skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels to me like selling dropshipped items for twice the price online, then re-selling the returns in random retail stores domestically would be part of this.

I wonder how they can afford rent, but as long as they can pay salaries then the laundering cycle becomes complete
Just explain to him privately that it's not a good idea and leave it at that.
A person with a knife and intent is just a lethal as someone with a gun. It only takes a second or two for someone to cover 20ft and give you a deadly wound.
Baked into the statistics is an assumption that cops never lie....

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xvzwp/baltimore-cops-car...

https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/courtroom-files/st-louis-cop-...
Amazon makes its machine learning courses for free. But there is a catch
Reuters also has a history of bad reporting wrt Japan, at least as far as I'm concerned. They often translate things incorrectly and lead with conclusions based on that mistranslation. They are not the only ones on my "usually biased news" list, though. The Japan Times often picks up stories from the Yomiuri Shinbun, which are questionable in nature and translates them. These are then often picked up by the BBC.

What I find interesting, though, is that I don't think it is necessarily editing bias. I think it's actually the opposite: poor editing. What I've found is that when I've found stories that are mistranslated, or which contain seemingly intentionally misleading information, it's actually the same reporters. It is really only a handful of reporters that seem to be responsible for all of the crap news stories. The problem is that the editors seem to let the stories through (possibly because they are money makers???).

I'm not going to name names (of reporters) because my "analysis" is really adhoc and probably also biased. However, I encourage people to look at the by-lines and see if you find any patterns with types of stories and their authors. Don't assume that because it's reported by a reputable news service that the information is correct and unbiased.
Sort of off topic, but I wish every company didn't put these in their privacy policies:

"user information related to the Service may be among the items sold or otherwise transferred"

"The Company may modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect the changes in our business and practices, and so you should review this page periodically"

For 70-100k in tuition, one would hope for a less revocable promise of privacy than that, especially from a school.

It would also be nice if these policies had parts that clarify whether the 'anonymized' data they inevitably transfer can reasonably be re-identified later. I'm never sure how to read those, personally.
As a serious user of Clojure, I just want to point out that one of my favorite thing about Clojure is the consideration that the core team has for its users.

I don't think this gist is targeted at users, but at other contributors.

As a user, Clojure is one of the best community I've ever been in. Where else do you get someone from the core team answering your questions in less than 24h ?

Design choices are well explained, the ticket process is well detailed on the Jira, the conj each year announce what to expect in the new version, and everyone is polite, inclusive and friendly to newcomers and beginners alike.
I'm sorry but I'm going to have to call bullshit on that. First of all, 'I work fulltime' and 'I am a fulltime dad' are incompatible.

It is indeed doable, as you say but not at all common. Either your job is very low stress (no on-call, no live services, etc..), you're on meth, you're half-assing most of that or have an exceptionally large spoon [0] but there's no way in hell a regular engineer would have the mental energy to deal with all of that and do a great job at them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory
IMO South Korea has been Westernized much more than Japan or China.

Even before South Korea came under U.S. influence, Buddhism in Korea has been weaker than in Japan for a long while because neo-Confucianism took over as the state ideology in the early 15th century. Neo-Confucianism emphasizes going out into the world and contributing to the public good, not withdrawing into a hermitage. Most of the great Buddhist monks that people remember are from before the switch. Buddhism was often actively suppressed, and tolerated at best, for the last 600 years.
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Many of us understand, but disagree with the points.
2000 inmates in 5 years... at $90/days. Hrm. I guess they have a lot of multi-day guests doing hard time, otherwise this isn't too sustainable.
Ex-healthcare IT data person weighing in with a probably ridculous idea:

The focus on NLP is because in 20-30 years, discrete data won't be entered into EMRs by providers at all.

Here's the pitch: Providers hate EMRs. They begrudge the time they spend working in EMRs instead of focusing on patient care. They loathe spending their office hours working on documentation. They hate spending their time in meetings with IT staff talking about EMR workflows and form-building. They hate getting lectured by accounting staff about how their documentation affects billing. They couldn't care less about this stuff and in an ideal (or even just a slightly more efficient) world, they wouldn't have to.

Every EMR that depends on webform-like inputs that map to database fields is going to be seen as a roadblock to patient care, which is what providers see as their primary concern.

I think the focus on NLP makes a ton of sense if you frame the problem with EMRs that way. EMR software will continue to be the bane of providers' existence right up to the day that providers can simply talk to their EMR in whatever way they want and have the computer interpret their speech and reliably spit out the discrete data that the accountants and number-crunchers want.

