skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Americans call scones are entirely unlike a British scone. A British scone is closest to an American biscuit.
> This wasn't the UK government

In American usage, "the government" is the totality of the body which exercises sovereign authority. All MPs, minister or backbencher, are part of the government, because Parliament is a government body. Similarly, any official action by any part of Parliament is an action of the British government.
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Is it Uber that is giving you the rating or the drivers?

Because in China, it would be the government giving you the rating, not other people.
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But the government is made up of people. If I recall, there are something like 90 million members in the CCP. And really, any Chinese citizen can join and move up the ranks.
Has there been any progress in the art around this issues? The idea of optimise until it stops making sense to optimise is terribly unsatisfying. I think it means "don't optimise this, but move to another state in a way that is approximately optimisation" or "optimise to this special state". Is there art to define "this special state" which is the generalising classifier. There wasn't anything (for sure) in 1997, although we thought that there were two types of risk minimisation - structural risk (size of classifier) and empirical risk (error on datasets) but no one had an idea of how to use these ideas well. I did some work where I pruned optimised ensembles using GA's to get better generalisation vs direct trained, but everyone hated it because it was inefficient.

Then people looked at deep networks and the structural risk minimisation stuff went out of the window I guess.
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LiPo is a really terrible choice for a UPS; it'll wear out quite quickly. LiFo is way better, like this: https://www.crowdsupply.com/silicognition/lifepo4wered-pi-pl...
Interesting, thanks. I will look into this more.
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This is not the same government.

The fact that Mao tried to have Deng assassinated goes to show that it became a different government when Deng ascended to power.

The fact that Xi was sent to a reeducation camp in the 70s and now he is the president of China shows this is a different government.
Co-creator of Selenum 1.0 checking in. My part of the 2004 Selenium was the wire protocol that allowed one process (the Java/Ruby/C#/Python test runner) to control the other (the browser). In so doing implemented a rudimentary COMET protocol, as it happens.

Anyway, FlutterDriver is pretty frickin limited. Its like Selenium-RC without the XPath. Thank Turing that Simon Stewart and WebDriver came along and did a reverse takeover of Selenium. Selenium on my MacBookAir for perfected build toolchains can zip along at 3-5 tests as second with the browser open and you being able to roughly see what it is doing. Not 3-5 clicks a second, 3-5 tests a second.

FlutterDriver, by contrast is 5x slower. And even then that's only after the APK has been shoved into the emulator which can be minutes on my MBA. It feels to me like the FlutterDriver tests are being added to the APK being sent to the emulator, and then phoning home with minimal output of the run (not withstanding the ability to attach a debugger). There's no doubt that the better solution would be to open a socket to the host OS's test-runner process and chat back and forth about direction of the testing. If needs be, that shitty Selenium-RC COMETalike way , but there's no reason a whole bunch of telemetry couldn't be traded too if a BEEPlike protocol were developed. And the running process shouldn't be constrained to Dart. Some teams will want their test runner logic in another 3GL like Python.

Then there's the lack of reflection. I may agree that production apps may want to explicitly turn off reflection in order to be more efficient. But for test-automation purposes it is great (e.g. Gherkin), and it would be nice of there were some effort to publish patterns and set policy that would allow that way of working to be lasting.

Also, Apple are way ahead with a simulator for iOS and the XCode toolchain that's so much faster for testing considerations. Faster than a reliance on QEMU - at lest on busy 8GB machines. I bought a Mac Mini two days ago, mostly because of Flutter really, but general bloat too.
LinkedIn doesn't even pretend to have any sense of privacy.
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A somehwat inverse effect. Rather than green-screen all the effects in First Man, lots of scenes were shot in front of an enormous LED display.

Solves a lot of problems with simulating realistic in-cockpit reflections.

Also a good way to make the entire crew queasy. The final Moon approach and landing shots are incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZEcwrBcqGs

There's also good old fashioned miniatures for the Saturn V.
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Like the phantom time hypothesis, bicameralism is a sort of massively revisionist theory that relies on wild interpretations of historical information. And both are pretty entertaining, regardless.
Once this phase is complete, the true manacles will come out: targeted collective punishment. If your family member or friend is a bad actor, you are guilty by association, and your score suffers.

