skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of these seem like really bad comparisons. If your credit score is bad, you just have to pay your ISP in advance, rather than be billed monthly in arrears, which is pretty logical. This is also just a rational response by a private company in response to a customer’s bad credit. Not that I don’t have lots of issues with the credit reporting agencies in America.

The Chinese system seems a whole lot more dystopian since it’s state run, and since they are trying to link unrelated things — i.e. penalize you for certain “anti-social” behavior that goes far beyond having poor credit.
TIL Jobs often went to his biological dad's restaurant without knowing of him
Right, I don't think the blame should be placed on the poor bastard who is forced to use the infernal machine on pain of being thrown out of his house. The problem needs to be addressed at a higher level. In this case, there is a simple solution: leaf blowers should be banned.
What's surprising to me is how many hoops people have to jump through just to tell Google to go away.
Cake flour is also a lower gluten flour and can be used to make lighter biscuits. It should be available just about everywhere.
Siberian illusion
I suppose that one can argue in a hyper-capitalist society that the credit rating would be the only social score that mattered, but I suppose that there is more to it in the Chinese model, in that probably you still can't do those things in Chinese society without the financial means to do them, but now there are extra obligations on the individual rather akin to not committing Thoughtcrime.
The concept of individual rights is fairly alien in Chinese culture. Group norms and stability are valued far more.
This is... Misnamed? Optimization solvers are a different topic than what has grown to dominate machine learning. Isn't it?
Yes, I agree. Depending on the person and the circumstances, there are always options.
From Wikipedia[0]:

Jobs told his official biographer that after meeting Simpson, he wanted to become involved in her ongoing search for their father. When Jandali was found working in Sacramento, Jobs decided that only Simpson would meet him. Jandali and Simpson spoke for several hours at which point he told her that he had left teaching to join the restaurant business. He also said that he and Schieble had given another child away for adoption but that "we'll never see that baby again. That baby's gone." (Simpson did not mention that she had met Jobs). Jandali further told Simpson that he once managed a Mediterranean restaurant near San Jose and that "all of the successful technology people used to come there. Even Steve Jobs... oh yeah, he used to come in, and he was a sweet guy, and a big tipper." After hearing about the visit, Jobs recalled that "it was amazing... I had been to that restaurant a few times and I remember meeting the owner. He was Syrian. Balding. We shook hands."

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Simpson#Personal_life
Make no mistake, this is coming to "the west" as well. Just in a distributed, capitalistic way. Someone else here mentioned Uber ratings, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Social media is already used as a source of data for rentals[1] and even babysitting[2] applications. But of course the most eager adopters are also the effective gatekeeper to so many aspects of modern life: insurance companies[3].

Meanwhile, the algorithms used to make these decisions are often an unaccountable, un-analyzable black box. It's going to be very possible to fall through into an "undesirable" category without any obvious misdeeds or obvious ways to fix the situation. I expect we're going to see a category of consultants emerge that will help you "fix" undesirable algorithm ratings - just like we have for credit ratings.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/15/naborly-lets-landlords-scr...

[2] https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/04/babysitter-screening-app-...

[3] https://medium.com/privacy-international/social-media-intell...
Williamsburg ? so specific?
Geoff and Vicki are awesome. I loved Geoff's series on "Secrets of the [name] line," especially the one that concluded with the Waterloo & City Line where he revealed the little tidbits that had been hidden in the previous videos. (And "Secrets of the Cable Car" was hilarious.)

Vicki also makes an excellent presenter. Her "solo" video about Harry Potter Locations around London, and particularly the tube, was great.
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>> Perhaps this simply makes sense given the differing situations.

I think that's the only reasonable conclusion. There are so many differences: in economies, wealth distribution, consumer preference (e.g. for local produce), population density, landmass shape (international shipping isn't in the EU statistics, but is at least as significant as coastal shipping in the USA), infrastructure (EU has no problem building new pipelines), ...

I can't find a good source of statistics, but it seems very possible that the USA simply transfers far more goods for more km (overland) than the EU.

> Did the passenger rail network cannibalize the previously existing freight network?

I'm aware of a shortage of rail capacity in particular places, e.g. traversing/avoiding London, but I don't think that's a general problem.

More likely, the same types of journey on both continents moved to road (e.g. farmer to local market/distribution centre, factory to another factory in the same general area), but in the US long distance transport of imports from Asia increased.
Uber/Taxi drivers are people too, and their vehicles are an important part of their livelihood. They deserve the right to avoid the types of people who end up with 1 star reviews on Uber. Hint: you have the vomit in, steal from, or otherwise wreak havoc MORE THAN ONCE for it to get that bad.
Ha! I’m terrified for our citizens, because people here apparently have no idea how good we have it, even with all our problems. According to a bunch of people on HN (on this post and previous ones about this subject), the fact that we have FICO scores in America makes us just as bad, if not worse.