Obviously, I'm talking about a monumentally complicated undertaking and it's a bit on the ridiculous side. But I honestly believe we're going to go there, if only because providers won't be happy until we do.
Containers belong in a invisible subsystem that make higher level services like FaaS available to application developers.
I agree with the fabricated outrage but there is an interesting difference between diet, exercise, tutoring. Your descendents also get your enhancement for free. (Or at least 50% off)
also x planet and x spire. what if i told you, a good rule of thumb was 1/3rd for launch 1/3 rd for launch and 1/3rd for everything else. this is a huge game changer if anyone uses this stripped down early product, which i agree is very limited. You want a lot more thought on tracking and the different options for ground to space comms
>the reason why I turned them off is because of a large number of uploaders who abused annotations with stupid annoying messages that added nothing to the video.

Same here, 99% of the time it's just a big annotation that covers the whole video that says something like "click here for my latest viral video" or "get [brand name] shoes 50% off" and so on.
I read the Civil white paper linked from the article hoping to see a description of a new business model for journalists and publishers but only found how they will use CVL tokens to vote on who is in the whitelist.

Can someone please explain how/why readers would pay for the content? That's the important part, isn't it?
Ohio to accept Bitcoin as payment for business tax, will be the first state to
Facebook's Potemkin Everything
That's... an interesting interpretation of Magnitsky's murder. (regardless of whether Browder himself was involved in any shady dealings). They, and supporting citations, also come from only one source, too.
Because we know police statistic to be above question. Also, how does someone fleeing place the cops life in danger and require lethal force? I find this "comply in order to live..." logic dangerous.
Yeah I can see what you mean in relation to being in the target demographics.

If I go mentally back to when I was in a small startup, then I could kinda see how the article makes sense, because as a technical co-founder I also had (partial) freedom to imagine how the product should be, besides having to actually write code. But then all the "politics-related" aspects that the article mentions (the whole "us vs. them" thing) make less sense because in a small startup there isn't as much "politics" as in a larger corporate environment...

Maybe the article applies to a "later stage/larger startup" environment, which I have never experienced, and maybe that's why I find it confusing.

Edit: another thing that you said and makes a lot of sense, is that your dev work often involves creating a product, however in my experience (at least since I left the startup world and went into enterprise) most work has been about dealing with a lot of legacy stuff and developing new features here and there, very rarely having to develop a new product from scratch.
This is true. But, the biggest problem with the Human Genome Project isn’t that the genome didn’t get totally sequenced. It’s that we still don’t understand what the vast majority of the genome does, even if we know the DNA sequence.
> Anyone that cares about the data quality they are getting from their satellites is not going to trust a 3rd party solution.

Please explain this, I don't understand why it would be the case.
Why would you think less code means the code is less readable?

Does cramming 5 lines of code into 1 line make it less code? No.

Reading code is harder, so the less code there is to read, the better.
You are entirely correct, I was just using the common example at hand to make my point.
that's not a product, that's a feature.

perennial fear of every small company dealing with much larger partners.
Let's put aside 2018 for a moment and imagine society in 2100.

Gene editing and human cloning will happen: only a matter of time. What we can't accept today, someone else will accept tomorrow.

Now, add automation (remember, this is 2100), climate change and resource depletion into the mix and well, I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
> But I know Comcast/Xfinity throttles the crap out of your upload. Even if you get their 1 gigabit plan, your upload is limited to 35 mbps [0].

Odd that you choose their second highest tier to fit your narrative instead of just jumping to their highest tier with is actually symmetrical 2Gbps up and down fiber.
“Freedom on the Net” 2018 West Coast Launch: Recap and Reflection
I'm on build 1803 and I have the issue with "some Win32 programs can't be set as the default program", which is irritating because I can't open log files in SublimeText. So that isn't unique to the 1809 update.

That seems to be fixed in today's patch Tuesday updates though[1]. I'll check after that installs.

[1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4467682

Edit: today in the US.
> Cloning is a remarkably simple process from what I have read

Fewer than 10% of cloned animals survive to birth as of below 2016 report. Given human gestation period are much longer as well as far more limited cycles available per female, you are going to have very hard time cloning humans.

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/cow-gene-study-shows-why-most-c...
Just Oscar: Defining the Oscar Wilde we want to see
Pepsi vs. Coke: The Power of a Brand (2011)
New tech could predict your moods. Is that good?
Videos for Small Businesses; Part 1
If current trends prevail, it's inevitable. When all else is equal, won't the largest countries dominate?
Please don't Godwin already-flameprone threads. That's trolling, whether you intended to or not.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18546130 and marked it off-topic.
Why Is the US Losing the AI Race?
> one of the world's most visited sites

> According to Alexa the site is ranked as the 209,334 most visited site in the world

Clickbait much? I think to be considered "one of the world's most visited" it should at least be in the top 1,000
> and if, experimentally determined, the risk of negative side effects were the same as, say, postponing childbirth by five years,

To determine that some change is safe during the expected 150 year of life, you must measure the effects during … at least 150 years (preferability more).