This will also make you reachable even if you're not living in China. Say something China doesn't like? Your family and friends score suffers in China. Do it for too long and they disown you for their own self preservation.
Every time I click a link it asks if I want to install the app or continue in the browser and the icon for browser is chrome despite me not even having chrome installed.
Will be hard too. I saw a documentary of a guy that was effectively ostracized within his own city. Not allowed to travel. There is no cash money, and they could forbid him any purchase potentially. So these people should then barter, which could be fobidden too (should happen off-camera then). The oppression options are endless.
What is this, the official opinion of the ministry of propaganda? Having an authority fact check everything is surrendering your judgement to someone else, in the worst case an authoritarian regime. I’d like to think people are either smarter than we acknowledge or you and I are dumber than we think.
Perhaps in parts of Yorkshire otherwise I’m really struggling to think of what words I drop the H from. Americans saying ‘erbs confused me for years.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
I repeatedly get spammed on linked in with "job offers". I took the bait the first time and said I might be interested if they give more info and they just asked for my phone number so I ignored them.
LinkedIn definitely uses same IP address to suggest connections. My wife as suggested connection really stood up in this way for many reasons (profile recently created, a few connections from the other side of the world and in a totally different industry).
Sorry buddy, lived in Germany, uk, nz, aus and am now in the us dealing with a family member going through terminal illness.

All i can say is you are wildly off base, we're putting my dad on an international flight to save him 200k on treatment costs (immunotherapy). Same shit, different system, fully funded and no out of pocket cost compared to the us of a.

Keep your system, its failing.
The party doesn’t need to offer them free vpn. Instead, it figures out what vpn services they are using and shuts them down. It goes as far as using machine learning to detect vpn traffic.

I guess this is more effective because dissents is a very small subset of vpn users, and application layer encryption makes it hard to extract much information even if you can monitor vpn traffic.
Getting a 503, here's an archive from a month ago:

https://archive.is/pkeUI
Doesn't the Patriot Act allow the US to sidestep it's constitution? Not to mention stuff like National Security Letters and Secret Courts.
Great on psychedelics.
WhatsApp? Is this so difficult to program? Just VOIP and messaging? The Chinese WeChat hat much for features (e.g. send money, pay etc.)

And even my mother has installed Threema on her phone because a friend of her asked for it. This tells you something. It is hard to come up with another social network like facebook. But a chatting client on the phone? The tide can change very fast there.

Threema gets used more in Europe than in the states. But even a US buddy recently suggested we switch to threema. It is closed source but claims to offer more privacy.

https://threema.ch/en
Its a typical user engagement trick. If you install the app then you have a constant advert on your home screen and they have the ability to constantly spam you with reengagement notifications
And we wish you'd learn that not every Latin-derived word with a long "e" spelled it "oe" or "ae". And that you'd stop insisting on "dual carriageway" as a term for roads that have only ever existed in the age of internal combustion. And that you'd learn what a jumper actually is. And how to pronounce the letter "r". And that you'd understand that if you've "lost a stone" it means a jewel fell out of your ring, not that you're on a diet. And for that matter, that you'd pick a system of weights and measures and stick to it. And that you'd clarify whether there is in fact any type of food in existence that cannot somehow be classed as "pudding".

And... well, shall we go on?
This is literally the origin of the nobility. Many pre-modern cultures had class system consisting of clergy, warriors, and commoners; the warrior class eventually turned into a nobility class whose martial role eventually elevated to that of officers. Even today, members of the British Royal Family, of a certain age, are expected to perform military service; Prince Harry served in Afghanistan flying Apache attack helicopters, while Prince William flew search and rescue helicopters in the RAF. (Traditionally this was true only for men, but times change faster than you think; Queen Elizabeth II, before becoming Queen, was briefly a military lorry driver during the Second World War.) Similar things happened in i.e. Japan (where the samurai became a ruling class).

In retrospect, it's kind of obvious why the clergy and warrior classes would gain power: clergy, by dint of education and spiritual authority, and warriors, by dint of being well-armed and good at killing people, both have a natural degree of power over others.