People have literally no idea how good they have it. If they think everything is hell, why would they fight to protect it?
A lot of the classic "streamline era" trains were basically covered in polished silver sheet metal
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Under the American system, you earn bad credit by paying certain bills over 30 days late. Bad credit equals higher rates on loans.

While I hate this system for privacy reasons, there is always going to be some sort rating system for businesses to avoid high risk customers.
The star is in the constellation Pegasus between Alpha and Beta Pegasi. The star is magnitude 6 so it is bright enough to be seen easily in any size telescope or a pair of binoculars.
This link will give you the star's details and its coordinates:
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?protocol=html&Ident...
To be fair my grandmothers home page is still mail.aol.com. And its only that because I changed it from aol.com years ago.

Its still big money to claim the homepage of most people over 60. Most to my knowledge still don't use smartphones - at least for email, which they do use - which they have a home PC for of some kind to open a browser and go to aol, msn (redirected to outlook), or yahoo.com.
The system doesn't really considers ownership.
All participants could, individually but all, simply follow the rule (R):

"this 'address' (x) actually won't spend anything, ever".

Since participants are actually free to move into that rule, that x "owner" (person X) never owned btc.

Person X can't say he was "disowned"/"robbed"/"stolen".
Each participants is free to do whatever they want with their computers (they could, individually, even shut it down completely - so everyone could actually shut it down at the same time and no one ever come back).

If Person X is to "actually own" bitcoins, then he (or someone) owns every participants computers, so this owner could state (or enforce) the rule "you shall not move into rule R" (because you would be disowning person X without X's permission, which would be aggression and be unjust).

So knowing a private key "just happens" to interact with each blockchain on the participants computers. They "just happen" to not ignore that information, and interact to it in a certain way. We, in practice, consider the filters the participants decides to apply as having the effect of simulating ownership. But Bitcoins are not actually owned by anyone.
Do you imagine this is new in China?

This is the same government that has killed 40-80 million of its own citizens since taking power in 1949. With impunity, if that was unclear.

The repression has lowered considerably during the economic boom of the last 3 decades, but it's naive to compare this new system to some liberal utopia. That is not what it's replacing.
Um, not yet.
The Cherokee are claiming half of Oklahoma
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/.../576238...
The Sioux have refused to accept what has turned into about a billion dollar fee offered by the US federal government in exchange for the Black Hills of South Dakota and since the Sioux have not accepted it, the tribe claim that they still own it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hills_Land_Claim
A small discussion from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7457172
Skewness
I doubt it's true in this case. Tom Cruise has done 100+ skydiving jumps, spent 6 months learning to fly a helicopter, and for the canyon battle they had to transport a crew of 150 people to the mountain and back every day using the helicopters.

No CGI is that expensive. I think they did it because of the craftsmanship, love for the art, perfectionism, stuff like that.
When I lived in Austin I tried several times to make biscuits. While I love the tortillas and kolaches you can get in Central Texas, I was homesick for a good biscuit. And I never could get them to rise like they should. I tried all the different kinds of flour available (Gold Medal, the HEB "Hill Country" all-purpose flour, and so on) and none of them produced anything but hockey pucks.
The fourth estate seems to have added disappointingly little here. If the government decided they would release details of the program, the NYT would "scoop" them by publishing it a day or two earlier. If the government decided not to release details, the NYT heard nothing, saw nothing, spoke nothing.

Not exactly "all the news that's fit to print".
This is completely false. You have no idea what you’re talking about. You think the tens of millions of people with bad credit are all unemployed and homeless? How exactly did they even get that bad credit in the first place?
Well that explains it. I wanted exciting new news in the world of squashed rocks, dammit.
It's not replacing anything, it is an additional mechanism. The history of the Chinese government is simply evidence that the new mechanism will be abused just as brutally as the ones already in place.
I wonder about how well back up cameras would work now as an alternative. Although ironically I know of some cars with back up cameras that added a back-up beep - at least internally.
Conflicts such as government arresting you for "owning cryptos". Or not reporting you "own cryptos".

But it's also pretty far from other known forms of money. It's certainly an opportunity for new philosophical/economical insights.
With a smirk, official says Russia will verify moon landings
An aside - I'm really liking the new Charge 3.
No, I'm saying that the problem isn't "supply", but that access to existing supply is violently (and unevenly) restricted.