How would be you sure that there are no tradeoff? Perhaps it reduce the chance of reproduction by a 1%. Perhaps it affect the ability to climb very tall mountains or very deep scuba diving. Perhaps it will make your grandgrandchildren more weak during a famine (sooner or later, some of your descendants will suffer a famine) or an epidemic. What are the good genes for surviving a war? How do you average the advantages and disadvantages of the normal times and the war times? And there are some adaptations that cause problems but makes you more resistant to malaria, how long you expect your descendants to live in a malaria free zone?

How are you sure that the proposed changes are real advantages and not just some fads? (Consider that it's not clear how many eggs should you eat weekly, the recommendation changes every ten years.)

What about exchanging 10 years of life for a 1% more chance of reproduction. Perhaps 1% is small, but it accumulates during the generations.
AWS Tests the Waters with Homegrown Arm Servers
I disagree.

Why is Fortran still a thing? technical debt

Everyone I know in astrophysics or engineering who can uses something else--Python, C++, and Julia, are big winners.

The problem is that there are these huge monolithic codebases written in Fortran that are difficult to get out of using. People end up using Fortran because they need a hydrodynamics code, or a navier stokes solver, or a chemical kinetics code, but they can't justify building one from scratch--that's not how you get a Ph.D., and Ph.D. students and post docs are the people doing the brunt of this work.

There's also the added disincentive that even if you do re-implement a solver in a modern, maintainable way, then your results might disagree with previous published work--not necessarily because your results are wrong, but because the published work probably has bugs that no one has been able to discover or reason about because the code is so complex.
it's great to see more terminal emulators, especially ones that have good unicode support and are trying to be faster than the average garbage.

There's at least one other terminal emulator that does things akin to the image-catting and viewing colors when you click them, namely terminology [0].

There's also at least one other that uses opengl for faster rendering (alacritty [1]).

I don't know of any other that do both these things; use opengl for speed and also innovate in interactivity.

[0]: https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology.md

[1]: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty
Very true! They tend to be the right size, a lot of walking, and a lot of young people doing cool and interesting things.

That said, lot's of money pouring in tends to help!
You need some data to back that up.

The bulk of football is played in "league" format, not "cup" format, where teams all play each other two times in a year. With 34 matches, for example, much of that "randomness" is gone.
The presence of Chinese students interviewing for your grad program says nothing about the percentage of equivalent performance students who choose to remain in China.
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It is in the AWS documentation:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance...

"Each vCPU is a hyperthread of an Intel Xeon CPU core, except for T2 instances."
I was going to ask if that was the motivation for the post.
I could write a book about my experience learning Spanish after I moved to Spain years ago. I'll summarize:

1. Immersion is overrated, even if you're trying your best to study vocabulary in your off hours. You won't just start "dreaming in a foreign language" because you've been around it all day. I wasted 6 months thinking it would someday just happen magically. It won't.

2. No one will put up with your shitty language skills for more than 5 minutes... Except your significant other. They'll have the patience because they love you. Everyone else will just cringe after a few minutes and change to English, or just smile and wave you off.

3. Hire a private tutor. I went to see a wonderful older woman named Nieves every day after work for 18 months. It was the only real way to chisel a language into my thick skull. She was part therapist, part cultural liaison and part drill master.

Y mas que diez años despues, no he olvidado mucho. Bueno, nunca podria escribir muy bien, pero puedo charlar con otros hispanohablantes sin mucho esfuerzo. Excepto los Argentinos. No tengo ni idea que estan diciendo por nada.
In hockey, players rest most of the time, and can keep playing much longer. Also skating takes much less effort than running.

A soccer player must first of all be a decent mid distance runner: They run an average of 7 miles per game!

In soccer, I think the longer they play, the more tired people get, the more it rewards defense, and you'd just see very few goals after 120 minutes.

You could imagine things like removing the goalies to get a playing result that's not penalties.
Agreed. I suppose sociopaths can get away with more when there's so many people that the relationship/connections between everyone are weaker on average.
https://internetingishard.com - one of the best ever tutorials on HTML and CSS.
I just don't see the value in staying within some arbitrarily defined bound of "human". If anything, humanity is exemplified by our ability to manipulate nature to our benefit. Genetic engineering doesn't seem substantively different to me.