Another important point is that this tended to occur only in settled civilizations (which, admittedly, was most of the world by the 18th century or so.) Settled civilizations prior to the Industrial Revolution needed an educated clerical class and also large numbers of farm workers (because agriculture was labor-intensive) meaning only a few people could devote themselves to being really good at fighting, or alternatively wearing ridiculous clothes, throwing lavish parties, and marrying their cousins for political reasons, as the case may be. In contrast, hunter-gatherer societies tended to have the entire male population not only more physically fit than even most knights and nobles, but far more practiced at hunting and warfare, with enough overlap in the relevant techniques (e.g. horsemanship, use of weapons, etc.). Many settled civilizations were dominated by nearby hunter-gatherers--the Greek city-states by Alexander's Macedonian Greeks, the Chinese by the Mongols--because there's really no way for a pre-industrial civilization to hold their own against hunter-gatherers. Hell, even as late as the 1870's, large amounts of the United States and Mexico were effectively off-limits to white settlers because of the power of the Comanche, who only fell because (a) like many fallen American Indian peoples, they had plenty of enemies who were more than willing to help the whites defeat them and (b) the United States at that point was just barely no longer a pre-industrial civilization. Oh, yeah--and, as of the American Civil War (to bring this full circle!), it was now possible to enlist large numbers of common people and send them to war instead of risking a smaller ruling class of nobles.
Sorry about that, I wasn't aware. As you said, I didn't create NNN - it's just something I found, used, really liked and wanted to share.
> (In a way, this is an amazing thing about modern democracies. The army, in many cases, remains subservient to the civilian state, even when it sure looks like it has a decisive choice in the matter... But, historically, this is the exception, not the rule.)

For Europe. For China, this was the rule. It did lead to some military disasters -- I understand that the Qing conquest of China relied on northern Chinese generals betraying their country -- but soldiers and the military were held in very low esteem and got not much in the way of power or authority. New dynasties were established by force and in that context generals became emperors, but that happened about every 200 years, and it didn't lead to an improvement in the prestige allocated to the military (except under the Mongols, who didn't really buy in to the Chinese system).
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It would be really surprising if alcoholism were not genetic but height and IQ and homosexuality were. "I drink because daddy diddled me" is not a great scientific hypothesis, but we have tons of evidence that pre-1492 populations have problems with alcohol.
What I don't get is why Jeff Weiner and Reid Hoffman are never held accountable for their blatant disregard for user privacy despite many lawsuits over the years. Why is their reputation still so in tact even when Zuck/Sandberg's is hurting over the exact same privacy violations? Why is Reid Hoffman today selling a book on "blitzscaling" which is all about achieving hypergrowth at all cost? Could you imagine how tone deaf it would be if it was Zuckerberg who authored that and not Hoffman?
Does that change the fact that the driver has to clean your virulent vomit? You might come away with a 5 star rating if you apologize and paid for the cleaning, or if the driver felt sorry for you.
Part of this is also particular to Tom Cruise and other obsessive action stars like Jackie Chan who commit to doing as many of their own stunts as possible. That's got to significantly affect that planning for these scenes (and save money).
I regularly see YouTube recommendations for the stuff my bf is watching and we don't share a computer and he is not logged in to YouTube.
Just remember it's Microsoft now. I wonder if this fits under GDPR violation?
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Most GIS applications have this functionality (distance on ellipsoid) built-it.

For local distance measuring it is generally better and easier to use a projected coordinates system (where units are meters/miles instead of degrees).

But if you are using a software without GIS functions (excel?) and only have a dataset with lat/long coordinates, then it is easier to use the short formula ;-)
I am specifically wondering about the legality of this, not the morality. I wanted to avoid this discussion, but I guess its already brought up.

You are okay with job postings that are the equivalent of hanging up a "No Asians Need Apply Sign"?

I'm Asian. I grew up in a place without many Asians so I looked different than everyone else. I remember I was once in a community group of over 100 people, and the only other people of my race were my immediate family. I didn't have parents that were up to date with college admissions so when the college application asked my race, I filled it in, not knowing that they'd use it to discriminate against me.

I'm going to stay purposefully vague to avoid doxxing myself, but all Asians aren't the same. Yes there are some groups that are doing very well in Silicon Valley but there are other groups that you hardly ever see.

In my first job, I was in fact the only Asian person on the team. It's not that uncommon for that to be the case outside of California.

It sounds like you might think separate but equal is an acceptable doctrine for jobs: "It's okay if you can't have this internship you want, it's for people of X race, but don't worry there are so many jobs already for people of your race." It's a good thing it was abolished in Brown v. Board of Education.