I'm interested in why you put government in quote marks. Do the cops who prevent people engaging in construction in Central Park not work for the government?
For a bit of a wider view, see for example the OpenOpt problem tree:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150206060441/http://openopt.or...
Probably most interesting is "Non-Linear Problems (NLP)" there, and if you click in, you can see algorithms.
Absolutely surreal. No wonder these scenes were so immersive. Props to all the stunt performers!
Your credit score will not decrease because you wrote this comment, and mine will not decrease because I conversed with you.
Who, indeed.
Standing out of the line of the blade is a good thing. Standing all the way around the side of the saw makes it harder to smoothly push through the cut.
> I am very glad that none of the code or tests that I write can kill anything more critical than a web site.

Why? You don't trust yourself writing critical code? Maybe you think others are better qualified for that? Or maybe you just don't want to apply corresponding efforts to make systems work in this case?
How is this incompatible with a product that comes with minimum guarantees?

Say we have a way to grade bamboo (this is the question mark in my argument). Grade X bamboo would support the floor in question. Grade 10X bamboo would support 10x the floor in question. For the floor in question, use Grade 10x bamboo.

I mean, it seems like something similar must be going on in structural lumber. Take 2x4s for example. This is one piece of wood out of a tree. There must be natural variation across the population of trees providing wood for these. How do we handle that except by saying that this piece of lumber meets minimum guarantees but may be stronger than that minimum, and is statistically likely to exceed the minimum.
And here comes the comments saying all other nations violations of civil liberties are human rights issues and only in the US are they genuine concerns over national and state security. How did you bring up Japanese internment camps with a straight face?
This guy @foone that did this tweet storm generally has an excellent Twitter account that everyone reading HN would love. He buys lots of old weird hardware and has interesting threads on them. He’s well worth a follow.
Not sure what you mean. The paper above claims 1000x speedups for computing second-order derivatives. Have not tested their claims, but was speculating that such an improvement, if true, would make computing hessians for small networks fesiable. This is what I am referring to.
"Stress" experienced by people who are traumatized (fresh trauma or PTSD) has effects on the physical body. There are some good prescriptions that can help with the biological effects of stress: MAOI's [0], various supplements, etc. Sometimes "depressed" patients really just need thyroid medications.

MAOIs are good for getting people out of bed while their team figures out what other sorts of interventions they'd benefit from:

[...] New research into MAOIs indicates
that much of the concern over their
supposed dangerous dietary side
effects stems from misconceptions
and misinformation, and that it is
still underutilized despite
demonstrated efficacy.[4] New
research also questions the
validity of the perceived severity
of dietary reactions, which has
been based on outdated research.

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

Later anti-depressants (Tri-cyclics, SSRIs, etc) tended to be less-effective than the MAOIs, but the MAOI's patents had expired.

B-vitamins can boost the metabolism. There's a prescription version of Methyl-Folate that's approved as an add-on for depression treatment (imho, this vitamin should really be a primary treatment).

There's lots of space for the medical perspective on a treatment team.
Huh I didn't know that - just that it wasn't of concern. I guess it might have been a case of tolerance bubble striking.
Hi, author of `nnn` here. I didn't submit it but I am actively responding to the comments and it is actually helping me to get feedback and feature ideas.

I am grateful OP posted it. Thanks for fixing the title.
On HN, downvoting for disagreement has always been fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314
Because the science behind building better instruction already exists and does not rely on parlor tricks to make poor instruction more memorable.
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https://github.com/FineUploader/fine-uploader/issues/1881 was open for more than a year. There were some proposals, but I assume that all of them imposed conditions that the author considered unacceptable.

For such a large project, there is no such thing as dormant, only rotting. Archiving makes this status clear to potential users.
Capturing “Galaxyset”
Yea I think some people can be quick to label discomfort as trauma nowadays. Like you said, if we’re going to expand usage of a term to include whole swaths of experience, the term itself becomes less meaningful.
Even if you couldn't mount the boot partition on any common desktop OS and setup ssh + wpa_supplicant (it's FAT32), I would greatly prefer the simplicity of a local console session with a $2 USB-serial adapter (am I the only weirdo with dozens of these lying around?).

Typically I actually just mount the partitions and chroot with qemu-arm, upgrade packages, and do all of the setup before the SD card is ever inserted in a real Pi. proot[0] makes all this a walk in the park.

mount /dev/sdX2 /mnt
mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/boot
proot -q qemu-arm -S /mnt

[0] https://proot-me.github.io
I’m fairly sure that low social credit restricts their ability to travel or leave the country, so that may not work. Unfortunately the more likely scenario for then is probably winding up in ‘re-education’.
Suppose I go through a tough patch in my life - perhaps a stressful period combined with a serious medical problem - and during this time I vomit in several Ubers, driving my customer rating to < 3.

Is it possible to fix this? Am I going to have to change my name, email, and phone number before I can use Uber again? And how is this AT ALL better than the old taxi system, where the taxi company owned the car and was able to insure itself against this kind of damage caused by passengers? Not to mention that if Uber is successful, it's likely to become the only game in town - whereas taxi services are quite diverse by comparison.