I also don't see how this relates to the instinct to procreate. We don't procreate because we think its the "human" thing to do, we do it because we're human and we have an instinct to procreate. If procreation conflicted with some other drive or interest of ours, we might decide to forgo it (and many do). But this doesn't seem out of bounds of what is typically human either.
I knew this would be created eventually but I was thinking it would just be a shell. This looks impressive at first glance, implementing everything with OpenGL.
This a good correction in this case. But in the US it is only the most egregious cases (with the most video evidence) where grand juries/prosecutors even succeed in bringing criminal charges against police officers.
There's a cute namelist hack that allows parsing arguments as well as serializing them to disk using old, standard language features: https://github.com/RhysU/namelist_cli
> I would recommend checking https://thelayoff.com.

Yea, such high quality discussions...

> https://www.thelayoff.com/t/WloJheT
If we do love this, I think we will eventually find a way.
Just prepare for this.
The C Preprocessor (Gnu.org Reference)
You will also see words like "feature-rich", or "all-in-one solution".
Local Chinese here, Personally, I don't need Dragonfly because I can cross the GFW of China, but other people in China can't. They currently suffer from China monopoly - Baidu's shitty and annoying search results. So I'd like to see an alternative search engine come to here even if it does have some trade-offs. From another perspective, even Google does provide an uncensored search result here, most Chinese users still cannot access them because of the firewall. What's the difference of censored and uncensored result for them? In the long run, I do think China will close the firewall someday. So let us (Chinese) take the trade-off for now and move forward.
Since many(if not all) of this comments are completely empirical and based in personal experiences, all I can take from this comments is that one of my 2019 resolutions is to start a plan and save money to quit job and focus on a project of mine.
This seems to be a cheaper, ascetic equivalent, of the classic meditation retreat, which is already popular in both the East and West.

Marketing it as a prison puts a quirky twist on it. This makes for an interesting article, which also fits Western stereotypes.
How to approach a programming question when you don't know the answer
Sure, they are Arm cores, but who knows what else they have on them.

Arm has a bunch of extensions[1][2] which would be really useful on these in some circumstances. And that is ignoring the "custom silicon" that Amazon claims to have.

[1] https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip-cpu/machine-learning...

[2] https://www.androidauthority.com/arm-project-trillium-842770...
Like most news, there's quite a bit of truth, with a bit of "hook" to draw the reader in. South Korean study culture, especially to get into University, bass a bar exam or get a public service job is really quite unreal.

There are blocks of "prison" like apartments with surrounding quiet zones in many areas. They exist simply so people can escape home life and study 24/7 (mostly rote memorization exercises) in order to pass some gatekeeping exam [1]. I have a niece who didn't score well enough in the college entrance exam to get into a tier-1 school and so is spending a year in one of these in order to retake the test and get into a better school. It's not a prison exactly, you can come and go as you please, but people generally don't rent these as their sole residential living arrangements. The goal is to have a distraction free environment to get as much wakeful study in as possible. The last time I visited the country, she was so deep into her studies she was unable to break free and come say hi and was very regretful about it over the phone.

Work life is also pretty crazy, and often unproductively so. Many companies simply just waste employee time making them sit around or do busy work in order to appear that they're actively engaged in business activities. There's also enforced after hour drinking and dinner activities and often work on weekends. It's not as bad as Japan, but there's definitely strong commonalities. It's considered very desirable to get a job with a foreign company because their treatment of staff is more along global norms. There was a cut this past year in the maximum full-time hours, but it's still way above 40/week and is probably poorly enforced. I can almost guarantee it will have no measurable impact in work output even though companies are acting like its economic armageddon.

Some of my relatives work like this and it's pretty much a universal desire among them and my friends there to start their own small company so the hours will be better and maybe even the pay. It doesn't even matter if the company is something they have any particular expertise in...just something to enable them to have some better measure of control.

Here's an anecdote, one of my Korean relatives has wanted to come visit us in the U.S. for 3 years, he only gets 5 days of vacation per year. At the beginning of the year he asks for permission from his boss if he can take those 5 days and come over. For 2 years he was denied and as a result just took his vacation days as three day weekends (with at least a one month notice beforehand). His boss acted like he was trying to destroy the company both years.

This year he was given permission to come visit, but his wife was not and so he's coming alone.

He works a very normal white collar job.

1 - https://kotaku.com/these-korean-rooms-are-compared-to-prison...

Source: not Korean, but married into one for 18 years
The difference is that developers can go on to build new features or even new products for the same company. Can they end up making things worse? Yes, but in such case I personally would blame short-sighted Product Managers chasing the new shiny.

Conversely, designers can not in isolation build a new product and thus are stuck (again, in my opinion) reinventing the wheel for what exists.

And yes, I agree with you that there is a lot of change for its own sake and I wish it would stop regardless of the source. See the recent UI overhaul of gmail. It was enough to force me to use their basic HTML UI and now I’m looking for an alternative all together.