job making Linux easy, relatively speaking. If they hadn't cancelled Ubuntu Touch I'd be tapping to you on that right now. But even in Ubuntu you will not get far without the command line. Say you want to setup a VPN in Ubuntu. There's a good chance you're going to be doing some non-easy work in the command line vs Windows or MacOS where it's just point and click.

I have to wonder why you insist on pretending that Linux is easy. Windows is easy. That's why its popular. Linux is difficult. That's why it doesn't appeal to people who want a computer that "just works".

In my opinion the way to make Linux easy is to do the hard work of documenting and integrating all of the open source software that makes Linux great. It's not glamarous but seriously, someoene needs to do it, lol.
The west has culturally moved into a kind of foodie Epicureanism in the past 15 years. This can be seen as a response to economic pressures that young people are facing. When you can't afford a home or a car, you give up on it altogether and suddenly you have all this disposable income to spend on smaller and more transient sensory experiences like food and travel. Importantly, these experiences are able to be catalogued on social media.

Instagram is a huge factor in the rise of foodie-ism. If you are what you eat then you can use pictures of food as a form of self-expression. Picture of a dish at a quirky new restaurant? You're adventurous and on-trend. Made a sourdough bread from scratch? You're artisanal and authentic.

We also have to consider that 'cool food places' is one of the biggest draws that have led people to move into big cities in the past 15 years. Young people are ditching chain restaurants for hipster authenticity. Fetishising the latest Pho place as being more authentic than the last is one way to demonstrate your competence in the urban marketplace of food choices. Which leads on to the phenomenon of 'review-ism': how we now depend on internet reviews to decide where to go.
You could be doing that, scavenging value out of the existing (doomed) company, or you could be kidding yourself, continuing on with the baggage of that company because it seems easier than starting over from scratch.