Also, why do you assume that I have to be a "bad person" to get a bad rating? What if I'm a minority living in an area where my background is looked upon with suspicion or hatred?
I am surprised the SGD extensions of https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04289 have not been picked up yet (via https://www.inference.vc/everything-that-works-works-because...).
Here's a recipe for buttermilk biscuits that includes a video showing the technique.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/220943/chef-johns-buttermi...

It's fairly close to the old school southern recipe, although lard was traditionally used in addition to butter and many recipes added a teaspoon of sugar and a quarter teaspoon of baking soda.

You can add a couple of teaspoons of bacon grease with your buttermilk to get closer to the traditional recipe.
Terrific article
Means to Attain Happy Life. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Prohibitively expensive Kafka as a service.
Summing up your world view:

If you work for a company that does bad things like snoop on your medical searches to build a profile that they can sell to advertisers / political operatives / anyone with money, it’s not your fault and no one can blame you.

And that isn’t that bad.

And if it is bad, it’s not Nazi-level bad.

...So lick the right boot for the sake of your family, work for whoever will give you the biggest cheque, because shit like the social good and basic privacy are like, just ideas some people have...

You an Ayn Rand fan?
Some good points there with respect to MAD. Perhaps the article should have made the same case you just did, but that lede was deeply buried if it was in there at all. Instead, the reporters treated it as a matter of concern primarily to the newspaper itself.
"Today" as in 2014, possibly Libgen/Scihub were not yet as well known nor large at the time.

AvaxHome is another lesser-known Russian one, but I suspect all the material eventually ends up in Libgen.
They changed the flight plans for SFO after that one jetliner crashed on landing partially due to unfamiliarity so they made the landing easier and less steep (saves fuel and even inexperienced pilots can do it - yay I guess), but now the approach is lower from 30+ miles out and almost every community gets to hear the jet planes going over head for 20 hours a day. I can hear them going overhead from pretty isolated parks on the other side of the mountain ridges, too. If you have a/c running at home one probably would not notice but if one does not it's louder than the street traffic noise for me.
Great comment. Thanks! I agree with all the associated problems.
I was once down voted 3 times for pointing out that two abusive political comments looked to be computer generated.

There should be consequences for down voting to suppress abuse of the privilege.

If explanations of down votes are not acceptable, then a cost of say 100 reputation votes per down vote would discourage misuse of the privilege.
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Note that the are not cookies which British-English refers to as ‘biscuits’. These are what brits would call scones.
>It was only many years later that there were large migrations, after the reconstruction promises passed them over, "vagrancy" was heavily outlawed, and they effectively lost the vote.

That's a really careful glossing over of the coordinated white supremacist terror campaigns that drove newly emancipated black Americans from their homes in the South. Olivia Hooker, the last eyewitness to the only bombs dropped on continental America, passed just last Wednesday at the age of 103.

Her story is an incredible reminder of the sheer capacity for hate that remains unaccounted for in America still today:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/olivia-hooker-tul...
I think it was more than that. They paid $4.2B for Netscape. I think they wanted Netscape's presence on the Web. They were a walled garden dial-up era media company with a lucrative subscription base trying to migrate their business to something for the broadband era - the Web. Netscape had a top 10 website and that was in big part because it was the default home page for Netscape's browser, used by half of the people on the Web that year. They wanted that package, IMO. (And maybe they bought some vision from Netscape about a Java-connected internet of things.)
Sizing Up the Nightlife
The crazy reason nearly every phone in Japan is waterproof
> David Dudley is the executive editor of CityLab. He is the former editor in chief of Urbanite magazine

Sounds like he spends a ton of time around lawns.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18524847
You know what I hate more than leaf blowers? People letting their homes and yards fall into disrepair which becomes a blight on the entire neighborhood. If the price for a nice neighborhood is hearing a lawn mower and leaf blower once in a while, I will gladly pay it.
Many thanks, may do so in the future. :)
> the fact that we have FICO scores in America makes us just as bad, if not worse.

No, it makes us comparable. Not comparable like "we're the same". It makes us comparable like "we have something similar and let me show you some of the differences and correlations so that we might learn something".

> People have literally no idea how good they have it.

I think you're observing us focused on the bad and it makes you think we've lost sight of what's good.

> If they think everything is hell, why would they fight to protect it?

What right do we have to something which we do not wish to improve? How can we fight to improve if we do not discuss how it's bad and what could be done to resolve the problems? How can you resolve problems if you don't recognize them in the first place?
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Your last point is exactly what I wanted to communicate to the first commenter. Lots of tinkering needed to get even close to the same functionality. That is exactly the opposite of "works out of the box".
Many thanks, may reach out in the future. :)
similar to scones, but they have a much different consistency. generally softer and more moist