All I want is an equal opportunity for people of my race. Whenever someone wants to discriminate on the basis of race, they rationalize and justify why it is okay in this case. Luckily society has realized this and has created bright line rules so we don't end up on a slippery slope of when is it okay to racially discriminate. I thought job postings where certain races are excluded was way beyond this line and I hope the law agrees.

It's great that you had an advantage in life. Give back and help those who don't. But don't use your power to restrict the opportunities of other people who don't share your race or thoughts.
That seems like an easy stress test? I think UK lenders test 3% + the rate at which your mortgage reverts to at the end of the fixed period (we have relatively short fixed period products: 2-5 years), which would typically total around 7-9%.
I believe now one could use microfluidics to leverage similar principles but miniaturize it almost into the size of a chip.

Here is an interesting demo:

https://youtu.be/7z8I7awRYY4?t=114
I didn't say I wasn't terrified for our citizens as well.
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Login just to see the prices? Classy!
I knew a guy who worked in an industry where using SSNs for identifying people was illegal. Their solution was to prefix the SSN with a leading one. Compliance.
>But it's great that they're trying to work on this problem.

I don't know how the Rust team thinks, but I believe that minimizing binary sizes is not a very big priority for them. The cost of a gigabyte these days is, ~0.01$ (or less) for local hard drives, $0.4 for NVME and about $0.1 for AWS EBS...

Technically of course it's cool how small Nim binaries are, and it does make certain things feasible which with larger binary sizes might be difficult.
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The GP quote is supported by the CSA constitution [1]. Search “slave” and read every mention. The institution of slavery was such a big deal that it needed to be ensured by their constitution. Why would they do that?

[1] http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csa.asp
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i switched away from emacs, and learned vi just because of that. to many servers with different versions of unix to make it worth the effort to install a different editor or customize its configuration.
Talk about floating point precision!
Ironically this is what the American credit system was designed to avoid. Pre modern credit score, bank loans were given out based on things like “moral character”, the theory being that alcoholics shouldn’t get loans, but it turns out this has a high false negative rate. Most hurt were of course minorities. After the credit system access to credit exploded, whether for better or worse.
I am not sure if that naturally applies each time. Here the technology offers unprecedented power for a small amount of people to control the masses, and to continuously improve the efficiency of the system.

And don't forget: If you are a model citizen, then it is all fun and games. You'll get benefits instead of punishment. The apps you use are highly gamified and use all the persuasive / behavioral tricks of the book. Many Chinese truly love the whole system. They think people with low scores + punishments really deserve that.
Apparently the idea of giving field workers freedom of self determination and wages didn’t even occur to them.
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There is usually a free version and a paid version for better speed.
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Curious if there are small scale experiments. Like, what if reddit karma were distributed by the mods?
I had to cut the title, since it was too long. The video's full title:

The Twinkling Light Set: An increasingly rare but delightful type of decorative lighting
Use buttermilk, use self rising flour, or make your own, or use cake flour. Use aluminum free baking powder(If making your own self rising flour) and don't overwork the dough and make sure its cold as well as whatever fat you use(Shortening, Butter, Lard, etc), and you should end up with delicious biscuits.
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Sorry, I guess I haven't tested on other browsers too much. Which one are you using. I use primarily Safari and Chrome, and it should work on both.
Privacy is not a big concern for the Chinese based VPN services. It’s useful for both accessing websites blocked inside China, and also Chinese content blocked outside China
I'm just wondering.. poisonous to who/what? Kids? Pets? How long are they poisonous for while decaying?

How long have people been 'treating and removing' them? Presumably the leaves were tolerable while on the tree, yet poisonous. It doesn't seem to stop people planting them. (A lot of questions, but there are a lot of experts on here!)
Dual carriageways don’t just carry motorised traffic. Bicycles can legally use them, even though cars will be travelling at up to 70mph. They are distinct to motorways, which also have a maximum speed of 70mph but a minimum speed (in free flowing traffic) of 50mph, making cycling illegal on them.
Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised at all. VPN is useful in both direction. There are quite some Chinese content not accessible outside China.
Those industrial Pis offer things that are absoklutely important to many industrial users. Maybe not for you, but they have their market: DIN rail mounting, I/O modules, ESD/EMI lab results, conformance to electrical standards etc. pp.

Another one, probably better known is the Revolution Pi (https://revolution.kunbus.de).